Virtual DMX lighting desk

[Andrew Newton]

Hi all,

I am a long time QLab user and I love it but work as a volunteer in a community theatre and I always struggle to get the less tech-savvy volunteers to have a go with QLab.

So I wrote a simple DMX interface for them to control the lights with a more familiar 'fader' interface.

But, it turns out it works great alongside QLab so I want to share it here.

My workflow is to use DMXDesk (my creation) standalone, to save scenes. You can then trigger those scenes from QLab in the normal way - so you don't use QLab for the actual scene set up - you use DMXDesk, but QLab triggers the scenes with all the control and sequencing we know and love.

Works on the same Mac as QLAB, or on a second Mac, or (untested) but it should also work on a PC. Note, ART-Net only for the DMX controller.

Happy to talk about it if anyone has any questions.

Andrew.

https://github.com/BritishAndy/DMXDesk

  

[Chris Ashworth]

Neat! Thanks for sharing Andrew!

-C