DMX 512 Tutorial
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- čas přidán 5. 04. 2019
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This controller is very similar to the Chauvet Obey 40 and other units with the same form factor. You can download their manual for more information.
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You deserve a comment for taking such time to put this together. Excellent video and probably one of the best on how to configure lights using a DMX controller.
thanks!
Can you teach me i want to connect to sounds
An excellent instruction on the use of a DMX, thank you.
Thanks!
Thanks for your excellent tutorial. God bless you. My wife is also a Filipina here in the states. I am a t.v. producer for a cable access station here in California near Los Angeles. She is a retired registered nurse. Most Filipinas here are nurses. LOL I am retired from working at UPS and I am an open air preacher and an ex-pro bassist. I bought a DMX 512 to control four Viking Mini L.E.D. Moving Heads.
You're welcome! I work for a local tv station here as well, we do on-air promo. Glad to be of help man, cheers!
Wow, I finally got it. Omg this is the best dmx tutorial video I have seen and trust me I have seen a ton of them thank u so much. Now it's time to practice.
Glad it helped you! Enjoy playing with lights!
Really nice tutorial, informative and straight to the point. Good stuff👍
thanks!
Great video man! Thank you for posting this. Realy helpfull in getting a dmx controller to work with multiple lights.
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Just thinking of using dmx for the first time and this gave me good basics of how the controller works Thanks.
You're welcome!
Excellent. I learnt the practical function of DMX512.
glad it helped you out!
Thank you very much for this easy to understand Tutorial.
cheers!
Thankyou so much for the tutorial, I learned a lot!
You're welcome!
Good memory refresh course for me :D also if you have more than 3 lights lets say 8 you can select 2 lights at the same time and make them both doing same thing in scenes. well its all about your imagination anyway.
I tried using mine moving around stuff reading the instructions and still failed this video is really going to help me out thank you mate !
good luck mate!
Nice Tutorial !! Thank you..learning how to use it.🔥🙌🏻🔥🙌🏻💥
Thank you for watching!
good tutorial, i learn something and i need to replay to understand
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Good One Bro!, Thanks for sharing.
You're welcome!
Much appreciated your video helped me heaps 😁👍
Glad it helped! 😊
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Very useful guide 👍🔥
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Very informative. Thank you very much.
glad it helped you out!
Great video 👌🏼💯
Thanks!
Good information
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great vid bro thanks
thank you!
Very helpful - than you for sharing
Thanks!
Best tuto thanks
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Thank you a lot
thank you !
welcome bro :)
Thank you!
hope it helps!
The this was mega help full
Glad it helped you out 🤓
Nice tutorial
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i love it.. thanks
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thank you for your concise, very informative video. I have question. I noticed you ended your video with programing chase #6. What do you do if you want to program more chases? Since there are only 6 chase buttons, is six the most number of chases you can have? It would be great if you can program more chases. Please let me know. Thank You.
Thanks! I think with this controller you are limited to 6 chases. I could be wrong. I am now experimenting with QLC+. With that you will definitely can have more chases 🤓
thx 4 this tutorial, really helps! So my plan is to program some chases for when there's a break in the music or a buildup to the main theme. At other moments I'm busy mixing my music so I want my fixtures just to respond to the music (they all have built in microphones). So can I change my fixtures from manual DMX mode to auto music mode using my controller? (Using an Ayra 1612 Mk II) ?
Yes you can. Set the controller up at arms length so it would be easy to press anytime you need it 👍
There is one error in this though - the third fixture should have address 33 not 34 - I think that' why your two PARs use a different fader for green 🙂
(in the Chauvet manual, it has the addresses listed: 1, 17, 33, 49, 65, 81, 97, 113, 129, 145, 161, 177)
Yes my math is really bad 🤣
Yep thats why the control of the other fixture is different
goot,,,, noted base 16 method
nice video. Is there any way to run these lights with the programmed setting and witching of the dmx. Will the lights still continue to do the function it was programmed to do?
Thanks. The programming is in the controller. If you switch the dmx off then the programming will stop working.
Do you have the link still to the disco ball? Can find one with dmx support in amazon
Checked where i bought it. Link's dead now 😑
What wireless communicator did you use for the first light connection?
got these from lazada shorturl.at/mvOU5
Thak you DJ DLS for this excelent tutorial. I just received a simulare controller and waiting for the 5 PAR led spots I ordered. I'm a complete newbee in this technique but think I will manage it after some time. Now comes the question. While examining the controller I find a switch on the backside left from the dmx output connection that can be put in two positions. So you know the function of this switch?
