Shut up, don't remind me, still so much to do, so many LEDs to solder...

Amazing, awesome!

So, here we go, some demos for the LED things. There are two bars of LEDs which are mirror images of each other. Control them via MIDI (can be MIDI from anywhere). Break down the midi channel numbers and what the correspond to are below

I've done two little demos, one just running through the lights and one synced to this weeks track.

http://tiasu.com/WIP/LED_demo_runthrough.mid

http://tiasu.com/WIP/LED_demo_tregetour.mid

Apologies for the quality of the videos, as it turns out it is very hard to film incredibly bright LEDs and most of the visual is lost - they're actually doing a lot more than you can see in that video. Also there was a green LED bank that wasn't working properly in the video. It was a really annoying issue, because it would work sometimes but I think I've sorted it now.

Not shown in either video (mainly because it wasn't working properly) - Strobes & UV. Both are very cool, don't over use it though.

The basic guide to programming these lights is - there will be ambient light in the room, but if you just flash them, someone will complain So it's a good idea to have at least one light on all the time. You can use PWM to vary the brightness of some of the LEDs (see the above image for all the details), so to do fades you have a lot of MIDI on messages and no MIDI off. I was going to map a CC value to do fades, but this was easier.

I have also built a couple of really cool 8x8 full RGB LED displays. They're running this really awesome free software, which you can actually download and play around with on your own computer. I'll probably just set them on random or you can choose what you want displayed. They can sort of do text (have to flip the x axis) and do simple still images. Technically they can do animations, although when I was playing with it with cTrix the images weren't displaying properly...

If you don't have time to write a lighting track for your set (it's a pain, I know, although not terribly time consuming) we can either set a few of the lights on, or use vinpous' amazing audio-to-LED MaxMSP patch, whichever you'd like to choose

Anyway, if anyone has any questions or anything like that, I'm pretty easy to find, message me on FB or on here. I'm also happy to play your MIDI files through the system and show you what it looks like (skype maybe?) if you need it!

Saska
(email is my name at my username dot com)

MusicTheory.net is awesome. Also, cTrix I am so incredibly jealous of your studio, it looks amazing!

Party! We'll put WeeBee on shuffle and just rock out!~

It wasn't, I just tried it. It does exactly as he describes - no 1, 2 & 4 work, but no 3 is broken

Hahaha, love it guys, unique name fail... How did we manage two in one week?