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Re: [LUG] DMX and Linux and stage lighting

 

On 06/11/17 22:30, stinga wrote:
> On 06/11/17 22:15, M. J. Everitt wrote:
>> On 06/11/17 21:32, stinga wrote:
>>> On 06/11/17 20:40, Tom via list wrote:
>>>> Anyone got any experience with DMX and stage lighting at all?
>>> Yes, never found a good linux controller though.
>>>
>> Because you have to write one .. can't be -that- hard, surely ... !!
> Yeah, most likely, and that requires time and effort.
> There are Linux surfaces out there.
> I would like one with powered sliders so you could call up pages.
>
> In the end we tend to use a simple 24 channel desk, ceap and nasty but
> it words.
> My main desire was for beat detect to move through a set of steps,
> that seems to be harder than it should have been.
> Wanted to control led rgb par cans and moving heads, never did get
> there and most of the time we use them on sound to light.
>
A friend and I built a crude-but-effective beat detect centred on a
120Hz bandpass filter - not hard really!

But yes, eventually you go with the commercial kit for anything beyond
hobby use, for ease and reliability, from what I've seen.

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