hello, I noticed by googling this old topic about schwartzpeter and lighting software for theatre.
Yes, Schwartzpeter is dedicated for traditionnal lighting in theatre and dance.
Pelase be aware that a kind of english doc ( mainly complete) is avaible here:
http://karistouf.free.fr/schwartzpeter_doc_english.html
As schwartzpeter is a free software ( under GNU lecense), any translation, or any kind of friendly help will be appreciated.
Schwartzpeter now communicate with midi hardware in its version 0.6c, and allows chasers and fx, the dmx core for crossfade has got more smothness now and is fully operationnal.
A new release will arrive before april that will make more confortable the following actions:
Actually the version 0.6b can be installed from an installer, from
http://karistouf.free.fr/schwartzpeter.html
If you want to take benefit of midi communication and dmx core modifications you need to unzip the exe 0.6c in C://schwartzpeter
Then , add the file miditable.dat in each folder inside of C://schwartzpeter/saves
Midi communications allows controls over channels and sub and crossfade thruth key on signal or control change signal .
Sincerely yours,
christoph
mister schwartzpeter .... 