The Lighting Controller

DMX sends all 512 channels whether you use them or not.

Not true: http://www.plsn.com/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=3729

NEW YORK—A new edition of a lighting protocol that started with DMX 512 is now available. ANSI E1.11 - 2008, Entertainment Technology - USITT DMX512-A ...

We had the chance to use for a while the computer where we saw the crash on time (this is a 8 year old computer).
But we were not able to reproduce the bug again, even with a big lightshow running on 3DView.
It looks like the processor must be very slow, or very busy, in order to get that bug !

I ...

Just wanted to report here that with the kind help from support by email I was able to repair my indeed fried interface . Now to figure out what on earth (no pun intended) caused this.

The "power" led staying off means no power in the printed board.
May be the interface has been burned by some bad current coming from the dmx line (this happen sometimes with Chinese lights) (?)
As electrical engineer, we suggest you to open it and visually check if some parts are burned.

I have ...

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I wanted to try my Chauvet ShowXpress 512 interface on my Windows 7 64 bit system (been using it on a Netbook running Windows XP 32 bit until now) and when I plugged it in Windows said something (in a system tray tooltip) about installing drivers for the D512 , without asking me to provide any ...

Effectively, many "Chinese" leds lights do not "integrate" the dimming curve. The result gives, in certain conditions, "steps" during dimming. This is a pity because it is easy and cheap to integrate this electronic circuitry into each light. The result is users push us to increase dmx refresh ...

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Could you possibly tell me the actual DMX frame rate that can be achieved with ShowXpress in combination with a D512 interface using the High setting for the DMX Streaming Frequency ? Is this a fixed rate or does it somehow depend on the speed (and type?) of the host computer? Is there any way ...

A little update: I just had the same crash without 3Dview on, just DMX out. Now that's really bad as it means that this can happen during a live performance as well :o . Please please please let me know what can be done to help you fix this bug. I can reproduce it consistenly on my system (the ...

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I wanted to try running 3DView on a separate computer according to Using the software on two separate computers and it works as described. However as soon as I set the ControlBoard IP to the remote computer my local ControlBoard stops responding to locally incoming MIDI messages, the buttons ...

We do not have anymore the computer where we were able to reproduce the problem.
And now, we can not reproduce the problem again (no crash with your midi file on the other computers).

If possible, please send us other midi files which crash ControlBoard to.
We need to be able to reproduce the ...