Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!texbell!sugar!karl
From: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Using Amiga to control theater lights (was: Re: Sick, sick idea...)
Keywords: DMX512, lighting, MIDI
Message-ID: <4369@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 16 Oct 89 05:14:36 GMT
References: <17243@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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How about using a MIDI lighting controller?  There's this one by J. L. Cooper
that I think outputs the 0-5v standard.  It has a bunch of faders and moving
them puts out a MIDI stream of continuous controller messages (I guess) which 
you can record with a regular sequencer and play to the MIDI-in on the box,
controlling 16 channels or so per box, multiple boxes were supported.

It looked pretty neat when I checked into it a couple years ago.  I don't
even know if J. L. Cooper is still in business, but if so this is one way
to get off the ground with no hardware development whasoever.

It'd be a nice thing to support in one's multimedia system, n'est-ce pas?
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