Does QLC+ allow OSC Passthrough?

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tml
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Hi,
at https://www.qlcplus.org/docs/html_en_EN ... pping.html I learned that there is such a thing as a "Universe Passthrough", which allows you to use QLC+ as a sort of "protocol converter". This is great, and exactly what I'm looking for!

Only it's OSC that I'd like to use to translate into DMX values.

I got basic OSC control working, and I can map sliders and knobs and buttons just fine, but as it's some 20+ channels in total that I'd like to control like this, I don't really feel like creating a slider and manually mapping it to each channel and OSC address.

I tried taking the OSC messages that QLC sends out (the "/UNIVERSE/dmx/CHANNEL" address with a float value, e.g. '/0/dmx/12 0.557') and sending them back, but they don't seem to do anything.

Is this possible with QLC+? Thanks in advance!
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I'm afraid you can't with passthrough, due to the nature of the OSC protocol and how QLC+ handles it.
The same would happen with MIDI.

Passthrough is effective on protocols where channels mapping is 1-to-1, such as DMX, ArtNet, E1.31, SPI.
Mapping 20 faders is not that hard! With a Slider matrix is faster. Then you can put them into a frame and collapse it so it doesn't take much space in your virtual console.
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