Hi everyone,
Newbie here! I am seaching for some help in an area I know little about. At my high school we have an underfunded theater program, like most schools, so we are using outdated equipment. We have a very simple DMX light board that uses a X & Y cross-fade system. We do our shows in our cafeteria and over the past few years we have added more light positions and fixtures to our collection and have become quite complex with our lights getting somewhere between 15-20 different fixtures which can be quite a mess when setting up each cue on the board.
From what I've searched on the internet, I need a USB to DMX converter, then some program to run it. Is there a computer program that will run my lights either off the board or on it's own? Do I need to hook the computer to the board or straight to the DMX dimmer? I ideally want something that will save my cues so no one has to set each cue every performance.
Only one big problem....I have maybe $20-$30 for this project, so I'd be looking at free programs or something.
Newbie here! I am seaching for some help in an area I know little about. At my high school we have an underfunded theater program, like most schools, so we are using outdated equipment. We have a very simple DMX light board that uses a X & Y cross-fade system. We do our shows in our cafeteria and over the past few years we have added more light positions and fixtures to our collection and have become quite complex with our lights getting somewhere between 15-20 different fixtures which can be quite a mess when setting up each cue on the board.
From what I've searched on the internet, I need a USB to DMX converter, then some program to run it. Is there a computer program that will run my lights either off the board or on it's own? Do I need to hook the computer to the board or straight to the DMX dimmer? I ideally want something that will save my cues so no one has to set each cue every performance.
Only one big problem....I have maybe $20-$30 for this project, so I'd be looking at free programs or something.