Need tips on using OSC in QLC+

jim Ruxton · Tue Mar 19, 2013 6:20 am

I am trying to get OSC input to work. I am on Ubuntu 12.04 . I may be doing something wrong. I am sending OSC information from the program Pure Data. I created a profile from the Profile tab using channel: 1 and name: /test and type: slider . In the mapping tab I chose OSC Network 1 . I am sending data through /test from Pure Data on port 7770 but it isn't working. I can recieve the same data in an OSC window so I know it is sending. Do I need to disable the Simple Desk or anything so it doesn't overide the OSC data. Curious if anyone has any hints on using OSC. Thanks.

Massimo Callegari · Tue Mar 19, 2013 7:49 am

Hello Jim, you need to use the profile wizard button and send channels one by one from Pure Data. QLC+ will then map them properly.
OSC names and channels are not mapped in a conventional way (basically channel 1 could not even exist)

jim Ruxton · Wed Mar 20, 2013 2:09 am

Thanks a lot. I am getting data into the profile wizard now. For some reason when I move a slider between 0 and 255 in Pure Data the wizard detects this as a button. If I go to edit it to slider the channel number changes. Which brings up another question. The channels detected are quite large ie. 35351. How do I map this to a DMX channel between 1 and 512. Sorry I am just not getting what is probably a simple concept.

jim Ruxton · Wed Mar 20, 2013 2:55 am

I just figured out that the slider value has to be between 0 and 1 for the profile wizard to detect controller type properly. I still don't understand how to map the generated channel numbers to DMX channels however.
Thanks!

Massimo Callegari · Wed Mar 20, 2013 8:27 am

Jim, I'm afraid you need to read some documentation first.
These are basic questions of QLC+ usage.

A lot of elements in QLC+ have a dedicated section saying "External input" and a button saying "Auto detect". Click on it, move your external fader and if the channel is mapped then QLC+ will detect and associate it.

jim Ruxton · Thu Mar 21, 2013 3:10 am

Thanks very much for the help Massimo. I was trying to do this in the Simple Desk, I see now that it works in the Virtual Console. For some reason the documentation icon isn't working on my installation. Awesome program. Thanks again.