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Nutcracker Effects / Re: Having trouble with Piano Effect

« on: December 14, 2017, 02:22:22 PM »

Thank you BWINTER and GILROCK for your replies.  I have figured it out with a bit of help from the folks at AusChristmasLighting.Com.     After signing up to their site,  I was able to find a document entitled  "Piano Effect in XLights.DOC"    It gave me enough info to figure out what was wrong  and get the piano effect running properly.   

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Nutcracker Effects / Having trouble with Piano Effect

« on: December 14, 2017, 08:32:24 AM »

I am trying to use the Piano effect for the 1st time and can't seem to get it working correctly.   I created a Polyphonic Transcription timing and have tried using MIDI's from a range of 20-99.  In all cases,  when I play the music, nothing happens on the displayed piano keyboard.  The keys show up correctly on the model preview, but nothing ever happens during the song.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.

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The Water Cooler / Re: I have a problem: Wiring an uneven matrix

« on: November 05, 2017, 03:13:25 PM »

Thank you to the 2 members who replied to this post.    I have tried both suggestions but I ran into issues with the syncing of the lights.   While I was able to properly "reverse" the strings as suggested, the lights weren't properly synced when testing a bar pattern (top to bottom).  Each of the columns were off by one or more pixels. 
This leads me to another question:   It seems as though matrix designs are mostly based on square or rectangular patterns.  In other words, there are always the same number of pixels in each vertical string. 

Is there a way for me to create a "rectangular" matrix that uses some virtual pixels in order to keep the pixel addresses correctly numbered?  I think that would allow my non-standard matrix to sync correctly. 

I've attached a jpeg to this post to further explain.  The cells that are in grey are the "virtual" pixels I need to create to allow me to square off the matix and get things sync'd   (I think !!!)

Thank you to those who have responded to this post.  Any help is greatly appreciated.

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The Water Cooler / I have a problem: Wiring an uneven matrix

« on: November 03, 2017, 08:42:54 PM »

I am trying to wrap my head around the physical wiring of my matrix.  The matrix is uneven in that the strings are not all the same length and therefore contain different numbers of pixels.  I want to physically connect the second string to the first string (and so on) using the least amount of wire possible.  So, if the first string starts at the bottom and is 20 pixels long,  I want to then connect wire between 20 and 42.  Can XLights be configured to understand that the correct "firing" order is   1 to 20,  21 to 42,  43 to 67  and so on?  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.


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