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Features

Everything here is in the app today. Things we have not built are not on this page.

Layout

  • A 3D scene with twelve model types: matrices, arches, trees, stars, candy canes, icicles, lines, custom models and more.
  • Drag to place, corner grips to resize (the same size at every zoom, and damped so a small drag is a small change), rotate on any axis.
  • Undo and redo. Right-click a model for Align with ground, Reset rotation, Rename and Delete.
  • Import your xLights xlights_rgbeffects.xml and the models come across, with a report of anything that did not.
  • Model groups, sub-models and strands, and a model palette for adding new props.
Layout page

Sequencer

  • An effect palette with icons; drag an effect onto a row, stretch it, move it, copy it, with a preview that renders as you edit.
  • Value curves, transitions, blend modes, layers, and audio-reactive effects driven by the loaded track.
  • Timing tracks: fixed interval, beat detection from the audio, MIDI notes, Papagayo lipsync files, and automatic lyric timing.
  • Views, effect presets, a command palette on Cmd+K, and panels you can drag, pin, resize or pop out into their own browser window.
  • Import .xsq sequences from xLights; export .fseq for FPP and other players, and video of a model.
Sequencer page

Automatic lyric timing

Paste the lyrics, one line per phrase, and press Time the lyrics. The song is listened to by a speech-to-text model that reports where every word is sung, each word is looked up in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, and the result is three timing tracks: lyrics, words and phonemes. The phonemes track is what a singing-face effect reads. Like the standalone tools that do this for xLights, it gets most of the way there; play it through and nudge the marks that are off. Download .xtiming saves the tracks for desktop xLights. How it works, in detail.

Shaders

  • A gallery of fifty built-in shaders written for real matrices and checked against xLights' shader dialect, each card a live preview.
  • An assistant that writes a new shader from a sentence, compiles it, repairs it if the compiler complains, and shows it running before you keep it. A hundred free generations a month on the hosted app; bring your own key for more.
  • Favourites, so the ones you use are one click away, and Download for xLights on every card for the desktop app's Shader effect.
Shader gallery

Controllers and output

  • Ethernet (DDP, E1.31), USB and null controllers, with start channels and channel counts.
  • A visualiser: controllers down one side, unplaced models down the other, drag to chain them, with a search box for shows with a hundred props.
  • FPP Connect for uploading sequences and audio to a Falcon Player.
Controller visualiser

Files

  • Autosave. There is no save button to forget.
  • Snapshots on a schedule and on demand, with a history you can restore from, and a retention setting like xLights' backup purge.
  • Projects shared with other people, and export of a whole project as one file.