Avolites Titan: Our Basic Busking & Live Operation Workflow

We provide concert lighting production at many sizes with our Avolites Titan Mobile. This is how we organize our show basic file for busking!
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[@avolites]

Hey Doug, thanks so much for this great tutorial and for choosing Avolites, we really appreciate it!

[@Spiralstagelighting]

Good to see other lighting KZbin channels use Avolites 🔥👏

[@kasuuun1]

True

[@isaacphillips7865]

The long awaited lighting video... finally

[@dougberry4674]

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 although that one is outdated

[@tictac1919]

As an LD who started on ShowXpress as well, I believe that it develops this 'style' and thought process of programming into your show files (no matter the platform). I still find myself using this ShowXpress 'style' of workflow in my MA and Hog busking shows. I also couldn't agree more with making use of pallets and not creating pre-defined lists of cues for busking. Placing everything in pallets and not creating full scenes allows for an exponential increase in possible outputs.

[@dougberry4674]

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

[@tictac1919]

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!

[@Desbringer93]

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!

[@dougberry4674]

@@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

[@vvkgames1113]

Finally! Doug your an amazing Lighting LD and it's so inspiring seeing your work and your progress over time. Keep it up!

[@alastairkeith8553]

Doug, thanks for the video, I’ve just moved to a titan mobile and was wondering how best to setup the show file so the timing of this video is perfect. The playback window looks great so will add this to my setup.

[@nuneko11]

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

[@djdrewthomas]

I've been using ShowXpress with an Akai Mini for my DJ "lighting console" for the past couple of years. It works ok. Our church just got Titan One, and the media tech set it up, so I'm starting to use it as the "lighting guy" for Sunday morning services. They bought it for future expansion... WAY more than their lighting rig is presently capable of doing ... I was wondering if Titan would work for my DJ rig, but i hadn't seen any other DJs really show what it was capable of, and didn't want to "buy to try", as it seems more designed for permanent installation. However, based on your video, I'm going to consider it for 2020. 🤔 Thank you for the video. It was very informative!

[@djdrewthomas]

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.

[@nathanmorgan3847]

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

[@ryanhalliwell6671]

Avo is amazing for busking and rock gigs. I’ve done so many festivals shows with a quartz. Cool video

[@jfodor1]

Thanks for all the ideas. Been looking for a way to change up and improve my work flow.

[@1966ars]

Thanks for the video - I am going to use it with the students here at school to show how busking works, then they can learn how to program each bit. Totally clear in why you have set it up as you have.

[@RaineyLX]

i think the reason most avo users don't use the playbacks window is because avo don't really advertise it so people don't really know about it, if it wasn't for this video, i would have no idea it even existed. thank you so much!

[@christophelagouardat4108]

Good job! you can have the BPM master on a button and release a fader .... you can also use a macro window for the master palette times 15s 8s 5s 3s 0s and the overlap 100% 75% 50% 25% 0%. obviously does not need so much time but that's the idea ... Thank you for your experience sharing!

[@dougberry4674]

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!

[@Mr._Dice006]

Been using your workflow for a while. and it really helps. thanks for the tips.

[@craigday495]

This is great. Thank you!

[@chrislawrence461]

I’m very new at Avo and this video was very helpful! I loved how you have your color palettes set up! Would you consider making a video on how to build a showfile like this?

[@dougberry4674]

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

[@saminix1]

Hej Doug! I think I speak for many of us, that we’d love to see more of your programming!

[@R77328]

Great Video Tutorial ! Very helpfull

[@jackxfabr3905]

Well its simple but sometimes simple is way cool than complex, and in my opinion ure one of the best LD that ive seeing in my whole life.

[@LDProOSU]

I wish you did a little demo with a song to show live operation 😭

[@djpitrrs]

Thanks for sharing, inspirative video 💪🙂

[@eduards9868]

Washing machine be like 0:29: Hey, I also want to be in video!

[@dougberry4674]

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

[@SoundFoxSweden]

Thanks for your video. :)) Is it possible to get a copy of the show file so I can sit at home and practice?

[@tonvankampen5779]

Love this instruction. Very helpfull. Thanks

[@AleZakko]

Hi my friend! It's Zakko from Italy. I would like to know if did you used the internal capture visualizer on Avolites Titan to recreate the stage rig o if you used a dedicated Capture software. How do you create a perfect geometric rhombus at the center? Many thanks

[@keskinkenan88]

Thank you

[@shakingman4207]

Hey, how do you build the odd/even flash buttons @9:20? I know how to build them in theory and they work when they are assigned to a fader, but I can’t make them work on the executor buttons. The intensity always stays on full. Thanks in advance!

[@simonandrews6849]

Do u have a video on how to program your sliders?? Especially 5-7… Thank you

[@rotationevents]

Perfect and very similar to how i do it too

[@kasuuun1]

Can you explain how did you make the masters groups for fixtures? With gray button flashing

[@ronniehaun6591]

How do you program the the fadeout flash for the grey button on the intensity master???

[@kasuuun1]

Thats my problem too

[@chrisclose7793]

great tutorial doug im looking at upgrading my knackerd showtec lighting controller im considering a exhire MA2 ultralight but open to your opinion

[@budi_dainibudi8174]

Hello Master, how do you program a tap pulse at 9:33 ?

