Q Light Controller+

Hi all! So this is my second show with QLC+. I've decided I wanted to try to control our sound cues with the software as well as my lighting cues. The show is fairly simple but I'm having an issue I just can't figure out. To start the show, I have a pre-curtain lighting cue. Once I start that cue, I then want to start 3 consecutive audio cues (pre-show music), but I want my pre-curtain cue to continue. Of course, at some point, I will need to fade out the last music cue AND the pre-curtain cue. Is there any way I can do this?

Similarly, if I have a brief audio cue that I need to play in the middle of another lighting cue - how can I do that? I was thinking I could maybe do this with the crossfader function and only slide the next cue, leaving on the previous cue...it seems to maybe do what I want, until it crashes the application. Not good of course.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

-Mike

Hi,

I had just this problem with a recent play I lit, which had a dozen pieces of music to run during the show. These had to be started, faded in, then faded out or cut off as the play ran. I manually controlled the volume with the theatre sound system.

Create your lighting with scenes the usual way.
In the Function editor, use "Add Audio" to add all the pieces of music you will be using, so you can "select" them later.

To run a piece of audio in the middle of a scene without changing the lights, create a clone of that scene. Then, make a "collection" adding that lighting scene and the audio combined.

In your cuelist, add the original scene, then the collection, then the cloned scene.

Whe you step through them, the lighting will remain the same, and the audio will play as soon as you run step 2. When you advance to step 3, the sound will stop. Fade the sound up after you reach step 2, then down before you step to 3.

One hand on the step button and the other on the volume control makes it easy.

There may be more elegant ways to do this, but this worked for me.

To run 3 sound cues one after the other, pre show, I'd join the audio into 1 track and run that.

Chris.