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DMX software with audio/bpm detection?


Talvik

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I use the pangolin FB3 with Quickshow a lot and I like it because you assign all the different laser actions to timing of music.

You can have the beam fade every half beat, moves up and down on each beat, then change to a different animation every 16 bars ect.

Then the auto bpm detection does its job and everything is pretty much in sync with music, great.

 

Is there a DMX software that works in a similar fashion?

I've been using MyDMX and I hate the damn thing, I can only control the lights with steps and assign the hold time between steps.

And I wish each light had its own window for controlling the steps so that don't accidentally mess with the movements of other lights when editing steps for a specific light.

I wish the program worked a lot more like pangolin Quickshow. Is there such a DMX program?

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I use the pangolin FB3 with Quickshow a lot and I like it because you assign all the different laser actions to timing of music.

You can have the beam fade every half beat, moves up and down on each beat, then change to a different animation every 16 bars ect.

Then the auto bpm detection does its job and everything is pretty much in sync with music, great.

 

Is there a DMX software that works in a similar fashion?

I've been using MyDMX and I hate the damn thing, I can only control the lights with steps and assign the hold time between steps.

And I wish each light had its own window for controlling the steps so that don't accidentally mess with the movements of other lights when editing steps for a specific light.

I wish the program worked a lot more like pangolin Quickshow. Is there such a DMX program?

 

Yup! I use ShowCad Artist, and it has a nice BPM engine. You just point it to an audio input source (a mic, line out of the mixer, etc), then you can define at which frequencies "bass, mids, highs" are triggered. You can then use these triggers in all your scene and cue programming to do different things.

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I wish the program worked a lot more like pangolin Quickshow. Is there such a DMX program?

 

Funnily enough, I spent a long time the past few years trying to convince Pangolin to make LivePro/Beyond work more like a lighting desk! :)

And now in Beyond you have the concept of projector groups and effects spread... ;) happy daze!

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