Setup — Lighting Towers

The Setup area manages the physical structure of the stage. This page covers lighting towers (towers with numbered slots) — for battens, see Setup — Battens.

Not to be confused

This area is not the same as the "Aufbau" tab in the iOS app – that one shows checklists and free-text notes from the Setup Notes section.

The term "Truss"

The in-app help text for lighting towers also gives "towers or trusses beside the stage" as an example — this refers to side towers with slots as described here. The standalone "Truss" element type under Setup — Battens is different: a freely positionable batten in the fly system.

Depending on the show's settings (see Shows), one, the other, or both areas appear as their own sub-tab within Setup: lighting towers as "Lighting Towers", battens as "Fly System".

Create a tower

1. Click "New Lighting Tower" (bottom right)
2. Fill in the fields:

Field	Description
Name	Name of the tower, e.g. "Lighting Tower 1"
Number of slots	How many tower positions the tower has (1–20)

3. Click "Create"

Channel list rail

Next to towers and overhead rigging, the channel list rail sits on the right, showing fixture, colour and note of each channel. It offers:

• Search by channel number or fixture
• All / Unplaced filter
• Eye button "Only channels with note"
• Stage position filter with counter
• Placement pill per channel, e.g. "Tower 1 · S1, S3"

The list stays stable; a channel can be placed several times. The rail can be dragged wider.

Assign a channel to a slot

With the rail:

1. Click a slot or a channel, then its counterpart. Alternatively drag a channel from the rail onto the slot.
2. After a slot, the target jumps to the next free slot. A selected channel stays selected until you press Esc or click outside tower and rail.
3. If a channel is missing, Enter in the search creates an unknown number in the channel list.

The rail does not ask before overwriting an occupied slot; Undo still applies.

Without the rail (template editor, narrow screens, collapsed rail):

1. Click the ⌄⌄ (select) icon on the right of a slot
2. Search by channel number or fixture in the search field
3. Click a channel → it is assigned to the slot

If the next slot is still empty, its selection dialog opens automatically. If a slot is already occupied, a confirmation appears before overwriting.

Clear a slot

Click the × icon next to an occupied slot.

Swap slots via drag & drop

Using the grip icon (⠿) to the left of the slot number, the channel assignment of two slots can be swapped via drag & drop.

Add a slot

Click "Add slot" below the rig's slot list.

Edit / delete a tower

Using the icons in the top right of each tower card:

• Pencil – change name, side, or number of slots. Reducing the slot count shows a warning listing the affected (possibly occupied) slots.
• Trash – delete the tower after confirmation

Note per slot

Each slot has its own Setup note field (separate from the channel list note used for focusing). Enter text; it is saved when you leave the field.

Add a note

At the bottom of each tower card, click "+ Note" to add a free-text comment.

Save as template

The bookmark icon lets you save a tower into the venue template. You can choose to include the base structure (always included), plus channel number, fixture, and colour per slot.

Note

Lighting towers from the template are not inherited automatically when quickly creating a show — only the creation wizard lets you select them individually, or you can add them later via "Insert" in the edit dialog.