MIDI to DMX Music Meets Lighting
Want to play lights with your MIDI controllers? DARE TO LIGHT gives us a nice artistic performance featuring a keytar player controlling lighting through MIDI. The performers play with the lighting as they play music.
Turn Your MIDI Controllers into Lighting Instruments
Controlling your DMX lighting fixtures with MIDI controllers is really easy. Nowadays, MIDI controllers are plug and play when connected to a computer DMX lighting, syncing MIDI and lighting becomes really straightforward.
Here's a rehearsal video with a MIDI keyboard and, some DMX lights and real talent. As you'll see, there's no delay between the time a key is pressed and the lights are activated.
No Delay
The MIDI input is going really fast and can keep pace even with the most zealous musicians.
16 Channels of MIDI Notes And CC
Unleash the power of MIDI control and note messages and really control any Koolfusion controller parameters in a few mouse clicks. If remote control is your goal, you'll be served!
MIDI Feedback (Output)
The Koolfusion controller can send back the 16 channels of MIDI notes and cc to control other software or generate feedback with your MIDI instruments. The MIDI output configuration is very powerful and you can generate very sophisticated feedback.
MIDI Clocks
For precise synchronization, the Koolfusion controller can receive MIDI clock messages enabling you to use the BPM info and react perfectly in sync to the beats.
Unlimited Number of MIDI Controllers
Drum pad launcher, mixer, keyboard, pedal, name it. The Koolfusion controller supports it. Create a real jam by letting multiple people play together!
Turn Your MIDI Controllers into Lighting Instruments
Controlling your DMX lighting fixtures with MIDI controllers is really easy to setup in the Koolfusion controller world. Nowadays, MIDI controllers are plug and play when connected to a computer and sincethe Koolfusion controller is dedicated to DMX lighting, syncing MIDI and lighting becomes really straightforward.
Walkthrough
1. Global Configuration
Access the MIDI configuration by going to View/Configuration.
The Koolfusion controller automatically detects connected MIDI controllers at startup. You should see the connected controllers in the list.
Use: If you don't want the Koolfusion controller to use a MIDI controller, just uncheck the use box. This allows another application running on the computer to use the controller.
Connect & Refresh: The refresh button looks for newly connected MIDI controllers. So to add a controller, just plug it in your computer and hit refresh.
To receive MIDI from another software running on the same computer, you can use a virtual MIDI driver like loopMIDI or LoopBe1.
To send MIDI from your Mac and receive it in the Koolfusion controller running under Windows, look at rtpMIDI or ipMIDI.
2. Input - Link to any slider
Select any slider and click on the MIDI icon. Then you'll be able to play with all MIDI settings.
3. Input - Play
Notes & Controls: Select whether you're interested in notes or control changes (CC).
Channel: You have access to all 16 MIDI channels.
Values: The viewer at the left lets you see values in realtime and easily choose the value you want. Just click a value to select it.
Last received message: This is a type of MIDI learn feature, helping you quickly map your MIDI messages. The last received message, from any channel and of any type, will appear on the top-right button. Just click the button to select the corresponding MIDI message.
4. Clocks
Each MIDI input controller can send clock messages. The Koolfusion controller then extracts the BPM info and you can use the following functions in your formula: midi.clock.beat, midi.clock.bpm, midi.clock.sawtooth, midi.clock.speed.
The clock ids are automatically assigned by the Koolfusion controller.
5. Output/Feedback
You control the leds of your MIDI controller like any other lighting fixtures: simply patch them in the MIDI Note/CC universes. You have 16 universes for the notes and 16 universes for the cc, each universe corresponding to a MIDI channel with 128 elements.
All active MIDI controllers in the output configuration panel will receive the MIDI messages.
Idea box
Let music performers control lighting parameters with their MIDI music instruments. Let the lighting crew generate live lighting effects in a really unusual way. Close your computer lid and use a MIDI keyboard to trigger your lighting effects. Map MIDI notes coming from your favorite music software and trigger lighting effects.