This is the main use of QLab in the show, but it’s far from the full use of it. There is also an audio file, which is unarmed by default but can be armed with the press of a panic button, which acts as a third backup of the orchestral backing tracks for the show. The first subgroup in a song also contains an OSC command, which tells the Multitrack computer (also running QLab) to fire off a MIDI scene internally that places a track marker with the song name in our multitrack file. In those groups are a combination of MIDI bank changes and MIDI program changes to allow us to skip over to any snapshot, keeping in mind that MIDI has a program change limit of 127 and we’re up to approximately 460 snapshots on our mixing console, therefore to get to scene 128 you need to tell the console that we’re looking at bank 2 program 1. Every individual song is its own group (coloured purple) that contains a number of sub-groups in it that are akin to individual snapshots on a mixing console. The Ten Tenors are a unique combination of a live music performance, with staging and choreography more akin to a theatre musical, and the QLab file for the show reflects this. The ‘lite’ rig involves two laptops, one control laptop that runs QLab and SMAART, and another laptop that records the multitrack for virtual soundcheck.ĭue to the touring MD and choreographer being performers in the show, in the full rig that number is planned to blow out to four laptops, with the extra two recording a stereo audio show feed for the touring MD (which is currently done on the multitrack computer) and another for a video archive for the touring choreographer.Īll of the above are controlled by the control laptop with QLab. Part of this is due to it being hosted on Apple computers, and it being able to use AppleScript.ĪppleScript is an easy to learn, powerful tool that lets the user automate most of their actions in any given program, thus meaning in combination with QLab we can automate most of the functions our operators need to do on any given day, not only saving them time on mundane tasks but also allowing advanced control possibilities.įor acts like The Tenors we have two rigs a ‘lite’ rig for smaller tours, and a full rig for our longer tours. The reason for this is very simple it’s reliable and easy to use, yet is able to do a great many things very easily. Having been with The Tenors for four years before getting a chance to mix their 2018 ‘Home For The Holidays’ Christmas tour in the USA, I knew that virtual soundcheck was going to be a necessity for achieving that brief, and to make my life easy over the two and a half month tour, our control package would be needed.Īt Australian Event Productions, we have a standard theatre control package based around QLab.
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