Controlling Lights in Ableton (DMXIS 2022 Update) - EMU x Enttec DMX - USB PRO

Enttec's DMXIS has been helping musicians control DMX lights in Ableton and other DAWs for many years. Today's video is a review and setup tutorial for the next evolution of DMXIS, Enttec's new software EMU and the USB PRO hardware.

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[traviscarrier]

Hi Julian, So glad I found this video! Your 1st video on DMXIS is what got me into doing lighting for my band! With the previous version (DMXIS) you were able to have multiple MIDI tracks, all with their own individual DMXIS VST running. With this I was able to make a track for each of the lights in my rig, this kept things clean and I was able to only have the faders I needed for that light configured and macro'd on the track. With EMU, it seems you can only have 1 track with an instance of the EMU VST attached to it. If you try to make a new MIDI (Or any track for that matter) and attach the VST, when you go to configure the sliders for automation nothing happens. The 1st MIDI track will still let you configure, but none of the others will. I had a work around for this, which was configure all of the sliders on 1 MIDI track and just duplicate the track, but it only allows for 125 faders to be configured, and I have about 278 faders in my rig. Just didn't know if maybe you had a work-around or had any ideas on how to fix this? I know the "best" way would be to link programs from EMU and trigger them with a MIDI note like in your video, but for some reason I was really comfortable just controlling all of my lights with automation lanes. Any help you could give me would be awesome! I'm kind of at a loss right now. Thank you again!

[wightclaudia]

You saved my bands life.

I have a show later this month and I’ve been going Grey trying to figure this out.

I formally used DMXIS through Logic X on a MacBook. I no longer have the DMXIS box and my MacBook is now too outdated to be used with Emu.

I went around in circles trying all of these other garbage lighting programs out there and hitting a wall until I found your video

I think you might be the only guy on YouTube addressing simple program switching via midi and somehow I can’t believe that it’s that scarce on YouTube when so many bands need this stuff

I’ve used logic for 15 years so I figured how hard could ableton be just for simple backing tracks with midi light programming around them so I got the 90 day trial which will afford me enough time to do the show

I am also amazed at the lack of content / tutorials of substance from Enttec when it comes to Emu.

All of this stress for some stupid songs.

You’re the best 😊

[RaneMusic]

25:07
Oh that makes so much sense
I wanted to test if EMU works with FL Studio and I was so confused when there was no interface loading up.

[EverestStudiosOfficial]

Windows users - i downloaded “loopmidi” for the aggregate midi device and was good to go. Had the lights done for a 30min set the next day 🤙 and I’ve never done it before
Windows 10- Pro tools - emu usb pro- emu program
That’s all that was needed

[Lamorn]

Thanks for this video man it's very well done! I've been diving in to this a bit to set up some stuff for a smaller lighting setup for some shows next year, and randomly stumbled across this. Very helpful stuff. Hope you are doing well :)

[MakesMyBloodDance]

This was excellent and detailed, thanks for making this

[aromiuniverse]

Amazing Julian! Thanks so much for this. Super helpful as I'm trying to wrap my mind around building my lightshow for Aromi... I may be using Ableton so I can trigger lights and video clips for my livesets... it's a huge jump from using FL Studio for the last 10 years. Anyways man major props and mad respect for you. I'm just amazed by how far you've come in the years I have followed you. You're a big inspiration! Keep up the great work.

[ItsWesSmithYo]

Well that answered my question from the 5 year ago video. Rad, thanks. NTW, Showsync still had the DMXIS as recommended hardware/setup in official docs. I shot over a message, but just FYI.

[HotMenDance]

Dear Julian! Does it (EMU) work with Reaper midi device? Thank you!

[DJNAVENDU]

This is such an amazing thing but sadly dealbreaker for me is the subscription model of software.
Id rather pay 3 times the yearly price and own the software.

[kazemzahedi]

Hi Thanks for the great video. I have a set of DMX512 LED pixel lights. These are plane basic fixtures. Can I use QLC+ to set the address of the fixtures, before I can use them

[thibaultbesuchet]

It’s terrifying how the time showing on the screen capture matches the time I’m watching this video

[freemiumbeer]

The software licensing for EMU is not good. Neither is the fixture definition system, as you pointed out. The free version has extremely limited fixtures available, and you can't add your own. So you have to sign-up for the subscription, then you have the full available list of available fixture definitions, and if the fixture is not in the list, you can ask Emu support to add it, which reportedly takes a week or so. I purchased the Enttec DMX USB Pro adapter and tried the free version out. I'm a new user, and wanted to demo it to see if it would work for me. But the free version is so hamstrung there is no point in even trying it out. Your fixtures won't work, unless they are Enttec or one of a few generic models. Why they decided this free demo version was a good idea, I'll never know. As a new DMX user just starting out, I'm not subscribing to software I can't even try out. For that reason, I'm going to pick something else. Ultimately I think this decision is going to limit their user base for this software, most likely to DJs that were already using Dmxis.

[belugapromotions]

Could you make another video on EMU? I still can't understand how to save programmes, there's just so many updates.. I feel like might be missing a few steps..

[LAGASTEST]

Amazing video!
question, can you use this to animate addressable light strips?

[WillieTheAutomaton]

I was so interested in this till I found out it was ANOTHER damn subscription. I just can't anymore man, this subscription shit is out of control XD

[Ultima]

Does the Open DMX USB Interface work for this?

[martindefatte]

Does anyone know if theres a way that a Max 4 Live that can control this hardware device? I would love to use this on an Ableton Push 3 standalone, but it doesn't have VST support (it's version of Live is a port of Linux)

[BobbyEdenhofer]

I am new this software as well as dmx. I'm trying to add my two different Shehds lights to the EMU list. I just purchased the "DMX USB PRO" My ENTTEC download is in my "Programs Files" folder NOT "Programs Files (x86)" and there is no DMX LIBRARY Folder? Did I do something wrong in my download or is it because I'm on the 3 month free license trial? I really want to get into this software. Thanks in advance for any help or tips?

[guy]

some how my midi channel 2 changed to master output. how do I change back to IAC DRIVER? its not showing up