Light jockey midi setup

You can map each hardware control to whatever feature you like and build your own custom-tailored show control desk to trigger cues, presets and sequences, adjust fixture properties, tap the beat, and whatever else you need. Designed for the needs of creative lighting designers, Lightkey breaks free from the old thinking about DMX values and channels.

The current state of your fixtures is always visible in the live preview. Simply concentrate on the perfect light show and let Lightkey translate it to the proper DMX values. The built-in graphical editor lets you recreate the stage or dance floor on the screen. Apart from your fixtures you can add shapes, trusses, and custom images. Easily copy and paste properties and effects between fixtures — even fixtures of different types.

Of course, you can undo as well. The Design view automatically adapts itself according to your fixtures and their properties so you only see the controls you really need. Choose from over 50 effect templates or create your own pattern, curve, or movement effects. Effects can be applied to almost any fixture property and stored in presets and cues while staying editable all the time.

Apply effects to multi-beam LED strips and matrixes. Synchronize effects to music. Overlay multiple effects for countless possibilities. Effortlessly sync your light show to music.

Or simply tap the beat and Lightkey will continue at the same tempo. You can adjust the speed of individual cues at any time with a Beat Multiplier. The unique Live Triggers feature makes it quick and intuitive to trigger lighting cues directly from Ableton Live: Simply drag cues you created in Lightkey to the Ableton Live timeline.

An interactive assistant guides you through the entire setup process: Configure DMX output, patch your fixtures, create a visual representation of the stage. Everything you need is cleanly arranged in a single window, providing you with exactly the controls you need at any time. The elegant, white-on-dark UI has been specially designed for use in low-light environments—it even adapts itself to the light colors. My Martin MX-1s were not in the database, but manually adding the channels and assigning the dmx starting point was kid stuff.

With all the controls at hand, creating scenes was also easy, once I stopped erasing them by accident pro-tip: changes are auto saved to any active cue.

The auto-save function is a must, since I've had about 5 force-closes in the past few days. Aside from the crashes, the only other negatives I've found are A a lack of macros and B I can't find a way to snap between shows. My lights cycle through their dmx values for the duration of the next show's fade time, which is especially annoying when moving through slow shows.

Here is a quick video of a lightshow I programmed after only owning it for less than a week: www. Is there an echo in here? This feature is only available on PC. When I used it on my Mac, showexpress had glitches and acted all weird. I installed on a PC and seems to run fine. I don't want to take a chance and have the audio go wrong during a gig or something, so I'm willing to hook up an additional laptop if needed. It's OK, but not the ideal set-up. Works with show express flawlessly.

Certainly the way to go! Qucik show will be on mac at some point? David PM - 8 February, I've been using compushow by elation and it's been pretty clunky, although I think it has a lot with the terrible computers we've been using. We're doing an overhaul new computer and several new fixtures, considering switching control software, any recommendations? Ovinex AM - 9 February, What midi conttrolers can you recomend to use for better use of software? What I miss here is a some kind of visualizer.

But it's worth to check out, for it's show, cue features and etc. And for more experienced users is a Magicq software, but it's not comfortable to use without wing or touchscreen..

Dont't know how it would be with midi controller. Use Martin Light Jockey. Professional, Reliable and an Industry standard. Rebelguy PM - 8 June, Quote:. If you pony up and get the "pro" version, then you won't have any issues. New to the whole software side of DMX. Does anyone have experience with chromateq? If so let me know pros and cons, looking into buying some lighting equipment for my church.

I believe it is modeled after the expensive Martin Light Jockey. It's amazing the FreeStyler Developer named ljraph does all the programming by himself in his spare time. This is what I opted for: 1. Xpress Plus 3. Xpress Remote never used it 4. The purple button on the MIDI controller turns the uplights purple, the pink button turns them pink etc.

Very EASY! I use the wireless battery operated Freedom Par Hex 4. No more spending time on my knees running DMX cable or looking for the closest electrical outlet.

Hawkeye PM - 14 June, Quote:. The software in Europe is called Sweet Light. Within a hour I'd got the results I needed for the show I wanted, all my fixtures apart from the strobe had pre made profiles so really it's a really good option if your worried about spending too much.

I've done 2 shows now and it's been awesome they'd have to be a really big incentive for me to spend more than I have and I've read alot about other programs but don't really see a clear advantage to them over Freestyler. Is there much validity to lots of these negative reviews: www.

The guys running it had about 20 uplights and a pair of movers. I'm not sure if their moving scenes were programmed and complex or just running in auto-run mode. I had someone who is very familiar with program build scenes for me. I am liking the layout as well. Been using an Obey to control them, typically just using channel 1 fader to call up automatic programs, which has served my purposes very well. The manual doesn't show any way to control speed via DMX, so I'm really confused how changing a controller causes this to happen.

This combo is cheaper than some other stuff thats out there, but still gives you the main features. I use the DMXenhancer because you can tap the blackout key on beat, or press and hold the strobes while the scene is still going in the background. There is a DMX cable going from the hardware box and some like programming software on the screen??.. I posted this in another thread also but haven't heard anymore yet.

Not the voice of the mc. Hollywood AM - 15 June, Quote:. That interface looks sick in the photo too. I've emailed them to see when it's going to be released. Hopefully you can hook it up to club lights too but I'll still be keen to use for house party, rave nights if it's reasonably simple to use. Hand PM - 26 August, Check out the videos on the Soundswitch website; they should provide you with most of the info you'd want about its functionality.

Can this be done now? A guy can dream. CaptClaude AM - 24 November, 1 this is a hugely informative thread and I want to thank everyone esp. DJ Nyce for contributing. We have common interests here. I've only been at it for a few hours, and maybe it will make sense in the morning. Thanks to all. Happy Holidays! I bought 4 LED Pars and a stand. I now need a DMX controller and software to run them. Heres my applications: 1 I want to program lights to a stereo audio track, and Play drums along to the track.

I want to play along to a clicktrack. What would be awesome is if I could have the audio track and the click track in parallel to each other along the Lighting timeline, and then just turn on or off the track I want to hear in my headphones Click vs Audio track.

Which software would best suit me? I tried ShowXpress demo, and the issue is you cant input an audio and click track. I also think their timeline is weak as I couldnt figure out how to fade from scene to scene on the timeline, and it was a pain to align tracks to the audio.

I do like their Generator and Steps assembler however!!! Thanks for helping me out! Would the universe box work with Serato Soundswitch?? Let me know! Does it the software need to be running we talked about turining everything off in optimizing Serato DJ. Who has it? Does it work with Lasers? You can also create custom light shows for some songs in your DJ set if you like. The next version of SoundSwitch, due for release in March will allow you to control Lasers. Hit us up on support soundswitch.

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