Running it all on one PC

[dee99]

Recently I had a challenging show to run but all my other techs were busy on other shows so I decided that I could run it all from SCS by myself.
The show was audio files, video files, lighting and smoke with over 100 Cues in just over 1 hours running time.
First I loaded loopMIDI (free) which provides a virtual midi loopback port and set SCS to use this as the output and PC dimmer to use it as the input. I then set SCS up with all the sound and video cues and added midi sends for all the lighting cues, PC dimmer lighting control program was then set up with all the lighting cues and the MIDI inputs set up for resetting the cue to the start with another set to activate the GO button.
This worked but lagged a bit when changing video cues even on an i7 laptop with an SSD. To solve this problem I used RAMDisk set to be a 4gig drive, RAMDisk is nice in that it can be set to load and save a virtual image of the disk on start-up and to save it on shutdown, added to the fact that it is cheap. I moved a copy of the whole show with all the files onto the ram disk and used a text editor to check that cue file was set to use the virtual ram disk on drive G.

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   <FileSaveInfo>
      <_CueFile_>G:\Field WW1\Field WW1c.scs11</_CueFile_>

With this set up I was able to run the full show at 720p video resolution with no problems at all.

SCS version 11.3.4
MIDIloop http://www.tobias-erichsen.de/software/loopmidi.html
RAMdiskhttp://memory.dataram.com/products-and- ... re/ramdisk
PC Dimmerhttp://pcdimmer.de/

I guess you could use something like Q-light+ in place of PC dimmer? does anyone know of any better ways of doing this with one PC?


Dee
Tokkan-Fx

[Julio B.]

I guess you could use something like Q-light+ in place of PC dimmer? does anyone know of any better ways of doing this with one PC?

You can use loopMIDI SCS11 to communicate with QLC +. Within the virtual console I assign each button a scene to be reproduced for each "MIDI Control Change" sent from SCS11, and works quite well. I put buttons within a "Solo frame" to only have one scene at a time.