by drphoto » 10 September 2014, 05:56
Going to try a Novation Launchpad S soon. Hopefully with the MIDI out function enabling it to light up the buttons, I can keep track of what scenes are active. I like faders because you not only get a visual reference, you get one that is tactile. Plus, I'm old school, I learned lighting on analog consoles with physical faders.
It did occur to me that I could assemble a cheap multi channel fader controller by using MIDI Pipe and a bunch of Korg Nanos. But I'm not loving the little wimpy faders on those. ( I do love the ones on the APC units)
While I know I sound like I'm complaining again, it's too bad the software doesn't support universal DMX input. You can get big multichannel DMX dimmer consoles really cheap compared to MIDI.