Has anyone successfully synced stage lighting via midi with beatbuddy songs? I searched the forum and internet but couldn’t find any info of whether its even possible? I’ve found some midi to dmx converters but not sure if they are even compatible.
I’ve lurked alot here and learned a ton and appreciate anyones input.
Are you referring to syncopating the lights to the beat of the songs in the BeatBuddy or starting and stopping the lights with the BeatBuddy?
Maia (Ricardo) posted here about stage lighting and was looking for crowd sourcing but his Facebook page hasn’t been updated in about a year. Controlling stage lighting from BeatBuddy
The first thing that came to mind was Roland’s V-Link technology which uses midi but I’m not sure if there’s a way of using this with a beatbuddy or other general midi controller. Might be worth looking into, though.
Thanks for the replies everyone. I was thinking about a midi to dmx converter where the lights are triggered by midi commands in the bb.
Sorry I didn’t see this: Our Beat Buddy runs our light show. Ping me if you’re still looking, I can help.
Hey Boss!
Did you get any further with this? I`m currently looking into how to make this happen…
T.
Hi Joe, just saw this post from last yr. Have a small band that uses beatbuddy and trying to see how to control the lighting using midi. Start stop, change scene etc. Any tips?
Thanks!
I’m actually a bit surprised @BossRotten never asked the question, @Creedon. We use BB events to trigger a MIDI Solutions Event Processor to step through a series of scenes on a Chauvet Obey 40. The upside is it’s automatic and fully-programmable (if you’re not afraid to do a little MIDI editing); the downside is you get “A” new scene with each event, but you don’t get “A SPECIFIC” new scene. So far, no-one’s noticed.
This video does a decent job of showing off my Beat Buddy’s skills as a gaffer, if you want to see what it looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n5qPelhkng (ignore the audio sung problem – seems to be a YouTube conversion issue of some sort).
I’m unavailable most of the day today, but if you want a walk-through of what I’ve actually done, let me know, I’ll get back to you later this weekend.
Wow thanks very much Joe, sounds good would be great to find out more 
Hey @Creedon!
I knew I had talked about this at length here somewhere, and I have found the thread: Stage Lights. The actual interesting (??) technical bits start at the fifth entry, here: Stage Lights.
Any questions or thoughts, go ahead and ask them here or, better yet, on the other thread, because you might get a better perspective from @JerryAshton, with whom I had the original conversation.
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Perfect, thanks!
Hi @JoeInOttawa . I return to your YT link from time to time as I move forward into my world of DMX. I have a DMX controller (Maestro DMX). What I’m looking to control with it through my Midi chain is to synch BB songs with DMX cues. Unfortunately the DMX controller only responds to cc commands (no PC). So I am thinking about if it is possible to add a cc message to the outro of songs that send a cc command to DMX controller to advance to next cue?
My question to you, if you’d be so kind and have the time to answer, is how to sdd a cc messages to a beat buddy pattern? I have edited midi files in Reaper but since my Beat Buddy Drumkits don’t seem to have any empty slots I am not sure if I am on the right track here. How did you get cc messages in your patterns?
I am using older Beat Buddy manager as I’ve discovered that the Online manager doesn’t always respect or recognize my older Beat Buddy patterns that I purchased many years ago.
Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you!
I presume you mean you want to send cues from your BB to the Maestro. To do so, you’ll need some sort of event converter to change notes from the BB to CCs. I use a MIDI Solutions Event Processor. For example, a simple program would convert all cymbal hits to program advance.
Thank you so much. I think I’m at the beginning of a journey that will hopefully yield the result I’m after. I think I came across a post in which you had used an unused drum sound. So if I understand this right I can use an unused drum piece like “crash 2” or '“metronome” to convert to a needed cc message through the midi solutions event processor? Many thank for your help.
Yes, I use Note-1 to trigger “Next Scene.”