Re: [LCtalk] Midi Continuous Controler

[Fokko van Duin]

At 10:03 -0500 03-03-2006, Marc Doucet wrote:
> 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)

There is besides the price a big difference: The PC1600X is free 
programmable and very flexible, the BCF2000 is limited in programming.



> 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?

You can directly control light channels only via NoteOns or SysEx 
messages. Controllers have only one variable, while NoteOns have 
pitch -and- velocity so can be used to control up to 2047 channels, 
using all MIDI channels. You can still use the BCF2000 to control 
cues, chases, etc stored in the LanBox.

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Fokko van Duin,
CDS advanced technology bv,
http://www.lanbox.com/