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KnowledgeBase: Help Your Technician Help you

When equipment goes bad out in the field, it's often extremely helpful if the owner/end user can keep track of the circumstances of the failure. This is especially true when the problem is intermittent and might not occur when the technician is present. Service Technicians are exceptionally skillful...

Posted to ETC Product Wiki by Kelsey Aleckson on 08-24-2009
Filed under: AAS, Acclaim, arri, ASTS, AVAB, CEM, CEM+, Congo, CongoJr, cRRFU, DAS, Dimmer, Distribution, DMX, ECMUX, Element, ELTS, Emphasis, Eos, ETCLink, Ethernet, Express, Expression, GCE, Idea, Ion, Irideon, K96, KnowledgeBase, Legacy Unison, LMI, Lon, MDD, MDR, MicroII, MicroVision, MIDI, MPE, NCE, Net2, Net3, Obsession, ObsessionII, Pharos, RDM, Response, RFR, RFU, RRFU, RS-232, RVI, Sensor, Sensor+, SineWave, SmartBar, SmartFade, SmartFadeML, SmartModule, SMPTE, Source Four, Source4, Touchscreen, Unison, Vision, WRFU

MIDI

Musical Instrument Device Interface, or MIDI, was a standard created in the 1980s for electronic transport of musical data. Since then it has been adapted to a wide variety of uses, including the triggering of lighting control systems. Several ETC lighting products have featured MIDI connections. Typically...

Posted to ETC Product Wiki by Kelsey Aleckson on 08-13-2009
Filed under: MIDI

KnowledgeBase: MIDI Connector Pinout

Pin Signal 1 N/C 2 Ground 3 N/C 4 Data + 5 Data -

Posted to ETC Product Wiki by Kelsey Aleckson on 07-22-2009
Filed under: KnowledgeBase, MIDI

KnowledgeBase: Can I use SMPTE with the Express Console?

SMPTE is not directly supported on the Express line of control consoles. However, the Express line does support ETC MIDI , MIDI Show Control (MSC) and MIDI Time Code so it's possible to use SMPTE with an Express console if you use a SMPTE to MIDI generator. Enable the type of MIDI you wish to use...

Posted to ETC Product Wiki by Tracy.Fitch on 07-11-2009
Filed under: Express, KnowledgeBase, MIDI, SMPTE

Re: midi control congo jnr

Hi, Richard already suggested some good things. Another way to do it with MIDI would be to use a box from MIDI Solutions, the F8. http://www.midisolutions.com/prodf8.htm This is a 8-channel contact closure / footswitch to MIDI interface that is fully programmable. You can program an input to set Controller...

Posted to The Congo Forum (and Congo jr, too!) by okrogell on 05-20-2009
Filed under: MIDI

Re: Best on-stage remote solution (MIDI?)

The SF/SFML "GO" button is mapped to Program Change #125. So you can take a Footswitch-to-MIDI converter and program it to send a prog change #125 event on contact closure. Example for a professional MIDI converter: MIDI Solutions F8 http://www.midisolutions.com/prodf8.htm

Posted to SmartFade & SmartFade ML by hleiter on 02-12-2009
Filed under: Smartfade, Smartfade ML, MIDI

Re: MSC Stopped working.

Sorry to say that we have just discovered a defect in 1.4.3 software that seems to have caused MIDI and analog inputs to stop working on the ION console. This is limited to the ports on the ION console itself. NET3 show control and I/O gateways will still function normally with both ION and EOS Consoles...

Posted to The Eos (and Ion) Forum by marmenda on 01-10-2009
Filed under: ION, Midi, defect, show control

Re: Emergency help – MTC to Congo

Hi, As Bullen already wrote, you need to have some sort of converter for the timecode. The timecode that your SONY XDCAM player sends is SMPTE timecode ( see wikipedia ) and that is an analog signal, not MIDI timecode. You cannot connect the timecode from your Sony direct to Congo, because Congo cannot...

Posted to The Congo Forum (and Congo jr, too!) by okrogell on 11-06-2008
Filed under: MIDI