Laptop use and general information

kharney · Post by **kharney** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:41 am

I am new to this technology stuff so please bear with me. Upon looking over your product it looks GREAT !!!

I am interested in purchasing the Professional version. My situation and questions are as follows:

I am a roving sound designer for several theatres in the area and I would like toinstall this on my laptop so that I can take it around with me and set it up at each theatre. Of course all the theatres have different setups.

First question is can I ouput several signals. ie left/ right house, center house, left/right rear house and certain monitors on stage and route the signals to each speaker. use for this would be sound effects coming from different sources and creating surround sound and moving effects. How do I then control where the signal goes ... ie connecting to the sound board. What are the output formats ie xlr/ 1/4 " etc.

Second question is regarding Midi sending and Midi Input port and output port. Are midi signals used to control only lighting or anything. Could a theatre that has the capability to send midi signals from the stage manager send midi signals that control the sound cues- so that say there would not have to be a sound operator. Sound cues could be started from that computer and routed through mine.

Please excuse my ignorance but I am looking to move into the digital age after 25 years of ancient designing

Mike Daniell · Post by **Mike Daniell** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:10 am

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