esgrillo
05-03-2019, 10:09 AM
Ran a full test last weekend for the DMX portion of my fireworks show. Been working on this set-up for a while as you may have seen in some other posts but this is the first time I had everything in place including my regular audio system.
Overall it went pretty good. There will be some smoke going off during the show so the lasers and moving heads will be easier to see (with nothing to reflect off, a little hard to see in the video) and I need to adjust my flame units some but nothing that can't be managed.
Was able to start this with the Cobra 18R2 which has been my goal. My basic set-up:
- Cobra audiobox with regular sound track on one channel and LTC timecode audio on the other
- Regular audio feeds to mixing board for all audio outputs
- LTC timecode feeds to Rosendahl MIF4 to convert to MIDI which is needed to trigger the DMX script
- MIDI output plugs to laptop via USB so my CompuShow SDE DMX software sees it as a MIDI trigger feed
- CompuShow SDE has full timeline scripted program I wrote using same soundtrack I am using for fireworks
- CompuShow SDE DMX dongle feeds DMX output to all the field devices
- Both firework script and DMX script starts when 18R2 starts audiobox music
Some tweaking to do as I said but it should all work. More stuff to set up on set up day lol. Sorry for the video quality, not the best. (youtube police flagged ACDC so I had to silence, I have full audio version on Vimeo here: https://vimeo.com/333253120 )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcPjSA2VFHk
Overall it went pretty good. There will be some smoke going off during the show so the lasers and moving heads will be easier to see (with nothing to reflect off, a little hard to see in the video) and I need to adjust my flame units some but nothing that can't be managed.
Was able to start this with the Cobra 18R2 which has been my goal. My basic set-up:
- Cobra audiobox with regular sound track on one channel and LTC timecode audio on the other
- Regular audio feeds to mixing board for all audio outputs
- LTC timecode feeds to Rosendahl MIF4 to convert to MIDI which is needed to trigger the DMX script
- MIDI output plugs to laptop via USB so my CompuShow SDE DMX software sees it as a MIDI trigger feed
- CompuShow SDE has full timeline scripted program I wrote using same soundtrack I am using for fireworks
- CompuShow SDE DMX dongle feeds DMX output to all the field devices
- Both firework script and DMX script starts when 18R2 starts audiobox music
Some tweaking to do as I said but it should all work. More stuff to set up on set up day lol. Sorry for the video quality, not the best. (youtube police flagged ACDC so I had to silence, I have full audio version on Vimeo here: https://vimeo.com/333253120 )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcPjSA2VFHk