Q Light Controller+

Hi Everyone,

Here's another one for the collection!

I've created the definition for an individual 8 lamp string, although the controllers can run up to 16 strings max, which equals 384 channels.

Product can be view at:

http://essentialsupplies.co.uk/acatalog ... toon-.html

The manual doesn't reveal any more information!

Hi Michael...this can be created with just 2 clicks with the QLC+ RGB Panel feature.

Are we sure we need a fixture for it ?

Hi Massimo,

I think the short answer is yes, for the following reasons:

The festoons will generally be used differently from an RGB matrix (by me, at any rate!) .

Some theatrical uses I can envisage for the festoons are for fairground scenes, seaside pier or promenade scenes, party scenes, old fashioned music hall scenes etc. when changes to the festoons will often need to have the same timings as some or all of the other fixtures in the scene.

Most of the time I will probably need quite simple colour changes that are relatively easy to set up as Scenes and Chasers or Sequences, but which will have complete flexibility as regards timings.

Other uses would be audience lighting or on the outside of temporary venues to attract attention or illuminate entrances.

It would be physically difficult to arrange the festoons in a large enough square array to make full use of the RGB matrix capabilities, not to mention expensive at about £18 per pixel. Many potentially useful arrangements won't translate easily into an XY array. As an example, consider 7 lines of festoons radiating from the centre of the venue.

Having said that, an RGB panel is very easy to set up and would be very useful for some festoon arrays.

A further point is that the subjective brightness and hue of the lamps does not necessarily match the colour and brightness seen on the computer screen, particularly if lamps and screen are in different ambient lighting conditions. For setting up a theatrical scene, having the festoons as a normal fixture allows direct adjustment of brightness and hue while looking at how the lamps blend into the scene as a whole.

Michael, I think there is a misunderstanding here.
RGB Panel doesn't necessarily mean RGB Matrix.

We were talking about fixtures here, and I suggested to use the RGB Panel dialog because (among other things) it actually create RGB fixtures with the specified size.

Having said that, did you try to create a RGB panel with a size 8x1 ?
You will realize it will create a fixture exactly like your festoon definition.

Thus my question...do we really need a fixture definition for this ?

Hi Massimo,

Finally caught up with your reply, for which many thanks.

You're right, of course. I'd overlooked the RGB panel mainly because all our other LED fixtures are either RGBW or RGBWA