I'm not sure what that switch does mate 🙂
Thank you for posting this video. I will be grateful if you can tell me Where can I get the operation manual ?You did not explain how you assign each unit address to the DMX .Thank you again.
copy-pasted from the video description:
This controller is very similar to the Chauvet Obey 40 and other units with the same form factor. You can download their manual for more information.
thanks for this video. 3 years later it's still very helpful. I noticed that there is a MIDI button as well as a MIDI section in the manual. But there is no MIDI input. Am I going crazy? does this thing do MIDI or is it maybe a case of the company having the same control panel and the same user manual for multiple models of DMX controller?
I think the chauvet model has midi output but this generic oem does not. 🤓
I don't understand.... so now with all this you did in the video, this will play for any song?... I'm lost.... because I figured you made the above video for 1 song? But I guess im wrong??
So when you play any song.... what's the next step? Just to play it and it will all sync up?
Hi fpv, this is just a beginner's guide on how to program the controller. It has a sound sensor enabling it to sync to the sound of any song as long as you play it loud enough. You can program what you want for each light to do depending on what your light can do, assign them to channels and play those channels randomly or sequentially or by using the built in mic to sync with sound.
Hello sir. Please i kindly need your help to set my dmx lights and moving heads up thank you
what sort of problems are you having?
Thnx for this nice tutorial, after unboxing I had no idea what to do with it, but now I start learning it a bit. I programmed it very simple, scene 1 red, 2 green, 3 blue, 4 white and 5 purple, than added those 45 scenes to a chase, ones I start the chase it runs the 5 scenes in sequence and I can adjust the speed, but if I use the fadetime fader nothing changes, what could I have done wrong
Thank you
thanks for watching!
fadetime is only for when you are just playing the programs manually and not chases i think...did you download the chauvet manual? you can also refer to that. cheers!
@@DJDLS i use the fade time with my chase and it looks really good. The fade should be working with the speed
@@blackhole-oy2xd yeah that works too :) cheers!
This controller states it can be controlled by midi imput. But there is not midi imput port on the controller. How does that work?
I have not explored that possibility yet. Maybe the Chauvet branded unit does have a midi port.
How do you use this DMX mixer with the U-King Dj moving head lights
Same with the PAR leds. Assign a DMX address on the moving head, and select that channel on the controller. If you don't have the manual for your light fixture, then see what each slider does.
Hi I don't know if you'll see this, when I add the scenes it doesn't blink like yours but the light goes off and when I select the scene nothing happens
check if you are in program mode
@@DJDLS I got it, thank you.
How can you adjust the light intensity in automatic mode?
i dont think you can. you have to program it then run your sequence.
Does this controller have a build-in microphone?
yes for playing back sequences to the beat of your music :)
@@DJDLS HOW?
@@R4pToRxX press the music button and tap to the beat.
I ordered my first controller after having dabbled with entry level lighs in the late 90s/00s as a teen. then about 8yrs ago I collected a Chauvet scorpion GBC and 2 of the 1st generation ADJ Pocket Scans and I just bought one of those cheap full color lasers so it was certainly time for a controller. However I've spent the last 2 weeks watching tons of videos on programming and the more I watch the more intimidated i get, lol. But this is one of the easiest to understand tutorials Ive seen so far. And the fact that you go further into chases was cool. I still think I will have this video cued up on my phones when I try to put this to action. Its also hard for me using vintage lights that dont have all the features, use less channels and have zero videos on how to program them specifically. Is it more difficult to program a laser than it is scanners? Also do you know how to make scanner "mirror" each other if they dont have a built in mirror program?
Thanks!
Scannera usually have a mirror setting on them.
@@DJDLS I was lucky that ADJ's website still has an archive page for this long discontinued fixture and I was able to download the manual and sadly it doesnt say anything about mirroring. These lights came out in '98/99 so they are quite old. One thing said they art 4 channel another that they are 7, and that claim was explained by the diagram showing what each of the 7 ch controls via the faders. But I hooked them up to the controller again last night with one set at address 1 and the other set at 5 incase they were 4ch, then address 8 in case they were 7 and address 17 since alot of tutorials said you always set the dmx address at increments of 16 but I was only able to control the fixture connected directly to the controller. When I randomly decided to set the 2nd scanner also to address 1 then it began working and it was basically just copying fixture 1 but seemed to be a fraction of a second out of sync. Also the only only time they actually move around after I chose a color and gobo and adjusted the pan/tilt is when I have the 6th fader(which controls the speed) all the way up which is it's "audio mode" even though no music was playing, but if I move it down even the slightest amount to what is supposed to be a "fast" setting they stop moving.
