Re: [LCtalk] midi cue triggering

[Rob]

You're absolutely right, the manuals are lousy. It took me a day to 
run my LCE, the IP adress is in one of the manuals, while the needed 
password is in a tutorial. Then it took me a day to get my moving 
head going, as I had to define the fixture definition myself. Same 
thing, manual only tells you half the work. I found out you had to 
add 1 for every parameter. Why? Where in the manual (and which 
manual?)does it say so? Then I tried to get it to work properly, 
getting lightcues in the ratchet thing. That turns out to be a 
chalenge, try to make a split-time cue for instance. Crazy. And 
hardly any control over the playback, the only way to see the output 
is a small line of figures where you have to scroll if I want to see 
the output of i.e. DMX 100. Or did I miss a screen where I can check 
the output in one look? It's possible that it's hidden in one of the 
many manuals, but I didn't find it.

After a few days I gave up. It's a pity, the hardware looks good, 
allthough I find it strange that the display is at the same side as 
the plugs, but the program is not suitable to work with in a theatre, 
especially if you are touring with a group, as I am. It just takes 
loads of time to program, time I don't have. I have to be able to set 
up, change cues and moving lights according to the venue in a few 
hours. That is possible with a dedicated lightcomputer such as a 
Compulite or Strand, but not with LCedit.

I've put mine on a shelf, I'm not using it anymore, 450 euro's down 
the drain. But it's my own stupid fault. I should have asked around 
first. Now that I tell my colleagues of this adventure they tell me 
the same thing over and over again: LCedit is not suitable for 
theatre work, some of them have tried longer, one even tried to tour 
with it, with helarious results.

I'm going to trie another DMX interface with another program. Unless 
somebody knows of a better program to run on the LCE.

So, Andrew, good luck,

Rob