Evening all!
I've been working on a little USB controlled box which has a load of LEDS in it, and can be used to create any colour of the spectrum, and has a load of ultra bright white LEDs for a strobe effect. Whilst it's not bright enough for club use, it should do the job nicely for us bedroom DJs.
I want to get VDJ working with it, but am unsure which type of plugin would be best to use.
As far as I can tell, I could use a DSP plugin which gives me everything I need, except that you would have to enable it on both channels for it to work properly.
The other option is a video plugin, but I don't want to have a video screen window open for it to work.
Ideally VDJ would be able to call my plugin as a DSP effect with the final mixed output audio data, but I can't figure anyway of doing this.
Any ideas???
I've been working on a little USB controlled box which has a load of LEDS in it, and can be used to create any colour of the spectrum, and has a load of ultra bright white LEDs for a strobe effect. Whilst it's not bright enough for club use, it should do the job nicely for us bedroom DJs.
I want to get VDJ working with it, but am unsure which type of plugin would be best to use.
As far as I can tell, I could use a DSP plugin which gives me everything I need, except that you would have to enable it on both channels for it to work properly.
The other option is a video plugin, but I don't want to have a video screen window open for it to work.
Ideally VDJ would be able to call my plugin as a DSP effect with the final mixed output audio data, but I can't figure anyway of doing this.
Any ideas???
Posted Fri 16 Dec 05 @ 8:31 pm
djcel
i only see one way: a sound effect but as you said you have to use two plugins, one for each deck
Posted Fri 16 Dec 05 @ 8:36 pm
Rune (DJ-In-Norway)
could you make that usb box trigger lights by DMX channel commands?
If so, VDJ got built in support for DMX - and you might get the little thing to work :)
If so, VDJ got built in support for DMX - and you might get the little thing to work :)
Posted Fri 16 Dec 05 @ 9:23 pm
I thought about that, but as far as I know DMX is RS232 serial based (or at least rs232 over usb). Not sure how I would make it work other than make my usb device look like a dmx thing.
Might do a bit more research into DMX though..
Might do a bit more research into DMX though..
Posted Fri 16 Dec 05 @ 10:26 pm
Rune (DJ-In-Norway)
yeah... I dont know much about that at all :) hehe...
If you care to read, there is all the basic about DMX here :
http://www.lighting-association.com/links/dmx-faq.htm
And here :
http://vvvv.meso.net/tiki-index.php?page=HowTo+DMX
But I dont know if that helps you at all ;)
If you care to read, there is all the basic about DMX here :
http://www.lighting-association.com/links/dmx-faq.htm
And here :
http://vvvv.meso.net/tiki-index.php?page=HowTo+DMX
But I dont know if that helps you at all ;)
Posted Sat 17 Dec 05 @ 8:28 am
The DMX way does look the best way to go, but can't see any way on vdj of setting up hardware settings etc...
I think I read somewhere that it only works with certain devices.. However, making my box dmx compatable would seem rather sensible...
I think I read somewhere that it only works with certain devices.. However, making my box dmx compatable would seem rather sensible...
Posted Tue 20 Dec 05 @ 11:01 am
pern
I'm also working on something like this at the moment. What i'm building is a USB based 4ch Light Sequencer/Controller (220v) + 8 220v on/off switches to control other effects. The sequencer uses DC controlled dimmers.
To controll it all i'm working on a special plugin for VDJ.
I looked a lot at DMX first but decied to go DC controlled since DMX dimmer packs are really expensive.
To controll it all i'm working on a special plugin for VDJ.
I looked a lot at DMX first but decied to go DC controlled since DMX dimmer packs are really expensive.
Posted Wed 28 Dec 05 @ 11:19 am