

The advantage of OSC is that no additional MIDI hardware is required, as everything happens on the network, and that OSC is much more powerful. Luckily, both Eos and QLab are flexible enough to avoid this.įormerly, the MIDI protocol was commonly used for this purpose. If the sound software can only output in the format "/cue/1/go", but the lighting console can only understand in the format "/lights/cue/1/fire", we have a problem. Part of the trick in getting different devices to talk to each other is to have them speak each other's language. Other devices implement OSC in different ways for example, QLab would understand the incoming command "/cue/1/start". For example, Eos can understand commands like "/eos/chan/1/out", which would turn off channel 1, or "/eos/cue/1/fire" to run Cue 1. Safari and Qlab can be minimized but must stay open.OSC is an open protocol which allows the sending and receiving of human-readable messages between sound, lighting and other entertainment technology systems.

Step 7: Log in to Planning Center Services and go to the current weekend and click “Live”. Click on Develop on the menu and click on “Allow JavaScrip from Apple Events” Under Preferences click on Advanced and check the box “Show Develop menu in Menu Bar” Then close preferences. Step 6: Open up Safari (Has to be Safari) on the computer running Qlab. Next under the midi settings select your network or IAC driver midi connection. Step 5: Head over to the downloaded Qlab file and save it to your documents folder or where you would like it saved to. (If you have looping announcements slides preservice do not add a midi note to the first slide, also make sure this is not listed within Planning Center Services)

Now do that same thing on the first slide of every element within your playlist. Right click on the first slide and go to communications then midi note on. (Your playlist items will need to match the Planning Center Services order of service) The downloaded Qlab file is setup to look at Channel 10, Note 0, Velocity 1. Step 4: You will start adding midi notes to the first slide of each song/element.
