How Do You Program Christmas Lights to Music? (Getting Started)

How do you program Christmas Lights to Music in XLights? David walks you through the setup and programming of Christmas Lights to music in this video.
00:00 Introduction
01:23 Setting up your controller in XLights.
02:56 Adding models in XLights
04:24 Setting up the Visualizer
07:12 Uploading your output
08:13 Setting up string ports
09:35 Sequencing
10:59 sequence timeline and grouping
13:38 Closing
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[@user-kx9vm9qr3v]

Do you connect a speaker to the control board to play the music, so everything stays in synch? If you wanted to broadcast on an AM station with a receiver how would that change things?
Great content by the way! I appreciate all the information I have learned so far. I would like to incorporate this into my lighting installations (after I test it out on my house of course lol).

[@LearnChristmasLighting]

Often, we use FM transmitters, yes. For our full step-by-step guides, check out the Academy: academy.learnchristmaslighting.com/lcl-academy-DT

[@qbisland4476]

Hi David. Enjoy your channel. I have alot of people that walk by my house. What do i need and how to I setup an outdoor speaker. Thank you

[@twistedstyles]

how much is the snowflake where can i buy them?

[@LearnChristmasLighting]

That would be a Chromaflake 24 3 Prong: boscoyostudio.com/product/chromaflakes-24/

[@user-ev8nc1om1m]

What if you don't have all

[@user-ev8nc1om1m]

What if you don't have all that fancy stuff how do you do it Old way like the 80s