Enttec USB DMX Pro

I've only had very limited success getting any of Enttec's USB DMX devices to work reliably on my mac in several programming environments. Even when they work, they don't seem to have the bandwidth to do alot of dmx channels at once. I guess I gave up a few years back and now they just sit on the shelf.

I personally think Artnet is the way to go. It processes so much faster than trying to pipe down those FIDI drivers.

Now Enttec does have a box I like, the DMXEtherGate MK2 It converts 5 pin DMX to Artnet or vise versa. It does have a hefty price, $600, but does do two universes or 1024 DMX channels.

I guess it depends on the scope of your project if that is needed.

Similarly to @stuart, I burned a bunch of time on the ENTTEC USB gadgets a few years back. Not much success. The device I had, at least, had flaky USB drivers, and during the rare instances those drivers didn't kernelpanic, the DMX output was unusably unstable.

ENTTEC's "Open DMX Ethernet", however, works nicely with Kineme Art-Net Tools (and is about half the price of the box @stuart mentioned).

I got some patches in Max/MSP working with the Ennttec but very computer depending. Diffrent types of mbp's ended up in diffrent results. I also think it has flaky USB drivers. uDMX had some better results but stoped working from one day to another. Now I'm working with artnet it seems a lot more sytem independent. I us the 2portNode from grand MA