garageCube

Hey!
We have a led installation and we wish to use it live for an event. Does anybody know if there is a way to use the faders of a midi controller in order to controll the opacity of the differents cues (like in modul8)?

For the moment we just switch between the cues but it’s less usable for live vjing.

If anybody could help us, thanks a lot!
Pablo

Hi Pablo,
For live control as you present it, I will use many surfaces and map my faders to surface opacity. Not using cues at all. But it really depends on the setup you need. In any case, there's no opacity notion on cues, cues are just sending values to a set of parameters, without an optional fade transition. A cue can just store a parameter of a media for instance, so having an "opacity" on that wouldn't make sense.
Let me know if it's not clear!
Matt

HI Pablo,
You can also make a group of all your surfaces and map for live control the opacity of your "master " group in each cues.

Correct. Small precision: surfaces that have opacity at "0%" will not be rendered at all, also movies attached to surfaces fully transparent (opacity 0%) will be paused (for this use case), so having lots of surfaces and controlling opacity will not impact performances.