Adapting existing LOR sequences into your own display

[jbitzer]

I have always struggled with this one and was hoping someone could shed some light on this. When sharing sequences with others, I have always had a difficult time taking a sequence made for a large display, and scaling it to fit into the number of channels and elements of my particular display.

For example, taking a sequence made for 128 channels and scaling it to 32 or 24 or 16 or 8. If its simply a matter of there is an easily divisible number of elements in one sequence vs another deleting every other channel will sometimes work. However when the elements in one display don’t align in another display no matter how hard you try and slice it is where the fun begins.

Can anyone offer some practical guidance on how to bring in sequences from other displays with different channel configuration so they can be used on another existing display and channel configuration? I’m looking for some basics and rules of thumb on the process (making a 6 minitree chase sequence work with 8 or 10 instead is driving me bananas!)

[Jim Saul]

Afraid I do not know of any real short cuts for you here.
Taking someone else's sequence is a help but you will still spend hours making it fit and work correctly for your display.
Two best practices I have gleamed from my time here are:
1) Do not mess with the original, save that for future reference, instead copy / paste into a new sequence.
2) Use the beat tracks to help you figure out what’s going on.

I’m looking for some basics and rules of thumb on the process (making a 6 minitree chase sequence work with 8 or 10 instead is driving me bananas!)

Usually people sequence their trees or arches to start and stop to the beat so you will have a hard time with this. I'd suggest you try using the beat wizard to make a free form timing grid. You want it to be the number of mini trees that you want to use (8x or 10x) this way the grid will divide up along the beat for you.

[David Rise]

What I do is watch their sequence multiple times. I try and single out items in the display that are similiar to mine.
I also use multiple copies. I have folders, for the orginal, in work, future use, and testing. Oh and one for seperate sequences that I could possibly use with other songs.
Heck if nothing else, they are a good starting point and can help you to get started or when you get sequencing block.

[jimswinder]

I look for similar elements...for example, I think most of us have the following:

Mega Tree
Mini Trees
Arches....

Now I may have 9 Mini Trees and you only have 4, but I would imagine that there is a pattern in my 9 that will fit very easily into your 4...so I would just copy and paste the ones you like into yours.

Same goes for Arches...I may have 9 segments per arch and you may have only seven, but it would be easy to modify once you have the pattern copied over.

Mega Trees might be a little more different, but again, it may just be a difference in the number of segments...so copy and paste however many you have.

After you have done this for as much as your display as you can, the rest becomes a lot easier to "fill in"

at least that is the path I take with someone elses sequence...

[PaulXmas]

In pervious years I tried and failed to use other people's squences.
Until a few weeks ago, I could not start squencing this song.
Someone sent me his.
I used his mega tree, roof line and windows.
Since I use track I created a track in his squence and copied only the channels I was going to copy.
On mine I I mirrored this track so I only had to copy once.
This gave me the start I needed.
AND saved me a lot of time.