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Strips

On the TinyPixelMapper we do Line mapping not Matrixes. That means you section your leds into Strips. An effect will always play from a start led over the Number of Leds in that Strip.
During the Calculation phase it will start with the leftmost Strip of a page and them move to the Right.

The Picture above shows the TOP section of every effect. It is devided into 3 Rows.

Warning Strips will allways be saved in a Pattern but only loaded from the save if ConfLoad overrides Lampconfig is enabled.

Refresh

This button Refreshes the Page. Is only visable if Maual Reefresh is disabled.

Led

This Led indicates the Comunication Status. While it flashes Redish we are still reciving new info. once Green the TPM has finished sending.

1 Row Calculate Button

These are little buttons to help you. If you press it it will automatically calculate the correct Start led for this Form based on the values to the left of it.

2 Row Start Led

This is the Start led for this Strip.

3 Row Nr of leds

This defines the length of the Strip. How many leds does it have.

Strips General

Here are all the Settings that can be found on multiple Layers.

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RUN / ON

This switches the FX on for the Strip in a specific layer. Make shure the layer is selected in the Layer Order the Master Play Page.

Mix Settings

Pulse

All Leds do the same as thing the first led in the Line.

Mirror

Mirror the Strip

Reverse

Reverse Direction

Mix

Select howto Mix this Strip into the Output.

• Modes:
  • ADD
  • SUBTRACT
  • MULTIPLY
  • MASK
  • AVARAGE
  • DIFF
  • HARD MIX
  • Overlay
  • Screen
  • Glow
  • Exclusion
  • Negation
  • Phönix
  • Reflect
  • Darken
  • Lighten
  • Linear Burn
  • Color Burn
  • Linear Dodge
  • Color Dodge
  • Hard Light
  • Vivid Light
  • Pin Light
  • Linear Light
  • Soft Light
  • OR
  • XOR
  • AND
  • Replace (do not mix just Replace, good for checking)
  • Ignore (Dont Mix this layer onto the Output. Wastes CPU cycles since we are still calculating but good for checking the difference if its on or off)

Trigger Bin

What FFT FX bin to trigger from. If the Bin returns anything higher than 0 it will enable the output. The Strip must have RUN selected but will only display if the BIN triggers.

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Master Level

The Big Slider on the left labeld MASTER LVL. Scales down the Output of all Strips in the Layer.

Level

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Level DropDown

You can also override the value with an FFT BIN(dropdown), The BIN result will be used as the level. This will DISABLE the LEVEL Slider.

Reset Index

Some FX such as Paletes or Rotate use Indexes to know where they are in the animation. If you change values that are used for the calculations you need to reset the index back to the initial Values to make shure that it will look the way you want to on next load.

This Button effects All Layers and not just the one you are editing.