Hey guys this is John from Laser Ninja Productions bringing you another one of our exciting Pangolin
BEYOND laser tutorials.
This tutorial is in response to a question that was asked on one of the Pangolin BEYOND forums.
The question was how can we set up Pangolin BEYOND and MagicQ to communicate with each
other via timecode.
So in this exercise, we're going to be looking at configuring Pangolin BEYOND to generate
ArtNet timecode and send it to Chamsys MagicQ.
Let's take a look at Chamsys first.
Now we're going to be using a show that has already been programmed and has been assigned
to playback number one on my Chamsys MagicQ board.
All the cues in this playback already have their timecode entries and the weight has
been set to trigger gaia timecode.
All of the entries from this playback are assigned from already existing cues.
It's okay to have repeating cues inside of a playback.
Now it's very important that you set the timecode with the TC to external.
This could be done both from the soft button and by going into the options for this playback.
Next we're going to go ahead and configure MagicQ to receive timecode.
Now it is very important that you have some sort of official chamsyses hardware plugged
into MagicQ.
In my case I have the PC wing compact.
From the setup menu under view DMX IO, make sure that you properly have ArtNet configured
for inside of MagicQ.
In my case my ArtNet timecode is going to be received on ArtNet universe 0.
Next we're going to go into the MIDI timecode soft button and then make sure that we have
the timecode format and the timecode decode options all set correctly.
In my case I need to set my timecode decode to ArtNet.
I already have timecode running in the background.
So as soon as everything's configured correctly I can see and the camps a status bar, that
I'm receiving timecode.
Now that this timecode is configured and is working correctly I'm going to go ahead and
activate playback 1.
And I can see that it automatically jumps to the correct Cue.
In Pangolin BEYOND with my show already open, my first step is to go over to the settings menu
and go to configuration.
Next go to the timecode out tab and set ArtNet timecode to the correct ArtNet universe.
In this case I'm using ArtNet universe 0 so I need to set this up for ArtNet 1.
Which is configured in my art net settings which we'll take a look at next.
There's even a message that tells us that we need to go check the ArtNet settings next.
So go to the settings menu and then under DMX choose DMX settings.
For output universe 1 I'm going to double check the settings to make sure that it is
outputting to ArtNet universe 0.
With my timeline show open, I need to go into the show properties and make sure that it
has the output timecode option enabled, so that it will output the time code that Pangolin
BEYOND is generating.
If I need to I can set an offset here that will either add or subtract from the timecode
that is being generated.
When I play the show I can see the time code being generated in the status bar on the top
right hand side of the screen.
And now Pangolin BEYOND is configured to generate timecode and send it out through ArtNet and
Chamsys MagicQ is configured to receive timecode through ArtNet.
Now we can go ahead and see what this looks like inside of our virtual stage environment
in Realizzer.