Open Sound To Light (OS2L) Make your lights beat-aware to your music

Create a lightshow per track

With the OS2L protocol, you can use the simple timeline editor in VirtualDJ to precisely trigger your lighting effects just at the right time. Then when you play a track, Lightjams receives the triggers sent by VirtualDJ via the OS2L protocol. This way, you can build a light show for every song.

Since OS2L is a network protocol, Lightjams can run on the same computer as VirtualDJ or on a separate computer.

Walkthrough

1. Activate OS2L in Lightjams

Go in the view/configuration menu.

Go in the Link/OS2L tab.

Check the OS2L 'Enabled' box.

Received OS2L commands are then routed to the OSC input - see the OSC input panel and monitor for more info.

2. Activate OS2L in VirtualDJ

Go in the options.

Check yes for os2l.

Set os2lDirectIp to the Lightjams computer's ip address (or 127.0.0.1 if the same computer) and port. For example, 127.0.0.1:9666.

After this setup is done VirtualDJ will attempt to connect to Lightjams the first time it needs to send a OS2L command.

3. Create a lightshow per track

Open a track from the VirtualDJ Browser with the POI Editor (right-click option)

Select "New" from the left side window and then move the Cue Marker to the position you want a Scene to be triggered.

Select the option "Action" from the Type drop-down list.

Type a os2l_ action in the Macro Action box.

The supported commands are os2l_button and os2l_cmd. These commands are received as OSC messages in Lightjams and can be used to control everything that can be controlled via OSC, which is about anything.

See more details about editing in VirtualDJ.

4. Play

Close the POI Editor. When the track is playing on a deck each time the track reaches the Action POI, the selected scene from the os2l_action will be triggered.

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