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castortiu:
Back on January I wrote on here that I had in mind a new software that works radically different than Vixen to create sequences, because of my work I didn’t have time to start it, last year I had 48 channels and create the sequences was a real time consuming task. This year I had in mind close to 300 channels, only thinking in the time I would have to spend to create the sequence made me think to postpone the show for 2011, so instead last week I started to create the software that I had in mind, if works as planned weeks of works should be possible to be done in one day, then I can create the sequences with this software if I can make a working prototype for this year.

I don’t know LSP, never tried, so I don’t know how good they are, my only reference is Vixen so far.

Here is a demo of the work in progress, no much for now  :-\, I just started a week ago and I work at night since I don’t have free time during the day :).

I uploaded the file, it is an Adobe Flash video with the demo of the work in progress. It is a .exe that will open a web page and play the video.

About the file is 100% safe, RJ can kick my a.. if it is not  ;D

Cas.
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dmaccole:
Cas:

I like the ability to scroll back and forth in a song while it's still playing and the ability to change the replay speed on the fly.

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\dmc

castortiu:
One of the objectives is run everything on the fly, that reduces the number of clicks and allows setting the channels when the song is playing, so in theory after mastering the application usage, you could be playing for example at 1/10 of the speed and creating the sequence at the same time.

I don’t know about Xlights project, the site doesn’t show any screenshot or show the semantics how the application is going to work.

Vixen masters the sequence creation from a low level point of view, doesn’t make sense make another application like that since it does very good what is supposed to do, we need applications which are abstracted to a much higher level where they can make the 95% of the work quick, and possible leave the last 5% to be touched for low level apps like Vixen.

I’ll keep an eye on Xlights.

Cas.

lineman:
I say good job keep going you can never have enough sequenceing software. 1 thing I would like to see is sorta auto sequenceing what I mean is you pick a group of channels and let the computer auto sequence just on/off then you could go back on adjust to your liken ie. dim,fade ect. I don't know if this is even possible, also away to select specifc beats in a song like the firt and second beat or whatever and it show up on automaticaly on a beat track, I don't understand the wave form I can never tell when the beat starts when there is a bunch of lines every where. Just my thoughts

castortiu:
The article was made on Spring 2010 and doesn’t mention any software name with those capabilities. Basically the article is pretty close to what I have in mind and wrote on December 2009.

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From where did you take the inspiration to create the article? Is there already software with those capabilities which abstract from the grid?

I didn’t try LSP for two reasons:

1- All videos I have seen, most from YouTube, still use a grid where you set the intensity for the channels, you can have many plug-ins to help in the sequence, if that is the case I would call it Vixen on steroids, if LSP has a mode where you abstract from the grid then it would be interesting, but it’s weird I never saw on YouTube a video using LSP in this way, since it would be way more efficient than using a grid.

2- If I try LSP and I see something I like and they resolved using the grid, it will be stuck in my head, so when a face a similar problem I’ll remember LSP and probably will tend to do something similar, and there is when the originality and new ideas don’t come, as a Software Engineer in my company I have totally forbidden seeing software patents and different software GUI’s since it mess with the ability to create new stuff, I think is a good policy. If you tell me LSP does not use a grid and you can create sequences way faster than Vixen then I may give a try.

Thanks,
Cas

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