lukew Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 Has anyone used one of these before you can get them from CPC for about £79 opinions please. http://www.monacor.com/en/produktseite_car...25&spr=DE&typ=u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henny Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 arrr yes , a mate of mine bought one and lent it me to see what I thought. I've only used it for about 10min then I gave up and got on with something useful. every time you open the software it starts in german, you have to find your way threw the menus to find the english. not too bad once you have done it once. if you want a good pc based unit try http://www.lanbox.com/ - once you have got in to its way of working , its a great little system. add a wireless card and accesspoint , you have a wireless system henny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endorphin Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 every time you open the software it starts in german, not if you save the program settings for English used one a couple of times for 10-12 channels of generics for a conferance. worked quite well in setting up some set scenes and then setting timed fades between. found it difficult not being able to interact as well as with a desk (making live changes can be abit of a pain) Try the demo downlaod hope this is of some help Edd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SceneMaster Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 I have a few questions about the Lan Box... Looking at the land box website… LanBox-LCX model in particular, I take it is possible using LC+ Software (which is says is the editing software for the box) to cue the memories/scenes stored on the Lan box from the a PC direct. Is it also possible to create cue lists on LC+ and not store them on the LanBox and cue them from the PC so effectively use it just as a Lan/usb to DMX converter and not a controller and not storing any show data on it. This didn’t seem very clear to me it seemed that you could only cue from the PC memories/scenes actually stored on the LanBox. I would just want to use the PC to store my shows. Also I wonder if this is possible to use a simple DMX desk (in my case a 24 channel scenesetter) to cue 24 cue long cue lists stored on the box with each channel slider a cue submaster? Taking this a step further use the desk as cue submasters as above but for cue lists stored on the PC and not on the box? Then if you wanted another 24ch cue list you just load this onto the PC as the current cue list so you would have in effect unlimited pages of cues. Cued from the very simply not very large desk but the complexity of the cue handled by the software and LanBox also adding the possibility of using a lot more channel than the desk capacity the full 512? So really what I am asking is can you get the LanBox-LCX to decode DMX from the desk and send it to the PC as a cue to cue a PC stored cue (not stored on the box) which the PC would then send the DMX values for that PC based/saved cue back to the box to send out as DMX? Sorry if this is a little hard to understand what I am getting at… I am a little tired at the moment… Thanks for any help in advanced… :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukew Posted December 23, 2004 Author Share Posted December 23, 2004 Thanks for all your help so far does any one else have an opinion on one of these Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeL Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 I've used it a bit.....not fully impressed with the software...but the recent updates are a step in the right direction.... the dimming seemed a bit jittery, but ill blame that on my crappy laptop!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endorphin Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 the dimming seemed a bit jittery, but ill blame that on my crappy laptop!!<{POST_SNAPBACK}> found the same on my laptop but on my desktop works fine. (found using pgup pgdown ect to alter levels works ok but is a right pain !) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Beesley Posted January 17, 2005 Share Posted January 17, 2005 HI, I have one ... original software isnt much good, though this version works great and will operate with other dongles!! http://users.pandora.be/freestylerdmx/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xmath Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 I take it is possible using LC+ Software (which is says is the editing software for the box) to cue the memories/scenes stored on the Lan box from the a PC direct.Correct. Is it also possible to create cue lists on LC+ and not store them on the LanBox and cue them from the PC so effectively use it just as a Lan/usb to DMX converter and not a controller and not storing any show data on it. This didn’t seem very clear to me it seemed that you could only cue from the PC memories/scenes actually stored on the LanBox. I would just want to use the PC to store my shows.LCedit currently has no way to store shows for you beyond the backup/restore mechanism. The LanBox does support direct control in various ways, and there are some third-party apps which provide a different interface to the LanBox (its protocol is documented), though I don't know if any of them work the way you want. Also I wonder if this is possible to use a simple DMX desk (in my case a 24 channel scenesetter) to cue 24 cue long cue lists stored on the box with each channel slider a cue submaster?Currently DMX input of the LanBox-LCX can only be used for merging into its output, or for transfer to a computer for further processing. LCedit+ cannot do anything with it except display the channels in a monitor, but custom applications can do anything they like obviously. Note that there are also slider-tables which can produce freely-programmable MIDI commands, which opens up a lot more options (since the LanBox can be entirely controlled via MIDI). Taking this a step further use the desk as cue submasters as above but for cue lists stored on the PC and not on the box? Then if you wanted another 24ch cue list you just load this onto the PC as the current cue list so you would have in effect unlimited pages of cues. Cued from the very simply not very large desk but the complexity of the cue handled by the software and LanBox also adding the possibility of using a lot more channel than the desk capacity the full 512? So really what I am asking is can you get the LanBox-LCX to decode DMX from the desk and send it to the PC as a cue to cue a PC stored cue (not stored on the box) which the PC would then send the DMX values for that PC based/saved cue back to the box to send out as DMX?This would definitely be a custom job, with the DMX transfer back and forth via UDP (anything else would probably be way too slow). I'm not aware of any such application having been written yet. Also beware of latency: when you change the position of a slider, there's a little time before it's transmitted by the controller, some time until it's processed by the LanBox, some time until it's transmitted to the PC, the PC has processed it, the next data is sent to the LanBox, the LanBox has processed it and sends out the DMX frame. This may all add up to a very noticable delay. Keeping high responsiveness and preventing jitter are the main reasons we let the LanBox do most of the work (in addition to enabling stand-alone use). I hope this clarifies things, - Matthijs van Duin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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