How do you assign the light in the scanner button? My plan is to assign #1 for the left lights then #2 for the right light. Do I manually assign that in the controller or in the PAR light? any inputs would be appreciated. Thanks!
You can refer to the dmx address part of the video.
@@DJDLS Thanks, I saw it now.
Have you experienced sudden change of scene randomly? Every now and then our lights switch to a specific scene. This started when I add 4 new switch for our 4 floor lights.
@@ChiXhiZhi hard to troubleshoot your issue. I've never encounted that. But if it were me, i would start from scratch.
@@DJDLS no worries! I appreciate your response and the guide. Thanks sir!
I can use only dmx cable without wireless receive?
Yes of course!
Hi ! I have a question, can we control a light with a DMX cable connected to the table and goes direcly to the light?
hi, i'm assuming when you referred to the table, you meant the dmx controller on my table right? yes you can, but since the dmx controller only has one output, you can only control that one fixture. if you wish to add more fixtures, you would need to loop out from your first light the next one. hope this helps, cheers!
DJ DLS thankkk you!! :)))
Question: if you are laemmle to increments of 16 and each scanner, with only 12 channel scanners... how do you set channels higher than 193???
i think that is the limit. you can set the fixture if there is an option to just 16.
@@DJDLS but then why is it called a DMX512 if there is no way to go beyond 177? Wouldn't that be a DMX177?
I have no idea man sorry 😊
I think dmx512 is the name of this lighting protocol. You can have a max 512 channels in a dmx universe but this type of controller only has 192 available channels. Other controllers can have more. You can add other fixtures with a duplicate address but they will mirror the original fixture, assuming they have the same capabilities.
When I set up the DMX address on the back of the mini PAR light, the "d" blinks rapidly next to the 3-digit address. And the PAR light doesn't respond to the control board. Why is it doing that?
i think you need to press enter on the par light to register the new 'd' setting.
@@DJDLS I'm pretty sure I did that, but I also know I overlook things. I suppose that would also be true if I had 8 mini LED PAR lights daisy-chained and I simply forgot to hit ENTER on just one of them?
Also, in this example, I could give four daisy-chained PAR lights the addresses of 001, 001, 001, 001 -- OR -- 001, 017, 033, 049? Each PAR light doesn't have to have a unique address, but PAR lights can be "grouped" if they have the same address?
Much appreciated! I'm a parent volunteer trying to light a school skit and no one else to help!
@@jbrondos i have not tried daisy-chaining with same addresses, but to make sure and to have more flexibility later on giving you independent control should you need to, then do the 16 increments per light. Does the 'd' blinking only happening with one light or all of them?
No worries mate just ask away and i will help as much as i can 😊👍
@@DJDLS This is a HUGE help, thanks.
So after playing around a bit more this is what I'm experiencing:
When I disconnect the PARs from the DMX512 controller, the "d" in front of the three-digit DMX address is solidly lit. When I plug in the DMX cable, it starts blinking rapidly.
There is no switch on the controller which would reverse polarity. I am using DMX cables. I have powered lights and controller off and on in various sequences. (The number in the controller LED is 120.)
The blinking happens even if I just have one PAR light connected to the controller, but also if I have all the lights in the daisy chain connected (and when daisy-chained, the group is properly terminated).
I've tried resetting scenes and chases holding down arrow and program (or down arrow and add) buttons simultaneously. I don't know if there is some other way to factory reset the board.
But bottom line, the PARs will not respond to the lighting control board -- though at one time they did.
I'm stumped and hoping the controller hasn't gone bad (out of warranty).
@@jbrondos the controller is cheap to replace mate. But try using a different set of cables, or try an xlr mic cable on one light just to test.
hi thank you for this video! i have quick questions. 1) there are only 8 faders, from what i understood, each corresponds to 2 channels and you control what channels with the two arrow shaped buttons on top. in that case, how would you control channels 1 and 14 at the same time? is it even possible? 2) I understant thate there are 12 buttons controlling fixtures on the left side. if each button controls 16 channels, that would only equal to 12x16=192 channels. Am I missing some or is it not a DMX 512? 3) lastly, if one fixture only needs 6 channels instead of 16, does that mean that 1,2,3,4,5,6 are occupied in button 1 and that all from 7to16 are left empty? Can't we make it so that the second fixture occupies channels 7 to 16 instead (to not waste channels lol).
