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Hi everybody. I hope my question isn't so naiive that it annoys everyone. I wouldn't want to get flamed on my first post!
I play guitar in a band, doing small pub gigs, wedding receptions and such.
My amplifier has a midi output which corresponds to which song we're doing (I use an amp patch per song, numbered 0 to 64).

My question is - is there a (cheap) dmx controller that could receive this midi information to call up one of 64 stored lighting schemes?
It would all be very simple - I'm only thinking of 4 LED par 56 cans, but it would be nice to get the most out of them. Also I've read in another thread that LEDs flicker with some controllers.
Cheers,
Craig
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hey. welcome! most dmx controllers have the midi in option. let me see if i have this right. your amp sends out midi per each song you do? im thinking if you have just one midi note going per song then you will only be able to acchieve one scenes or one chase per song. which might go good depending on what you use. take a lok at the dmx operator 192. you can assign midi notes to scenes or banks or chases. also the only thing i have heard about les flickering is if you file them. for some reason at low intesity's they seem to flicker on film. but if u have a link ti that thread about the flickering leds post it and i will check it out. i hope this helps/makes sense. lol! peace! jingles!
Thanks Jingles.
I'm also new to the world of midi - having never paid any attention to it before - hence my fuzzy description of what my amp does. Its a digital modelling amp that communicates with its foot controller by midi. The amp has 64 user patches, which I use to save settings for each individual song. So when I select a particular patch, say 42, on my foot controller, 42 also appears on the amp's midi-out. I'm hoping that a dmx box, maybe the 192, could store 64 scenes or chase sequences, each individually addressable by this midi information.
Does that make sense?
Anyways, thanks for the suggestion - I'll start looking at the spec of the 192.
Cheers,
Craig

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