m00dawg Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 I've been wanting to do a synchronized lighting display on my house for years. Being a hobbyist musician, I'm extremely used to using MIDI for various software and hardware devices. On the software side, I am using Ableton Live and Reaper. Live has a glorious time sync feature that can identify (and correct) BPM variances in recorded audio which makes me think it could be a prime choice as the basis for controlling a light display over MIDI as well. Plus, using MIDI means I could "play" my sequences live if I really wanted to. I know various MIDI to DMX bridges exist but I don't know how to get from that to ended up synchronizing Holiday lights on the other end. I know LOR controlls understand DMX in some way, but the examples always included a computer and the S3 software. I'll admit, the all-in-one Showtime Central Starter Package is compelling since the integrated controller avoids a computer entirely. So that's a route I'm considering, but I think my long term happiness and configurability would better center around a MIDI-centric solution. Thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Benedict Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 They make lighting dimmers that have direct MIDI input but that can be answered best on a different forum: http://www.diylightanimation.com/ The MIDI that LOR offers is for downloading a completed song from a device like a keyboard; you can assign notes to channels.Can't be used live, unfortunately. I tried going down that path a few years ago, hoping to program lighting channels from a keyboard instead of spreadsheet.Nope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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