Timing track

unnefer

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Hi. New to forum and to xLight :)

I'm having a problem with xLights where I seem to have messed up my timing track. It's showing a green bird head icon and it cannot be used to trigger models anymore?

Basically I originallyadded an empty timing track and was adding timing marks to each beat of the song being used in the show, but I missed a few and tried to add them to and broke what I had already done:(

Asyou can imaginge,a song has probably a thousand or so kick-drum beats, and I had all but about 5 marked out, but now none of what I had done can be used.

Hopefully someone knows what I did and can help me get it working again.

Thanks,
Leslie
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keithsw1111

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You seem to have down a breakdown phrases so now it thinks it is a papagayo track. There is no way to undo this without editing the xml. If you post your sequence xml I will try to undo it for you.
 

Gilrock

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Yeah you did phrase and word breakdown to create it into a Papagayo timing track. But even so a Papagayo track will work just fine for placing effects. What kind of trigger isn't working?
 

Gilrock

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keithsw1111 said:
A couple of effects that let you use timing tracks filter out timing tracks with greater than 1 layer.

Not sure we need to do that. The first layer can still work fine for triggering effects.
 

unnefer

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Thanks for all the replies. Darn it, terrible mistake to make by me.


I'm at work right now, so not entirely sure of the name of element effect - it basically just switched the element on every time it passed a timing mark. I was using the element effect to make an [/size]element blink to the beat (as defined using the timing marks).


Maybe there is a better way to have an element blink to the beat of the song used? That wouldn't need me to redo the timing track?
 

keithsw1111

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2 options ... send us your sequence file and we fix it. Wait for v51 where I have removed the VU Meter limitation which meant it couldnt use a papagayo track.


Both should work.
 

unnefer

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Thanks heaps for the reply Keith. I have a 2 week wait for the pixels, so if .51 is going to be out soon, I can wait (I don't want to trouble anyone).
 
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