MIDI Question ADJ DMX Operator 384 lighting controller

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Does anyone have experience with this DMX controller? I am using the Octatrack to trigger the lighting scenes over MIDI. I found that if the controller is connected directly to either the Octatrack or the Machinedrum only some MIDI notes are registered by the controller.

For example if I put the MIDI trigger on steps 1 and 9 I should see the light turn on at step 1 and then off on step 9 and repeat. Instead the lighting scene will turn on on step 1, do nothing on step 9 and then turn off on step 1. Basically it skips step 9. If I remove step 1 and leave only 9 then the light responds to the trigger on step 9.

I never have any problems sequencing MIDI instruments from these same boxes and through a few hops. I have found that the DMX controller needs to be connected to a MIDI thru box. I have two and the lights trigger just fine only if the controller is connected directly to a powered thru box. Is this controller defective or is this normal for it?

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Iā€™m having this same issue. Did you ever work out fix?

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Nope. Even using a MIDI through box did not help 100% like I first thought. This controller is just a POS. The most use I have been able to get out of it is by generating a click on a spare output from my Machinedrum and using the Audio in trigger on the Operator 384 to switch through scenes I programmed into the controller. This at least syncs scene changes to the beat.

I have since moved on to use QLC+ on a Raspberry Pi to make more elaborate DMX lighting changes. https://www.qlcplus.org/
It is fairly involved to set up but it gets some very cool results. Like I have some notes mapped to certain lights to trigger when we play those notes live. This way we do not have to worry about syncing the lights and music and the lights just trigger to how the music is played.

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