Nice to see that other musicians have been through what I am trying to do these days! I may have figured out how to control fading time in logic; you need to record the midi message sent by your console through the midi out plugged in logic. Select your track, set up midi correctly (make sure you can see midi info coming in logic, you can also use Midi monitor for this), then press A to activate automations. In your track, set the midi in Latch mode. Create a midi region in advance for the lenght of your fade. For some reason i think you also need to give it a dummy note (pick any that doesn't trigger anything). Then you can record the automations by moving the faders on your console, which will give it a live feel. What is cool is that you can play with multiple faders at the same time. I noticed that moving faders sends midi CC data, and that pushing Bump keys sends midi Notes data. The thing cool with the notes is that you can also program midi patterns like with a step sequencer, but you need to program the note in and note out and the velocity value. I still need to figure out that part. You can then cycle through the automations you have recorded with cmd+Y to take a look at them. To play it back, as you probably already know, you need to put it in Read mode. I used a ETC Smartfade to achieve this, and it is a lot of plugging and unplugging the midi cables because the machine won't take midi in and out at the same time because it is designed to use the midi to clone on another Smartfade unit, so it can only be either Master or Slave at a time. I am still figuring things out at the moment, I really need to speedup the workflow and programming part, as it is very therious for now. I would be happy to see what you can do nowadays. Cheers!

Great video, nicely explained though would have been better to see some of the Logic and desk set up from scratch. If you set your LED bars to 5 channel DMX using the LCD display on the lights then you can program the strobe speed for each light in each scene on desk fader 5 then load scene from Logic. It may not be perfect - but at a fast enough speed it will look awesome!

🦋❤️🦋 You left out the biggest pro. Programming allows you to sync the lights precisely to the beats. … and stop precisely where the music pauses and stops and starts. Nothing worse than lights that are playing/pulsating their own beats that are completely out of sync with the music. Worse yet… lights that are flashing way faster than the Beats per minute. BPM Turn off the Logic Pro slider automation for channel one and two. Otherwise, it overrides your LED light console. Your candor was truly wonderful.

Awesome thanks for sharing! Question though: how are you physically outputting midi to the dmx controller? My audio interface doesn't have 5-pin MIDI Out so I'm considering getting a USB to 5pin MIDI adapter, or trying to use the 5pin MIDI out on my midi keyboard.

which led bars did you get if you don’t mind me asking ?

did you figure out the fade issue?