Episode 5 – What is DMX?




The Learn Stage Lighting Podcast show

Summary: <a href="https://i0.wp.com/www.learnstagelighting.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Podcast-Image-5.png?ssl=1"></a><br> In today’s Podcast David talks about DMX or Digital Multi-Plex. It is a digital signal, a serial type signal and runs on the RS485 standard layer and can run up to 512 channels of 8-bit information. Wow, that is a lot of technical information but it is useful to know this information when your learning stage lighting.<br> DMX is a broadcast style of communication.  You don’t have to have any sophisticated equipment to run this, it is just there and very simple.<br> Back in time, you had various ways that consoles talked to one another but they were proprietary, they were manufacture specific and they couldn’t talk to one another.<br> Then RDM came and allowed fixtures to talk to the console upon request. You could look at and change information which you could not do before. <a href="https://www.learnstagelighting.com/what-is-rdm-and-why-does-it-matter-to-me/">Here is a post that goes into deeper detail on RDM.</a><br> DMX is 3 pin or 5 pin cable. Why is that we only use 3 of the pins?<br> They did this because they didn’t want microphones to be plugged into your lighting systems. So if you see a 5 pin plug it is for DMX.  <a href="https://www.learnstagelighting.com/can-i-use-microphone-cables-for-dmx-lighting/">You can not use a microphone cable for DMX as you will be asking for problems!</a><br> Mailbag!<br> <br> Vinylmanipul8r wants to know the differences between programs like Chauvet <a href="https://www.learnstagelighting.com/how-to-begin-with-chauvet-showxpress/">ShowXpress</a> and the New Pioneer Lighting in <a href="https://rekordbox.com/en/products/#plus">Rekordbox</a> and <a href="https://soundswitch.com">Soundswitch.</a><br> Jeff wants to know what needs to happen when he changes his Digital Audio Workspace from Cubase to Pro-Tools<br> <br> Check out this link for a better explanation of this question:<br> <br> <br> Forums.DMXIS.com – <a href="http://forums.dmxis.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=1689&amp;p=8060&amp;hilit=protools#p8060" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://forums.dmxis.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=1689&amp;p=8060&amp;hilit=protools#p8060</a><br> <br> <br> <br> Also, check out my <a href="http://lp.learnstagelighting.com/learn-stage-lighting-labs/">Learn Stage Lighting Labs Community</a>!<br> <br> <br> <br>