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The Virtual Console is a blank canvas for building a custom lighting desk from buttons, sliders, and pads

Concept L2First instrument I · VJing, projection mapping, LED/DMX & video

The Virtual Console (VC) is QLC+‘s live performance interface: a freely layoutable surface where users place widgets — Buttons (start/stop/flash functions), Sliders (level or playback intensity), Speed Dials (real-time timing adjustment), XY Pads (moving head positioning), Cue Lists (theatrical step-through), Frames (grouping), Solo Frames (mutual exclusion), Audio Triggers (spectrum-reactive control), Clocks, and Labels. Each widget is configurable in Design Mode and locked for operation in Operate Mode. Widgets map to keyboard keys, external hardware (MIDI, OSC, HID), and can receive feedback.

Examples

A DJ lighting rig: a Solo Frame with 8 colour-scene Buttons, a Submaster Slider for overall intensity, and an XY Pad for moving heads, all mapped to a MIDI controller.

Assessment

What widget type ensures only one of several buttons is active at a time? Name two widget types suited for theatrical (cued) versus freeform (improvised) performance.

Prerequisites — understand these first

Don't confuse with

The Simple Desk provides direct 512-channel manual control per universe plus a cue-stack playback system

Sources

“The purpose of the Virtual Console is to act as a blank canvas on which the user can create a lighting desk layout of his choice. Users can place various GUI (Graphical User Interface) elements, called widgets, onto the console surface”

corpus · qlc-user-manual-open-source-dmx-lighting-control · chunk 16

Taught in modules

Programming a lighting show in QLC+

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