One of the challenges we faced during The Ascent was dynamically and remotely controlling an ETC ION Light Board via a MIDI Show Control Gateway. We approached this using Max.
The ION Light Board supports a number of different MSC commands outlined here.
For our implementation we originally wished to use 'Set Submaster' commands to control our lighting environment, however we found that the lighting board, for a reason we are as of yet unable to verify, was unable to process these commands. As an alternative we decided to stick to 'Go Cue' and 'Fire Macro' commands.
To achieve this I wrote a Max patch that translates simple Cue and Macro commands in Max to MSC commands to be sent out through a MIDI interface on the machine using a regular expression subpatcher to convert decimal strings to ASCII decimal strings appropriate for injecting into an sxformat object to process for output.
More information on MSC protocol here.
You can check out the Max patch below.
msclighting.maxpat
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Hi, just wondering did you connect your laptop to ION via USB to MIDI connector?
ReplyDeleteHello Michael
ReplyDeleteGreat job on the Ascent Project! Is your Max Patch available to download. The link on your blog page doesn't appear to be working.
Thanks
Calvin