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The lighting environments you mention are practised in advanced, cue sheeted, programmed into a lighting board, and timed with a human typically in the loop to handle deviations that may arise.
Most disco / club lighting is "set a pattern for a BPM and let it go" regardless of the track. Except really high end clubs which do the lighting board + humans thing.
What you're likely to achieve is either:
- Audio input into a visualizer that controls lights — it will be subtly laggy, but you will notice and dislike it.
- Detect BPM and set a pattern that beat matches — this is the small club / disco scenario, and honestly it's about as good as you're going to get.
Bear in mind that lag isn't just detection of the music, but it's having lights that can go from off to on fast enough, and change colour fast enough.
Personally, if I wanted to do this I'd ignore the idea of lighting and instead go straight to a Smart TV and see if there's an app that will full screen a WinAmp style visualization, and then split the output from the amp to the TV somehow and let it do it's magic.
- Audio input into a visualizer that controls lights — it will be subtly laggy, but you will notice and dislike it.
Velocio-
Thanks for this. Familiar ish with it in a professional set up (always sat next to the lighting desk doing the audio, usually too focused to look at what they were doing!) which was what led me to wonder if it may be an option for home users.
Agree re lag, seen that with the couple of hue bulbs that sync with Spotify at the moment. But can adjust those in the Hue app to mostly get round it. Hadn’t factored in the lighting on/off into the mix as well though.
Hadn’t considered a TV as a light source. Room that the music is in doesn’t have a TV (or any tech, other than hifi!) but might try that downstairs and see if it’s an option
C4r1s
Anyone in this thread dabbled with triggered lighting in addition to their hi-fi set up? Either at home or I guess in studio/theatre/gigging environments