30. Lighting Scenes (Pro)

In the Pro edition, CTM controls your lights while you record the game. It does not control the fixtures itself: for every event, it sends a MIDI note, and Daslight 5 answers with the scene you assigned to that note. Every roll that matters, such as a seven out, changes the light automatically. You can also call up scenes yourself with the LIGHTING SCENES buttons.

Requirements#

• The Pro edition of CTM.
• Daslight 5 and a compatible DMX interface with your fixtures.
• loopMIDI with a virtual MIDI port. The name of the port must contain CrapsLight.
• Your scenes in a Daslight show file.

→ See Settings Page 1 – System.

Start loopMIDI before you start CTM, which looks for the port at startup. If it does not find a port with CrapsLight in its name, the lighting stays off, and the game continues without any message. If you start loopMIDI later, restart CTM.

Setting Up loopMIDI#

loopMIDI is a free program that creates virtual MIDI ports. CTM and Daslight communicate through such a port.

1. Install loopMIDI and start it.
2. Enter the port name CrapsLight in the field at the bottom of the loopMIDI window and click the + button. The port appears in the list.
3. Set loopMIDI to start with Windows and run in the background.

Setting Up Daslight#

Daslight has to listen to the port and know which scene belongs to which note.

1. Start Daslight 5 and open your show.
2. Click the three dots at the top left of the Daslight window, then Edit, and then Settings.
3. Open the page MIDI / Audio / BPM. Under MIDI DEVICES, open CrapsLight and tick MIDI Input. Click CLOSE.
4. Assign one of the notes in the table below to each scene. Use MIDI Learn in Daslight: switch on MIDI Learn for the scene and press the matching button on the game dashboard. CTM sends the note, and Daslight remembers it.
5. Save the show.

You do not need a scene for every note; a note without a scene does nothing.

Automatic Lighting#

CTM sends these notes while you record the game. They also trigger the matching sound effects.

→ See Game Show Controller and Sound Effects.

CTM sends no notes when it recalculates the game after you press CORRECT, so the show does not play twice.

Scene Buttons#

The sixteen buttons under LIGHTING SCENES, numbered 1 to 16, call up scenes on demand. Each button sends its own note:

The buttons of the game show controller, the wheel buttons, and the applause buttons send their own notes as well. They are listed in the table below.

MIDI Note Reference#

CTM sends every note on MIDI channel 1.