Ride of the Valkyries · Tesla Light Show
by Richard Wagner
The brass swells sweep across the car in long cinematic waves, building to full-body hits on the theme’s biggest statements. Wagner wrote it for the opening of Act III of Die Walküre and it has been announcing arrivals ever since. Nearly a quarter of the light values sit at a partial level, so this show leans on swells and dimming as much as on hits, and it stays dark overall to leave the brass somewhere to go. Five minutes, side-marker led, and it genuinely builds. Yes, your Tesla can do opera.
How this one is choreographed
The choreography is deliberately unhurried: the lights re-fire about 0.4 times a second, so cues land as separate moments rather than a blur. It builds. The car runs about 24% of its lights through the opening third and finishes near 33%, so the biggest picture is the one you end on. If you are filming, the fullest ten seconds start at 2:43, when about 44% of the car is lit at once. Most of the work falls on the side markers, re-firing about 0.4 times a second, with the rear turn signals answering back at 0.4. The work is split close to evenly between the two ends, 46% front to 54% rear, so it plays from either end, or side-on from the curb. The quietest part of the car is the inner main beams, at about 0.3 re-fires a second. It runs 5:00 and averages 55 of 255 across the light channels, a darker show that spends most of its time well below full, so the hits carry further. About 24% 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 2.2 seconds, at 4:53, 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.
Running this on Halloween night? The Halloween guide covers timing it for trick-or-treaters, keeping the battery happy over a long evening, and what to do about the neighbours. Read the Halloween guide.
