Help with practical application
Posted: February 22nd, 2024, 11:43 am
I play in a band and want to automate lighting using midi files that play alongside click tracks while we are performing.
I have an ENTTEC interface and a variety of fixtures including PAR cans, LED battens, moving heads, a hazer and lasers.
Adding and controlling the fixtures I am happy with its more how to approach the configuration to give as much flexibility as possible.
In essence what I would like to be able to do it to trigger via midi control, grouped parameters so for example
-Set a group of par cans colour to RED,
-Then set the colour of moving heads to blue.
-Then control the intensity so set the group of par cans to 50%
-Then the heads to 75%.
-Then move the heads to a set position.
This approach would allow me to effectively have a pallet of each fixture property for all the fixtures (colour, intensity, position, shutter ....) and the pick from them as appropriate for each song.
So under Colour I can have PAR CANS BLUE, PAR CANS RED, HEADS BLUE, HEADS RED and pick any of those options at any time. Also have the same for each of the fixture properties (colour, intensity, position, shutter ....)
The key is that I need to be able to action these things via MIDI. So for each song we perform I would create a MIDI file that has the events to set the lighting in time with the song.
I read somewhere that submasters will achieve this?
I hope that make sense. Your collective help would be VERY much appreaciated.
Brett
I have an ENTTEC interface and a variety of fixtures including PAR cans, LED battens, moving heads, a hazer and lasers.
Adding and controlling the fixtures I am happy with its more how to approach the configuration to give as much flexibility as possible.
In essence what I would like to be able to do it to trigger via midi control, grouped parameters so for example
-Set a group of par cans colour to RED,
-Then set the colour of moving heads to blue.
-Then control the intensity so set the group of par cans to 50%
-Then the heads to 75%.
-Then move the heads to a set position.
This approach would allow me to effectively have a pallet of each fixture property for all the fixtures (colour, intensity, position, shutter ....) and the pick from them as appropriate for each song.
So under Colour I can have PAR CANS BLUE, PAR CANS RED, HEADS BLUE, HEADS RED and pick any of those options at any time. Also have the same for each of the fixture properties (colour, intensity, position, shutter ....)
The key is that I need to be able to action these things via MIDI. So for each song we perform I would create a MIDI file that has the events to set the lighting in time with the song.
I read somewhere that submasters will achieve this?
I hope that make sense. Your collective help would be VERY much appreaciated.
Brett