Great video man, I have freedom sticks too. What mode do you put the sticks into in order to connect to the D-Fi hub? Also what mode do you put your D-Fi hub in?
This is literally exactly what I’m looking to do except for a full band setting. We have freedom sticks and 2 chauvet 4 bar quads. Have you been able to do this with movers too? Or would you be able to control those with the midi keyboard too?
The good news is that this method already applies to your full lighting rig + movers. Your lights will have their own DMX addresses... and as long as you create a LightKey control that maps to the position of the movers, then you can midi map the position of the mover to some knob, and then you can record your movements into ableton all the same. (Basically it would be the equivalent approach as how i mapped the master fader to one of my knobs)
@@us3rreviewsgear19 gotcha. Is the Light Key preset situation not very good? Or more so just for what you were aiming for? Also, do you know if you can do the presets and also manually patch everything? That would be cool.
@@slayathan AFAIK most lighting pros tend to sit down in front of some kind of controller... like either a DMX fader control, or an MPC, or some kind of midi controller. The presets interface on LightKey is just a virtual controller. I setup a full rig of presets just so that no matter where I am, even if i dont have midi controllers handy, I still could assign my presets to lights and have it play back. Also, AFAIK, presets can always be overridden. LightKey has the ability to set color, dimmer, position values independently and just use them as overrides to other presets. This is exactly the approach I took with my colors vs dimmers.
I am looking to do something similar.. and would love your advice. I use an Akai Force live and I am trying to figure out if it would be possible to send a midi from the Force to a laptop with lightkey and then go to the freedom sticks.. any Tips?
Please forgive my ineptitude in advance here. Could I program these sticks individually? So for instance a 4/4 pulse sequenced so beat 1 sets far-left stick dimmer only to 100, beat 2 does the same but on middle-right only, followed by middle left and lastly far-right.
Excellent video. I would like to know the name and type of lights you used
Chauvet FreedomSticks
Great video man, I have freedom sticks too. What mode do you put the sticks into in order to connect to the D-Fi hub? Also what mode do you put your D-Fi hub in?
This is literally exactly what I’m looking to do except for a full band setting. We have freedom sticks and 2 chauvet 4 bar quads. Have you been able to do this with movers too? Or would you be able to control those with the midi keyboard too?
P.S. you’re a genius 😎
The good news is that this method already applies to your full lighting rig + movers. Your lights will have their own DMX addresses... and as long as you create a LightKey control that maps to the position of the movers, then you can midi map the position of the mover to some knob, and then you can record your movements into ableton all the same. (Basically it would be the equivalent approach as how i mapped the master fader to one of my knobs)
@@us3rreviewsgear19 gotcha. Is the Light Key preset situation not very good? Or more so just for what you were aiming for? Also, do you know if you can do the presets and also manually patch everything? That would be cool.
@@slayathan AFAIK most lighting pros tend to sit down in front of some kind of controller... like either a DMX fader control, or an MPC, or some kind of midi controller. The presets interface on LightKey is just a virtual controller. I setup a full rig of presets just so that no matter where I am, even if i dont have midi controllers handy, I still could assign my presets to lights and have it play back. Also, AFAIK, presets can always be overridden. LightKey has the ability to set color, dimmer, position values independently and just use them as overrides to other presets. This is exactly the approach I took with my colors vs dimmers.
I am looking to do something similar.. and would love your advice. I use an Akai Force live and I am trying to figure out if it would be possible to send a midi from the Force to a laptop with lightkey and then go to the freedom sticks.. any Tips?
They are now normal dmx compatible
Please forgive my ineptitude in advance here. Could I program these sticks individually?
So for instance a 4/4 pulse sequenced so beat 1 sets far-left stick dimmer only to 100, beat 2 does the same but on middle-right only, followed by middle left and lastly far-right.
Yes. Any light that is capable of having its own DMX address can be programmed to do something separate from the rest.