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Right way for the show

Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 9:14 pm
by giomas
Hello everyone
I've been using QLC + for a month now and I think it's great software!
I need advice on the best configuration for my needs.

I play in a band and this year we would like to work with backing track with synchronized lights.
I'm working on a project on Cubase where we will have the metronome to go to time and send midi signals to QLC + (currently I only did a test with loopMIDI sending the start to a chaser.

My current configuration is as follows:
- 2 Stairville TriLed
- 4 mini wash
- 4 mini beam
In QLC I have divided these lights into: led-L, led-R, wash-L1, wash-L2, wash-R2, wash-R1, beam-L1, beam-L2, beam-R2, beam-R1.
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Later I created small scenes, for example:
w-L1-white (where I only turned on the white channel)
w-L1-blue (where I only turned on the blue channel)
w-L1-top (in which I placed the wash in upward position)
w-L1-strobe
So for all the lights
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At this point I started creating collections
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And finally a chaser for each song with the sequence of the collections to which they are assigned durations in ms obtained from the bpm of the song
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At the end Cubase should send the midi signal to start chaser 1 for song 1, chaser 2 for song 2 and so on
Can it be the right way to create the light show?

Thanks in advance!!

Re: Right way for the show

Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 8:37 am
by GGGss
Seems legit to me ...
I would just be afraid that the changes in the cue-list all will be very sudden... depending on the music this can work
and I hope your click-track will stick to the BPM preprogrammed... otherwise 'mayhem'.

Break a leg.

Re: Right way for the show

Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 9:39 am
by giomas
First of all thanks for your answer

Yes, the click trace is programmed to a specific bpm and the milliseconds are calculated on it

Could it possibly be more correct to recall a single collection with a midi trigger to a specific note?
On Cubase I would have a midi track that sends a signal to every "collection change" I need.

For example:
measure 0 - midi note recalling "green" collection
measure 4 - midi note recalling "strobe" collection
measure 8 - midi note recalling "green + vox" collection

In this case, should I work on the virtual console?

I would like to program everything and have to click only "play" from Cubase to start the show