Patent ID: 8658877

Claim:
A method of generating visual element parameters in a control sequence, the method comprising: providing one or more visual notes on a visual staff and one or more dynamic elements adjacent to the one or more visual notes; associating any of two or more intensity levels for one or more lighting elements included in a lighting system with each of the one or more dynamic elements; determining which of the one or more visual notes has the shortest time duration; multiplying a predetermined number of beats per minute by the shortest time duration and calculating a sending frequency for transmitting lighting element identifying values and lighting element intensity values; generating a control sequence including one or more visual element parameters using the one or more visual notes and the one or more dynamic elements, the visual element parameters including one or more of the lighting element identifying values and one or more of the lighting element intensity values; and transmitting the one or more visual element parameters in the control sequence as an output data sequence at the calculated sending frequency to a controller coupled to the lighting system.