Is this the way to go or am I making a mistake?
A QLC Workspace is like a Bob Ross painting: "it's your world, you can create whatever you want!"
It all depends on situation (disco show, lighting a band, theater, men cave, ......), budget and time you can spend and most of all personal preferences (you have to run the show, so you should feel comfortable with it).
If you have a look at the attached example, you can see how i did it.
Just some remarks:
- first of all you should decide which colors you want to use and store them as Custom Color in your Color Selector.
- in your example i see 3 "shades of Orange", but miss colors like SeaFoam (between Green and Cyan) and Brescian Blue (aka Lavender, between Cyan and Blue). As said: this is personal.
- i made the decision that i wanted to control "the four corners of my stage", so you will find 4 soloframes to select a color and each having a submaster to set the level.
Therefor i had to make 4 sets of scenes Left-Front, Right-Front, Left-Rear and Right-Rear.
- I started with creating scenes for all my Wash Fixtures (so all my 20 RGB Wash Fixtures where selected) in 12 colors plus Black and White (set the first fixture and the use the "Copy Values to Other Fixtures" Button).
Then i made 4 copies of those scenes, renamed them (Left-Front, ... Rear Right) and removed all the fixtures from those scenes that i did not need (so on the first tab of your scene delete 15 out of 20 fixtures) .
This works a lot faster then creating new scenes.
To avoid mistakes, you could use logical names for your fixtures (Wash- Left-Front-in, Wash-Left-Front-Out, etc, so you recognise what you are deleting) and when creating the inititial scenes,
add the fixtures in an order that makes sense (start with all the left- fronts, then the right-fronts etc, then you can delete them in blocks).
- make regular saves of your workfile and save them with different file names (workfile1, workfile2, .....). if you make a mistake you can always retrieve the previous version.
- only my Led Bars have a separate Master Level, which explains the frame on the right.
On the workspace you will also find a color bar on top, this is used to set the color for 4 groups at once.
If you only want to use one color, or need to come up with an initial setting
fast, this is easier.
In the same way you will find 5 buttons (between the solo Frames) to set the levels at once.
Both "gadgets" use loopback (so you need to put the Input profile in your User Library to make it work).
You will notice that i did not create separate scenes for each fixture, for the following reasons:
- if you have more than "a few fixtures" your workspace will become far to large.
- if you are running a show, you don't allways have time to push all those buttons.
- i opted to use RGB Matrices and EFX's for creating effects (which is a lot easier than creating "Chasers with Scenes").
For an example:
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I hope this will give you some new ideas.
A QLC Workspace is like a Bob Ross painting: "it's your world, you can create whatever you want!"
. How big can you go btw? Is there a time where QLC+ will had enough configuration? e.g., my file size is now 200Kb ... Is there a point in time where I need to be careful for reaching a limit?
! Now that's good info. Does the LTP/HTP influence this?
In my work I use english and french so I have a bad habbit of using english words in my french sentence (especially when I write message)