dodgeroo

Has anyone had experience using max to control a lighting board. I am

about to do this but I was hoping to get some 'where to start' type of

information and I have been unsuccessful in finding anything in the

Has anyone had experience using max to control a lighting board.  I am
about to do this but I was hoping to get some 'where to start' type of
information and I have been unsuccessful in finding anything in the
archives or the net.

midi-show-control

Should be straightforward if the hardware takes MIDI info, if it doesn't then you need to determine how to send it DMX (I assume), either thru a MIDI jack or a USB, whatever it can receive. I think it would be pretty cool to do this and hope to do it for a school project next semester.

Probably a series of multisliders or tables in which you can draw each light (or set of lights) brightness levels over time, set your access speed and maybe loop points, then it's about creating and saving presets / pattrs, or possibly generating curves by algorithms (sine functions etc.), or linking up the light values based on MIDI note information.

As long as there's a way to stream the numbers to the hardware, Max could certainly do what you need. You could even use matrices with Jitter--for example, light levels based upon pixel values in a movie? Also jit.noise or jit.streak effects would be pretty interesting to mess with, quasi-controllable randomness...

Should be straightforward if the hardware takes MIDI info, if it doesn't then you need to determine how to send it DMX (I assume), either thru a MIDI jack or a USB, whatever it can receive. I think it would be pretty cool to do this and hope to do it for a school project next semester. 

Midi show control