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Theatre & Education

ChamSys has all the features theatre professionals have come to expect, whether for purpose built venues, schools or traveling performances.

Theatre & Education

The traditions, expectations and practices of theatrical lighting designers are distinctly different from those who work in entertainment or broadcast. Theatre calls on a lighting console to do things in unique ways in a collaborative environment because of rehearsal requirements and the need to work quickly on a broad canvas and then go back and make small adjustments later in a reliable and predictable way.

ChamSys consoles are commonly found in theatres and schools, with the QuickQ range offering ease of use and simplicity at its core and the feature rich MagicQ range delivering more advanced features such as the Audio Timeline, Tracksheet and more.

Both QuickQ and MagicQ consoles are designed to put powerful lighting control in the hands of students, enabling them to program and visualize designs at home on their computer for playback at school. Security is assured in institutional settings with features that enable ChamSys consoles to be locked down for restricted access by system admins, programmers and operators, allowing restrictions that range from locking network settings to fully limiting operation to playback only.

Console features Relating to Theatre & Education

QuickQ In Theatre & Education

QuickQ consoles feature an intuitive smart-phone-like interface and conveniently large touchscreens, QuickQ consoles accelerate the learning process making it easy even for new users to set up, program and operate. User-friendly features simplify control navigation with easy-to-understand buttons and faders, cleanly designed colour selection menu, readily accessible intensity control tools, and fingertip controlled zooming and scrolling.

QuickQ users can conveniently connect a tablet or phone through inbuilt Wi-Fi capabilities that allow these mobile devices to operate as a remote control or external monitor. QuickQ also offers users the flexibility of programming their designs on a computer, saving them on a flash drive and loading them onto the console for playback.

The free downloadable offline QuickQ programming software is available for Mac and Windows, and includes a fully rendered visualiser.

ChamSys QuickQ consoles put powerful lighting control in the hands of theatrical lighting programmers of any experience level or budget while offering valuable tools established professionals will appreciate. The consoles feature a Theatre mode, which defaults activation of features home in these environments such as Move When Dark and default fade times.

MagicQ In Theatre & Education

ChamSys MagicQ range of consoles offer advanced features such as a Tracksheet, Audio Timeline and Timecode support, in designs that assure silent operation along with various feature sets and benefits depending on the console chosen for specific theatrical venue needs, whether that be portability, prominent dual crossfade faders, or large GO and BACK buttons that provide the ultimate theatre control experience.

Downloadable MagicQ programming software is available for use on Windows, Mac and Linux, offering powerful lighting control on up to 256 universes with full lighting visualisation, pixel mapping, and HD media playback on up to 8 different layers, all integrated smoothly to streamline workflows, save time, and shorten learning curves.

Learn more about the specific features of the MagicQ console range

Testimonials

“At the end of the day, it is a very intuitive console, easy to learn for casual, weekend warriors, and volunteer staff. I think it offers more features overall than the competition.”

– ControlBooth forum comment

“A compact lighting console with an easy-to-use interface that still packs some powerhouse features. This console is great for volunteers, students, and lighting pros alike.”

– Ron Robertson, VP Design Services, Paragon 360

Nook Schoenfeld, author of Old Man’s Musings – 45 Years Of Gigs

“This intermediate console is perfect for any small- or medium-sized show. It’s small enough to hide in a corner, yet smart enough to do almost anything you can imagine. I would highly recommend the QuickQ for schools, houses of worship, clubs, community theaters and corporate events.”

    “A compact lighting console with an easy-to-use interface that still packs some powerhouse features. This console is great for volunteers, students, and lighting pros alike.”

    – Ron Robertson, VP Design Services, Paragon 360

    “At the end of the day, it is a very intuitive console, easy to learn for casual, weekend warriors, and volunteer staff. I think it offers more features overall than the competition.”

    – ControlBooth forum comment

    “This intermediate console is perfect for any small- or medium-sized show. It’s small enough to hide in a corner, yet smart enough to do almost anything you can imagine. I would highly recommend the QuickQ for schools, houses of worship, clubs, community theaters and corporate events.”

    – Nook Schoenfeld, author of Old Man’s Musings – 45 Years Of Gigs

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      Solutions For Your Industry Focus

      ChamSys serves markets around the world with versatile, adaptable, and forward-thinking technology. Explore some exciting testimonials and solution highlights to discover what sets us apart.

      Touring/Concerts

      ChamSys MagicQ consoles are ideal for touring, which often involves adapting to changing conditions in each venue.

      Architechural

      MagicQ can connect to many different external interfaces using industry standard protocols thus enabling a complete “show system” to be built consisting of lighting, sound, media and control elements ideal for architectural installations

      Nightclubs/Bars

      ChamSys is a leader in the club market because our consoles are compact, fast and handle data intensive systems.

      TV/Film

      When gaffers and directors of photography on major motion picture titles want to achieve a high level of control they turn to ChamSys MagicQ.

      House of Worship

      In Houses of Worship it is quite common for volunteers with little to no training to wind up behind the lighting console. For those novices to get great results and want to come back to the experience again, the MagicQ and QuickQ families of products are key ingredients.

      Theatre

      In Houses of Worship it is quite common for volunteers with little to no training to wind up behind the lighting console. For those novices to get great results and want to come back to the experience again, the MagicQ and QuickQ families of products are key ingredients.