Show Cue System

The strand data sheets show the midi ports as optional and list a MIDI/SMTPE board as an optional extra, so the fact that you have midi ports I would have thought meant you were good to go.

Ask away. I just had a bit of a look back at 300 series consoles, mine are 500s, and it appears that the midi board is optional on the 300s. Just thought I'd mention it incase yours does not have it.

A quick perusal of the StrandLighting web site seems to indicate they use MIDI Note On and Note Off commands, and SCS-Professional supports that. Strand 500/300 also support Midi Show Control, so you can easily send a go cue x command. I use this all the time with a 520i so ask if you need any help...

I'm doing this for an upcoming production, and the solution I've come accross is to run Vidvox's GRID2 on my Mac laptop and fire it from SCS via MIDI, it's not as elegant as native video would be, but works and is not too expensive (if you have another machine and the midi hardware around)! Vidvox G...