This project aims to be the "brain" of a prerecorded show by playing Art-Net timecode, sending scheduled OSC messages and playing audio tracks synced to timecode.

Please note that this is a hobby project of mine, and it is WIP. Only wav files are supported. Some options can be only changed from the configuration file, notably

• Audio output
• Audio tracks

• Art-Net timecode generator
• LTC timecode generator
• MIDI timecode generator
• Timecode triggered OSC message sending
• Timecode triggered audio track player
• Web user interface
• Selectable output destination (eg. client1 plays Art-Net, client2 plays audio, and so on)

You can build the Java artifact with:

./gradlew build

the artifact will be in build/libs

ShowManager uses a web UI. In order to use you have to build it first, using standard web tooling.

# First setup
pnpm install

pnpm run build

After setting up the project with pnpm install, you can use the build-webapp gradle task for building. It runs the pnpm build command internally.

# example full clean build, without tests
./gradlew clean build build-webapp -x test

Set the build folder's path to the environment value showmanager.dist

Run the java artifact with:

java -jar ShowManager-<version>.jar

On the first run, ShowManager will create an empty config file. You may close ShowManager, as you probably want to configure some settings. The project json file is located at %APPDATA%/ShowManager/projects. You have to set the audio output, and add your tracks. Example:

"audio-player": {
  "enabled": false,
    "mixer": "Speakers (Realtek(R) Audio)",
    "tracks": [
      {
        "startTime": {
          "hour": 0,
          "min": 1,
          "sec": 5,
          "frame": 0
        },
        "file": {
          "path": "path/to/file.wav"
        },
        "volume": 1.0,
        "markers": []
      },
      {
        "startTime": {
          "hour": 0,
          "min": 10,
          "sec": 0,
          "frame": 0
        },
        "file": {
          "path": "path/to/other_file.wav"
        },
        "volume": 1.0,
        "markers": []
      },
    ]
  }

Run again, and open the web UI on the host+port that's specified in the project settings. It defaults to http://127.0.0.1:7000.