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Visual Show

Show uses the pad creatively: as a canvas for light, movement, and music. It is separate from controlling agents. It explores what a small grid can express beyond status indicators, on a Launchpad or a virtual pad.

The included story, A Spark Becomes a Constellation, follows a lone light as it finds an idea, a friend, and eventually a community. It lasts about 43 seconds, with an optional original soundtrack.

Play in Desktop​

  1. Disconnect real conversations.
  2. Choose Demo & Show > Show.
  3. Enable Sound for the music.

A connected Launchpad and paired browsers follow the performance. Use Back to live pad to stop. Only the administrator can start or stop playback; connecting a real agent ends the show.

Switch between Grid and the Stream Deck layouts while it plays. The 8-, 15-, and 32-key views condense the grid into an animation; the physical Stream Deck plugin does not currently play Show.

No hardware is needed. You can also watch in the public pad.

Demo is different: Desktop guides you through simulated agent requests; the public browser Demo plays those steps automatically. Show is a light-and-music exhibition, not a tutorial or a view of agent activity.

The Story​

Eight scenes showing one spark becoming an idea, finding a friend, surviving a storm, calling a community, and forming the Pad-Lattice constellation

A spark becomes an idea, searches for company, and finds a friend. A storm breaks their connection. A call brings other lights together, ending in a constellation and the letters PL.

Colors are chosen for the story, not the normal agent-state meanings. The optional score combines piano, sustained strings, echoes, and a synthesized voice saying "PAD LATTICE."

Outer Rails During Show​

The top and right buttons become part of the animation, not controls:

  • Usually they show progress through the story.
  • During the search, they follow the moving light's row and column.
  • In the storm, they form a red border.
  • In the finale, colors travel around the grid.

They do not simply copy the grid's colors. The Launchpad Pro Mk1's left and bottom buttons stay unused.

Play from the CLI​

pad-lattice show --surface midi --audio
pad-lattice show --surface web
pad-lattice show --surface both --audio

MIDI playback starts immediately and opens the device directly; stop any daemon using that device first. Web modes wait for Start Show on the local administrator page. Browser sound is enabled separately on each device.

Use --tempo 0.8 for slower playback or --tempo 1.2 for faster playback. Press Ctrl-C to stop.

How It Is Made​

The story and score are written once in Python, then compiled into shared animation and audio files for physical and virtual playback. There is no separate browser composition.

See the experience asset compiler for the source files, schemas, and build commands, or Audio Feedback for sound setup.