MIDI on Yamaha QL5 - Recalling scenes with qLab higher than 127

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Carl Young

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Hi,

First post here...

Im just about to operate a show on a QL5 (theatre owned). The first time I will ever see or use this desk will be when I arrive at the theatre 24 hours before the show opens so i'm trying to get as much set up on QL5 Editor pre show.

However, I am setting up scenes to be recalled from qLab software, and because there seems to be no QL5 midi settings in the offline editor, I'm running into a snag.

I can set up qLab to send the program change command to recall the scenes (see attached), but on the QL5 I have set up the scenes as follows:

Act One:

Scenes 101 - 148

Act Two:

Scenes 201 - 236

Its fine if i want to recall scene 53 for example, I just send a program change to the QL5 asking for scene 52. And I'm guessing on site that will be fine.

However, I have no idea how to recall scene 219 for example, as i can only enter up to 127 in the program change field in qLab. Do I need to change the channel number to the next channel? so for scene 130 set it to CH2 and recall SCENE 02?

Does anyone have any experience in this, as I mentioned id like to get as much of the show pre programmed before getting to the theatre and if so what are the setting required in the QL5 that I need to change?

Regards

Carl.
 

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It's straightforward. Channel 2 program 00 is scene 129
Channel 2 program 01 is scene 130
Channel 2 program 127 is scene 256
Channel 3 program 00 is scene 257
and so on until you run out of scenes. I have a simple table that makes looking up the program number quick and easy but the forum does't let me post it.
Brian
 
I tried this setup (Qlab sending scene changes to QL5) and I couldn't get it to work. Ive done it in the past with the M32 with usb to usb 2.0. but Ive never done it with a usb to midi cable before. I think I had all the setting right and also tried every combo I could think of just to be safe.

I am wondering if I had the wrong usb to midi cable? I used a "Mio iConnectivity". What have you guys used in the past that worked? Or should I have just added another interface and use Midi to that?

Thanks so much!
 
The "MIDI Monitor and SendMIDI" that you use, comes with MacOS or? I see a few different apps. But I don't think I've ever used anything to monitor MIDI before.

I didn't use any kind of monitoring system. However, I did test with a working Qlab file from another show. I also was watching the "MIDI signal light" that is in the MIDI setting on the QL5. Which never lit up. Which is what lead me to believe I had the wrong kind of cable. But maybe something else was stopping the signal?

This is the cable I used https://a.co/d/9wfwhS4

Any thoughts you may have would be helpful!

Thanks so much!
 
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