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Nick Ho uses ChamSys console for Shanghai show

At MWC19 Shanghai (short for Mobile World Congress), Nick Ho and his team put on lightshows for some of the brightest minds in tech. Surrounded by contrivances like self-driving cars, 5G mirrors and 8K 360° virtual reality experiences, Ho navigated his way through time constraint issues to interface on short notice with some advanced laser software. Helping him accomplish this feat was a ChamSys MagicQ MQ60 console.

“For the past few years of the MWC event, I have programmed the conference’s opening stinger (walk-up music for the speaker introduction) with lights,” says Ho. “This year, my client decided to build this show around laser fixtures. We had to use Pangolin Beyond software. Now, my MQ60 receives Timecode via SMPTE LTC, but our Pangolin was not able to receive LTC due to the short notice we were given, which left us no time to prepare the LTC convert for Pangolin.”

ChamSys helped him and his team employ an effective workaround that overcame this challenge. “We used a feature in the ChamSys, called the ‘ArtNet Retransmit’,” he explains. “This allowed us to use the MQ60 to transmit the incoming LTC to Pangolin via ArtNet.” As a result, Ho and his colleagues, Justin Poh the MQ60 programmer, and Wang Jin, who programmed Pangolin Beyond, were able to create an 8-universe show that combined lighting and lasers.

“To blend laser and lighting with different cues and timing was interesting and challenging,” says Ho. “I wrote all the cues, Justin programed them in the MQ60, and our laser assistant Wang programmed in Pangolin Beyond. I then did the final timecode touchup and operated the ChamSys console on the show days.”

In addition to the laser displays, the opening day stinger featured a colorscape created with RGBA fixtures. “Our opening show featured seven different RGBW colors and some LED Ribbons,” says Ho. Ho and his team were continuously programming during the event. “For three days, we left the show floor with an hour of programming time remaining to be done,” says Ho. “So we brought our ChamSys back to the hotel to finish the programming.”

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