Sync with Music

[DereckR]

Hello,

I am not sure the best place to post this, but I am fairly new with QLC+. I am working on doing lights with music similar to like Christmas light shows, Halloween, and various other little things. I have been searching high and low for some way to sync music in QLC+ but I can't find any real good information.

This being said I am trying QLC+ because I was using light jams, but we won't get into the details why I won't purchase it a second time. QLC+ seems promising I just need a bit of hand holding and direction.

Thank you all in advance!

[janosvitok]

You have two possibilities (at least):

- audio trigger, that can advance chasers on beats https://docs.qlcplus.org/v4/virtual-con ... o-triggers
- shows, using them you can prepare synchronized shows containing lights, music and video https://docs.qlcplus.org/v4/show-manager

Jano

[GGGss]

Coming from Lightjams, you will have to rethink a lot. For one: QLC+ audio processing isn't quite as rich as LightJams. The concept to radiate intensities / colors etc based on the audio frequency + level is not present in QLC+. The RGB matrix in QLC+ then is way easier to manipulate while busking. Hint: create a matrix, set it to a preset and have a look at the Animation widget on the VC. But this might be a little too advanced for a novice user. Ask if in trouble

[SPOPATT]

I use QLC+ for stage shows where I need to do a lot of manual button pressing. I use XLights for anything that needs synced with music such as a Christmas show. They are both tools that focus on different solutions. Each are great at what they do but pretty limited on doing what the other was meant to do.

[DereckR]

You have two possibilities (at least):

- audio trigger, that can advance chasers on beats https://docs.qlcplus.org/v4/virtual-con ... o-triggers
- shows, using them you can prepare synchronized shows containing lights, music and video https://docs.qlcplus.org/v4/show-manager

Jano

Jano,

Thank you for the quick response! I had been trying to use the Audio Triggers, but I can't get it to work it's like it doesn't detect anything. Whether I try a loopback program or even the microphone I don't see anything happen in the boxes.

[GGGss]

You have two possibilities (at least):

- audio trigger, that can advance chasers on beats https://docs.qlcplus.org/v4/virtual-con ... o-triggers
- shows, using them you can prepare synchronized shows containing lights, music and video https://docs.qlcplus.org/v4/show-manager

Jano

Jano,

Thank you for the quick response! I had been trying to use the Audio Triggers, but I can't get it to work it's like it doesn't detect anything. Whether I try a loopback program or even the microphone I don't see anything happen in the boxes.

Did you enable the audio widget? (go into produce mode and tap the square button in the upper left of the window)