How to trigger a Collection in a Show Track?
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2022 4:03 pm
I'm programming a light show for my band called 7Times. I have a complicated Virtual Console to control everything, but all songs are programmed in Shows that I trigger from my midi controller at the start of every song.
Each Show is a song that has a reference audio track (normally muted, used for programming) and I have Collections for different lighting setups for Verses, Choruses and Solos. What is the best way to trigger those Collections on a Show tracks? I need to trigger a Verse collection, and just just let it sit until the Chorus, for example. Then go to Verse, Chorus, Solo, Chorus at certain times in the song.
I know you can't put a Collection on a Show track. So I have put all Collections in Chasers, and set Hold to "infinite". And I put those Chasers into Show tracks. That caused QLC+ to freeze when clicking on Shows tab. I solved the freezing by replacing 4294967294 in XML to a lower nuymber of 6000000, but it's still very inconvenient because each time a specific song verse Collection is triggered, I have to create a copy of its Chaser and adjust hold time to precise time of the verse. I wish I could just trigger a Collection at certain times, without multiple copies and time adjustments needed. Any ideas?
I attached images of how the console and a show looks. I appreciate any advice.
Each Show is a song that has a reference audio track (normally muted, used for programming) and I have Collections for different lighting setups for Verses, Choruses and Solos. What is the best way to trigger those Collections on a Show tracks? I need to trigger a Verse collection, and just just let it sit until the Chorus, for example. Then go to Verse, Chorus, Solo, Chorus at certain times in the song.
I know you can't put a Collection on a Show track. So I have put all Collections in Chasers, and set Hold to "infinite". And I put those Chasers into Show tracks. That caused QLC+ to freeze when clicking on Shows tab. I solved the freezing by replacing 4294967294 in XML to a lower nuymber of 6000000, but it's still very inconvenient because each time a specific song verse Collection is triggered, I have to create a copy of its Chaser and adjust hold time to precise time of the verse. I wish I could just trigger a Collection at certain times, without multiple copies and time adjustments needed. Any ideas?
I attached images of how the console and a show looks. I appreciate any advice.