Hallelujah · Tesla Light Show
by Pentatonix
Five voices and nothing else. Pentatonix recorded Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah a cappella in 2016, and the arrangement grows from a single voice to full harmony. The show stays out of its way: the rear turn signals lead with the side markers answering at an unhurried pace, and a quarter of the light values are partial, toward the top of the range here, so nearly everything swells and fades. The fullest stretch is in the middle. Dim, four and a half minutes. The quiet moment in a December playlist, best run late, when the street has gone still.
How this one is choreographed
The choreography is deliberately unhurried: the lights re-fire about 0.6 times a second, so cues land as separate moments rather than a blur. The peak is in the middle third, where roughly 35% of the car is lit against 26% at the top, then it eases back for the finish. If you are filming, the fullest ten seconds start at 2:54, when about 44% of the car is lit at once. Most of the work falls on the rear turn signals, re-firing about 1.1 times a second, with the side markers answering back at 0.7. About 61% of the re-firing happens at the rear, so the better view is from behind the car. The quietest part of the car is the inner main beams, at about 0.3 re-fires a second. It runs 4:29 and averages 56 of 255 across the light channels, a darker show that spends most of its time well below full, so the hits carry further. About 25% of the light values are partial, toward the top of the range for this catalog, so the show leans on swells and dimming as much as on hits. The longest full blackout lasts 1.0 seconds, at 1:35, and that pause is what makes the next hit land.
Measured from the exported light sequence for this show, not estimated from the song.
Get it for your Tesla
This show downloads for every Tesla: Model 3, Model Y, Model S, Model X, and Cybertruck. Preview it on your model with the View-on picker above, add it to your library, and it re-tailors to your car's lights automatically.
How to play it on your car
- Open the show above and add it to your library (remix it in the builder first if you want).
- Add your own copy of the song: an MP3/WAV you own. We distribute only the light pattern, never audio.
- Export the
.fseqbuilt for your model, then place your song next to it (or let the one-click USB writer do both). - Put both files in a
LightShowfolder on a USB drive. Or skip the manual steps: in Chrome/Edge, click 🔌 Write it to my USB drive for me right after exporting and we do it all, verified byte-for-byte. Then plug in and start it from Toybox → Light Show. Full walkthrough in the setup guide.
Car says Light Show instead of Custom Light Show, or the drive is not detected at all? That is the USB format, the folder name, or filenames that do not match. If it plays but drifts out of time, that is the audio sample rate. Fix both here.
Setting up for Christmas? The Christmas guide walks through the whole evening, from picking the show to parking the car so the neighbours can actually see it. Read the Christmas guide.
