Product manual

Virtual Console XY Pad
An XY Pad is for manually controlling the pan and tilt channels of intelligent lighting fixtures,
namely scanners and moving heads. The pad is a resizable canvas with a handle and two
sliders that you can grab to obtain direct access to the attached fixtures' mirror/head position.
Starting from QLC+ version 4.5.0, two more sliders have been introduced to give you the
possiblity to set a working range window where your moving heads will operate.
Note that from the GUI the handles will be bound into the green window area, while with an
external controller all the values will be scaled to the window, so you will be able to have more
sensitivity to control your fixtures.
Configuration
XY Pads can be configured with the properties button found in the toolbar or by double
clicking on the XY pad itself.
XY Pad
name
Set the name of the XY Pad. The name is shown in the upper-left corner of the
widget on Virtual Console.
Y-Axis
slider
movement
The appearance of the vertical slider (namely Y-Axis control) can be set to
Normal or Inverted.
In the first case the maximum value will be reached on the bottom of the pad,
while in the second case it will be reached on the top.
Fixture tab
Shows the fixtures that are currently controlled with the XY Pad.
Fixture: The names of each fixture
X-Axis: Shows the value range (and reversal if applicable) of the
horizontal (pan) axis for each fixture
Y-Axis: Shows the value range (and reversal if applicable) of the vertical
(tilt) axis for each fixture
Add Fixtures to be controlled by the XY Pad, using the Select Fixture dialog.
NOTE: only such fixtures that have pan and tilt capabilities are shown in the
dialog.
Remove the selected fixtures from the XY Pad's control list.
Edit the selected fixture's behaviour with the XY Pad.
Fixture movement configuration
You can change the extent of movement and reverse fixtures' movement with the XY Pad Fixture
Configuration dialog.
Horizontal X-Axis
Minimum: Set the minimum pan limit for the fixture
Maximum: Set the maximum pan limit for the fixture
Reverse: Reverse fixture's movement on the horizontal (pan) axis
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