Q-Sys

Q-Sys Integration

Q-SYS is a cloud-manageable, software-driven audio, video and control platform which enables an entire Partner Ecosystem. Q-SYS empowers with the tools, support and service to help confidently create impactful connections and memorable experiences. Visual Productions recently became Q-SYS Technology Partner.

Product support: dedicated Q-SYS control plugins can be found in the Q-SYS Designer Software and are available for a number of Visual Productions’ lighting controllers.

Integrating Visual Productions' CueCore2 in Q-SYS

This article describes how to add automated lighting to a Q-SYS AV system triggering the Visual Productions CueCore2 solid state lighting controller. Manufacturer QSC launched Q-SYS some years ago. The Q-SYS Audio, Video & Control Platform integrates audio, video and control into small to larger, easy to operate systems.
As the requirements for even more versatility have been growing, Q-SYS can also integrate and control 3rd party devices: integrated lighting control is now possible with Visual Productions’ lighting control solutions like CueCore2. CueCore2 is a 2 universe solid state lighting controller that can be controlled over the network by UDP, TCP, HTTP and OSC messages.
 
Once a CueCore2 has been programmed to perform specific lighting tasks, the Q-SYS platform takes care of triggering CueCore2 when controlling a fully integrated system, such as a meeting room, theatre or cinema.
Let’s discuss a typical example.
Imagine we have a fully equipped meeting room with a nicely designed touch screen as the user interface to a host of audiovisual equipment. Now let’s start a presentation! Pushing only one button will close the blinds, lower the projection screen, switch on a projector and amplifier, select the right inputs and fade most lights to 50% and the lights in front of the screen to 10%.
When focusing on our part of the job, the lighting, assume we have programmed the CueCore2 earlier using its web interface: we created cues, added these to a playback, set fade times and programmed triggers.

Now Visual Productions have created a plugin to be certified with a Q-SYS Ready plugin. The plugin will be included in Q-SYS Designer, and can be found in the Schematic Elements > Plugins section of the Q-SYS Designer interface.

This plug-in allows you to tailor the CueCore2’s behaviour to your system. Once configured, it ‘translates’ the messages sent by the touch screen user interface, through the Q-SYS Platform or Q-SYS Core processor, to the CueCore2 lighting controller. If a message is received, CueCore2 will act accordingly by starting a playback, jumping to a cue, changing a playback’s intensity, etc..

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