Hopefully you'll have time to answer this, but if not, thanks anyways for an already really helpful video :)
1) you can control them as you program your sequences as you will have to have fast hands to be able to shift from page A to page B just to access channels from each page if you are playing it live.
2) the 512 could be for branding purposes only :D
3) i think the fader assignments are dependent on the fixture and the controller is just there to read them :)
@@DJDLS thank you so much for your answer :)
What sort of industry instructions or standards are there for the type of functions you can control - how do you know/can find out what effects the "faders" control before even purchasing lights? What im really asking is that have a 4 beam laser, 4 individual beams. Is there anyway of knowing what can be controlled, or i just have to buy a controller and find out. Its motorized with red, green, bluex yellow lasers. Thanks...
if your light fixture came with a manual, there should be information there that will tell you what channels can be controlled (if there are any). the lights in my example, being really cheap ones, did not come with a manual so i just had to do trial and error to figure out what channels are controllable. i also have a cheap red/green laser and it allows me to control only the on/off for both colors and the shape of the patterns it can make. i have one light fixture that do not have any controllable channels at all. so before buying a fixture, ask the seller for more information or search online if there is a manual you can read and download before buying the light. cheers!
The original manual for this product has to be one of the worst I've ever seen... thanks for a great walkthrough!
thanks! glad it helped you out!
can you use this controller for moving heads?
yes
If I have two bean moving heads what channel do I put them on to make them work? functions work just no light turns on
It depends on how many channels your moving heads have. You can assign both to 001 so you can troubleshoot using the sliders to see what they do.
@@DJDLS thanks I got the light to turn on. One more question how do I go through the gobos using it?
Am new to using it
that i am not sure, i have not used a fixture with gobos yet. @@joshrodrigues5310
Need help with an issue I am having. A friend set one program on my board. Now only that scene will come up. Can’t get the sliders to do anything
maybe you are in playback mode. try to change to a different scene number. i have not been using this device for a long time now, i created this video so if i need to use it again and forget things i can refer to this :)
@@DJDLS do you know how to exit program mode if I’m in it?
@@adamjohnson7554 it should be in this video tutorial.
Any other suggestions if that doesn’t work?
@@adamjohnson7554 do a hard reset.
Just want to ask something about the fixtures...
So counting (address) would be Fix1=1... Fix2=17... Fix3=33... Fix4=49.. Right?
Can I use the numbers from 2-16? Example... I have two groups of fixtures... the 1st group has 2 lights... and the 2nd group has 2 lights also... Can I set like this..... Group1Fix1=1.... Group1Fix2=2... Group2Fix1= 17... and Group2Fix2=18???
for Group1Fix1=1 then Group1Fix2=2, i'm assuming this fixture only has one mode, maybe a haze machine for example just to turn it on or off? then Group1Fix2=2 has 16 modes or parameters that is why you assigned Group2Fix1= to address 17? then yes you can i think. as i did the same to my haze machine, assigned it to button 12 and gave it the address after adding all the addresses assigned to buttons 1 thru 11.
@@DJDLS I'm not getting it clearly.. Im not an expert... Uhm.. let me change my question...
If I have 3 fixtures, can I assign those three to 001? I mean the address of those three are the same?
@@darny12 yes you can, best if those are the same fixtures, like 4 par leds maybe. Check out my lights demo video on the link below
czcams.com/video/1mONoQ0Ms0E/video.html
All the par leds up top have the same addresses but assigned to buttons 1 to 4 on the dmx so you can control them at once or individually. So all are assigned 001 on the back of each light. Next are the mini moving heads, assigned addresses are both 017 and set to buttons 5 and 6 on the dmx.
How can i Turn off the timer? It's like after 5 or 10 minutes it cuts the light off maybe a Power saving mode or something? How can i switch them off
I don't know about the timer. Mine does not do that.
@@DJDLS idk either. I mean I haven't programmed any settings to it yet. Maybe that could be it? BTW great video bro. You got a new subscriber.
@@Brandon-py5xt see what happens if you do a hard reset. Thanks for the sub!
Is there a way to save a scene to a fader instead of a button?
i don't think it's possible here
@@DJDLS thanks for the response!
Which dmx controller it's the best
Not sure, there's lots of them out there and this is the one i can afford 😃
@@DJDLS thanks
Wow I'm to simple to understand whats going on, il probably watch this 20 times atleast, trying to learn how to program a laser to this dmx controller, didn't really go to school, but if I did, still don't think I would of had a clue what just happened. Question how do you find out what addresses are to which patterns, colours etc, have a laserworld Cs 1000, many thanks for the video.
