DJ night.
Twenty minutes at soundcheck buys you a night where the visuals feel like a second performer
who's heard every track before. Two missions: prep, then showtime. Checkboxes remember your
progress on this device.
Mission 1 — soundcheck (15 min) // Progress 0 / 7 reset
Feed it the booth, not the room In the source picker, choose your DJ software directly (or the mixer's line-in) instead of System audio.
why: crowd noise and mic bleed make the beat lock guess; a clean feed makes it certain.
Lock the tempo properly If your DJ software sends MIDI clock, connect it — Luxaudica's beat lock becomes sample-tight. No clock? You'll tap tempo at showtime and it holds.
why: a drop that flashes 80 ms late reads as broken. Clock kills the guesswork.
Set the tier for the machine Quality tier: Tour on a MacBook Pro; Club on an Air or if the perf readout ever dips.
why: a dropped frame at 1 a.m. is worse than slightly softer bloom all night.
Dial Punch for the genre Punch ≈ 0.5 for house/techno, 0.7+ for bass music, under 0.3 for opening sets.
why: punch decides whether visuals groove with the track or strike with it.
Turn on Macro reactive One toggle. The app now hears build-ups and drops, not just beats.
why: this is what makes a 32-bar riser visually rise .
Load your ten Arrange tonight's looks in the first ten gallery slots — openers low, bangers in the middle, a closer at 0.
why: number keys 1–0 recall them instantly. You're building a launchpad.
Trim the beat offset from the floor Stand where the crowd stands, watch a kick, nudge beat offset until flash and thump are one event.
why: PA delay and projector latency are real; ±200 ms of trim makes them vanish.
Mission 2 — showtime moves Not steps to complete — habits to run all night. Tick them once you've done each live.
// Progress 0 / 6 reset
Open on a slow burner A nocturne (Dunes, Tide, Smoke) at low punch while the room fills.
why: you want somewhere to GO. Peaking at doors-open is a rookie tell.
Change scenes with the set, not the bar Press n (or a mapped pad) when the music changes chapter — new track energy, new visual world.
why: scene changes read as intent. Too many reads as noise.
Surprise on transitions During a blend, hit Surprise — the new look lands as the new track does.
why: it's curated randomness matched to the music's energy: fresh, never ugly.
Ride Punch like a filter Creep it up through the build, let the drop hit at 0.7+, ease back in the groove.
why: one slider, and it's the difference between wallpaper and a light show.
Blackout is a move Kill the wall for the last 4 bars of a big build (blackout on), restore ON the drop.
why: darkness is the loudest thing you can put on a screen. The restore hits like a strobe.
Know the way home If anything ever feels wrong: Panic. Full brightness, manual control, same look. Then fix at leisure.
why: three seconds of confident recovery beats three minutes of menu-diving.
Graduate move
Next gig, hand the desk to the AI copilot for one hour: tell it the
genre and the room, let it drive scene changes and punch, and keep your hands on the decks.
The AI trainer shows exactly how to brief it.