Looking for USB Wing - What is best
Posted: 16 Nov 2012, 15:51
Hey guys,
Hoping this post gets some good feedback cause I really need to dig into your heads to figure out a good wing control console to handle FS. I played around with FS for the 1st time earlier this year, and loved it. Only thing I did not like is always having to click around the screen to get things going. I am an old school guy who likes to have buttons under my fingers to change gobos or colors or moving patterns. My initial thoughts were to use a keyboard, but would rather have something a little more sophisticated, without getting into the $600 Enttec wings. I really want to avoid using MIDI, and the complications of having to map notes and have 3rd party mappers in between.
So my question, is there a USB solution out there, just like a keyboard, where I can simlpy map a button on the wing straight to a submaster or cue ?? I was looking at something like the AKAI APC20, which I believe is USB, but wondering how those buttons would get mapped to FS?? Would AKAI have some sort of interface software to allow a button to represent a key on a keyboard for example??
Besides the AKAI, is there any other USB controller out there I could use, with simple key mapping, without getting into MIDI???
Thanks for your time guys. Your answers here will make me determine whether I stick it out with FS, or move back to a lighting board. Only plus I like about FS compared to a board is that FS has built-in patterns and a generator, which allows you to get movers setup fast, compared to affordable consoles from Elation, where you still have to program your patterns for movers.
Hoping this post gets some good feedback cause I really need to dig into your heads to figure out a good wing control console to handle FS. I played around with FS for the 1st time earlier this year, and loved it. Only thing I did not like is always having to click around the screen to get things going. I am an old school guy who likes to have buttons under my fingers to change gobos or colors or moving patterns. My initial thoughts were to use a keyboard, but would rather have something a little more sophisticated, without getting into the $600 Enttec wings. I really want to avoid using MIDI, and the complications of having to map notes and have 3rd party mappers in between.
So my question, is there a USB solution out there, just like a keyboard, where I can simlpy map a button on the wing straight to a submaster or cue ?? I was looking at something like the AKAI APC20, which I believe is USB, but wondering how those buttons would get mapped to FS?? Would AKAI have some sort of interface software to allow a button to represent a key on a keyboard for example??
Besides the AKAI, is there any other USB controller out there I could use, with simple key mapping, without getting into MIDI???
Thanks for your time guys. Your answers here will make me determine whether I stick it out with FS, or move back to a lighting board. Only plus I like about FS compared to a board is that FS has built-in patterns and a generator, which allows you to get movers setup fast, compared to affordable consoles from Elation, where you still have to program your patterns for movers.