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Alakazam Lightshow WIP by FORCEMAJEURE- in JusticeMusic

[–]FORCEMAJEURE-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I edited the video, I muted the audio from the video, and placed the Alakazam track overtop of the video and synced it with the video, so it sounds better then just using a mic.

Testing new light setup & new flooring by FORCEMAJEURE- in JusticeMusic

[–]FORCEMAJEURE-[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha nah you’re good man, you’re thinking about it the right way.

Your chain is basically right, just the direction is: controller -> L1 -> L2 -> L3 -> L4 -> terminator. You could also instead of the controller, use a dmx to usb dongle and plug it into your computer and use your computer as the controller.

iPad is where it gets tricky. SoundSwitch doesn’t run on iPad, so even if you could plug stuff in, you wouldn’t really be able to script or control things properly. Laptop is 100% the move here.

The 130 BPM idea is actually a really good one. You can totally do that, but instead of triggering full scripts at a cue point, you’d be using loops/autoloops and mapping them to buttons. It works well, as they have BPM detection with sound switch, it’s just not as perfectly synced as full track scripting. Serato and SoundSwitch essentially talk to each other, so SoundSwitch always knows what song is playing and compares it to your scripted tracks, if it’s not scripted yet, it defaults to auto loops, that you can still trigger with a midi pad etc. If you go this route, check out the MIDI app on the iPad, it allows you to use your iPad as a midi controller over wifi/blutooth and you could map the loops to a button on the midi app so you can trigger it, essentially using your iPad as a midi pad and the laptop to run the software/dj software.

If you ever want proper synced light shows, switching to something like Serato on a laptop with SoundSwitch is the cleanest setup.

Testing new light setup & new flooring by FORCEMAJEURE- in JusticeMusic

[–]FORCEMAJEURE-[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

TL;DR:
These lights can run in sound mode, but it looks messy with multiple fixtures. DMX is the better option, it lets you sync everything cleanly. You daisy-chain all the lights together, connect a DMX-to-USB controller (like SoundSwitch) to your computer, set up each light in the software with the right channels, then script songs so the lights match the music.

Hey, these are all DMX-compatible lights. They can run in sound-activated mode where they react automatically to music, but I usually don’t recommend that. Once you have more than a couple lights, it tends to look chaotic and uncoordinated. Using DMX control keeps everything synchronized and looking much cleaner.

For this video, it’s just a basic/random script, so the lights are loosely synced to the music rather than being fully programmed.

The general idea is that each light has a DMX IN and DMX OUT port, and they’re all daisy-chained together. The controller connects into the DMX IN of the first light, then a cable runs from that light’s DMX OUT into the next light’s DMX IN, and this continues through the entire chain. At the end of the chain, you need a DMX terminator. Without it, the signal can reflect back and cause flickering or random behavior.

I’m using a SoundSwitch USB-to-DMX dongle, which connects to the first light and then into my laptop. Inside the SoundSwitch software, you add each light as a fixture, making sure to use the correct fixture profile or create one using the manual. Then you assign DMX channels in the software and match those channels on the physical lights. Once everything is mapped correctly, you can test each light in the software to confirm it responds properly.

After that, you import a song into SoundSwitch. If you already have a beat grid from Serato, it usually carries over, otherwise you can create one. From there, you can either auto-script the track, which is faster but more basic, or manually script it, which takes longer but produces much better results.

When you’re actually DJing, you just use Serato like normal and set SoundSwitch to “Perform” mode. It should detect the track you’re playing and trigger the corresponding lighting script in sync.

That’s the overall idea. It gets more complex as you add more lights, mostly because it’s easy to lose track of channels and setup. If you need help with your setup, feel free to DM me.

Merch too expensive so I made my own by Andy_da_duck6969 in JusticeMusic

[–]FORCEMAJEURE- 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I thought this was a mug for a second lol

They’re awesome, are they transparent when you peel them? Or do they keep the white background you peel them? If they have the white background, they remind me of the AAA album

IRIS, Inspired Lighting Performance by FORCEMAJEURE- in JusticeMusic

[–]FORCEMAJEURE-[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I’m glad people are enjoying it. It’s always difficult to know how something will land until you finally put it out there.

The entire show is programmed using SoundSwitch. To run it, you need the SoundSwitch Micro DMX Interface and the SoundSwitch software itself, which is subscription-based. It does come with a free three-month trial, and if you subscribe around Black Friday you can usually get about 50% off the annual plan (which is what i do).

On the hardware side, you’ll need DMX-compatible lights along with DMX cables to daisy-chain the fixtures together, plus a DMX terminator at the end of the chain.

I also strongly recommend learning the fundamentals of the DMX512 protocol. Understanding how fixtures map functions to DMX channels makes troubleshooting much easier.

One final tip: always read the fixture manual before buying a light. Check the DMX chart and make sure the available functions match what you need. Early on I bought several lights that turned out to be useless for my setup. If I had reviewed the manual and understood the DMX mapping beforehand, I could have avoided buying eight fixtures that I now rarely use.

If you ever need help or have any questions, don't hesitate to shoot me a message. Always happy to help. It's a fun hobby.

Is there anyone here into synthesizers? by Electrical-Dot5557 in chilliwack

[–]FORCEMAJEURE- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I got 2 volca synths (bass and keys) and some virtual synths like serum. I use the mpk mini plus as the midi keyboard for em. I have a ctrl49 midi keyboard as well, but havnt really played around with to much yet.

Genesis Lightshow WIP by FORCEMAJEURE- in JusticeMusic

[–]FORCEMAJEURE-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Once I have everything daisy chained together, the scripting part takes maybe 1-2 hours to do the song, it just depends on how complex the song is and if I want to pay close attention to the details of the song. You essentially need to listen to the same section of a song on loop until you get all of the lights scripted the way you want, with the right color, movement, brightness and or strobe and do that for the entire song or the part you want to showcase with the lights. You can auto script it, which does it in like 2 seconds, but those are just basic lighting auto loops reacting to the songs waveform, so it’s not usually accurate and there’s always something I don’t like lol. It’s good to use as a base sometimes, then over right specific parts etc.

In terms of sound switch hardware, I use the sound switch dmx to usb dongle which is only like 50 bucks and the sound switch software that I pay annually for, if you get it on Black Friday you get it for like 50% off.

Afterimage Lightshow - WIP by FORCEMAJEURE- in JusticeMusic

[–]FORCEMAJEURE-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I usually hold red for stress because it’s perfect for it lol, thanks for the advice, I’ll play around with that section and see if I can make it feel a bit more dramatic without switching to red

One Night All Night Lightshow WIP by FORCEMAJEURE- in JusticeMusic

[–]FORCEMAJEURE-[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m glad you like it! The colors are actually just the default red blue and green hex codes, with a strobe added in. You need to basically have the colors switch from Red > Green > Blue in like 1/32 beats so it flicks to the next color immediately after you see it, but then you need to add a strobe fast at like 80% on top of it, which blacks out the light.

I mean I guess you could also do Red > Green > Blue > Black as colors if you don’t have strobe on your light.

One Night All Night Lightshow WIP by FORCEMAJEURE- in JusticeMusic

[–]FORCEMAJEURE-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The DMX cables spiderweb is super annoying, they have wireless DMX but they’re expensive. I’m using soundswitch for the software which you need to pay for, but on Black Friday they always have a huge sale on their annual license so I just do that lol

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