programming musical sequence

[Guest kenton miles]

i am nearly at the end of programming my first musical sequence, approx 30 secs left of 3 minutes - is there a way of jumping ahead i.e the 2 minute mark and playing the sequence from there rather than from the beginning each time and watching and waiting till new parts added in show up

[Don]

Kenton,

Simply place use the mouse to place the select box at the location you wish to start from, and press the spacebar key.

You should also look at the "Play -> Play Range" setting (across the top of your screen) for other options.

[Brandon Kibler]

Go to "Play" -> "Play Range" -> "Visible Screen"


Edit: Don beat me to it.

[Guest kenton miles]

thanks guys

[Steven]

kenton miles wrote:

i am nearly at the end of programming my first musical sequence, approx 30 secs left of 3 minutes

Sorry this is a bit off subject, but I have learned that most visitors get bored if the same song plays for more than 2 minutes. In most of my musical sequences, I have used audacity to remove the 2nd verse, or the musical interlude from the middle of the song.

[iresq]

Steven wrote:

kenton miles wrote:

i am nearly at the end of programming my first musical sequence, approx 30 secs left of 3 minutes

Sorry this is a bit off subject, but I have learned that most visitors get bored if the same song plays for more than 2 minutes. In most of my musical sequences, I have used audacity to remove the 2nd verse, or the musical interlude from the middle of the song.

Ditto

[jem5136]

I try to keep most of my songs under 2 minutes also. The human attention span is about 2 minutes, so anything over that will start to bore people and they may drive away, but if something new comes up, they are more likely to stay at watch it.

Jesse

[iresq]

Plus it helps with sequence fatigue.

[Guest Don Gillespie]

If you live where the temps are usaully about 30 below people huddle close together for hours to watch stuff some of my sequences are 5 minutes long however I do agree about 2 - 3 minutes are perfect, lucky for me I live where the temps can get below 40 ask Scott one of his sequences is about 22 min long

[Guest kenton miles]

temps not usually a problem, it's summer in australia during christmas and usually hot

[Geoff Harvey]

Hi Kenton

I see you are a new Aussie here. I don't know whether you have also come across the Australian forums. If not, the following links may be of interest:

http://groups.google.com/group/Aussie-LOR-Users

http://groups.google.com/group/christmas-lighting-made-easy?hl=en

http://forums.auschristmaslighting.com/index.php

See you around.

Regards Geoff

[Guest kenton miles]

thanks for the links geoff, will have a decent look when i get time

[Max-Paul]

Maybe I missed someone saying this too. If you take your mouse and click in the time line on the left side of interested area. Then drag to the right side of interested area then tap the space bar, it will only play the time that has been grayed / high lighted. I like to use that when the whole visable area is to big. For example if I am having problems with a 1 or 2 second section of the music.