If your laser did not come with a manual, then you would just have to do trial and error to find out which channels can be manipulated by sliding the channel Sliders up and down.
@@DJDLS thanks il have to have a look, was something about rgb addresses, had it doing some cool stuff but can never find them again, if I store a pattern, would it still save to memory when its been shut down, and back on, be having a go again later see if can me head around it, thanks for the tutorial
@@johnallerton6402 yes it will be saved in its internal memory :)
How can i install moving heads?
Assign a dmx address and connect them via dmx cable. check the channel assignments from your moving heads manual.
Pretty rough with those sliders...wow......good video though
That's a stress test right there too man 😂 thanks for watching! ❤️🙂
How to connect sound
Mine does not have a sound input, just a built-in mic.
Can dmx set with moving light?
Yes, you just have to figure out how many channels your moving light has and what each channel does. Check your light fixture manual or if you don't have one then just test each slider and see what it does.
@@DJDLS thanks , yes it doesn't have the manual ...I bought them from second hand shop. Do you know how to check or treat moving light that has not been used for along time?
@@arilordaccount9152 i would plug it in and see if it works mate :)
@@DJDLS will do that..thanks mate
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Thank you for the very clear tutorial po. Can I ask where did you purchase or order your disco ball po?
Glad it helped you. Got mine from Raon, Quiapo. Brand is Big Dipper.
Thank you po for the reply@@DJDLS. I've been trying to look for a disco ball like that sa mga Lazada stores kaso wala po, kahit sa flagship store ng big dipper (coz I'm from Visayas). Does it come with a remote control po ba?
@@ludylynalmine5545 yung sa akin walang remote na kasama.
Tnx po for the info@@DJDLS . Sayang lang po kasi it seems like out of stock na yung item sa big dipper store. I would prefer it over the ones with remote control.
@@ludylynalmine5545 yes big dipper dapat. Mas maliwanag at siguradong makokontrol ng dmx.
What about automatic
It can run your programs to the speed you want or to the beat of the music.
But 17 + 16 = 33 not 34 how dose your par work:D
🤓 I'm bad at math
@@DJDLS but it should not work if you set it to the wrong address - my experience
Also can you explain what the difference is between dmx 192 and dmx 512?
@@AndysKitchen it still worked but the channels were offset. Maybe that's why the same par lights had different slider assignments 🙂 thanks for pointing that out.
@@AndysKitchen this i don't know the asnwer to. I just based what i shared in this video from chauvet's equivalent controller's user guide, which you can get from their site.
Sir anong maganda ilagay 7 meters ang layo ng pag kakabita ng ilaw
Abot pa naman ng wireless dmx yan. Pero mas reliable siguro kung wired.
Anong kalase ilaw sir?
@@reyanrico2817 kahit ano basta may dmx control function.
Omg, bad math.. par 3 address should be 33 not 34😂😂😂 he moved slider 2 and 3 when he set the red scene 🙄. I get how to program the scene so good job with that at least. But you are not getting proper channel functionality of the 3rd par across all 6 sliders that are supposed to control it unless it is set to 33..
01, 17, 33, 49, 65, 81, 97, 113 ect
I failed math lol 😂🤣
17 + 16 = 34 ???
My bad mate, I'm not good at maths lol
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Too fast....I can always keep rewinding...... good job.... once you get the hang of it... this too will be your outcome..... thank you...
i still refer to this whenever i forget somethng lol :) thanks!
Mine won’t turn on
Could be the power brick it came with?
@@DJDLS Yea that could be it im just getting a new one
@@prdshock254 good luck!
@@DJDLS Thanks Have a good night/day
Sir pwede isang wireless atena lang?
dalawa yun, transmitter saka receiver. yung receiver pwedeng isa lang papunta sa t-stand mo tapos series mo ng dmx cables the rest of your fixtures.
ibig sabihan mula sa dmx controller isang transmitter tapos sa ilaw isang transmitter din?
@@reyanrico2817 yes bro.
Ok
Ok!
17 + 16 is 33 why 34
i'm bad at math! 😝
17+16=34? are u joking man?
I'm bad at math sorry 😂
meron palang wireless option! we need this. i hate messy wiring
yes hehe :)
17 + 16 is 33, not 34 ;)
Yes I'm bad at math lol
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