Playing a song show with music
The best way to check a song show is with the real music. In the Studio and in Effect lanes the preview then runs exactly on the song's beat, and you can jump straight to the drop or the breakdown.
Step by step
- Open the song in the Studio and tap the play button below the preview. The music starts and the preview follows. Tap again to stop.
- Tap a part card below the stage to jump to its start.
- The Space bar starts and stops, Enter jumps back to the start.
- Click the bar numbers in the timeline or an empty spot in Effect lanes. The playhead jumps there.
- In the effect studio, the selected range plays in a loop, with music.
More from “Song shows”
- What is a song show?A song show is a light show for exactly one song. It follows the song's structure with calm parts, build-ups and drops, and plays along in SoundSwitch automatically as soon as you load the song.Summary
- Song studio – parts, zones, notes and effect chainsThe song page works like a lighting console: tools on the left, the stage in the middle, below it the song as part cards and as a timeline with the beatgrid. On the right you adjust whatever you tapped below – the whole song, a part, a zone or a single note.Summary
- Your song is missing from the listThe song list only shows songs that SoundSwitch has already created a script file for. SoundSwitch creates this file once you open the song there, place an effect and save.Summary
- Choosing and opening a song“Songs” lists every song that SoundSwitch has set up for a show. Tap a song to open it in the Studio.Summary
- Song analysis: beatgrid, drops and breaksTo make the show fit the music, Droplit takes the beatgrid from SoundSwitch and listens to the audio file hit by hit. From that it builds the song parts Calm, Groove, Build-up, Drop and Breakdown, and the special moments: hard hits, drum passages, breaks, fills and impacts.Summary