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From: dutchman@wpi.wpi.edu (the flying)
Newsgroups: rec.audio,comp.sys.amiga,comp.music
Subject: Re: MIDI,LIGHTS,DISCO and COMPUTERS.
Message-ID: <3510@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 10 Aug 89 23:33:13 GMT
References: <314@galadriel.bt.co.uk>
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In article <314@galadriel.bt.co.uk> stevep@galadriel.bt.co.uk (Steve Paine) writes:
>I'VE GOT AN AMIGA 500!  WOW! AMAZING! AAAAH!

congratulations.  they're good machines.

>I'm interested in using it as part of a mobile disco set-up, and i've got a few questions:
>Whats this I hear about a MIDI lighting standard. Does anyone have any info/    contacts that might help me?
i don't know much about a MIDI lighting standard, but it seems that
the boards use standard MIDI note on/note offs to control the lights.
if anyone does have hard info, i'm interested as well.
>Is there any soft/hardware produced specifically for Amiga/disco applications?
i know of a couple sound programs that run on MIDI to control
channels, levels, and equalization, but other than that i don't know.

>Are there any BPM thingies out there? (Something that will measure the beats/   min of a piece of music.)

yup.  most take the bass beat (simple tunable pickup) and translate
that into a BPM signal that can be sent out a variety of ways to
control the lights.

i'd suggest the magazine "Lighting Dimensions" to you to learn more
about lighting.  they do a lot of coverage of disco and rock lighting,
and have lots of advertisers you can get info from.

on kind of the same note, it appears to me that most MIDI boards use
the standard transmission protocol.  so it seems like any decent
sequencing program could be used to control the lights, as well as the
music, if the performer is using a sequencer.  can anyone tell me yea
or nay on this?

jon

jonathantdrummeyhimomdutchman@wpi.wpi.edu7979760box375fnordwpiworcester,ma01609