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[QUOTE="Mark_M, post: 107518, member: 29098"] Welcome Brett McDermid; [USER=32189]@brettmcdermid[/USER] ! Read up on the ACL 101 manual. [URL]https://auschristmaslighting.com/wiki/AusChristmasLighting-101[/URL] . As I saw a comment on a newbie's Facebook post: "Hope your single, rich, and have a full liquor cabinet." Read up, study, study, plan and repeat. xLights is easy to learn, just takes time for people to learn. It's a like a video editor over a timeline. Falcon boards are too easy to use. I see you've already made a post in 2020 interest thread. They are good boards. Electronics behind wiring pixels and power will be a easy for you having done electrical tech. Never even hear of it, but I think I can grasp what you would like. Almost sounds like a multiple computer based MIDI. I know that xLights has some engine behind MIDI but I have no idea with Ableton Live. Live music would be a challenge. Sort of thing lighting consoles have as 'cues' which are manually changed through. MIDI then makes this automatically switch through based on a timing beat. You can easily have a backing track in xLights and perform from that. Just a little tricky with synchronization for live timing. Live synchronization is a little over the top of our heads; we all have a pre-sequenced song playing from a show player. PC based lighting control software like Chamsys MagicQ should work with taking a MIDI and playing back cues. [I][U]There is plenty more software[/U]; I'm just familiar with this from my theatres lighting console.[/I] [wiki='Software|#Sequencers']ACL/wiki/sequencers[/wiki] From the Media tab and minis: [MEDIA=youtube]0ab3ybcKOgw[/MEDIA] No matter what you do, anything pixels you will learn about channels and universes. The protocol E1.31 we use is the same as sACN which stage lighting uses for large amounts of lights. That might be very useful if you're taking music and electronics into theatre and production industry. I can't really help much, live playback is something I haven't played around with. All I can do is confuse you more with what I think I know.. :confused: [SIZE=2]Unnessercery talk from me: I do plan on doing so with my theatres lighting console but I haven't seen how to get xLights and the console working together yet. (Pixels use a lot of universe, the lighting console I work with has a max of 8. I need a 'media server' type thing). [/SIZE] Disregard this if it confuses you. I would start small with what people on here are familiar with, basic display running off a show player (like Falcon Pi PLayer). [/QUOTE]
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