DMX input patching

[JAN]

Hi,

I'm using latest version of sweetlight on Windows with SSA interface.
In want to connect a Showtec DMX controller to be able to change a show on the fly or use the joystick on the controller to use the moving heads and/or scanners as a followingspot.

The showtec controller has fixed dmx start adresses for up to 12 fixtures.
Fixture 1 outputs on channel 1
fixture 2 on 17
fixture 3 on 33
a.s.o every fixture uses 16 channels

But the first scanner is on channel 5 in sweetlight.
How do i patch input and/or output DMX channels?

Let's say I want to use fader 2 on the showtec to control a scanner on channel 5.
I would think that I patch input 17 to output 5, but that does not work. (DMXinput priority)(Well I tried them all)

Any idea how to do this?

GRTZ
Jan

[JAN]

Anybody????

[tomrbland]

I don't quite understand what you are trying to achieve.

Fader two is sending a DMX address of 17?

[JAN]

Yes, this controller sends on fixed channels

fader 1 controls channel 1
fader 2 controles channel 2 etc

each fixture button has 16 faders, so the first fader of fixture 2 is on channel 17.

but what i really want to do is ... use fader 17 (contrller outputs on channel 17) to control channel 5 (sweetlicht is set to control a fixture on channel 5) , it should be possible to patch this.

GRTZ
Jan

[tomrbland]

Yes, you should be able to achieve this with the program "DMX & Midi patch" (bottom right in ControlBoard).

[JAN]

haha...yes, i know, but how?
In made a patch, like this




but it does not work.

and also... strange that you can only patch 48 channels..

[tomrbland]

Sorry, I don't really know. I don't have the equipment to experiment with; you seem understand it as well as I do. Support?

[support]

The first attached screenshot says: dmx input channel 17 drives dmx output channel 5.
Interfaces Box and Ssa can handle effectively only the 48 first dmx channels.

[spiff]

DMX input patching is the most powerful thing you can do with this software. Look at it like this:

Say you want to control all of the dimmers in your array, no matter what they type of fixture. You can accomplish this as long as the dimmer channel acts the same, ie: dark to light. Patch DMX Input 1 to the dimmer channel of each fixture like this: 1+8+12 and so on. you can do this with all the pans, or tilts, or color wheels or whatever. Watch out patching faders to utility channels with resets and such, it's just not a good idea.

I want to know how to do this with midi. if not, i would like to know how to get a DMX input on these new boxes. Is it the mini plug on the big box?

[support]

The "mini din" socket is for 4 digital inputs (dry contacts).
D512 and Remote do not have dmx input.
New interface with dmx input in around 3 months.
"Midi slider patch" feature should be added in software next month.