DiyLightAnimation

Very good job!

What type of fog machine did you use?  I realized last minute aka day of that my fog machine had a stupid manual button I had to push everytime I wanted it to fog, which got really annoying, really fast!

it's an American DJ FogStorm 1700HD.  It comes with a DMX adapter.  I have a DMX adapter for my FogStorm 1200 but it appears to be clogged and no worky right now.  Also had my 200 watt strobe go  <md..

I eventually want to get exactly what your are talking about.  Right now I have the ability to specify a frequency breakdown and assign a frequency to an analyzer that either triggers a channel, follows a channel, or bounces from channel to channel.  I also have prebuilt effects that just need to be assigned to channels.  This keeps the configuration of a show simple and allows you to do multiple songs in a list.  I do Halloween so my requirements are slightly different so I never added the feature for dividing up the song but it has crossed my mind.  I think ptone's functionality would also be a great thing to have when you need a sequence that doesn't syncopate well with the music.

E.g.  from my Halloween show.

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The lights in the grass are on the oscillator
The lights in the windows are on the flicker effect
And the strobes are triggered when the sound frequency passes the threshold.

113 cue {
114     analyzer {
115         file:/Users/jason/Desktop/Halloween Tracks/Thunder Symphony.aiff;
116         ch:13;
117         threshold:0.750;
118         threshold_value:225;
119         bands:7;
120         freq:3;
121         type:0;
122     }
123     flicker {
124         ch:1,2,3,4;
125     }
126     oscillator {
127         ch:5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12;
128         low:0;
129         high:255;
130         speed:100000;
131     }
132 }

I suppose I have been going in a similar direction.  I've never used any of the software mentioned often here and assumed that the software figured out what to do based on the music.  So that's what I wrote.  I figured that was easier than trying to set each value manually for the whole song(s).  I saw an application for Windows that did something similar, but it wasn't as easily configurable and crashed a lot, at least on my wife's computer.  There's crap for the Mac and I don't know why.

This sounds interesting, but I don't have a Windows machine.  Was there a link to screenshots or similar posted?  I'd love to see what everyone else is seeing.

Very cool display!  Gives me some ideas for considering a 2011 Halloween display.

Was your fog machine tied in for automation and or control?

The fog machine is DMX enabled, but I didn't automate it last night.  It's so hard to get fog into the yard when the wind is blowing.