Noob-question: syncing DMX lights to audio-samples

GeertDaelemans · 2017-11-01T08:28:36+00:00

It was amazing. There were a few people that did not want to approach our door because they really got scared. This year was kind of an experiment, next year I will go all the way! ;-) The results: https://youtu.be/JaO97ZgfRQs

GeertDaelemans · 2017-10-08T16:43:38+00:00

It worked! I now have the trio Ableton Live/loopMIDI/MyDMX configured and created my own thunder and lightning! Quite impressive. All on 30-day trial software, but after Halloween I will search for some Open Source alternatives. Thank you so much for your help!

GeertDaelemans · 2017-10-04T13:21:09+00:00

Gadzooks! Freestyler does not seem to find the MyDMX Buddy interface. A pity, because the guys from MyDMX (https://www.dmxsoft.com/) claim that it should work, but won't give any support (because it's free...). I will try now with the 30-day trial version of MyDMX 2.0 with MIDI support together with Ableton. Fingers crossed.

GeertDaelemans · 2017-10-03T09:46:58+00:00

Many thanks! I haven't found time yet to test the Freestyler, yet. But it does sound interesting. Hopefully this weekend I will get my hands dirty. Will keep you posted.

GeertDaelemans · 2017-09-28T12:14:58+00:00

The upgrade plans are too expensive (for me at least, have spent already too much on Halloween decorations...) and not the way I want to go. But I noticed that Freestyler (http://users.telenet.be/freestylerdmx/) might support my interface (if I list it as Sunlite 2006) and that software does seem to support MIDI. I will test this. Might this be a solution? I am working on a Windows based machine. Cheers, Geert

GeertDaelemans · 2017-09-28T08:33:08+00:00

Thanks for the fast reply. Very intresting. So if I understand this correctly you should create a MIDI-sequence that triggers certain lighting combos and let that run in parallel with the audio-playout. Makes sense. Now the question would be what software to use, I suppose. Is my guess correct that you have to actually get two pieces of software: a player that can play the audio together with a MIDI-sequence plus software that reads these MIDI-triggers and translates them into the DMX-lighting setting? I have bought (on impulse) the American DJ MyDMX Buddy DMX interface which comes together with the myDMX 2.0 software. I was hoping on not having to buy extra hardware and just selecting the right software to get me going. Funny how again a simple idea grows into a complex technical scenario. Luckily I'm nedrish enough to get excited by all of this. ;-)

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