james campbell Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 welcome to the group, it will get easier,even with more channels I think sequencing is faster with more channels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMaris Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 If you think paste by time is slick, you're gonna go ape$hit over "Stretch to Fit". That allows you to take a particular effect and shrink or expand it to fit into whatever time frame you're working with.If you do a lot of cutting and pasting, or if you just want an easier way, re-map your keyboard. I've taken keys whose commands I don't use and have assigned one button each for cut and paste. No more split-finger keyboard salute, and no more drop-down boxes. Select your range, push a button. Move your cursor, push a button. Done.And Tim's totally correct. Once you wean yourself from fixed timing grids, there's a whole new world waiting for you out there... an easier world, filled with quicker, better sequencing.Genius. Thanks for the tip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Simmons Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Well, I have 2 teenage girls that have been pushing me to do this.... and are pretty music & tech savvy... Id like to figure out a way to enlist their help If this is your entry to the JimSwinder Academy of Self-Answering Questions - CONGRATULATIONS - You've been accepted!I couldn't help but chuckle - I took one look at what you'd written and the answer is right there in your own words. 2 musically-inclined tech-savvy girls pushing you to synchronize lights to music? Seems to me we've got a deal waiting to be made with just those ingredients. Why not let them use the demo software to show you they'd be good partners were you to say: "okay - let's do this." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paralegalnc Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 Sounds like I have some reading to do too. Never got around to playing with the beat wizard and have no idea what paste multiple does, but I'll learn. I should have more time this year to work with the software, I hope.OMG Beat wizard is the bomb!! that and someone told me about using the space bar to stop and start the playing so I didn't have to keep using the menu bar and clicking...of course they told me that AFTER I had finished the 200 some hours of sequencing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paralegalnc Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 If you think paste by time is slick, you're gonna go ape$hit over "Stretch to Fit". That allows you to take a particular effect and shrink or expand it to fit into whatever time frame you're working with.If you do a lot of cutting and pasting, or if you just want an easier way, re-map your keyboard. I've taken keys whose commands I don't use and have assigned one button each for cut and paste. No more split-finger keyboard salute, and no more drop-down boxes. Select your range, push a button. Move your cursor, push a button. Done.And Tim's totally correct. Once you wean yourself from fixed timing grids, there's a whole new world waiting for you out there... an easier world, filled with quicker, better sequencing.shrink to fit?? expand to fit?? I could have used that one too!! I believe LOR needs classes to start in like May instead of October. I think alot of people are deep into their sequencing by then... earlier classes...can I see a show of hands? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LORi P Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 ... earlier classes...can I see a show of hands?or march or april.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightzilla Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 I use more of the "Wave Form" myself rather than the "Beat Wizard". Select row (s), copy & then past is a big help for me as well. The space bar is a good friend. The list goes on. This coming New Year I need to get the Superstar sequencer figured out & then that will free up 5 controllers from the matrix to put elsewhere & the ccr's will make up the matrix.I am one that cannot stay focused on training video even though I will need to. However if there is a book on "Sequencing ccr's, or ccb's For Dummies" using "SuperStar" & illustrated then I would buy it. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PMC Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 (edited) another "secret" to add a template to work with is if your a licensed Superstar Editor user, even if it is for 2 to 24 CCR's you can set your audio "timing" to absolute, export to your LOR SE and copy and paste a single ribbon to a new sequence and fine tune that, just delete the fat from that and, go back to SSE and recreate a new sequence using the same song changing the timing to Volume Relative and copy the results to LOR SE and fine tune that, I have done that a few times when i needed to do a sequence in a hurry. but I have found that I have spent more time fine tuning a sequence than if I just started a new, but for the new people this can create a more detailed "beat wizard" Edited December 22, 2012 by PMC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Simmons Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 OMG Beat wizard is the bomb!! that and someone told me about using the space bar to stop and start the playing so I didn't have to keep using the menu bar and clicking...of course they told me that AFTER I had finished the 200 some hours of sequencing!Actually, there's a pinned thread (in the Newbies section) that addresses those and many more tips and tricks.http://forums.lightorama.com/index.php?/topic/13818-sequencing-tips-tricks-and-secrets/Also, Gigogig has organized some free on-line classes that have dealt with sequencing. Check in during the year to keep up with what he might be offering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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