Introducing myself to the QLC+ Community!
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2022 4:57 am
A very warm hello to the QLC+ community!
My name is Bhargav, and I'm a musician based in Bangalore, India.
My main job is a 9-5 in IT where I work on touchscreen displays, LEDs and buttons for HP printers, so my interest in lighting luckily spans across to my day job as well!
I got fascinated by the world of programmed lighting after watching the lighting engineer of the band Meshuggah treat his GrandMA console as an off-stage musical instrument to play the lights in sync with the music. I've been wanting to implement the same in my music for a long time!
It has been a long time coming, but now, I'm excited to share that dream is about to become a reality!
I have been using 3 Philips Hue smartlights in video sync mode thus far, but they don't respond to DMX/Artnet straightaway.
They work in sound and video sync modes. So for each video where I want synced lights, I have to create a 'lighting map' video that splits the screen into thirds, and then those thirds are animated to be in sync with the music.
Here's what the final output looks like:
I have 2 Philips Hue RGB bulbs and a Hue RGB LED strip.
I have figured out a way recently to control the smartlights as regular Artnet DMX fixtures using a DMX-Hue utility I found online on Github.
I now plan to purchase a few moving heads, and a laser bar and smoke machine to make that initial dream of a perfectly synced lighting show come true with the help of QLC+!
I look forward to learning from the community and implementing the ideas and concepts in my projects. Cheers!
My name is Bhargav, and I'm a musician based in Bangalore, India.
My main job is a 9-5 in IT where I work on touchscreen displays, LEDs and buttons for HP printers, so my interest in lighting luckily spans across to my day job as well!
I got fascinated by the world of programmed lighting after watching the lighting engineer of the band Meshuggah treat his GrandMA console as an off-stage musical instrument to play the lights in sync with the music. I've been wanting to implement the same in my music for a long time!
It has been a long time coming, but now, I'm excited to share that dream is about to become a reality!
I have been using 3 Philips Hue smartlights in video sync mode thus far, but they don't respond to DMX/Artnet straightaway.
They work in sound and video sync modes. So for each video where I want synced lights, I have to create a 'lighting map' video that splits the screen into thirds, and then those thirds are animated to be in sync with the music.
Here's what the final output looks like:
I have 2 Philips Hue RGB bulbs and a Hue RGB LED strip.
I have figured out a way recently to control the smartlights as regular Artnet DMX fixtures using a DMX-Hue utility I found online on Github.
I now plan to purchase a few moving heads, and a laser bar and smoke machine to make that initial dream of a perfectly synced lighting show come true with the help of QLC+!
I look forward to learning from the community and implementing the ideas and concepts in my projects. Cheers!