Avolites Titan: Our Basic Busking & Live Operation Workflow 

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well this isn't really a "lighting video", it's very focused on the console. besides, we made an actual "lighting video" in 2015, so this one isn't really "finally" either lol. although that one is outdated

I use something like this. With shorts amount of live programming

I would consider it but there are already so many tutorials on youtube about how to program with avo and i'm not doing anything that isn't already shown in those tutorials

So, I finally got the hang of Titan. Was OR for an annual regional youth conference and the lighting looked great... Much faster to build on Titan, despite the learning curve. I'm going to buy a T1 dongle for my DJ rig, then sell my ShowXpress. I am finding Titan is much easier for me personally to program and build shows like big proms, etc. Also, then I won't need to try running two different software applications. I'm using the Akai with Titan thru OsiMIDI, as I don't have the budget for an Avolites console. Do you know if Avolites works on Mac or only PC? I don't currently have any PC computer.

SiriusDiversions.com I think it works for Max not sure tho

Exactly! Of course, MA, Hog, and especially Avo allows for an even more exponential increase in possible outputs vs showxpress because of how shape effects are based around the current center value of the given parameter

Doug Berry Agreed, programming movement effects using relative positioning as opposed to always absolute (like in ShowXpress), opens a lot of doors to creating unique looks while still using the same p/t effect!

I’m the LD of a german party band. We use the Zero 88 Solution in combination with MADRIX (triggered by the solution via DMX input). I see your point in being much more flexible the way you programmed your show, but in most instances I just don’t have the time in between songs to do a live transition. The way I set up my show file I can just jump to the next page while one song is still running, bring down the playbacks at the end of the song and I’m immediately ready to go for the next one. I then build the looks from the preprogrammed playbacks I have on that page. People often ask me if this is a timecoded show or if I use a GrandMA2. They’re quite confused and surprised when I show them my workflow, but it does work quite well for me. 😅 It’s nice to see how other people work. It gives me new ideas and inspiration. I’d love to see one of your live band setups. Keep up the great work guys!

@@tictac1919 Although, I would disagree that showxpress develops this workflow. It really doesn't encourage any workflow, and personally I've never seen another showxpress user set up their showfile even remotely similar to the way I did

I like the BPM master on a fader because when i use the multiplier i constantly go from 1x to 1/2 or 1/4 during breakdowns, transitions, drops, etc The macro window I totally don't use enough, but what I typically do for fade times is simply set it to 1 or 2s, and then throughout the show i just type on the keypad manually any unique fade time i want for a given pallet. But I really should check out the macro window more!

In this basic showfile, shape generator only In more normal / full showfiles, I do use keyframe depending on the effect

He said in a lighting group I’m in that those “syncopation” hits are just going through a cue list.

Thats my problem too

Capture is Avo's inbuilt visualiser

If I'm programming *as fast as I can*, and I'm in front of the rig in person, I can complete the showfile shown in this video in under 30 minutes. I haven't tried recently, but I could probably do it under 20 minutes these days. But most of the time, including taking time to make the rig in the visualizer so I can do 95% of my programming pre-viz, it takes me between 1 - 2 hours total when I'm not rushing, and depending on how complex I make the file for a band or whatever. The file shown in this video would definitely take less than hour, even at my normal pace When I used to use showxpress, there were some things that would take me 3+ hours to program one single effect because I had to make it manually to get it to look how I wanted, their effect generator could not do it. 20-30+ hours for an entire file was not uncommon for shows with more fixtures, and those showfiles were considerably less complex than what's even shown in this Avo file

You might be making your life a bit more complicated because depending on how I want to program a show, it could take 15-30 mins for an entire show or it could take 30+ hours. It would take me so much longer if I decided to make a layout view color picker with interactive tiles from scratch, etc

@@Pigatto17 but are you satisfied with a "15 Minutes Showfile" at MA?

