Re:You can hook your MIDI keyboard up to a website with Fire...
by womod on Thursday December 15, 2022 @03:51AM
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A good number of stage lighting controllers have the ability to interface with and handle MIDI, but the vast majority of stage lighting equipment is controlled using DMX[1]. The two have a lot in common, being pretty much ubiquitous and rock-solid even given their age.
[1] - http://www.dmx-512.com/dmx-protocol/dmx-protocol-basics/
Re:You can hook your MIDI keyboard up to a website with Fire...
by cschmittiey on Thursday December 15, 2022 @06:13AM
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I think it’s likely they were confused also by the physical connector - DMX can and often does use the same 5 pin connector as MIDI, if I’m not mistaken.
Re:You can hook your MIDI keyboard up to a website with Fire...
by adw on Saturday December 17, 2022 @08:48PM
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Nah, I was just wrong :-) I know a lot of big touring productions drive lighting and patch changes off the same clock (usually a laptop which provides time code, possibly backing tracks, and possibly patch changes for effects and synths), and misremembered that lighting typically used a different protocol even if it’s the same program driving everything.
No-one uses MIDI 2.0 yet, we don’t need it! MPE (https://www.midi.org/midi-articles/midi-polyphonic-expressio...) is only just being adopted (with poly aftertouch instruments and keybeds like the ones in the ASM Hydrasynth).
MIDI has proved amazingly resilient, whether over 5-pin DIN, the increasingly common TRS 1/4” jacks (common on Eurorack or guitar pedals, where space is a premium) or the utterly ubiquitous MIDI over USB. (And ethernet, can’t forget that). Everything digitally controlled speaks MIDI - and not just music, the stage lighting world is all MIDI too. I think that there is a real case that it’s the second most successful wired physical-layer protocol behind Ethernet.