Hey all.
For our local One Act play we are trying to make the operation of the system as simple as possible as we only have one Technician to run both the lights and the sound. Luckily the show is very tech-light which gives us opertunity to have a little technical freedom. So all of the show is either running off of a light cue on our ETC Express or a sound cue on a computer using the Multiplay software.
Now everything is working, you just press space on the computer to cue the sound and go on the light board to cue the lights. Simple. But I see the opertunity to be even lazier and press only one single button. Both the ETC and Multiplay have a MIDI option, I can get my hands on the hardware to hook them both together but I don't know where I would go from there (I don't know a lot about MIDI itself I only know the basics). I do not necessarily NEED this for the show but I would like some more information because it could be useful for future productions. If there's anyone out there that's done something similar let me know!!
Thanks!
For our local One Act play we are trying to make the operation of the system as simple as possible as we only have one Technician to run both the lights and the sound. Luckily the show is very tech-light which gives us opertunity to have a little technical freedom. So all of the show is either running off of a light cue on our ETC Express or a sound cue on a computer using the Multiplay software.
Now everything is working, you just press space on the computer to cue the sound and go on the light board to cue the lights. Simple. But I see the opertunity to be even lazier and press only one single button. Both the ETC and Multiplay have a MIDI option, I can get my hands on the hardware to hook them both together but I don't know where I would go from there (I don't know a lot about MIDI itself I only know the basics). I do not necessarily NEED this for the show but I would like some more information because it could be useful for future productions. If there's anyone out there that's done something similar let me know!!
Thanks!