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Buying prebuilt stuff and premade sequences seems like it’d take all the fun out of it, at least for me. I guess this is an area where some people are in it for the goal and others for the journey. I think either is equally valid, but it’s always interesting to see people making different tradeoffs than I’d make.

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I mentioned this in my other comment, but the hobby is basically three parts -- big DIY, small electronics, and software/sequencing. Some people really like one or two parts of it. Some people will buy kits and spend all their time making sequences.

Some will spend all their time building and then buying sequences.

I personally end up buying sequences because I run out of time. I've made them before, but they take about 50 hours to make one song. I sadly don't have that kind of time, so I spend all my time making and then shortcut the end so that all the making serves a purpose.

Sorry but buying sequences sounds interesting, how would one go about doing this?

Vendors sell the sequences for a song, and they typically have certain events plotted out. You then just take the timeline in the sequence file you purchased, and map your props to parts of it

It's somewhat akin to taking a midi file and setting various instruments to the various channels in the file

Thanks for sharing! Sounds quite interesting.

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