A sequence with several looks: “What happens next?”
An effect doesn't have to stay the same the whole time. In the strip “What happens next?” you create several looks, e.g. first a color chase on the dance floor, then circles on the back wall, and decide how they take turns.
Step by step
- Set up your first look in the effect studio. It's called “Look 1”.
- Quick way to a sequence: tap a suggestion:
Build up: start calm, add more and more motion. - “✨ Alternate”: a second look with other colors, targets or patterns, switching every 4 bars.
- “✨ Build up”: start calm, then more and more movement and tempo up to the peak.
- “✨ Keep it fresh”: four looks switching every 2 bars.
- Build it yourself: “+ Look” creates a copy of the selected look. Then change what should be different.
- Tap a look to edit only that one. The preview then shows only this look.
- Tap the timeline strip below to see the whole sequence in the preview. The sections carry the number and color of their look.
- Pick the order: “in order”, “back and forth”, “random” or “once through”.
- Under “Change every” pick “1 bar”, “2 bars”, “4 bars” or “8 bars”.
- Tap “✓ Keep”. All looks land one after another in the timeline.
More from “Effect lanes & effect studio”
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- Look programmer: Static Looks like on a lighting consoleWhen you open a Static Look in Table, you get the look programmer: every fixture is a row, every channel a column – intensity, color, strobe, position, movement, gobo, prism, focus and everything else. Thru is hatched. On the right you set everything the selected fixtures can do – across all groups.Summary
- How Effect lanes are laid outEffect lanes have four areas: the preview at the top left, groups and tools on the right, and the timeline below. You save in the header at the top. For songs the lanes sit right in the Song Studio at the Everything level.Summary
- Editing lanes and clipsThe timeline shows one or more layers (lanes) per fixture group. Clips sit on them: colored bars that play an effect for a certain time.Summary
- Master lane and color palette changesThe master lane affects all fixture groups at once. Use it to set a base mood, e.g. a cool verse and a warm chorus, and add accents in the groups on top.Summary