It's a great bit of kit, my son makes use of one with his live metal band Broken Calling and uses the midi support to select cues and fire the effects (look 'em up on youtube :) ) One small point: you mention the cues having settings such as "party/dance/still": that refers to the category of pattern selected for each group of fixtures. You're only using fixtures in the Primary group in this video (so using the "party" style of pattern on the Techo Glimmer cue). If you had more lights and assigned some to other groups you'd get different reactions according to the pattern selected. The demo cues only assign patterns and palettes to 3 fixture groups, though the unit now supports 4 groups.
That’s fantastic information and makes total sense. Okay so in the example of Party/Dance/Still your saying that Party is Primary, Dance is Secondary and Still is Tertiary. This very cool and now need to get more lights! Hehe Will check out Broken Calling (cool name). Love me a bit of metal. 🤘🏻
@@JohnPaulMusicUK Yes that's correct. So you can have your primary lights with a lot of activity going on, and maybe some washes or pars on a more gentle pattern. Whatever suits the music. Broken Calling used their Maestro driven lighting rig in their most recent "official" videos, though the way the vids are edited means you don't quite see the full effect you get when they play live. It's a simple rig (just 4 pars, 4 wash bars) to keep the gear to a minimum :)
Bad news for your average light operator? 😢 Or is it? Well, not really. At least not yet. While there will be a lot of gear powered with AI, the MaestroDMX doesn‘t take the cake yet. You demonstrated some of the problems right here. There‘s just too much that doesn‘t really work in a more professional environment. And for that it‘s too expensive. A lot of people buy this because they hope it will relieve them from having to learn how things work. It was specifically designed for DJs. Most of them are not exactly the brightest candles on the tree. So it‘ll work for them. But the total concept is far from satisfying for the creative musician.
It's a great bit of kit, my son makes use of one with his live metal band Broken Calling and uses the midi support to select cues and fire the effects (look 'em up on youtube :) )
One small point: you mention the cues having settings such as "party/dance/still": that refers to the category of pattern selected for each group of fixtures. You're only using fixtures in the Primary group in this video (so using the "party" style of pattern on the Techo Glimmer cue). If you had more lights and assigned some to other groups you'd get different reactions according to the pattern selected. The demo cues only assign patterns and palettes to 3 fixture groups, though the unit now supports 4 groups.
That’s fantastic information and makes total sense.
Okay so in the example of Party/Dance/Still your saying that Party is Primary, Dance is Secondary and Still is Tertiary.
This very cool and now need to get more lights! Hehe
Will check out Broken Calling (cool name).
Love me a bit of metal. 🤘🏻
@@JohnPaulMusicUK Yes that's correct. So you can have your primary lights with a lot of activity going on, and maybe some washes or pars on a more gentle pattern. Whatever suits the music.
Broken Calling used their Maestro driven lighting rig in their most recent "official" videos, though the way the vids are edited means you don't quite see the full effect you get when they play live. It's a simple rig (just 4 pars, 4 wash bars) to keep the gear to a minimum :)
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Hey Mark 👋
Bad news for your average light operator? 😢
Or is it?
Well, not really. At least not yet. While there will be a lot of gear powered with AI, the MaestroDMX doesn‘t take the cake yet. You demonstrated some of the problems right here. There‘s just too much that doesn‘t really work in a more professional environment. And for that it‘s too expensive.
A lot of people buy this because they hope it will relieve them from having to learn how things work. It was specifically designed for DJs. Most of them are not exactly the brightest candles on the tree. So it‘ll work for them. But the total concept is far from satisfying for the creative musician.