[@ruben7291]

Hey how do you comtrol your moving size etc?

[@timdmx512]

nice vid. good tips

[@djimaromusic4454]

You work a lot with Avolites, I see. Do you happen to know what is better? an avolites titan mobile or an avolites quartz

[@dougberry4674]

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

[@djimaromusic4454]

@@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 :)

[@MatibayRanola-mw8vn]

Hey brod can I ask, how can I create a master ( bpm, rate, speed and grand master) using a avolites tiger touch 2?

[@raineylights]

are you using key frame shapes for the chases or the shape generator?

[@dougberry4674]

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

[@sandeshhamir]

hi Doug, can you provide the show file for us to learn and practice?

[@manifi5391]

Hi, In one of your Videos you sayed that you need only 2h to programm a complete showfile... When I heard it the first time I was "😱" (i don't know a word for this. 😅 sorry), because I use GrandMa2 and I need 5-7 hour for a Showfile with "everything" (Colourpicker, Layouts, sometimes a smal timecode for a beginning,...) So how long do you need now to programm a Showfile from the Video? And thank you for making all these super interesting Videos. Kind regards from Germany Nico

[@dougberry4674]

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

[@Pigatto17]

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

[@manifi5391]

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

[@Pigatto17]

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

[@samueleverona6297]

how did you put the speed of the rotating prism on a fader? 13:30

[@tylerfrankland6228]

Is there a video on how to do the flashy pixel thing :)

[@Mortenmo]

is it possible to make playlist from playbacks?

[@TeoBlahos]

The name of the controller ??

[@lorenzomarcenaro8889]

how can i create a chase master? thanks

[@nicholasstockton2711]

Very curious, how do you program the alternating syncopation hits show at 9:20? Did you record a cue-list to an executor?

[@joshedwardsOTR]

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

[@jamesrussell7295]

what lap top are you guys using #

[@tomdear5026]

Is this the inbuilt visualiser or are you using something like Capture?

[@dougberry4674]

Capture is Avo's inbuilt visualiser

[@kristofferwojcik6112]

What neme is the dmx controller?🙂

[@arthurklomp]

Is there a way to get the fixture group dimmer intensity (as you have set them up as the first four faders in this video here) to override your dimmer intensity shape fx macros that include chase information? Without using an intensity master so the (timed) flashes will still work on the swop and flash buttons?

[@dougberry4674]

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

[@arthurklomp]

@@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.

[@dougberry4674]

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

[@miguelvieirabarreto7804]

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

[@LARS-nf3rk]

How can you make on the flash button a fade time

[@timdmx512]

timed flash Key Profile

[@LARS-nf3rk]

timdmx512 how?

[@timdmx512]

@@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 :)

[@dougberry4674]

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

[@Scott-yu4yt]

grandMA2 when?

[@dougberry4674]

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM maybe compact xt in a few years

[@manifi5391]

GrandMa2 or GrandMa3?

[@Pigatto17]

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

[@manifi5391]

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

[@djemilmusik7624]

Hi what do you think is the best lighting console? Ma2 onpc command wing or avolites Titan mobile?

[@dougberry4674]

I vastly prefer the avolites titan mobile of course!

[@michaelschneider3446]

Interesting. Is that an apple with touchscreen?

[@Marek-hn1fy]

No a Dell xps 15

[@Jan-hm2ry]

Its a asus laptop idk the model tough

[@dougberry4674]

Apple does not make laptops with touch screens

[@dougberry4674]

@@Marek-hn1fy This is an ASUS VivoBook Pro

[@dougberry4674]

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

[@nathanmorgan3847]

What laptop are you using

[@dougberry4674]

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

[@arnoldhilberink]

ill stick to my trusty MA2 ^^

[@dougberry4674]

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

[@Jack-uy6tc]

Hey Doug does Titan One offer a new hardware piece ?

[@dougberry4674]

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

[@Jack-uy6tc]

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

[@dougberry4674]

@@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

[@Jack-uy6tc]

@@dougberry4674 How much is the T2 dongle ?

[@djdrewthomas]

@@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.

[@vhiclighting]

halo... how to conect avolite 2010 to monitir visualizer ,,, nice to meet you

[@DJILLEE]

Yep...we have too much stuff programmed.

[@marvfots5118]

Hey, i am a 15 year old aspiring lighting designer and operator, would you mind sharing which software you used to connect your board to your laptop?

[@ZillionPrey]

Avolite Software, since it's an avolite console

[@thegreatsniper6683]

First

[@javifindlaymoore8512]

Do you ever do any UK shows

[@dougberry4674]

Haven't yet, but would like to!

[@Pigatto17]

👀👀💧💧

[@SpicyMcHaggis]

No size master for the movements? Loving this funktion.

[@dougberry4674]

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

[@prakashchowdhury2296]

Tok to hindi

[@alienencore3848]

Its embarrassing that everyone in the comments thinks this guy is an LD lol

[@Memingamer]

Hi

[@carlosbarcenilla]

HI, How do you assign the intensity of the chase to the master?

[@LARS-nf3rk]

How can you set on a flash button a fade time?

[@raineylights]

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