Editing Artist Help:Workspace Patch Inputs

This lets you patch input signals to Artist System Commands. The inputs for these command functions can be any of the following.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Inputs
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| MIDI Inputs || any MIDI port connect to the computer will provide MIDI messages to Artist. This can be connected to MIDI Keyboard controllers or any other MIDI device to provide control over Artist. 
|-
| DMX Inputs || DMX data input to Artist can be connected to internal system commands.
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| Serial Inputs || serial input has a fixed format. 
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| Industrial Automation || Artist can access some Advantech Industrial Automation interfaces to provide real world input from contact closures, analogue sources etc. 
|}

The window contains tabs for the input assignments for MIDI, DMX and AI.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Caption text
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| MIDI || MIDI input patch data 
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| IA || Data acquisition input. 
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| DMX || DMX patch data 
|}

Each of these displays the assignment objects associated with them.

Sometimes it may be necessary to define the ports used by your patch. See Redefine Port.