Best approach for a largely UNATTENDED show?

[howiem]

Hi folks...

I'm getting married this Friday (yay!). For the party afterwards I've got a mirrorball, 4 scanners and several DMX-ified RGB lighting bars I'm going to rig up. I could leave them all on their built-in sound to light setting (yawn), or I can hook them all up to a laptop running FS.

I'm the groom, so I won't be able to stay at the laptop - I need to leave it as unattended as possible.

I'd like to be able to set up a few sequences that I can leave running all night:

Slow mood - the main one will be just random smooth movements / colours
Fast mood - fast-moving sequences to go with faster music
Mirrorball - a one-step sequence that'll just have all the scanners focussed on the mirrorball for the slow dances.

So - any tips for making long random sequences?

I know (thanks to the tip of the day) that you can set sequences to shift randomly; I'm guessing I should be able to set up a sequence that just shifts through the colours, and then a separate sequence that moves the mirrors around, and then (hopefully) I can just run both sequences together to get a constantly shifting pattern going.

If I create sets of sequences that need to be run together (as 'Fast mood' and 'slow mood'), is there a way I can set them up on the override buttons, so I can have a single button for 'Fast' and a single button for 'Slow', or am I going to have to go into the Fast Cue window and click on all the fast sequence buttons together each time I want to change the mood?

Any other thoughts or tips?

I really don't know whether I'm being a bit too ambitious. It would just be nice to have all the lights working together, rather than having each one on its built-in random setting.

[Spirit]

hi

your on the good path.
and i would recommend to use the Fast cuelist buttons.
this way you can run multipale Sequences at ones.

And about the random sequence that the only way you can do it for colors / gobo / RGB chases.
for Movemenst i recommend to Create a separate Pan and Tilt sequence.
so if you run one of the two Fast or slower then the other one you will have a Random Movement.

as i allways use the Submaster because i'm allways behind the lighting desk i dont have anyother tipt.
but if you like to know more Just ask again.

/spirit