On 11/28/05, carmen <ix@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 11:51:37PM +0100, Olivier Guilyardi wrote: > > I'm currently planning a live show using Jackbeat and modifying it for > this > > purpose. This is about music of course, but I'm also interested by > controlling > > lights, to warm the dancefloor up. > > The technology in this area seems to be named DMX, and there seem to be > some > > Linux driver project called dmx4linux, by the Linux Lighting Group. > there's the behringer lc2412, it was about $150 USD and has 30 faders and 30 > buttons which all send MIDI and DMX, or recieve MIDI (unmotorized) and > convert to DMX (512 channels, but i dont know exactly what that means...you > still need dimmer packs etc) . The Behringer has one big disadvantage: You can only control it via midi as you would using its controlsurface. That means that you have to programm it right and than you can midi-input to control the faders (which may or may not correspond to the dmx-channels). One can do very cool things with the LC2412 but controlling via midi is not a primary usage for it. But there seem to be usb-dmx-boxes on thomann.de but I have never heard (until now) wether they are usable under linux... Arnold -- visit http://dillenburg.dyndns.org/~arnold/ --- Wenn man mit Raubkopien Bands wie Brosis oder Britney Spears wirklich verhindern k?nnte, w?rde ich mir noch heute einen Stapel Brenner und einen Sack Rohlinge kaufen.
