Summary: Welcome, 2019 and Happy New Year! I am so excited to get started with the new year. In this week’s episode, we dive into the mailbag for the Free Q & A Tuesday! This is where I take questions from listeners and walk them through my thought process.<br> If you have been listening for a while I would sincerely appreciate if you would take a moment to rate the Podcast and be sure to share what you’ve learned from the show!<br> <a href="https://www.learnstagelighting.com/itunes">Rate/Review on iTunes</a><br> Lighting News! (2:13)<br> In one of my favorite industry magazines, <a href="http://plsn.com/">Projection Lights & Staging News</a> or PLSN, released an article about the recent shows done by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. If you haven’t seen or heard of this orchestra it’s a group that puts on such an amazing show. PLSN discusses the lighting and the effects used in this production.<br> <a href="http://plsn.com/articles/projection-design/trans-siberian-orchestra-2/">PLSN Trans-Siberian Orchestra Article</a><br> Main Segment (6:20)<br> David (7:10) Thanks for your help so far with questions regarding D PRO. Further to this subject, I have access to an old mark1 ENTTEC DMX PRO converter. Will this convert from my PC to 5 pin DMX? Or do I need to buy the MK2?<br> In the D-Pro manual, it does show that you can do what you want with Mk1. If you have any additional questions regarding the software you can always reach out to <a href="https://www.enttec.com/support/">ENTTEC’s Support</a> as well.<br> Robert (9:00) Been using Learn Stage Lighting to learn how to light the band I am in. We are currently figuring out or path forward. The question I have is how to combine an LED Screen (or multiple screens) and other lights controlled by <a href="https://www.learnstagelighting.com/how-to-program-with-dmxis/">DMXis</a>. For example, to have said a LED type screen behind the drummer displaying fractal patterns synced with whatever lights we would have set up via our Light Bar.<br> There’s not a lot of options for video and lights being triggered by DMXis. So, the developer that created the DMXis created the ShowBuddy Active which is still new but a program that is designed to trigger light and video through DMXis.<br> You can read more about the program here: <a href="https://www.dmxis.com/show-buddy-active/">ShowBuddy Active</a><br> Tom (14:13) I have the latest iMac and OS, I am running Digital Performer 9 along with DMXIS. Can you help me with set up, running my lighting rig, using MIDI in DP9 and DMXIS? How do I set up DP9? I can’t find anything on the internet on the nuts/bolts of this.<br> You can use any digital audio workstation with DMXis. You can run DMXis as a VST plugin with a lot of DAWs. Digital Performer does have the capability to use VST plugin. If you installed DMXis on your computer but didn’t specify a place to install the plugin you’ll want to re-install DMXis on your computer and this time you will want to specify where you want the VST Plugin.<br> Once you get the VST Plugin set up you’ll be able to set up MIDI lanes. Another way to set up your MIDI’s is via MIDI Notes. On channels 15 and 16 you’ll be able to trigger the DMXis banks and presets that you pre-recorded.<br> Inside of <a href="http://www.Learnstagelighting.com/labs">Learn Stage Lighting Labs</a>, I have available how to set this up through Ableton, which is a very similar setup to most DAWs.<br> Learn Stage Lighting Labs (19:10)<br> The sponsor of this Podcast is Learn Stage Lighting Labs. <a href="https://lp.learnstagelighting.com/learn-stage-lighting-labs/">Learn Stage Lighting Labs</a>, is a great resource if you want to help save yourself time and money when it comes to lighting. You’ll have access to great resources for lighting and technical support whether you’re working with a band, church, etc.<br>
