Sound to Light: To RIO-A or not to RIO-A, that is the question...

You would need a RIO A for audio input. 

Correct, stereo input from your audio source and then you can pick the bands to use as triggers.

I have done this before for an installation and it works...okay. It takes a lot of playing around with your music source and the settings in your project.

Thanks, Stefan!

Is there a better solution than the RIO, a solution better than just "...okay"?

Erwin

The RIO is still the only way to go in a Mosaic ecosystem without introducing other devices. The challenge is the live aspect, as the RIO input triggers work best when you have enough time to tweak it to the dynamics of your music. You can look at tying variables from your audio input volume to timeline rate and speed up/ slow down your timelines based on volume. However, this is still one of those features that is not a one shoe fits all and will take some on site tweaking.

The RIO is still the only way to go in a Mosaic ecosystem without introducing other devices. The challenge is the live aspect, as the RIO input triggers work best when you have enough time to tweak it to the dynamics of your music. You can look at tying variables from your audio input volume to timeline rate and speed up/ slow down your timelines based on volume. However, this is still one of those features that is not a one shoe fits all and will take some on site tweaking.

Got it!

If I stick with the RIO, I'd make different buttons on the touch screen, e.g.

Classical - Folk - Ambient - Pop - Rock

And then make certain presets for those genres that react differently to the various input trigger in a couple of frequency bands.

I am stuck with the MSC4 controller. Is there another audio-to-analog converter other than the RIO I could connect to the analog inputs on the MSC4?

Not that I am aware of but Im sure you could find something - though I feel you would be doubling the amount of work with that approach than just going with the RIO

RIO it is then! Thanks again!