In the old version of QLC, I used to be able to assign a fader to a bus and then when I changed the level of the fader, depending on what level the bus was set to, the level would adjust over the time of the bus making a nice smooth adjustment rather than having to try to adjust the fader very slowly.
Is this possible to reproduce with QLC+?
It would also be nice with the Click & Go RGB color selector to be able to choose a color and it fade to that color over a second or two rather than changing abruptly.
Slider's with fade time
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Davey Daytona
Hello Jon
I assume you mean just Qlc, I started on QLC +. I downloaded the orgional version as a reference. Well, I see what your referring too.There was a master Fade time slider. In this fork that function has been change a little bit. Its much more straight forward now.
There are a couple ways you can do this function using speed dials or scene settings. A playback slider assigned to a scene or chase with a set fade time works. What you do is create your scene or chase and give it a button. Now assign a slider to playback that button's function. They will now interact with each other.
This works, however, it only works with the slider when you first engage the slider from 0 to the desired value. Once you stop the slider it returns to a linear interaction. To bring it back to 0 in a fade, deselect the associated button and it will fade out accordingly. There have been some discussions in here somewhere be sure to browse around. I do believe some of the developers are working on this.
https://sourceforge.net/p/qlcplus/discu ... 20e7/#6bb9
Another way is using the simple desk. You can create scenes with fade times and make a cue list and use the cue stack faders as sub-masters. you can then playback those scenes and fade in and out of them while controlling over all intensities (linear).
This is of course a workaround.
As far as the click and go function. Its called click and go because that's its function. Its a go to that function with out turning on undesired gobos or colors. That would cause a scrolling affect between each object. Its not designed to work with intensity mode (HTP), but with LTP.
If your fixtures are set to act as HTP, I would suggest using buttons or channel sliders again. Use your chases and scene fade times again.
I hope this is helpful. Just keep experimenting and if you find a better solution, by all means let us know.
Dave
I assume you mean just Qlc, I started on QLC +. I downloaded the orgional version as a reference. Well, I see what your referring too.There was a master Fade time slider. In this fork that function has been change a little bit. Its much more straight forward now.
There are a couple ways you can do this function using speed dials or scene settings. A playback slider assigned to a scene or chase with a set fade time works. What you do is create your scene or chase and give it a button. Now assign a slider to playback that button's function. They will now interact with each other.
This works, however, it only works with the slider when you first engage the slider from 0 to the desired value. Once you stop the slider it returns to a linear interaction. To bring it back to 0 in a fade, deselect the associated button and it will fade out accordingly. There have been some discussions in here somewhere be sure to browse around. I do believe some of the developers are working on this.
https://sourceforge.net/p/qlcplus/discu ... 20e7/#6bb9
Another way is using the simple desk. You can create scenes with fade times and make a cue list and use the cue stack faders as sub-masters. you can then playback those scenes and fade in and out of them while controlling over all intensities (linear).
This is of course a workaround.
As far as the click and go function. Its called click and go because that's its function. Its a go to that function with out turning on undesired gobos or colors. That would cause a scrolling affect between each object. Its not designed to work with intensity mode (HTP), but with LTP.
If your fixtures are set to act as HTP, I would suggest using buttons or channel sliders again. Use your chases and scene fade times again.
I hope this is helpful. Just keep experimenting and if you find a better solution, by all means let us know.
Dave
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Viktor Nova
I can relate! I also used this feature in the original QLC quite heavily and took a few years off of lighting until now, and was super frustrated to learn that the bus feature had been removed from QLC+, since controlling fade time speeds of multiple scenes on the fly was such in integral part of how I sequence lights with MIDI
..but it turns out they were replaced with something that not only completely serves the same purpose, but is much more powerful - the Speed Dial.
It took me awhile to stumble upon it, because unlike the speed bus on original QLC, the Speed Dial in QLC+ is a widget that you plop onto the virtual console. From there you select which scenes/functions you want to control with it. You can use it in the same way as the old QLC bus, but you can also do cool things like tap-tempo and time division -- take a look at it, it is totally intuitive and genius!
..but it turns out they were replaced with something that not only completely serves the same purpose, but is much more powerful - the Speed Dial.
It took me awhile to stumble upon it, because unlike the speed bus on original QLC, the Speed Dial in QLC+ is a widget that you plop onto the virtual console. From there you select which scenes/functions you want to control with it. You can use it in the same way as the old QLC bus, but you can also do cool things like tap-tempo and time division -- take a look at it, it is totally intuitive and genius!
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Jano Svitok
Two comments:
1. yes, speed dials are the new way - although I am not sure how it works with sliders
2. this change was one of the last things that Heikki did in the original QLC. He started with lots of changes, but somehow he never released them. When Massimo forked QLC+, he started from the current Heikki's work in progress, not the last released version and therefore the changes first appeared in the QLC+.
I suspect "scripts" are similar feature, since it's not finished and not documented anywhere... From time to time something like this appears, and we are all surprised
1. yes, speed dials are the new way - although I am not sure how it works with sliders
2. this change was one of the last things that Heikki did in the original QLC. He started with lots of changes, but somehow he never released them. When Massimo forked QLC+, he started from the current Heikki's work in progress, not the last released version and therefore the changes first appeared in the QLC+.
I suspect "scripts" are similar feature, since it's not finished and not documented anywhere... From time to time something like this appears, and we are all surprised