First show in 60 seconds
- PC asleep or no desk window? Wake the PC, double-click
Lighting Desk 1.1.cmdon the Desktop and wait for the green Driving lights pill on the left monitor. - Top bar of screen 1 must read Driving lights. It says Preview, lights muted? Wrong window: chapter 10.
- Pick a fade: tap 2 s in the bottom bar.
- Tap a mood on screen 2's wall. Its tile turns green.
- Next song: tap the next mood. It replaces the stage at your fade.
- Wrong tap: press U or Undo.
- Emergency: hold Blackout or B for 0.7 s. Tap it again to release.
Three house rules
Key light almost never
KEY is capped at 5 and FOH at 10. Leave the caps alone.
A scene tap beats a timeline
Tapping a mood stops a running timeline and puts that mood up.
Blackout: hold, then tap
Hold Blackout or B for 0.7 s to go dark. Tap it again to release.
Chapters
- What you are looking atTwo monitors, the phone, five colours, and how to tell the live desk from the preview.
- Pick lightsThe map, the kind buttons, trimming a pick, and holding a light to find it in the room.
- Point themThe nine marks, aiming by the picture, steering with Aim, dressing the stage, and Moves.
- Shape a lightLevel, shutter, colour, gobo, beam and the DMX strip on screen 2, then Back to the look.
- Moods and beamsThe wall, holding a tile to preview, the crossfader, fade, Stack, NOW, Recent, Undo.
- Save a sceneOne tap to keep the stage, rename it, and the Photograph all moods sheet.
- RhythmTap tempo, the Effect card on screen 2, and fanning a colour across the pick.
- Key light and safetyThe KEY and FOH caps, blackout, the undo ring, camera-safe, Close.
- Running a showThe set list, GO and Back, follow in beats, Release, Hard blackout, and the Now panel.
- The phone remoteMoods, Hits, Mixer, Point and Rig on a phone, with Undo and Blackout on every tab.
- When something is wrongDark stage, the wrong window, no camera, and what never to do mid-show.
The five colours
Live: on stageSelected: pickedHeld: hand editsKill: blackout, errorsNeutral: idle