Toccata and Fugue in D Minor · Tesla Light Show
by Johann Sebastian Bach
Attributed to Bach, and the sound of every haunted castle in every horror film since the silents. Nine minutes and twenty-one seconds of pipe organ, which makes it one of the longest shows in the catalog. The show is patient: the side markers and rear turn signals trace the lines at an unhurried pace, it steps back for the quieter fugue in the middle, and it genuinely builds to a fuller close. On the darker side. Run it late, with the porch lights off.
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 32% of its lights through the opening third and finishes near 35%, so the biggest picture is the one you end on. Most of the work falls on the side markers, re-firing about 0.7 times a second, with the rear turn signals answering back at 0.5. It runs 9:21 and averages 63 of 255 across the light channels, a darker show that spends most of its time well below full, so the hits carry further. 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.
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.
