Dan Duffy Eos Software Developer
Has anyone gotten this to work?
Is there anymore information on this?
What version of software are you using?
There was a bug in 1.4.3 that prevented MSC from working on Ion. This bug is fixed in 1.4.4.
DV
I am also trying to find a way to use midi show control from the ion to automate a snd computer. Has anyone had any luck with midi show control transmiting from the ION to something else?
I'm using 1.4.4 I'm just not clear on two things:
How do I tell event one to fire when I go on Cue 1/9?
How do I tell event one to send an MSC signal that will fire cue 2 on SFX?
So if you push Go on Cue 3/34 then a MSC string of Go Cue 34, Cuelist 3 - will be sent.
So if I assign Event 1 to Cue 90 will it automatically trigger when I go on Cue 90 or do I need to tell it to execute or learn or something like that?
It sounds like you're trying to execute a cue on SFX or something based off of a go push from Eos/Ion. If you cannot set SFX to execute the same cues on the same cuelist as the console for whatever reason then I would suggest setting SFX to listen to a different cuelist (if you can even set that, I don't know) and then create those cues as empty cues in the console in that cuelist. Then when you want to trigger - say, Cue 2 on the SFX cuelist - in your lighting cuelist perform an Execute x/2 where X is the number of the cuelist with the blank cues in it that you assigned for SFX use. Yeah?
Ok.... So if I just want to transmit MSC then enabling it in the setup is all it takes? I thought it would require the show control display so that was my hang up. Thanks. I'll have to see if I can make the whole thing happen now.
I have not used MIDI for the ion, but I have triggered numerous shows with an Express through MIDI. I have found that it's actually easier to trigger the console from q-lab than the other way around.
I have heard that. But for a musical when the sound guy has his hands full mixing it would be better for us to use lights to trigger sounds. If anyone else is trying this, I just got these instructions for setting up SFX to receive MSC.
http://kbase.stageresearch.com/article.aspx?id=11531