Manifi for sure lol. I mean I do pretty much what Doug explained here, a not very complex file with big impact

Indeed there is! I've debating about doing it that way for some time and think I'm going to start doing it that way occasionally, plus it seems more logical to most operators who walk up to the board who don't have a programming background, they expect it to work that way

@@dougberry4674 Could you please explain me how to do it? I've already tried numerous things like setting the priority to high but that doesn't seem to work and it's also not a ltp/htp thing or is it? Couldn't really find it in the manual as that doesn't really go very deep into using workflows and setups like these and how certain functions affect each other.

@@arthurklomp block i shape, and fade to fader i'm considering making a long tutorial video covering every individual thing in this basic file

@@dougberry4674 Hi, I'm already looking forward to this future tutorial. your videos are of great value. thank you for that.

I perfer the titan mobile because I can't stand the resolution of avolites physical consoles, and especially the screen size on the quartz. Plus, a decent laptop will have a way better graphics card for running the internal viz the quartz can barely do it in any kind of meaningful detail, but it's still nice for reference the quartz does have sound triggering while titan mobile does not, so that's cool, but every other factor i'd rather have a titan mobile and a nice laptop. Plus it costs less and fits as an airplane carry-on, you have to check luggage the quartz

@@dougberry4674 So you find the Avolites mobile better because you work with your own laptop and quartz only has its own fixed screen. something else i can get here in dutch the quartz and the mobile for the same price of that my doubt. Thank you a lot :)

I vastly prefer the avolites titan mobile of course!

so when i reply to comments i typically don't bother to mute or pause the video, and even if i'm on my phone or laptop or whatever out of my house, i hear that chime in the background of the video while i'm replying to a comment and then i like pause and look up to listen for the washing machine thinking it went off irl and i gotta go get it

first:avo button-edit key profile-new key profile-gray button-timed flash second: edit times-select the fader you want the timed flash on- put the times you want in

In this video it's an Asus VivoBook Pro 15 N580VD-DB74T, normally it's a Dell XPS 15 9550

No a Dell xps 15

Its a asus laptop idk the model tough

Apple does not make laptops with touch screens

@@Marek-hn1fy This is an ASUS VivoBook Pro

@@Jan-hm2ry Yeah, my normal laptop is a Dell XPS 15, but not in this video

timed flash Key Profile

timdmx512 how?

@@LARS-nf3rk there is a video on my channel explaining how. also on the Avolites youtube page. I'm sure SLM will make one if you ask :)

@@timdmx512 nope! there are plenty of videos online explaining how to do that already, no need for us to cover it as well

I'm confused what you mean. Do you mean the new T1?

@@dougberry4674 yes, thanks for your reply - any advantages over the older type ?

@@Jack-uy6tc not really. The main thing is that the new unit supports titan v12 and up without needing their new avokey in addition However, the new T2 dongle is cool because it has two universes of output, and supports USB midi controllers like an akai apc mini. The T1 still does not support USB midi

@@dougberry4674 How much is the T2 dongle ?

@@Jack-uy6tc The T2 is about $1200 USD. My church is thinking of upgrading to the T2. They have TV broadcast and use a huge slice of the universe just on house, stage, and choir lighting fixtures. They currently only have six ADJ light bars, but plan to add a large lighting rig flown above the seats for when they do Christmas musicals, etc. Without the T2, they won't have enough DMX channels open. Also, Google "OsiMIDI" . It's about $100, runs in the background, and allows for MIDI control of the software, but with the T1 dongle. I use my Akai MPC Mini at church with their Avolites T1.

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM maybe compact xt in a few years

GrandMa2 or GrandMa3?

He will never get an ma2, and for good reason lol. Compact XT is ma3.

@@Pigatto17 ohhh sorry... I haven't seen the "Compact XT"😅👍🏻

i recommend you do! you should use what you're most comfortable with i would personally set up my ma2 file basically idential to my avolites workflow with layout views and such, it would just require more work to get what i want compared to how avolites is very close to what i want by default, but at the end of the day i would be totally 100% comfortable with an ma2 file that i took the time to configure the way i like

Avolite Software, since it's an avolite console

Haven't yet, but would like to!

Same, I use one all the time! This file does not have one though, no.