Tutorial: Busking Live Music With ETC EOS Nomad

[@stevejohnson4870]

I loved the opening piece where you stated your teaching responsibilities and ended with “amongst other things”.

[@hirogarimusic]

Steve Johnson No rest for the wicked. Or competent.

[@stevejohnson4870]

Bill, "no-one mourns the wicked".

[@maehlers]

Gremlins! Love your Magic Sheet - I hope I can create something similar.

[@GreatFlamingEyebrows_]

another point in favour of Eos is that its fantastic for teaching. Other desks and software can be very intimidating for beginners. ETC do an outstanding job with the amount of control you have over your user interface which is perfect for teaching the basics to students.

[@dshack4689]

Nice work. It was excellent to address that while this system is not normally a "go-to" for ad hoc busking shows, there is your incredibly important point of working with what you have within your budget, AND that many of the theatres have an EOS anyway, so I applaud that logic and great to see the EOS do some busking! You are to be commended for your focus on giving your students some real world transferable portable skills.

[@hirogarimusic]

D Shack Thanks! And in my experience, programming this up (creating groups, palettes, etc) didn’t take much longer than on a more conventional live desk - I spent more time making my magic sheet super pretty and accessible. Which you wouldn’t need to do if you had a physical controller.

[@johnscrip5322]

Overdue thanks for this - Saw this video a few weeks ago (October, 2021) and it inspired me to finally make a usable magic sheet for busking - and programming. Lots of trial and error, but I finally made a sheet that was much more complex than I set out to make - but now literally anyone can sit in front of the board and make things do stuff. We added touch screens just short of COVID but now that we have such a simple and visual interface that can be used with a mouse also, I feel bad for waiting so long.

[@hirogarimusic]

Glad you found it useful. It was really born of necessity and trying to replicate some of the live functionality of a Jands Hog or an MA console with the tools available.

[@Bystandermusicfl]

Great video! I learned a lot of great stuff from those same two videos recently and your sneak time buttons sealed the deal for me ha

[@nathankufchak598]

great and simple video! I have been working on something very similar for working with students- I was simply writing effects and having them toggle between them, but the layout you did here is great! I will definitely be stealing a few ideas from here! great video!

[@rustygahr2528]

At our theatre we have a GIO with a fader wing and an MA2 OnPC with command and playback wings. The MA is my go-to for busking the music shows and sometimes dance shows that come through, but right now it's in the shop to get some faders replaced. It won't be back in time for a few shows that I need to busk, so I've gotta do them on the GIO. This video you made is very helpful and hopeful for my relationship with our GIO, which I pretty much wrote off as a cue to cue machine only. Thanks for making this video!

[@hirogarimusic]

Rusty Gahr Glad you found it useful. Look at the tutorials I linked to below - if you have a faded wing you should be able to do some even nicer transitions too

[@JSAY.LUMINARY]

Oh you just expanded my mind. Thank you .

[@arbautimusic]

Great teacher

[@franciscobormida6419]

Hi! Great Video! I'm learning to use ETC eos to operate live like MA2... Soon i have Usa tour.. and I want to ask which board are the most used in theaters? Thanks!

[@Johny2427ap]

Hey really nice setup, any chance you could upload the magic sheet, would be really useful. Edit: Thinking about it could we have a copy of the show files then we can copy the palettes used for certain buttons?

[@asilva_media]

Yo a fader wing would help you guys a ton

[@hirogarimusic]

Cost a tonne too.

[@CreatorT]

@@hirogarimusic Grab a MIDI controller, really simple to setup and will only cost like 50 bucks - bought one the other day and it's already a life saver

[@BryanLankston]

How did you get a touch screen to work with a Mac? I am trying to use Nomad for an event in a couple weeks and I cannot get my Macbook to work with the touch screens I have at my normal lighting console.

[@hirogarimusic]

@@BryanLankston From recollection it was an Acer screen which worked as a USB generic class device. Plugged into display port and UsB por.

[@Hazzums21]

Hi really good vid not sure if you’ll see this comment as the video was a while ago but any way of you sharing the show file so I can see more in-depth how it’s setup

[@tobywebb9609]

Hey. Great video. What moving lights do you use? Also, if i wanted to assign a button to turn on a frost filter on a moving light, how would I go about that?

[@hirogarimusic]

Toby Webb The movers in this video are Chauvet Intimidator 300s lights. Frost is a beam attribute, so in my setup, you’d just create another isolated beam palette and assign it to a magic sheet button.

[@tobywebb9609]

hirogarimusic So how would I assign the beam attribute to a beam palette?

[@hirogarimusic]

Toby Webb Command line filtering when recording a beam palette. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKvRgaCpg7hqbrc

[@jsck9683]

Hi great video, don't know if you will be reading this but how did you got that touchscreen working with Mac OS? As far I know Mac OS doesn't support touchscreens.Could you please explain how you set this up? Thank you.

[@hirogarimusic]

Hi. The touchscreen was an Acer model that had a USB connection as well as DVI. MacOS did not support he multi-touch function of the monitor hardware but did support the as a basic pointing device, so saw touches as mouse clicks and tap-drag as click-drags.

[@jsck9683]

thank you.did you need to instal a driver for the monitor and what OS version did you have.

[@hirogarimusic]

Jsck No special drivers. I think it was Mavericks.

[@jsck9683]

ok thanks again very helpful

[@jeanlapeyre1688]

Bonjour, je n'arrive pas à faire la macro "stop effect" avec un temps de sortie ou avec le sneak. Pouvez-vous m'aider ? Merci bien cordialement. Jean

[@cjm3997]

How did you get the sneak times on your magic sheet with the different sneak times

[@hirogarimusic]

CJ M Great question! I created a button and assigned it to a command, where you enter in a command just as you would normally. So the command was ‘sneak 0’ or ‘sneak 10’, etc.

[@cjm3997]

hirogarimusic okay thanks i was able to get that done for my magic sheet but there’s only one command I can’t figure out. I do you get the prisim on, prisim off, and prisim rotate buttons onto the magic sheet. I’ve tried saving It as beam palettes but it’s not working for me. I got the prisim on to work but It overrides any other attribute (It will automatically go to color white with prisim on even if the color that was up wasn’t white)

[@hirogarimusic]

You need "command line filtering" to store only those parameters you want to save to the beam palette. Check out this ETC training video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKvRgaCpg7hqbrc

[@cjm3997]

hirogarimusic okay thanks. Your video is the best busking walkthrough video I’ve seen. Now i just gotta get everything working on my end lol

[@hirogarimusic]

CJ M Thanks! I’m glad you found it useful!

[@ferusgratia]

1000 likes!

[@ferusgratia]

Seriously I've busked hundreds of show on an Ion, but didn't know you could use Sneak in that manner. That's a game changer!

[@hirogarimusic]

Truth. Once I got stuck into macros, I hit the next level...

[@zavasolutions]

How do I slow down the transition between focus palettes?

[@hirogarimusic]

ZaVa Sound Apply “Sneak” before selecting the palette.

[@zavasolutions]

@@hirogarimusic Thanks!

[@phoneguy1015]

How did you make the chase in Eos?

[@hirogarimusic]

Created a custom step based intensity effect.

[@easystreetphotography4161]

an absolute effect is actually easier and smoother, in my experience.

[@alvasorcerervideolibrary]

We really need to stop calling it "programming". What I do is programming. Light designing is not and never should be "programming".