The obvious thing in lighting in the latest video is that any changes the lights make have nothing to do with the music. The lights make tremendous effects but there's nothing in the way of synchronization.
Since then I've made a set of eight patches for the lights (i.e. one Bank):
1) Maximum performance with all lights and lasers
2) LED with green lasers only
3) LED with blue laser only
4) ...
8) All light sources out except for LED cans for a solid purple backlight
Copying Banks is a simple mechanical procedure.
I know Banks 1-14 are used for determining the patch based on the incoming MIDI note.
Therefore, the simplest test is to propagate the Bank I have created to populate all Banks from 2-14. All possible patch sources will then have been initialized with at least something.
The next moves are to validate the MIDI channel to which the controller is listening and the MIDI channel on which the Korg is transmitting. Once those are matched, hit a note and see what happens. If anything happens, it validates communication as all notes should trigger something. That the patches will not map to octaves doesn't really matter as the significant aspect is that lights will change when a note changes.
It's hard to tell up-front if there will coolness in it as there is the potential to make it highly-robotic and, much as the juniors like hip-hop and robotic dance, I'd rather watch Cuban dancers. Robo-dance shows me sociology but what I want is rhythm.
The lights have a very deliberate purpose as they are meant to dazzle you and that is not to create a false reality but rather to block a false reality from disturbing your thoughts. There is no freedom within arbitrary walls regardless of whether they seem solid as walls always fall down.
Today is November 9, Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, possibly the most important date in my life. It was a privilege to even catch a glimpse of it and to know that we really can do such things. Reagan can take credit as he likes but the people pushed that wall down and only the people can. We did then and we will again, any time it is necessary. Maybe you don't like me calling you German ... but we are anyway. Look at the history, mein Freund.
This the Rainbow Bridge shown me by the Master. It's not about playing like Hendrix but rather about listening to him.
Since then I've made a set of eight patches for the lights (i.e. one Bank):
1) Maximum performance with all lights and lasers
2) LED with green lasers only
3) LED with blue laser only
4) ...
8) All light sources out except for LED cans for a solid purple backlight
Copying Banks is a simple mechanical procedure.
I know Banks 1-14 are used for determining the patch based on the incoming MIDI note.
Therefore, the simplest test is to propagate the Bank I have created to populate all Banks from 2-14. All possible patch sources will then have been initialized with at least something.
The next moves are to validate the MIDI channel to which the controller is listening and the MIDI channel on which the Korg is transmitting. Once those are matched, hit a note and see what happens. If anything happens, it validates communication as all notes should trigger something. That the patches will not map to octaves doesn't really matter as the significant aspect is that lights will change when a note changes.
It's hard to tell up-front if there will coolness in it as there is the potential to make it highly-robotic and, much as the juniors like hip-hop and robotic dance, I'd rather watch Cuban dancers. Robo-dance shows me sociology but what I want is rhythm.
The lights have a very deliberate purpose as they are meant to dazzle you and that is not to create a false reality but rather to block a false reality from disturbing your thoughts. There is no freedom within arbitrary walls regardless of whether they seem solid as walls always fall down.
Today is November 9, Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, possibly the most important date in my life. It was a privilege to even catch a glimpse of it and to know that we really can do such things. Reagan can take credit as he likes but the people pushed that wall down and only the people can. We did then and we will again, any time it is necessary. Maybe you don't like me calling you German ... but we are anyway. Look at the history, mein Freund.
This the Rainbow Bridge shown me by the Master. It's not about playing like Hendrix but rather about listening to him.
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