September · Tesla Light Show
by Earth, Wind & Fire
Pure joy, and the horns are the choreography. The show rides the tail lights with the signature bar answering, keeps a bright even bounce through the verses, and genuinely builds, finishing wider than it opens. Over a fifth of the values sit at a partial level, so it glows and swells rather than snapping, which suits a groove that never once hits hard. Three and a half minutes. The twenty-first night of September, or honestly any night at all, because nobody has ever been annoyed by this song.
How this one is choreographed
This is a busy show. The lights re-fire about 0.9 times a second, near the top of what the catalog runs. It builds. The car runs about 29% of its lights through the opening third and finishes near 40%, so the biggest picture is the one you end on. The fullest ten seconds arrive late, starting at 2:44 with about 43% of the car lit, so keep the camera rolling to the end. Most of the work falls on the tail lights, re-firing about 1.0 times a second, with the front turn signals answering back at 0.9. The work is split close to evenly between the two ends, 52% front to 48% rear, so it plays from either end, or side-on from the curb. The quietest part of the car is the side markers, at about 0.6 re-fires a second. It runs 3:35 and averages 77 of 255 across the light channels, a mid-brightness show, with real headroom kept in reserve for the peaks. About 21% 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. It never goes completely dark for long: the longest gap is 0.4 of a second, just before the close.
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.
