Hi guys, i'm new to this FastLED just today.

Hi guys, i’m new to this FastLED just today. Previously I’ve been using just Audectra alone. I manage to chance upon some guy using FastLed with audectra. I’m very keen.

My current set up is a Arduino Mega with a RGB Amp.

How do I go about setting up everything? I’ve been trying for the past hour, but i still can’t get it down :frowning:

I just use FastLED and drive LED strips directly. Rather than use straight RGB LED’s, you’re (far) better off getting a strip of WS2812’s (aka NeoPixels) or APA102’s (aka DotStars). Then you can do stuff like this:

As for sound reactive, there’s various solutions such as:

  • direct analog input
  • using an MSGEQ7 for FFT capability
  • direct analog input with FFT library

Here’s an old one I did with the latter: