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Re:You can hook your MIDI keyboard up to a website with Fire... by womod on Thursday December 15, 2022 @03:51AM (#33996880)
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/

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Re:You can hook your MIDI keyboard up to a website with Fire... by cschmittiey on Thursday December 15, 2022 @06:13AM (#33997827)
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.
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Re:You can hook your MIDI keyboard up to a website with Fire... by adw on Saturday December 17, 2022 @08:48PM (#34034271)
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.
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