Generator: creating effects in a few clicks
The generator builds effects for a group from a few settings: movement, color, brightness and gobo. After generating it stays live, so you see every change in the preview right away.

Step by step
- Pick a group on the right. The generator shows its settings, “✨ Open effect studio” at the top and below it “Or set it up quickly below:”.
- “Moving heads” or “Fixtures”: all, a subset, or tap the numbers of single fixtures.
- For moving heads under “Movement”: “Position”, “Position change”, “Circle”, “Change + circle” or “none”. Then the position(s), for changes the “Step”, and under “Moving heads” “together”, “Canon” (staggered) or “opposite”. For circles, “Size” and “Speed”.
- “Color”: “fixed”, “Color chase”, “Change”, “Rainbow” or “none”. Tap colors from the palette, the number shows the order.
- “Brightness”: “on”, “Pulse”, “Chase”, “Breathe”, “Strobe” or “none”, plus the “Step”.
- For moving heads with gobo data: “Gobo & prism” with “Gobo”, “Rotation” and “Prism”.
- Under “Length from the playhead” pick “1 bar” to “16 bars” or “to the end”.
- Set the playhead and tap “Generate from the playhead”. The clips land from the start of that bar on their own layers at the top of the group.
- Now it says “Live – every change takes effect right away”. Change settings and the clips follow.
- Done? “✓ Keep”. “Reshuffle” mixes the randomness anew, “Discard” removes the generated clips again.
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