Hello, my name is Don and I am goin' thru a midi life crisis.
Before I continue our current lighting setup is (now keep in mind we have limited funds)
Leprecon LP-1536 which is a 36 channel board
2 ETC 12 channel SmartPack dimmers
10 very old 500 watt Ellipsoidal lights that are hung too close to the stage
4 Par 64 Cans used for accent lighting on the stage
Incandescent House Lights
Here is what I’m wanting to know/understand. We use a program called Media Shout for all of our presentations. All of our DVD, sound, lyric, and other presentation cues. We recently purchased a new sound card for the PC, the new card has a Midi interface.
Now if I understand I the manual for our light board properly I can control the light board using midi protocol. I also believe that there are programs that will do the sequencing.
He is where I am trying to go with this; our presentation software will play midi files as cues. It would be great if I could have midi files that I could insert into the program as cues so that when we want to change the lighting we can do it through the same software we are already using. The problem is I have no understanding of hot to create such files or if it can even be done.
Your expertise will be much appreciated.
Before I continue our current lighting setup is (now keep in mind we have limited funds)
Leprecon LP-1536 which is a 36 channel board
2 ETC 12 channel SmartPack dimmers
10 very old 500 watt Ellipsoidal lights that are hung too close to the stage
4 Par 64 Cans used for accent lighting on the stage
Incandescent House Lights
Here is what I’m wanting to know/understand. We use a program called Media Shout for all of our presentations. All of our DVD, sound, lyric, and other presentation cues. We recently purchased a new sound card for the PC, the new card has a Midi interface.
Now if I understand I the manual for our light board properly I can control the light board using midi protocol. I also believe that there are programs that will do the sequencing.
He is where I am trying to go with this; our presentation software will play midi files as cues. It would be great if I could have midi files that I could insert into the program as cues so that when we want to change the lighting we can do it through the same software we are already using. The problem is I have no understanding of hot to create such files or if it can even be done.
Your expertise will be much appreciated.