[LCtalk] happy new user of the box

[bruno pocheron]

Hi everybody,


my name is bruno pocheron, i am french and based in berlin.

i do light works and other things mostly related to dance and 
performance in the 'free' scene.

i am touring a lot as well.

i bought a lcx a couple of month ago and i used it already for three 
different shows in very different circumstances. no problems at all 
when i got past the step of understanding - partly - the logics of lc 
edit. plus i started to use the lanbox with midi triggering through 
digital performer and pure data.

again all went smooth - after the first unavoidable struggles - and 
we now have a system where sound, light and video can be synchronised 
with pd.

i agree that the manuals can be confusing but the mailing list is 
very rich of information and the presence of fokko and matthijs a.o. 
is quite amazing.

i used to have to work on a different console in each venue where i 
had my shows. had by the way quite funny experiences in some places 
in eastern europe where dmx is still a dream.

that means that to a certain extend i am able to deal with most of 
the current consoles around, but that i used to get a chance to 
handle them only on the spot - in the theater.

what i find a positive thing with the lanbox, already that early in 
the process, is that i can develop my own way of dealing with it, 
continuously in time, independently somehow of the time spent in 
theaters.

i also think that lcedit is not such a bad tool for previsualisation 
of what will happen onstage - no 3d simulation there but when one is 
serious in building the stage window and has a capacity for 
abstraction it works pretty well. i could quite easily (this 
involving a good communication with the venue about lightplot and 
patch) pre-programm some shows and just have to do corrections on the 
spot.


so i'm rather on the happy side

cheers

bruno