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DMX light rig controlled with MIDI, Ableton Live and American DJ MyDMX for Alice and the Serial Numbers’ live show

I recently built a DMX light rig for Alice and the Serial Numbers’ live show. It consists of 10 Chauvet Colortubes 2.0 and one American DJ Megapixel bar. I mounted them on 2 metal bars i bought at a local hardware store. The setup is controlled with the American DJ myDMX USB interface and software on which light scenes are MIDI-triggered from Alice’s laptop running Ableton Live. Here’s a video of the first show.

Alice And The Serial Numbers LIVE @ The Barn – Riverside, CA from Alice Bernier on Vimeo.

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6 Responses to “DMX light rig controlled with MIDI, Ableton Live and American DJ MyDMX for Alice and the Serial Numbers’ live show”

  1. Alice Bernier says:
    June 18, 2009 at 11:27

    Awesome :)

  2. Marie-Pierre David says:
    August 24, 2009 at 07:41

    Hey!
    Bravo thAT IS GENIUS cousin

  3. b33son says:
    October 12, 2009 at 13:47

    Hi Patrick!

    Great video! I have to say that is one of the most effective uses of the Colortubes that I’ve seen! Could you explain a bit more about the way you choose to set up your rig?

    Did you wind up using the American DJ myDMX software with your myDMX USB interface? Also, I have several of the Colortube 2.0 lights, but I’m a novice at DMX. It looks like in order to use DMX you have to use a ‘brain’ like the COLORcontroller 2.0 to translate DMX is this what you did?

    Thanks in advance for you guidance!

    b33son

  4. Patrick Matte says:
    October 13, 2009 at 20:42

    Yes i used the myDMX software, it works great, although it doesn’t work at all on windows 64 bit. I had to create a partition on my drive and install windows vista 32 bit.

    As far as i know the Colortube controller 2.0 is the only way to control the colortubes, but it’s a little bit disappointing, because the only thing it really does is trigger the colortube presets… You can’t create your own patterns and animations.

    They should make LED bars with 3 channels for each LED so that you could create any color that you’d want. I don’t know if that already exists but that would really rock!

    Chauvet has newer colotubes, i think they’re called Colortube EQ, and there’s also a controller for those, but i don’t know how they work.

  5. Anthony Biondo says:
    May 1, 2010 at 09:33

    Hi Patrick:

    I love the video. I am trying to figure out how to get the MyDMX to leverage my audio source. It looks like you have this setup here. I know you mentioned you used MIDI-triggered scenes from Ableton Live. I have Serato that I use for DJing, but wasn’t sure if that would work.

    thanks,
    Anthony

  6. Brayden Sanchez says:
    May 11, 2010 at 13:32

    Led lights are great because they are long lasting and consumes less electricity.*”.

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