color burst 8 dmx specs

Without knowing more(like, hey, post a manual ADJ!!), it's really impossible to know what the DMX traits are at this point, so no point in even guessing. Since the fixture isn't out until April, only ADJ knows what they are. Chances are a dimmer, a macro/program(which may also include strobe or more likely sound active), and maybe a speed for the macro/program(and may also include strobe).

Sound active mode being controlled externally might not be a good idea until we know more about this fixture. Just a thought though, is there any possibility of you upgrading to DMX?

The Botex DC-4C is a DMX512 panel as far as I can tell. With 4 dimmer channels and a master slider it's definitively vintage. But it still does what they call "sound-to-light", "color organ", or "Lichtorgel [in German]".

It is precisely the effect of having the sound intensity within part of the sound spectrum drive a single LED color, that I'm after, no chase sequences, bass activated or otherwise needed... But an independent strobe modulation, might be nice too. One could not do that in the old days running 100 W flood bulbs on a color organ with triac dimmers, the filaments in the bulbs just would not respond fast enough.

So DMX it is from now on. We'll just have to bide our time until the final specs for the Color Burst 8 DMX are released. Thanks.

Well, you lost me somewhere.

Even if you're using an analog to DMX controller, the end result is output on a specific channel, which will be interpretted by the DMX fixture(or dimmer) based on its DMX traits, but you knew that. Does't matter what the controller says it does, it may be something specific for what it was originally paired with.

Getting ADJ or other companies to reveal product information is a pain. No offense to anyone here, especially ADJ and Elation employees. From what I understand, there's lots of dirty pool in the business and everyone plays the same game. I may have some insider information on something but I ain't sharing, but it might result in a purchase of 8 of them, that's all I will say.

Back to your concept. If you could write something that could, for example, do an audio analysis to MIDI CC, there's a chance you could get what you want done. Similar things exist, such as guitar to MIDI converters, or even MIDI wind controllers(but those work more on note on/off as well as some CC data). Just having trouble with the mechanics of it, I've been busting my hump redoing my main computer and I've lost 48 hours(yes, that's 2 full days, and I work round the clock) that i can not afford to lose. I'm a bit wiped and edgy right now.

Once you have something that could do an analysis and dump out to MIDI, perhaps it could be used to trigger something like MyDMX on an RGB fixture, using pitch to determine color, and volume to determine brightness. All you'd need to do is assign the control information and you'd be done. And if you want to use multiple lights, you can double up on lights to channels, or controllers mapped to multiple channels.

The bottom line is that it's probable. Highly probable.

Their site says it's 3 DMX channels, which explains the price. I'll bet it is still a pretty cool effect, though I would certainly like separate control of all colors. Looks to me like it's targeted more towards the DJ than bands.