Re: [LCtalk] New Isadora Patch for Lanbox

[Fokko van Duin]

On 29/10/2005, at 05:07 AM, Philippe Amand wrote:
> I found a little bug on the 24 channels mixer patch, so I've just 
> updated a new version that you can find at the same place:
>
> http://homepage.mac.com/pamand/Isadora/FileSharing12.html

Uhh, I also found a problem. If I try to use port 2, some channels 
are send to 1 others to 4! It looks the same problem I discovered 
with hiRes control; the input value is multiplied by 4 or 16 or 
something like that. Anyway this is for the Isadora list, not LanBox 
:-)


> -There was some delays using the crossfade time below 4 seconds. It 
> is not completely solved, there's still a little delay when making a 
> crossfade with time 0. I think the patch would need to be simplified 
> to work better with short crossfade times, I must reduce the number 
> of actors used.

This is what I always say; It's near impossible to create decent 
fades on PC/Macs for many DMX channels. But...

It's much easier if you use the LanBox's built-in capabilities:
With the upcoming "LC Layer (MID)" actor, set layer A to Transp mode, 
and set it to 0%

Now use your Upper faders to control the channels of Layer A, and the 
lower faders to control layer B. Let your crossfader only control 
layer A transparency

In order to let your actor fade from A->B->A, just increase->decrease 
your crossfader.

No more complex mixing process, and lots of calculations during 
fades, only in/decrease one MIDI controller, and you can fade as many 
channels as you want :-)

Fokko