Product manual

Scene tutorial
This tutorial covers just the basic chain of creating a fixture, a scene and a button and how to
make them work. The point is to give the user a quick yet complete here-hold-my-hand-
experience on how the Q Light Controller Plus is thought to work as a software for DMX lighting
automation.
Before you start reading this tutorial, please familiarize yourself with the Main window and its
parts.
Now we can really start!
Fixture Manager
Open the fixture manager panel now by clicking its icon.
The fixture manager is the heart of QLC+ fixture-oriented architecture. As its name already says,
you can manage (add, remove and edit) your lighting fixtures from the fixture manager. On the left
side of the manager there is a list that contains all of the fixtures in the current workspace (it will
be empty until you have added some fixtures). On the right side you can see some common
information related to the currently selected fixture. At the top of the fixture manager there is again
another toolbar, containing the following buttons (from left to right):
Add new fixtures
Remove selected fixtures
Configure the selected fixture
Group a fixture selection
Ungroup a fixture from a group
Import a previously saved list of fixtures
Export a list of fixtures
Adding a fixture
Add a fixture to the workspace by clicking the add button.
On the left side of the dialog you can see a list of available fixture manufacturers. Each
manufacturer item is actually a folder containing a number of fixture models produced by the
manufacturer. You can find for example a "DJScan250" under the "Futurelight" folder. As you
click a fixture from the list, you can see the Channels field on the right side change to display the
number of DMX channels required by the selected fixture. There is also a list of the fixture's
channels just under the Channels box.
Go ahead and select Futurelight DJScan250 but don't click OK just yet.
You can edit the new fixture's name in the Name field or you can stick to the default that the
application suggests. If the fixture has different operational modes (different sets of channels),
you can select one from the Mode box. The DJScan250 doesn't have more than one, so there's
just "Mode 1" there. The fixture's DMX address can be set in the Address field and should be the
same as the actual physical fixture's DMX address. The Universe field is used to assign the
fixture to a physical DMX output universe. Usually each universe has its own cable coming from
the PC.
If you wish to add multiple fixtures of the same type, you can increase the value in the Amount
box. If you wish to leave a gap between each fixture's address space, you can change the value
in the Address gap box. Let's leave these be for now.
If you don't understand the DMX addressing principles, please consult your lighting equipment
manuals for more information. In short, a DMX address is the first DMX channel of a fixture. In the
case of a DJScan250 (which uses 6 channels), assigning for example 1 as its DMX address,
reserves channels 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 for the fixture. The next fixture must then be assigned to
DMX address 7 to prevent channel overlapping. Let's use address 1 now.
Back to the fixture manager
Click OK to close the dialog and add one Futurelight DJScan250 to the workspace.
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