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Thanks for the help everyone is giving me so far... I have 2 more questions...

1. Is there a BLACKOUT BUTTON somewhere if I want to blackout all the fixtures?

2. WHen using the FX Generator, lets say I want to make an effect of a circle for my moving mirrors but make another effect for another set of fextures is this possible?

3. is there some way to do music triger? or tap triger to set the times to music?

Thanks..
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1: There is no blackout button. Make your own all ZERO value scene and name it BLACKOUT and assign it a button that you can hit quickly that you feel safe with. Put it at the beginning of your scenes so you can get it easy. In my case, I have "F" as my "Fade to blackout over 5 seconds" and my dash key as my immediate blackout. I don't want to use the space bar, it's too easy to hit. But, you make your own decision as to what key you want to use. As long as it makes sense to you, then that's all that matters.

2: Not really. It's best to do one set of fixtures and document. Then repeat with the others. Then make a new set of scenes/steps that consolidate those settings per step together. Use the FX Generator to help you make your effects, but pen and paper(or really good memory) to document the steps for replication. What I'd recommend is IF possible to match steps, say have one type of fixture doing a 6-step thing, and another fixture doing their stuff in 6 steps as well.

3: No. MyDMX does not support a music trigger or chase. You can, however, assign MIDI triggers to scenes and then trigger them via a sequencer. It's not a graceful solution because it requires a hardwired MIDI loop on a muti-port MIDI itnerface and properly setting up stuff in your MIDI sequencing software when done on one PC so as to avoid MIDI loops. Someone mentioned a software package that will emulate the MIDI interface. I haven't tested it. Then you can import MUSIC(say, you're using Sonar) and then input MIDI triggers when you want scenes to change/trigger.

If you really want to do this a lot(music syncing), I think CompuLive is the better package to go with. CompuLive supoprts MIDI bridging into the application which lets it work much better in this regards.

Or, you can assign your triggers to YOU pushing keys at certain times. Certainly the cheap way to go. Can't say it's the best, but certainly not the worst. Sometimes human intervention is the best way to go.
One of the place I work I use light jockey (altought I dont use all the features).. what I did was create a cue and sequence and have it set to change the steps to the music trigger that comes from the built in mic in the fixtures (MX4's)....
I guess I cant do this in MYDMX.. and why there is no blackout button is beyond me...
The reason there is no blackout button is because MyDMX is SCENE based.

And for all the pro shows that I've seen use software control for lights, and talking with those techs, none of those packages have a blackout button either. Go figure.

How hard is it just to take a blank fresh scene, name it "BLACKOUT" and have it readily accessible? Apparently everyone else feels this isn't that difficult a task, even the pros. Granted, it's a whole half second of your day taken away, but I suppose it's the best they could do.

If you want to use the sound active mode in your fixtures, if your fixtures while in DMX mode have a "sound active" set of values, put your light into that mode and it should STILL work. MyDMX is merely issuing the numbers, it's up to the fixture to do the right thing.

But if you want MyDMX itself to be "sound triggered", then no, it doens't do that, at least not directly. You could I suppose come up with a device that will take volume input and convert that to MIDI data, but I think the lack of control over the ambient sound would not produce effects that would give you a good feeling of control.

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