Re: [LCtalk] LanBox and UDP and Max

[thomas]

Hi Fokko and list,

It was the firmware that was causing the problem. UDP now works  
correctly.
One further question: will the LCX work with a flip cable or must UDP 
control occur via a hub/switch?

The reason we did this development was to be able to use automation 
curves in audio software to show a graphic representation of lighting 
fader levels at any given time during our audio program. Following our 
experience developing this solution, I am forced to wonder why you are 
so reluctant to implement direct midi to DMX translation in LCedit and 
the lanbox firmware. I understand the bandwidth limitations of midi, but 
for simple applications such as ours which is far below the 40 or so 
simultaneous DMX channel limit, a direct mapping of midi controller 
channels to sub-masters is a more elegant solution. Although the 
solution using MAX works, the overhead, requiring as it does a complex 
external software package and an additional communication channel, is 
very high. Many lighting desks including AVAB and even Behringer have 
implemented straightforward midi controller to fader mapping which works 
perfectly well. I presume that a user-editable midi controller to 
group/stage instrument mapping within the Lanbox would be fairly trivial 
to implement. Perhaps in a future version? After all, the reason that we 
bought the Lanbox in the first place was that there is both a midi and a 
DMX port on the box.

Regards,

Thomas McIntosh