Last edited by mixedgas 11-10-2015 at 12:39.Jonathan Julian Hopkins (born 15 August 1979) is an English musician and producer who writes and performs electronic music. You just have to know something about music, and how the clock scheme in the software works. The professional show software figures out how to make the animation frames fit, seamlessly in most cases. Translation to user: Your events in modern laser software are synced to 1/30th or 1/60th of a second. Black and White TV was 30.0 FPS, but when color came, some technical changes had to be made to make things fit. So you have Laser Frames, where like film, each frame is one scan of a ILDA file, and then you have timing frames, which are 30 or 60 frames per second in modern laser show software, Pangolin offers, and I program in, 29.97 FPS in case I ever have to sync to color video in the United States. That made life hell for the graphic artist or frame digitizer person. Refreshes get interesting as the number of points in a laser frame changes, so they tried to standardize on a fixed number of points per frame to make equal time frames. Older, ancient, software used 'refreshes' where each refresh was one complete scan of a laser image frame. Since Laser Shows had to be synced to video in the past, most modern software uses 'hours:minutes:seconds:frames' for timing. There are 29.97 frames per second in NTSC video. It then does the math for you and sends stretched or shrunk data to the hardware so the output fits.įrames are a leftover from production video that has made it into music and laser editing. Good laser software lets you view the music waveform 'envelope' and slide a slider along the time track to match the music events. Write down the timer count in minutes, seconds, frames for each event you would like to sync to. You should see beats as big spikes on the Audacity screen. Hint: Open your music in Audacity, look at the waveform, and use the force, er frame count to learn about fine timing.

This is difficult when just using a frame streamer. Yes, Good show software does some serious work to fit the events to the timeline without the user seeing it. Oh my gosh, we have not had a good show programming / music theory discussion in like 2 years on PL. Then how dark black is a good color to use some times. Then you get to learn about Glissandos, Slides, Choruses and Codas. You must connect the music beats to the laser timing for synesthesia to occur. For example the successful 'Laser Dance Party' inventor in Canada insisted I learn to count to 16 for his live shows, some 20 years ago. Musical notes work in measures, and measures have counts.

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