MIdi Light Controller

[VictoryDanceNY]

Hey Everyone!

Total Newbie to all of this so I am sorry if this is an easy question but I've spent a few hours trying to find the answer to no avail. Also, apologies in advance if this is an inelegant way of explaining what I want to accomplish:

My band is going on tour and I want to create a light show using LED strips similar to the second Youtube Link below. We play to a click track so I'd like to write a light show in a DAW using midi where each note represents a light

What I want to do, is go into a DAW (first Youtube Link) and write a light show to tempo for each song. I think the easiest way would be to then save these 'songs' on a SD card and make a Playlist for our set that I can control with just a simple Play//Stop//Forward//Backward button set up (I saw chivalry timberz blogpost about this).

Thank you so so much in advance!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98BkaUU0cMQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP9vAYKHNTk

[Douglas6]

I did something similar as one of my early projects. I used Java for it's MIDI capabilities, and Pi4J to control a 4x relay board. Wasn't that hard, tho I no longer have the code. Plenty of info for controlling relays on the net, and MIDI in Java is relatively easy.

[karrika]

You could check out QLC+ also. You can either use MIDI for controlling lights directly or a line-in to control the lights by frequency spectrum and volume.

The QLC+ works with standard DMX light systems.

Some people map the MIDI first to OSC and later use the OSC for controlling the lights.

The QLC+ is free.

[VictoryDanceNY]

I did something similar as one of my early projects. I used Java for it's MIDI capabilities, and Pi4J to control a 4x relay board. Wasn't that hard, tho I no longer have the code. Plenty of info for controlling relays on the net, and MIDI in Java is relatively easy.

Thank you so much! I will look into using that as a possibility to make this project work.

[VictoryDanceNY]

You could check out QLC+ also. You can either use MIDI for controlling lights directly or a line-in to control the lights by frequency spectrum and volume.

The QLC+ works with standard DMX light systems.

Some people map the MIDI first to OSC and later use the OSC for controlling the lights.

The QLC+ is free.

Thank you for the information. Trying to stay away from DMX because of budget constraints, but I will look into this some more.