DMX Stage lighting

[Jerry J]

> From: Stephen Barncard <stephenREVOLUTION at barncard.com>

>  From the little I know about stage lighting - they use a dc voltage
> (0-10v) to control dimmers. So to begin, you'd need an A-D controller
> that can work with REV, such as the one describe earlier last week:

One whole bunch of dimmers I control, in a big house, use 0-10VDC per  
dimmer which we make in other ways. Another whole bunch of dimmers I  
control, in a theater, can use DMX-512. That is a looped, multiplexed,  
time-divided system (each device has an address (0-511) that determines  
its time slot. For all I know, common DMX-512 interfaces may have  
0-10VDC outputs.

Like Stephen says, its pretty easy to get at MIDI if you can do serial.  
Old mac serial ports could do it directly, but I haven't since.

-- Jerry Jensen

> Hardware Control consoles for this purpose are incredibly cheap, like
> cheap audio mixers.
> This unit here costs $200, and uses MIDI for control. Perhaps this
> might be part of your solution -- then all you need it a
> USB-To-Serial dongle  and a way to adapt it to a MIDI connector..
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>> I wonder if anyone has used rev with DMX for stage Lighting. I am
>> interested in using it of this product if posable any advice would
>> greatly be appreciated.
>> Liam Lambert
>> liamlambert at mac.com
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