On November the 5th, 2012, I forked the QLC source tree. In other words that's the day I started to develop QLC+. A lot happened since then ! Lot of new functionalities, fixtures, bugs and fixes, ideas, discussions and results.
To name a few: ArtNet and OSC plugins, Show manager, audio input/output, Click & Go and 800 gobos, Cue lists crossfade, Live editing, DMX dump, multi page frames, fixture remapping, web interface, channel groups and many more I might be forgetting right now.
I am pretty satisfied of this first year and my hope is to continue this way to give users a choice against very expensive software that are not always synonym of quality.

Just for fun, I collected a few numbers to help you understand what there has been behind QLC+ in just one year.

  • 32610 lines of code added
  • 108 new fixtures added
  • 1646 posts on the QLC+ forum
  • 19 releases, 839 commits, 178 tickets/pull requests addressed
  • 3 video tutorials
  • More than 17000 visits to the QLC+ website...and counting

So, what can I say ? A big thank you to all the people that helped to make this real !
As a birthday present I am also starting to give out (hey, shouldn't it be the other way round ?) the all-in-one QLC+ PDF manual (111 pages).
Basically it's what you find in the internal documentation, but packed in a single (better looking) PDF document. Hope you enjoy it !

Changelog:

  • NEW: Virtual Console: audio triggers can now control Speed Dials tapping (thanks to Jano Svitok)
  • NEW: Virtual Console: added clock widget
  • NEW: RGB Matrix now supports 2 colors
  • NEW: Scene Editor: color selection tool live tracking (thanks to Stefan Riemens)
  • Live Edit: Improved live editing of Scenes and Chasers
  • Fixtures remapping: added a button to clone and autopatch a fixture from the source list
  • Function selection: added radio buttons to show all or only the running functions
  • Virtual Console: fixed regression on buttons name auto assign
  • Virtual Console: fixed multi page functionality for solo frames
  • Virtual Console: fixed audio triggers thresholds save/load on projects (thanks to Jano Svitok)
  • Virtual Console: fixed knobs rendering on OSX
  • Virtual Console: fixed crash when enabling multipage on headerless frames
  • Virtual Console: fixed copy of Click & Go feature when cloning sliders/knobs
  • MIDI plugin: fixed beat clock detection on OSX
  • Show Manager: Improved to fit on a 1024x768 resolution
  • Engine: fixed Collection potential crash (thanks to Jano Svitok)
  • Engine: fixed Scene fade out when only one function is running
  • Engine: fixed end of audio playback not notified
  • Engine: fixed audio capture limited signal on OSX
  • Simple Desk: universe reset is now performed also on non intensity channels
  • Simple Desk: channels are now updated in full view mode too
  • Added fixture: Chauvet 4Play (thanks to Ryan Schaefer)
  • Added fixtures: American DJ Fusion FX Bar 1, Chauvet Intimidator Scan LED 200 (thanks to synkajax)
  • Added fixtures: Stairville PAR64 CX-3 RGBW, Stairville TRI LED Bundle Complete (thanks to Lars Kildholt)
  • Added fixture: Monacor CPL-3DMX (thanks to Marcus)
  • Added fixtures: Pro-Lights CromoSpot 150, Evolight Colours SL3 (thanks to Lorenzo Andreani)