Having just finished a three-week tour in May, Starfield was booked to play a set on the main stage at this year's YC, but Helzer was unclear whether he was going to be allowed to patch in the M1 to operate the rig.
With less than a week until the event, he was cleared to patch into the rig and received the plot and patch from the design firm. He then went to work drawing the rig in Martin's lighting and set design software, Martin ShowDesigner (MSD), which allowed him to visualize the programming before the event.
"Since we had just come off the tour run, the band wanted their main stage set at YC to look similar to the tour shows," says Helzer. "I already had all the cue lists with the correct time code events, but it was just a matter of programming the songs with the new rig into those pre-existing cues. Using the M1 with MSD, I was able to rough in the programming in a few short days."
Helzer ran the show on the M1 with a MIDI module and used MIDI time code to trigger the lights in a cuelist-per-song format using Qlab software to play audio, video, cue, and MTC.
(Jim Evans)
