Understanding Cues and their duration

[FunzelFrickler]

Hi there!

I'm new to QLC+. So far i use the simple desk. My background in DMX is mainly "classical" desks such as the Lightcommander II 24/6. I regularly use stuff by ETC and by ADJ. Especially the American DJ (ADJ) Scene Setter 24 is really convenient for simple purposes and I think QLC+'s simple desk comes quite close to this. With the enormous benefit of virtually infinitely many DMX channels.

Now what I don't really get is this thing with the cues in simple desk. I managed to get them to work so that when I click forward/backward arrows, the next cue gets selected and fade in/out times are used. However, cues also do have a duration. So I thought, is it possible somehow to auto-run those cues?

This would be quite convenient. Actually it's pretty much the behavior of the Scene Setter 24.

I understand that QLC+ offers a lot more than that, but what I need most often is a couple of scenes (some with lights automatically fading in/out or changing color) which can be dialed in on some faders. This basically does 95% of the stuff I have to do with light. So far the ADJ Scene Setter serves me well, but as more and more LED fixtures come up, I always run out of DMX channels.

Could somebody please shed some light on this cue duration thing?

Thanks in advance
FunzelFrickler

[GGGss]

I'd really encourage you to invest a little more time and start to use the features involved in the Virtual Console posibilities.
You quickly will see that the 'fader to channel' approach together with sequences in much more nicely solved using chasers.

The in between solution I'd propose: set your fader to channel settings right in simple desk and dump those values to cue's.
Now you have a bunch of cues to play with.
Create a chaser and add these cues. Now you individual can set fade in - out - duration etc.
Massimo created a nice instructional video for you to look and learn from.