Audio timeline add midi show control commands

[Paul Bennett 211]

Hi

Looking for some advice on what people are using for this.  All I want to do is control my light desk using a PC.  I have asked about this before and tried the software suggested. 

QLABs is mac only and we don't use macs.  I had a look at this and it does do what I need.  All i need is a timeline i can drop an audio file on then add MSC to different parts of the song to control the lights.  What i like about Qlabs is the timeline view.  But as we can't use apple in school i looked at SCS

SCS does what I want with MSC but the time line sucks.  I want to be able to zoom into the timeline so I can put the MSC command exactly where I want without having to play the track and almost to try guess.

Is there any PC software out that that has both of these features that you can recommend? 

 

thanks

[Edward Z88]

Hi @Paul Bennett 211

As you have a standard FLX console (not FLX S), I have moved this topic to the FLX forum.

13 minutes ago, Paul Bennett 211 said:

Is there any PC software out that that has both of these features that you can recommend? 

Another software package I am aware of is "CSC Show Control". However, please note that I have no experience with this software, so you'd have to do your research to see if it does what you want.

When syncing lighting cues with certain points in an audio track, it is very common to use the MIDI Timecode protocol rather than MIDI Show Control...

https://www.zero88.com/manuals/zeros/setup/triggers/midi-timecode

However, this requires the configuration to be done on the lighting console, where you configure each cue with an exact time stamp (hours:minutes:seconds:frames). The cue then triggers when the MIDI Timecode signal reaches that time...

https://www.zero88.com/manuals/zeros/cues-playbacks/cue-settings/cue-triggers

This therefore isn't as intuitive as adding trigger points to a timeline view on a third party software package.

[Paul Bennett 211]

Thanks Edward

 

I have tried this but the timeline is rubbish and only shows the audio track.  Just need some software where you can drop a MSC command into the track in the places required. It's proving quite difficult to find something. 

[Edward Z88]

44 minutes ago, Paul Bennett 211 said:

I have tried this but the timeline is rubbish and only shows the audio track. 

Just to be clear, "CSC Show Control", is different to "SCS Show Cue System". If neither achieve what you're after, unfortunately I'm not sure of any others!

[kgallen]

I know nothing about this stuff, but could Multiplay do what you need?

https://www.blue-room.org.uk/topic/73548-multiplay-new-version-in-development/page/11/#comment-603888

https://www.da-share.com/software/multiplay/

https://da-share.com/forum/

 

[Edward Z88]

36 minutes ago, kgallen said:

I know nothing about this stuff, but could Multiplay do what you need?

Oh of course - I’d forgotten Multiplay. I did actually use Multiplay on a couple of shows many moons ago - I just used it for audio though, not triggers. 

[Paul Bennett 211]

Thanks, I will check it out.  I see that they do play to add a visual timeline which would work great for me.