I've been pondering the lack Synchromuse content and berating my own inaction.
The Procyon's light control capabilities eat AudioStrobe and any other machine for breakfast. There are things that can be done with three independently controlled colours that cannot be done any other way.
Much noise has been made about the unfriendliness of the Procyon Editor. Well, with the benefit of using a lot of different machine's session editors, the Procyon's is just about as simple as it could reasonably be given the number of parameters controlled. In order to make it friendlier, options for control would have to be moved to submenus or simply removed.
Writing a lights-only session with the standard editor just isn't that hard. The hard part is not the use of tools, it's getting into the creative space from which really inspiring lightshows emerge. And the only way to get into that space is by trying.
I'm thinking it would be great to start up a library of Procyon sessions and their Synchromuse headers for popular tracks. It would be up to the individual to source the music track themselves, thereby making copyright and royalties a non-issue. At first people would share their sessions freely, and once established for their work, might start selling their Synchromuse material commercially.
A free utility to convert MP3s to WAVs and apply the SM header might be created.
What thinks you?
Cheers,
Craig
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