Originally Posted By: rharv
Yes, it makes sense to me.
My earlier post said "Each MIDI note message sends a new lighting command .. " and then you said you chose DMX instead of MIDI; that's what confused me.
You are using MIDI, just assigned MIDI .. which was my point in the earlier post. Most controllers allow you to send a single MIDI note that triggers a DMX event 'automagically'. Or you can write special MIDI events if you want to ..

I was trying to explain to Pat and others that it is easier than it appears since MIDI and DMX work so well together (both hardware and software aspects)
'It ain't rocket surgery!'

Your findings seem to support this.

Yep. What does make DMX better is that DMX is 512 channels of only one type of data. With value of 0-255.The resolution is much finer. Very important if you're trying to aim intelligent lights at a target.Pan & tilt actually use to channels each one for coarse adjustment and one for fine. It's fun no matter how you do it.

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