I Finally Got a Lighting Desk Connected!

Now I have my laptop back full time, Abi got her new one yesterday, I thought I’d have a shot at getting my offline lighting desk connected to WYSIWYG and see what I could come up with.

As always I chose to connect the Chamsys MagicQ PC to WYSIWYG. I like the chamsys desks as they are really easy to use, with next to no learning curve, and they are great to busk a show on. I love how it is based around a touch screen interface making it super easy to setup the desk and light a show on they fly.

The most time consuming aspect of the setup process is programing the positions of each of the moving lights, well without using the built in visualizer that I don’t have much experience with as you can’t import you lighting layout from WYSIWYG which would save so much time.

Before anyone asks why i don’t just use the MagicQ Visualiser, WYSIWYG is far more powerful and has a far superior rendering quality even when in live mode, even if it is pretty resource intensive.

As you can see in the image above I still haven’t added any floor lights but I have added a colour effect to the LED battens and bars, though you can only see them on the Left hand side. I haven’t really played with the settings of the effects yet as I spent so long setting the focus points for the moving lights. Now that’s out of the way though over the next couple of days I’ll be playing with the setting to see how i can get the best effects out of the LEDs especially.

Next up on my list of things to do with this show design is to add the floor lights, I’m thinking both a few moving heads as well as a few par cans to provide some up light on the performers. I’m also planning to add some graphics to the screens at the back too so i don’t just have the test screens.

I’m still undecided on what music I’m going to light to so any suggestions are more than welcome.

What do you think of the design so far? What could I do to make it even better? Let me know in the comments bellow.