Easy Step Question

Take a look at this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvkG5ZwXVqk
if you still have questions please let me know.
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Easy Step I find best for doing things I want a lot of control over. "Do this for this long, now do this for that long.... repeat that type of efforts until done" sort of stuff.

I like Easy Time for controlling movements on my movers, and doing more complex lighting stuff. For example, I have a scene where a moving yoke light just goes around and around in a circle acting like a beacon. I have others where they(the 2 movers) are doing what appear to be somewhat random sweeping, or back and forth movements, or circles. It seems ideally used for making FX.

In some instances, I engage the light early, setting the movement as a scene, then actually bring it "on" by having a switch open up the shutter. This way the light doesn't have to "snap" into action, it's already been placed.

I'm still learning this stuff myself. I just finished programming 2 large scale shows using Compu Show. One was much simpler than the other though. The first, I used Easy Time many times for movers and complex light color changes.

The easy time thing is finally starting to make sense. I'm trying to make a scene using the "sound to lights" feature. I'm getting the lights to respond to the music being played from my internal sound card. My question is this: Is the "lights to music"feature a Live effect where I would have to start a stored scene ? or can the audio and lighing scene be save as one file ? I'm having success with the feature just not sure how the feature was intended to be used in a light show.

Just a thought since I posted the question above. Would a good solution be to save a lighting scence using BPM or music pulse, then drag and drop the audio and the scence to a timeline in EasyShow? I'll give it a try. Let me know if there is a better way. Thanks.

That's really an "it depends" type of question.

I'd say if most of your stuff is fairly straight-forward, a music-pulse should work OK, but there's no guarantee on that, but that's due to the content of the music. This should be fairly good if you're not so concerned about perfection but just want things to bump and move along.

For BPM, the thing there is that the show should smooth along easier and it makes it look like everything is tied together. I know a DJ who likes everything to be at 120bpm, which may sound boring, but he does a good job. For me, the steady tempo the whole time gets monotonous fast though. Mixing it up and down a bit though, the lights would appear to in fact follow the music.

BPM tends to work better for dance music, while music pulse works best for almost everything else. You have to experiment to see which one works best not only for you, but for sets and songs as well. Its good to have options.

I can make lights respond to music with the music analyzer window open. When I close it the lights stop so I'm assuming the sound to lights is a live process. I was wondering if you can save the "sound to lights" as a scene and use it as a stand alone scene to be imported to Easy Show. When I tried it the saved scene in the Easy Show timeline it would only work with the Analysis window open. Don't know if I'm doing something wrong or if it is the way the sound to light feature works. The Compulive manual devotes almost no help. Thanks

The audio analyzer window must be open in order for it too analyze audio.
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