General Software FAQ

Over the years we’ve seen many people who think that the solution to every problem is to update their LOR Software. This, in fact, is the furthest thing from the truth.

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…

Each year there are stories of people who have lost all of their sequencing work (and family photos) because of a hard drive crash or other disaster. If they had a backup of the data, then restoring it would be easy. However many people today do not have a backup solution and are at risk…

The LOR Comm Listener is a program that runs in the background, allowing other programs (such as the Sequence Editor and the Show Player) to control LOR devices that are on LOR Enhanced networks, and also to control DMX devices. The Comm Listener must be running in order for those programs to control such devices….

There are times when you will run across an “Unknown Device” error when using the Hardware Utility. The most common cause of this is using software that was published before the device you are using was released. For example, when the first “S3” boards were released people using the “S2” version of software would get…

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.

Have you tried to use the Simple Show Builder (SSB), only to find out the SSB can’t locate your sequences? When the SSB looks for your sequences it does so in only one location, your default sequences directory. This is usually c:\users\<name>\My Documents\Light-O-Rama\Sequences. If your sequences are not there, then the SSB won’t be able…

If the musical selections you are using have different volume levels and you want to normalize them, thus making them all the same volume, consider MP3Gain. This program will adjust the volume of your musical files so they will all be approximately the same volume.

Problem – Error message on install that says in part, “Error:path/file access error on step:install demos” Resolution: Ensure that NONE of the files and/or folders in your LOR Data directory are set to ‘Read Only’.    

This was posted to the LOR User Forums, by Dan, the owner of the company. In order for the Light-O-Rama software to be activated by the license key, that software needs to be registered in the Light-O-Rama Database. By keeping a centralized record of the number of different machines a license is used on we…