Dr. DMX surrenders
I captured the real Dr. DMX today. Doug Fleenor finally succumbed to my chase of him. He surrendered peacefully , hands raised to show he had no digital weaponry.
As I apprehended the suspect - Ken Wagner forced me to see demos of all the latest Fleenor design products.
The were showing an addition to their popular "Preset10" line of DMX capture products called The Rerun. The Rerun comes in two versions - a wall mount preset station style unit and a larger rack mount unit.
The preset style unit captures 10 DMX sequences of up to 40 minutes each at full DMX 512 frame rates. There is a repeat option as well as a one shot play option and the unit works with 1 DMX universe. The rack mounted unit supports 4 universe capture with the playback controls on the front or playback from a preset 10 station. They are using RDM to allow the stations to slave to each other. A VERY cool product.
Ken also showed me another RDM "safety" product.
According to Ken (and I believe everything he ever told me) RDM will cause older DMX dimmers to flicker because they will try to respond to alternate start codes, a critical element of RDM. This inline XLR product strips alternate start codes allowing safe operation. So - you heard it here first - use this safety device with your older DMX dimmers.
David