I'm a noob to the congo jr. I have been using it for about 8 months now. I have searched and really haven't found an answer yet. I am wanting to do Sound to Light utilizing an XLR cable. This will be fed off a live band. Our audio tech said it was easiest for him to feed us an XLR cable. What do I do from there? Or do I need to find another way? Thanks!
Howdy Marksranger,
what exactly do you want to control with Sound to Light? Do you want the sound to be able to activate cues in your
light console? Do you want the lighting effects to run at the same tempo as the sound beats? Or something entirely
different?
ETC Tech Services
marksranger: Our audio tech said it was easiest for him to feed us an XLR cable. What do I do from there? Or do I need to find another way? Thanks!
Our audio tech said it was easiest for him to feed us an XLR cable. What do I do from there? Or do I need to find another way? Thanks!
I would be less concerned about what connector he is handing you, you can adapt pretty much from anything to anything else, than what level the signal is arriving to the console at. Is it mic level? Line level? Is there a possibility the level varry at all? I don't know how, or if, audio in is implemented in the Congo, I have never had reason to look in to it, but I do know of a few other consoles that have trouble dealing with varrying levels or levels that are to hot and quickly overload the input.
Best,
John
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare
The Congo Jr does not support an automated Sound To Light function.
It supports various forms of MIDI triggering, or you could simply use the myriad of busking functions to operate the lightshow with the music.
- Personally, I utterly hate sound-to-light. It never works properly, and usually looks pretty poor.
Keep on trying till you run out of cake.
Thanks Richard that pretty much answered my question.
Hi,
I would like this option also... So when we push the "play" button on the sound mixing table the cue starts running.. It would be useful.
This is a slightly different request. Congo cannot listen to a sound source. However, if the sound mixing table can send any kind of MIDI commands, this can trigger the start of Congo cues.
Anders Ekvall
ETC Software and System developer
But it would be cool if you could trigger the colormix to act like a VU meter from green to red?!
Or the intensity.
Anders Ekvall: This is a slightly different request. Congo cannot listen to a sound source. However, if the sound mixing table can send any kind of MIDI commands, this can trigger the start of Congo cues.
Sorry to bring this year old theme up, but I'm also interested in basic Sound to Light features/effects. Those can come in handy when fast setup in different venue is needed, or when some basic effects are needed that will react on sound but without strictly programmed design.
Is the "listening" problem hardware or software based (as Congo Jr. have Audio Line and Mic Input on 3,5mm jack ?)
If it is only software, would it be possible to implement basic audio filtering (Bass, Mid, High) that will trigger other effects, masters, palletes etc. ? Would it take too much "processing" time and downgrade performance of the console?
In principle, the hardware is there. However, currently we have no specific plans to add the software processing needed to trigger from sound input. So far, we only have a few requests for sound-to-light functionality and we have a number of other features with higher priorities that we want to implement first.
Thanks Anders,
keep it on the to-do list somewhere ;)
Cheers!