QLC+ used for amateur theatre group
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2024 5:41 pm
Hi folks,
i'd like to share how we use QLC+ in our amateur Theatre community
As a theatre group we have each year one theatre play. The stage is fixed installed and we have our technician desk behind the stage.
Lighting consists of 5 LED floods at the stage ceiling and three theatre spotlights above the audience.
Additionally we have other little LED devices and fog machine et. based on the script and scenario.
For the lighting we are using one traditional Light console and a Thinkpad X270 with QLC plus and the ENTTEC Pro.
Both (PC and Console) go into a DMX merger with the console as backup channel in case of PC crashing the show must go on.
To control QLC+ we are using a KORG NanoKEY2.
Each act of the theatre play is organized in a chaser, where I can step through with the NanoKey2.
To be able to let the actors trigger events on their own we have an Arduino which acts as a MIDI device in front of the PC and has digital inputs we wire up with buttons on or behind the stage and map them to virtual console buttons.
As a next project we will be connecting the electric curtain also to the DMX so we can control it from QLC+ as well.
Attached you will find some pictures of our setup.
Let me know any suggestions or questions. Maybe some of you are also in theatre community and we can share our experience.
Regards,
Andreas
i'd like to share how we use QLC+ in our amateur Theatre community
As a theatre group we have each year one theatre play. The stage is fixed installed and we have our technician desk behind the stage.
Lighting consists of 5 LED floods at the stage ceiling and three theatre spotlights above the audience.
Additionally we have other little LED devices and fog machine et. based on the script and scenario.
For the lighting we are using one traditional Light console and a Thinkpad X270 with QLC plus and the ENTTEC Pro.
Both (PC and Console) go into a DMX merger with the console as backup channel in case of PC crashing the show must go on.
To control QLC+ we are using a KORG NanoKEY2.
Each act of the theatre play is organized in a chaser, where I can step through with the NanoKey2.
To be able to let the actors trigger events on their own we have an Arduino which acts as a MIDI device in front of the PC and has digital inputs we wire up with buttons on or behind the stage and map them to virtual console buttons.
As a next project we will be connecting the electric curtain also to the DMX so we can control it from QLC+ as well.
Attached you will find some pictures of our setup.
Let me know any suggestions or questions. Maybe some of you are also in theatre community and we can share our experience.
Regards,
Andreas
