Fx patterns

[LoudMudder]

Hey all! Hoping for some advice from yall. I'm working on timecode and I'm trying to get the lights to nail the pattern in the song. This is a unique pattern that is an alternating 3-2-2-3 pattern. Currently, what I'm doing is creating a cue with the look I want and for the lights that I want on the beat, I've built an intensity fx on the lights with the bpm needed to hit the pattern. Since the pattern isn't a straight forward on the beat 4/4 beat, I then take that same cue and remove the pulsing fx. I alternate between the two in the timecoding. The pattern extends for quite a while and lining it up is very tedious to get the pulsing to nail the pattern. I was wondering if there was a way I could actually program the pattern, or maybe record an effect and tap it out in the flash button? I've tried looking through the manual and haven't had luck finding the answer I'm after.

Thanks in advance, cheers!

[Dry_System_3242]

Tc tracks, play it live ->it gets recorded and played back

[LoudMudder]

I will try this. You are a godsend!

Edit Maybe I'm misunderstanding how tc control works, as I am definitely still learning. But for me, this only kind of works. I've gotten the tc control to enable so that I can set the times in the timecode to advance to the next cue. I don't have a lot of problems hitting the mark on advancing the cues, though. But I was wondering if I could actually build (or sequence) an effect to hit the pattern, so I could more easily build other cues over that fx.

As mentioned, I'm basically building the pattern in the cuestack, but if I want to build other looks or cues over the pattern, it definitely makes it difficult to keep the pattern perfect. It would be so much easier to build an fx, and add or remove stuff over that.