With our schedule when it’s busy we’ll have one event backed up against another. By linking Ableton directly to the lighting console, or controlling both Ableton and the lighting console from QLab, we’ll have all the control we need! One “go” button and everything will sync up perfectly, pretty cool!įor more info on all of these products check out the manufacturer’s sites. I can’t wait for the next show where we need this kind of precision.

So if you programmed a bunch of cues to a certain timecode range, but then had to change it in Ableton for some reason, it wouldn’t be a big deal, just offset the times. This means if we needed to offset the timing to one or the other it’s pretty simple. Both options mean we can have our lighting cues precisely mapped out and repeatable all with the touch of a button.Īnd since you can set up multiple devices we were able to send MIDI timecode internally to Ableton and externally to our lighting console at the same time at different timecodes is we wanted to. Or have Ableton track time code and the lighting console track MIDI show control. Either have the lighting console and Ableton both track to time code. Mainly we were testing sync’d playback from Ableton which is actually pretty easy. Hit one “go” button and trigger Ableton, lighting, the built in audio playback, built in video playback, just about anything! Basically we found that it would be pretty easy to set up QLab to be the center of control for everything. Using QLab we were able to simultaneously send time code to Ableton to track and play audio and send MIDI show control to the lighting console to “go” on the the cues. QLab has native support for all kinds of timing and MIDI options. I’ll make another post about how we got that to work.Īfter some playing around with that setup we opened up QLab. We managed to get Ableton to output MIDI time code (through an in between program) and have our ETC ION console chase it. We were trying different options for controlling our lighting console from Ableton Live. Recently we were playing around with some of the other features. So if you saw the other post about QLab you’ll know that we love it for track editing and playback of audio for shows.

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