append and repeat sequences

[dicky96]

Hi guys, I hope someone can help me with this question. It is possible I am trying to go about it the wrong way.

I have 8 of these ADJ On-X lights, four mounted either side of my lighting gantry on a home built metal frame that means I can install them as one light unit each - just hang the lighting bracket, plug in DMX and power = nice fast install. I have other lights too of course/

Now I have been programming my light show using submasters, so for example I have a 'lamps' submster that allows me to turn on or off my various fixtures in groups (On-X lights, X-Beam, Tumblers, Cheetahs etc)

I also have written some submasters for the On-X that control movement patterns (fan, all point forward, sweep side-to-side, sweep crossing over etc)

Then of course I have some submasters that control the On-X lamp sequences independantly of the movement (for instance all red, all blue, diagonal sweep, vertical sweep etc)

Here is a quick video showing an example of three of the sequences I created so you can better understand what I am trying to do. These are with the On-X in static positions (no movements submaster running)

https://youtu.be/9nXCB7uGwMs

What I am finding is writing these sequences by hand is a bit of a ball ache to be honest - is there a quicker way to do it? Each On-X has 8 LED segments in two banks of four RGBW.

Now I have created some sequences what I need to do is 'group' them into a 'show'. I want to be able for example to create a show that runs sequence one 4 times, then sequence two 8 times, then sequence three 4 times......... etc, etc...... and launch this 'show' off the submaster and tell it to use beat sync or sound-to-light.

At the same time I want to be able to do something similar with theOn-X movements submasters but maybe not beat synced, just at a set speed, slow, medium, fast

I know I could write each set of steps that make up a sequence, by hand, four or eight times over, then so on for the next sequence and eventually create a huge seqeunce with hundreds of step by hand but that would be more than a ball ache to do!!

Ideally I need is to be able to create each sequence which maybe have 4-32 steps and then append these sequences into a longer sequence (chase) so I can create a very long sequence without having to write the same steps over and over again.

Or another method to achieve this altogether.

So.....

How do I acheive what I want while still keeping the workload and time to create this down to something manageable

Cheers
Rich

[dicky96]

Oh before anyone mentions, yes I know I can for example create 8 steps in sequence, then copy step 1 and paste as step 9, copy step 2 and paste as step 10.... and so on..... to duplicate the steps but that really is too cumbersome as it takes some time to move backwards and forward between the steps over and over again.

If I could select all 8 steps and then paste as a new set of 8 steps that would be workable but I can't see how to do that

Rich

[dicky96]

OK guys I guess the above is not possible or there would have been some replies as this is a good forum

Could I use some other software to send midi comands to freestyler to make it do what Iwant?

What puzzles me is there must be lots of other DJs out there who just want to program an autonomous light show that will do it's own thing, hopefully in time to the beat, kind of like the built in sound-to-light shows we get built in on light fixtures these days, but controlling all lights on the rig together in a harmony of matched colours, without it getting repetitive after 15 seconds and without having to continuously start new sequences instead of finding/cueing the next track to play!

So therefore there must surely be a need and a way to achieve what I was asking.

Cheers
Rich