[LCtalk] Midi Continuous Controler

[Marc Doucet]

Hi,

I've just bought the lanbox LCX and am very pleased with it except 
for one thing. Before buying, I went through the manual and found this: 
"Another powerful way to control lights is using a programmable MIDI 
command station with sliders and/or buttons, like the Peavey PC1600 X"
Now, what I understood about that is that you could use a control 
surface just like faders on a lighting board. I have a berhinger BCF 
2000 which is similar (unless i'm missing something) and was hoping 
to use that, stand alone with the box for small shows with few lights 
(we mostly do bigger ones but we do a lot of improv stuff that needs 
quick adjustments).

I now realise that the only way to fade individual lights in or out 
is through Note-Ons and i cannot map note-ons to my BCF2000's faders. 
I know that a lot of the ccs have been mapped to parameters in the 
lanbox but would there be a way (other than software translation 
(midi cc to midi note)) to control individual lights with cc instead 
of note-on? I really thought there would be a way to edit the 
lanbox's midi mapping. I realise that most of the mapped CCs are 
actualy used as switches. wouldn't it be easier to have light 
channels on ccs and parameters on notes?

It's no biggy, just a small stepback from what i had imagine. Then 
again, maybe i'm just missing something...

thnx
Marc