Uncle Dirtnap
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Background: Small community theatre, a venerable ETC Express 24/48, and a big musical. I am experienced but rusty - I was a lighting design major in college in the mid 90s, and jsut been getting back into it.
Basically, I want to set timecode events to go along with the music. The easiest was seems to be to find a way to send MSC commands to my ETC Express from whatever system I am using to trigger the sound cues using pre recorded background tracks.
Does this sound viable? Seems much better than the time I manually did 100+ cue show to a song with intricate wait times back in the day. That took forever.
If it is viable, I'm not sure what software I would need for that. QLab seems possible, but that would mean I am dragging my iMac from home . Budget is minimal, of course.
This will make light board op job very, very boring, but better than the alternative.
thank you all in advance for your wisdom.
Basically, I want to set timecode events to go along with the music. The easiest was seems to be to find a way to send MSC commands to my ETC Express from whatever system I am using to trigger the sound cues using pre recorded background tracks.
Does this sound viable? Seems much better than the time I manually did 100+ cue show to a song with intricate wait times back in the day. That took forever.
If it is viable, I'm not sure what software I would need for that. QLab seems possible, but that would mean I am dragging my iMac from home . Budget is minimal, of course.
This will make light board op job very, very boring, but better than the alternative.
thank you all in advance for your wisdom.