Don't under-estimate how much noise the fans in these little demons make as aggregated it is substantial. You can get an idea of it in the latest video, "Erotica Psychotica," before the music starts and that's after I've processed it a bit to take that noise out.
One question that was answered by this one was why I get tired just from wiggling my fingers and the answer is clearly that I don't just wiggle my fingers. I watched it and thought, holy mackerel, yer whole body is playing that thing.
The noise consideration comes because an hour or so of working with them will definitely bring that noise up to the level of highly-oppressive. The light rack is right over my head so there's no escape.
The additional consideration is how much louder does it get in adding more fixtures. This isn't just tech yak as your music, assuming it doesn't suck, ought to have dynamics. Fan noise won't interfere much during loud parts but when you take it down, you'll get the same sound that makes living in suburbia a living hell: lawnmowers. (That's the No. 1 biggest reason I hated suburbia: the never-ending noise from lawnmowers all week-end long.)
It is not an acceptable solution to shoot stock video in which it captures all manner of laser and light tricks such that this track can be used as a magic track for other tracks to import tripfulness. That's neither live nor sexy. I've done it with other tracks and it looks cool ... but it ain't live.
Shooting "The Cat in the Space Between Things" can't go on-hold waiting for more lighting kit as it will take a long time to get it. However, that's a compromise and there can't be compromises at this stage. The cost in waiting is that if I play it too many times it'll go stale.
Those variables fly about but the biggest experiment is still pending and that's to see if I can trigger lights from the music. Between me and that noble objective is a couple of hours of fan noise and that's the choke part. I'll get past it so for now the object is review. Once that experiment is accomplished, then what.
There's not an answer right now as that's something to percolate in my head while the fan noise is annoying me during the Noble Experiment.
Geek Alert of a Light Fixture Nature
Assuming the Noble Experiment is successful and playing a note does result in a patch change for the lights, this results in various things:
Getting the most granularity of control means breaking up 'families' of fixtures. For example, all green lasers are in the same family (i.e. DMX channel ID) and three LED cans are in the same family. By breaking up these families and addressing individual fixtures, the controller patches will have much greater range of control.
As to DMX channels IDs, they can run from 0-127 or 0-255 but, practically speaking, I can address twelve from the DMX Operator unit as the Fixture buttons aggregate DMX IDs. Other DMX controllers may offer more control ... unknown.
3 - Green lasers
1 - Blue/Violet laser
1 - Purple Weenie laser
3 - LED cans
1 - LED Majestic
1 - Fog machine
If the other two Purple Weenie lasers are not really dead then the above maxes twelve DMX IDs before bringing any more kit into the room. Therefore, some aggregation is required. One obvious set of candidates comes from the Purple Weenies. If they're aggregated and one dies then chuck it and no change to programming will be needed.
Geek Alert of a Musical Nature
Something I have already tried is whether it is possible to capture something like "Erotica Psychotica" in a looper. That works splendidly as all instruments except the voice mike and the drum box go through a mixer before going into the primary looper so it can record three voices simultaneously.
The merit in doing such a thing is the Godin xtSA permits switching out MIDI Access altogether so I can go to native guitar sound only and that works very well for playing over a loop recorded as above with all of it live and requiring very small moves to accomplish.
That should be enough rumination before actually trying something. I do not anticipate making any video tonight as I could only do it using headphones and that is extremely unlikely.
One question that was answered by this one was why I get tired just from wiggling my fingers and the answer is clearly that I don't just wiggle my fingers. I watched it and thought, holy mackerel, yer whole body is playing that thing.
The noise consideration comes because an hour or so of working with them will definitely bring that noise up to the level of highly-oppressive. The light rack is right over my head so there's no escape.
The additional consideration is how much louder does it get in adding more fixtures. This isn't just tech yak as your music, assuming it doesn't suck, ought to have dynamics. Fan noise won't interfere much during loud parts but when you take it down, you'll get the same sound that makes living in suburbia a living hell: lawnmowers. (That's the No. 1 biggest reason I hated suburbia: the never-ending noise from lawnmowers all week-end long.)
It is not an acceptable solution to shoot stock video in which it captures all manner of laser and light tricks such that this track can be used as a magic track for other tracks to import tripfulness. That's neither live nor sexy. I've done it with other tracks and it looks cool ... but it ain't live.
Shooting "The Cat in the Space Between Things" can't go on-hold waiting for more lighting kit as it will take a long time to get it. However, that's a compromise and there can't be compromises at this stage. The cost in waiting is that if I play it too many times it'll go stale.
Those variables fly about but the biggest experiment is still pending and that's to see if I can trigger lights from the music. Between me and that noble objective is a couple of hours of fan noise and that's the choke part. I'll get past it so for now the object is review. Once that experiment is accomplished, then what.
There's not an answer right now as that's something to percolate in my head while the fan noise is annoying me during the Noble Experiment.
Geek Alert of a Light Fixture Nature
Assuming the Noble Experiment is successful and playing a note does result in a patch change for the lights, this results in various things:
Getting the most granularity of control means breaking up 'families' of fixtures. For example, all green lasers are in the same family (i.e. DMX channel ID) and three LED cans are in the same family. By breaking up these families and addressing individual fixtures, the controller patches will have much greater range of control.
As to DMX channels IDs, they can run from 0-127 or 0-255 but, practically speaking, I can address twelve from the DMX Operator unit as the Fixture buttons aggregate DMX IDs. Other DMX controllers may offer more control ... unknown.
3 - Green lasers
1 - Blue/Violet laser
1 - Purple Weenie laser
3 - LED cans
1 - LED Majestic
1 - Fog machine
If the other two Purple Weenie lasers are not really dead then the above maxes twelve DMX IDs before bringing any more kit into the room. Therefore, some aggregation is required. One obvious set of candidates comes from the Purple Weenies. If they're aggregated and one dies then chuck it and no change to programming will be needed.
Geek Alert of a Musical Nature
Something I have already tried is whether it is possible to capture something like "Erotica Psychotica" in a looper. That works splendidly as all instruments except the voice mike and the drum box go through a mixer before going into the primary looper so it can record three voices simultaneously.
The merit in doing such a thing is the Godin xtSA permits switching out MIDI Access altogether so I can go to native guitar sound only and that works very well for playing over a loop recorded as above with all of it live and requiring very small moves to accomplish.
That should be enough rumination before actually trying something. I do not anticipate making any video tonight as I could only do it using headphones and that is extremely unlikely.
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