Posted on - September 14, 2009 [at] 11:22 am by Brad
Tagged in - lights, question, visualizations
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Anyone out there know much about syncing visualizations & lights to Ableton Live? I have a totally top secret project I’m working on and it requires some eye candy. I’m up to my eyeballs in reading about DMX controllers and video DJ software and there has to be a simpler way…
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Patrick H. Lauke on Visualizations
September 16, 2009 at 7:17 am
Hey Brad, have a look if you can find a decent MIDI-to-DMX converter, relevant DMX boxes for whatever lights you’re aiming to control…and voila’, with a bit of fiddling you should be able to send MIDI from your music software (Ableton, etc) that gets automagically turned into commands for the lights.
Ken on Visualizations
September 16, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Here’s a midi-DMX converter:
http://www.premier-solutions.biz/NJD-Products/MDC-128.htm
Then you’ll need either a dimmer box that accepts DMX:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0008GIZDK/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B0002GW5LY&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=03GR0S5BZ05Z5SDJZ77Y
plus lights, of course.
Or a light or set of lights that have DMX built-in, like this:
http://www.chauvetlighting.com/derby-x.html