Syncing your showlights to your music?
I am basicly looking for a DMX-control software that will run in sync with my tracks by receiveing midi clock plus additional tasks from my midi controllers. Does anyone here have experience with this and what was your solution?
The “djs booths are getting crazy” thread reminded me on the fact that i wanted to be asking this ages ago as i was thinking about getting some lights (again) to work with my music perfectly.
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I am basicly looking for a DMX-control software that will run in sync with my tracks by receiveing midi clock plus additional tasks from my midi controllers. Does anyone here have experience with this and what was your solution?
The “djs booths are getting crazy” thread reminded me on the fact that i wanted to be asking this ages ago as i was thinking about getting some lights (again) to work with my music perfectly.
[/quote]It’s a filler article. The talked about the exact same thing a year ago, and how to do it. Do some article dumpster diving and you’ll find it.
you mean djtt made an article on it? that would be great. what words do i need to search for - as i cannot find it yet.
thank you n e ways.
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you mean djtt made an article on it? that would be great. what words do i need to search for - as i cannot find it yet.
thank you n e ways.
[/quote]Gimme a sec brotha. I’ll pull it right up, my lappy caught a virus this morning. Had to put’er down hard. Lost everything except me music.
Here yarrrrrrr
I just came up with something else, which would require a lot of modding, and some money. You could get a cheap midicontroller that can receive midi to control LEDs, then mod it like it was described in the DJTT article, so you have power outlets that you can turn on/off by sending midi.
You could make one outlet blink with the Traktor command that makes an LED blink to the beat. You could have another one sync up to effects, or have one that flashes when you are cue juggling.
Endless possibilities 
a lot of lights (heaps) have little mics in them and sync to the beat by themselves without any midi clock or dmx input
I use Chauvets Vue line, they are dmx capable but also can master/slave to eachother so you just run a dmx cable between all your fixtures and have one master which listens to the music and tells the other slave lights and itself what to actually do
i know i had some before, but they didnt satisfy. first of all most of them dont recognize every kick (especially breakbeat/dnb) and i want to tell them when theyres a breakdown, buildup etc to make them really fit the tracks.
your ideas are great. even though i’d rather do this software-wise. i know how to send midiclock etc all i need is a program that outputs dmx and receives midi. isn’t there a person on these forums that already uses something like this?
thanks alot for your input!
who sync’s their lights??? That is not being a real DJ. Your only a real DJ if you trigger your lights manually.
sync those lights man! dont let anyone tell you otherwise!
then you’re a “real” LJ in my opinion.
i want to trigger them manually anyways but not all the time and i want the light-fx run in sync to the beat. i got to dj too you know.
still looking for a solution here. isn’t ableton able to send DMX signals? i own max for live if that is needed,
You could just actually get a DMX program… problem solved, and it’ll give you more options than you’re going to get with anything else.
i feel like thats the second best option. first it’ll take alot of cpu power running another complex program in the background (and i like to keep CPU for tons of FX+recording) and i dont think that i can really realize programming a lightshow for each track. i’d love to program the lights to fit the track exactly and then to repeat that show everytime i drop it. i cannot do this with traktor so ableton is gonna be my weapon of choice in the long run. dmax + a dmx usb box should do the trick. see this:
[quote]Why Control Lighting from Ableton?
If you’re a musician using Live then you can program in your light show in the same environment that you’re programming your music in. And because you can do it as you’re composing, the lighting can be an integral part of the music rather than something tacked on afterwards. When you’re performing live, why rely on someone else to interpret your music into lighting events? Simply add DMaX devices to your set and program some modulation data alongside your clips. The effect of perfectly synchronised sound and light is very effective, and your lighting will always stay in sync because it’s running from the same system as your music. You can also time events to certain MIDI or audio triggers, for example, by making a strobe flash on every bass drum hit. Outside of direct musical performance, one of my main uses has been to control lighting for dance performances. By importing the performers’ backing track, and warping it in slave mode, you can see where the beats are and automate your lighting parameters alongside for beat-synced effects. These are just a few things you could do, the possibilities opened up by this integration are endless.[/quote]