I ran Liberation with a pyro musical for the first time this weekend. At the last minute I also used it to drive some par cans as my Lx desk was busy elsewhere.
I used Chataigne to run the timeline, including audio track and a separate SMPTE LTC for the Cobra firing system. I used MIDI cues to trigger clips in Liberation, which in turn drove Lx over Artnet. Communication between Chataigne and Liberation was flawless, although long winded to program. I wish the MIDI map used the same row and column coordinates as the clip deck! Liberation picked up tempo from the MIDI clock, which was a bit all over the place in the UI but looked stable in practice.
I was short of time so mostly used clips included in the distro by Seb, with a little tweaking. There are so many nice examples it wasn’t hard to find suitable clips to steal.
The show ran flawlessly (after an hour of diagnosing a bad Etherdream - which I finally took out and slaved from another projector).
I’m looking forward to getting a native Liberation timeline (hopefully with MTC and/or SMPTE) but this interim solution with Chataigne is entirely usable. It’s more flexible and useful to me than using a DAW. I’ll probably write a Liberation device script for Chataigne to streamline the cue entry workflow, so you can directly enter the clip address as that shown in the UI.
There’s a quickly cut video of the show here. Pyro is the star but the lasers definitely added something.
Rob
