Open-Lights / BeatMaker

Create Light Shows for Open Lights Core

BeatMaker

Creates and edits beat files for Open Lights Core.
This is a continuation of my BeatFileEditor.

A guide for using this software can be found here

About

Open Lights BeatMaker allows editing beats based on the inputted song. Some features include:

• Beat recording: Record beats with your mouse while the song is playing
• Onset and BPM-based beat generation
• Custom lighting effects (WIP)
• In-depth beat editing: Chart editor for millisecond accuracy
• Per-channel editing: Edit for one channel, or edit for many channels at once
• Light show preview: See how your light show will appear as you play the song
• Simple User Interface: Edit a beat interval just by typing
• Loading charts: Ability to load charts from beat files
• Demucs AI integration to allow for instrument-specific beat generation

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Performance

This software was oriented to be used on low-end hardware. The maximum ram consumption should be around 300MB or less. This software can be CPU-heavy at times, but these instances are infrequent. If installed with Demucs, this software can be very demanding. Read the requirements below to see if your PC qualifies.

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Requirements

Just Open Lights Beat Maker

• Storage: 200MB
• Memory: 500MB
• Operating System: Any

Open Lights Beat Maker with Demucs AI

• Storage: 6GB
• Memory: 8GB
• GPU: Preferably one that supports CUDA (Nvidia GT300 or greater) with at least 2GB of VRAM, but it isn't required
• Operating System: Windows 10/11

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File Output

This json file will appear named after your song in openlights/saves/song_name.json

{
  "0, 1": {      # Channels 0 and 1
    "1040": 1,   # Light On at 1040 milliseconds
    "2000": 0,   # Light Off at 2000 milliseconds
    "2970": 1,
    "3930": 0
  }
}