How To Patch Lights | Chamsys MagicQ Tutorial

This video tutorial goes through the first step of setting up any show in Chamsys - Patching your lighting fixtures. After this step we can build the visualizer, pallets, and effects for our upcoming event that we're working on.

To patch heads into the Chamsys MagicQ Software, use the following syntax:

Quantity @ Universe - Channel / Offset * Starting Head Number

For example, if you wanted 8 lighting fixtures patched to universe 2, channel 1, with 15 channels between each fixture and a starting head number of 101 you would type the following:

8@2-1/15*101

The offset number and the starting head number are optional so to keep it simple you could just type:

8@2-1

In this training video we cover how to patch, address, name, and organize the following fixtures:
Astera AX5
Maverick MK Pyxis
Chauvet Rogue R2 Wash
Maverick MK1 Spot
Ovation 190WW Leko
Chauvet Amhaze Whisper II

We also cover how to filter the fixture list while patching.

We start the video with a blank show file.

We finish with the following show file:

In the next video we will cover how to setup the visualizer so we can see what we're doing while we program lights on Chamsys MagicQ.

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