Guest guest Posted November 12, 2006 Share Posted November 12, 2006 I have a song that I would like to have some of my mini trees to go with the singing in the song. To get the effect like it was talking, I use 50% and 100% intensity for the lights.How do you get the effect that something is talking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 18, 2006 Share Posted November 18, 2006 It depends on how tight the grid timing is, but I use fades which overlap. In faster worded passages, the overlap is very high, meaning the fades are more 100 to 80% or 75%. In medium passages, the fades are more from 100% to 50%. In slower passages, it can dip as low as 25% or even 0. I find using a strategy like this causes the lights to flux much like a voice. If spend a lot of time to make sure every syllable is at 100% and fade down relative to how fast the new word/syllable occurs, the result is amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 18, 2006 Share Posted November 18, 2006 The one time I did it, I used the tapper wizard set to "fade one channel from 100% to zero" or whatever it's called. Then I tapped along with the syllables. After a little manual clean-up of my bad taps, it was reasonably convincing, particularly since in that portion of the sequence, the "talking" object is one of the few things on.-Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 18, 2006 Share Posted November 18, 2006 Hey ESommer,I've been doing a lot of that type of sequencing lately. Take a look at my South Park Christmas post earlier in this group. I fade from 100% to 50% on every syllable (yeah I know, *groan*). There's really no set way, just experiment and use what looks good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 18, 2006 Share Posted November 18, 2006 comicemp wrote: Hey ESommer,I've been doing a lot of that type of sequencing lately. Take a look at my South Park Christmas post earlier in this group. I fade from 100% to 50% on every syllable (yeah I know, *groan*). There's really no set way, just experiment and use what looks good.I love the piece, Greg! Here's the link: http://lorsequences.com/component/option,com_remository/Itemid,35/func,fileinfo/id,118/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 18, 2006 Share Posted November 18, 2006 Thanks Mike!I was looking for a legit version of this song when I stumbled across Cartman. I immediately imagined what this would look like with my setup and just had to sequences it just for the fun of it. Hope it brought you a chuckle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 A new "G" rated version is uploaded with the objectionables removed.http://lorsequences.com/component/option,com_remository/Itemid,35/func,fileinfo/id,120/Thanks Greg! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 9, 2006 Share Posted December 9, 2006 Here is a live version of South Park I used this year. The lights are synced a little bit to far ahead of the audio track, but I'm too lazy to fix it for this year. This is on a college campus, so I can get away with using the audio track. http://lightoramasequences.com/av/michael/2006/South%20Park%20-%20Cartman%20Sings%20Oh%20Holy%20Night/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 9, 2006 Share Posted December 9, 2006 I'm going to watch that video now. I took your suggestion and am doing the vocals in my song with overlapping fades. Looks really good. Thanks for the tip! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Mike--nice use of Liquid Tension Experiment in the opening and closing credits... who's playing it tho? I know that's not the original...Colin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Honestly, I don't know. Someone I don't know very well had it linked in his AIM profile ages ago. If I had to guess, I'd say it's some friend of a friend's band if you know what I mean. Do you want the track? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 ESommer wrote: I have a song that I would like to have some of my mini trees to go with the singing in the song. To get the effect like it was talking, I use 50% and 100% intensity for the lights.How do you get the effect that something is talking?Here is how I made my Shrek and Donkey talk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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