How do I upgrade to S3? What license do I need?

People often ask if LOR will run on Apple software. The answer? Sort of, but with some help.

Light-O-Rama has to use some very low level device drivers to communicate between the computer and the various types of controllers available.

When transferring sequences between computers it is important to copy both the sequence and the audio file that goes with it. By default your sequences and audio are stored in folders called, no surprise here, “Sequences” and “Audio.”These two folders can be found in your default Light-O-Rama directory, usually in the “Light-O-Rama” folder under “My…

  If you get a message saying “error reading setup initialization file” while you are trying to run the installer, probably something went wrong with your download, and you didn’t actually get the full installer. Try downloading the installer again.  If you are prompted to “Run from here” or “Save to disk”, save to disk. …

Having issues with the Hardware Utility seeing your Light-O-Rama controllers? It might be that the COM port assigned by your computer is higher than 17.  Com ports higher than 17 are not supported by the Hardware Utility. You will need to change the port number to a lower value. The process to change the com…

The default LOR Data directory is where your audio, sequence and show files are located. (Along with your Visualization folders, etc.) When you first ran Light-O-Rama you were asked where you want to put this directory. If you’ve forgotten where that is, just want to change it, here is how. (Text copied from Bob at…

There are many files in use in the LOR environment. Here are a listing of some of the LOR file extensions in the software. .LAS is an Animation Sequence .LMS is a Musical Sequence .LSV is what saves your visual preferences (zoom level, etc) within the Sequence Editor. .LCS is the compressed sequence. You won’t…