Gather 'Round (Sequence Forge Original) — xLights Sequence

Watch the full-length preview on YouTube — the whole song, the whole house, start to finish. Nothing cut.

The season between the seasons. Halloween’s packed away. The tree isn’t up yet. Your lights don’t have to wait for December.

Gather ’Round is a warm, two-and-a-half-minute harvest show in pumpkin orange, cranberry and candlelight gold. A farm dinner bell rings everyone in, then geese over the cornfield, a red barn, a pumpkin wagon, pie, the turkey and the whole feast table play across the matrix while the Grandes, mega trees and pixel poles keep time with the fiddle and banjo.

Loop it all November. It’s made to run on repeat from the first of the month right through Thanksgiving dinner, so the house is lit when family pulls in.

Test your show before the big show. Every prop gets a workout. It’s an easy way to find the dead pixel or the loose connector before Christmas night.

The music comes with it. We made the song just for this sequence, so it’s in the download. No hunting for the right version, no extra purchase. Unzip, import, and you’re ready to go.

What you get

• One zip that opens into one folder: the xLights sequence (.xsq) with its timing tracks, the music (Gather 'Round.mp3), the 15 films and the pictures the sequence uses in their own media folder, and our layout and controller files.
• Every prop on the display sequenced. No dark props, no “mega tree only.”
• Start Here (one page), a Prop Guide, a display map and our model list, so you know exactly what to point each of your props at.
• Setup help by email if the import doesn’t go the way you expected.

The details

• Runtime — 2:37
• Tempo — about 101 BPM
• Feel — Warm Americana, two big finishes and a quiet fireside close
• Format — one zip: plain .xsq, the music, media folder, layout, Start Here
• xLights — 2026.19 or newer, 25 ms timing

The music is included

Gather ’Round is an original instrumental we made for this sequence, and it comes in the download. There’s nothing to buy. Your license covers playing it with the sequence on your display, through speakers or a radio transmitter, and in videos of your show. Please don’t give the audio file away, sell it, or post it on its own.

Questions people actually ask

Will it work with my controller?
Yes. A sequence is layout data, not controller data — xLights renders it to an FSEQ that your controller plays. Falcon, Kulp, FPP, xSchedule, a Pi in a weatherproof box: none of it is baked into the file.

I don’t have half these props.
Then map the ones you have and leave the rest unmapped. Every prop has its own part, so the show still holds together on a smaller display. If you want a straight answer for your specific layout, email us a screenshot first.

Can I change it?
Change anything you like. It’s your display. Recolour it, shorten it, swap our pictures for yours — it’s a normal xLights sequence once it’s open.

What if something’s broken?
Email help@sequenceforge.shop and tell us what you saw. We’ll fix the file and send it back. Because the download opens the moment you pay we can’t take a sequence back, so we’d rather spend the time making yours work than argue about a refund.