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<blockquote data-quote="[waldo] Casey Williams" data-source="post: 72848" data-attributes="member: 376"><p>Re: Software DMX controller for Mac?</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #222222">Another contender: QLC. (Should start referring to it as QLC-plus.)</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222">It's been around for some time, and was a bit moribund/abandoned by the developer. (Isn't that always the way with FOSS which are always side projects for some mad genius coder with a day job.)</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222">Anyway, a new coder has taken it up (hence the QLC-plus), and new releases are coming out.</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222">Advantages:</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222">decent mac interface</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222">build-your-own-screen-layout</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222">works without much config hassle with USB enttec, DMXKing, etc interfaces</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"> (but not enttec ethernet interfaces <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> )</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222">rock-solid midi input, super-quick configuration there</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222">darn good tap-tempo</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222">generally simple & intuitive</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222">disadvantages:</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222">fairly primitive, compared with Chamsys</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222">been a bit crashy in my experience</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222">The midi is a big selling point for me.</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222">My club really has no $$ to spend on lighting, audio comes first, as it should. So my goal for a while has been to use cheap midi controllers with a full-fledged software environment. (I've seen people bring in DMXIS with the behringer controller, and the latency is absolutely enraging.) So far, QLC seems like I can push faders on a nano-kontrol like crazy, and it Just Works.</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222">The primitive part -- it took me quite a while to create a good bump with a decent fade-out (but admittedly that takes work in Chamsys too). What I can't do yet is create a cue stack with fades between cues AND with a fade on release of the stack (trivial in Chamsys, hog, etc).</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222">Anyway -- if I were starting from scratch, I would absolutely start playing with this vs DMXIS.</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222">Latest release: <a href="https://github.com/mcallegari/qlcplus" target="_blank">https://github.com/mcallegari/qlcplus</a></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222">cheers,</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222">waldo</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="[waldo] Casey Williams, post: 72848, member: 376"] Re: Software DMX controller for Mac? [COLOR=#222222]Another contender: QLC. (Should start referring to it as QLC-plus.) It's been around for some time, and was a bit moribund/abandoned by the developer. (Isn't that always the way with FOSS which are always side projects for some mad genius coder with a day job.) Anyway, a new coder has taken it up (hence the QLC-plus), and new releases are coming out. Advantages: decent mac interface build-your-own-screen-layout works without much config hassle with USB enttec, DMXKing, etc interfaces (but not enttec ethernet interfaces :( ) rock-solid midi input, super-quick configuration there darn good tap-tempo generally simple & intuitive disadvantages: fairly primitive, compared with Chamsys been a bit crashy in my experience The midi is a big selling point for me. My club really has no $$ to spend on lighting, audio comes first, as it should. So my goal for a while has been to use cheap midi controllers with a full-fledged software environment. (I've seen people bring in DMXIS with the behringer controller, and the latency is absolutely enraging.) So far, QLC seems like I can push faders on a nano-kontrol like crazy, and it Just Works. The primitive part -- it took me quite a while to create a good bump with a decent fade-out (but admittedly that takes work in Chamsys too). What I can't do yet is create a cue stack with fades between cues AND with a fade on release of the stack (trivial in Chamsys, hog, etc). Anyway -- if I were starting from scratch, I would absolutely start playing with this vs DMXIS. Latest release: [url]https://github.com/mcallegari/qlcplus[/url] cheers, waldo[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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