Re: [LCtalk] midi cue triggering

[Paul Carver]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 04:54:37PM +0100, Rob wrote:
> 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

The manuals are very densely packed with information. I think I was 
still learning new things on at least the fourth of fifth read through 
and I definitely found the interface confusing when I first started.

Now, I've never used a $10,000+ lighting console so I don't have a frame 
of reference there but I've used ETC Idea and MicrovisionFX as well as 
various Leprechan boards and the Lanbox blows them away in my opinion.

I mostly do theatre (community level, we can't afford moving lights) but 
I recently lit a wedding for a couple of friends. I sat at a table with 
friends, dinner, a glass of wine, and my laptop and wrote cues in 
between going out on the dancefloor to dance.

By the end of the night I had half a dozen cues running simultaneously 
in different layers plus a few control cues to switch between tempos. 
And I was tweaking cues as they ran, adjusting levels and durations here 
and there without ever interrupting anything.

I just walked a new LD through her first use of the Lanbox and her show 
came off beautifully. She's not using any of the advanced features, but 
she had no problem learning how to program cues using dimmers, color 
scrollers, and a strobe light to simulate lighting in another layer.

If anybody in central New Jersey, USA ever wants a hands on walkthrough 
just drop me an email. I'll be glad to invite you to Villagers Theatre 
in Somerset (just outside of New Brunswick) and show you our setup. You 
can even sit in on a tech week if you'd like.