27 Nov
2005
27 Nov
'05
7:15 p.m.
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 11:51:37PM +0100, Olivier Guilyardi wrote:
Hi,
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.
I'm not sure that this DMX technology is the solution to my problem.
Here's what I'd like to do :
- control 16 light sources
- control the luminosity level of each of these light sources (!= on/off)
- do this is in C from Linux
- for less than 400 ? (including light sources)
- building simple diy hardware is ok
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) . had
to open it up and put some mineral oil on the faders to make them slide like a dj mixer,
they were kind of slow by default but otherwise a decent deal if you dont mind stuff made
in china and not totally "DIY"
Any idea ?
--
og