Magic Music Visuals

How about this...

Set one set of buttons to queue A scenes and another set to queue B scenes via an input selector then mix each set. e.g choose A1 cross fade to A, choose B5, cross fade to B, and so on. Problem is you'd have to be careful not to queue on the set you're viewing.

It took me a little while to understand what was going on here but very nicely done. This is computational problem solving pure and simple. (also, your use of annotations to explain and document is excellent)

Eric got in before me but this is somewhat similar to this thread viewtopic.php?f=8&t=830

Try fugio which is more complicated and less easy to use but will work on raspberry pi.

Www.bigfug.com/software/fugio/

I would say that any SSD would improve things but I would think seek time on random access would be one of the crucial aspects. Since magic cannot know which scene you will choose next you'd want to cut down the time to get a new scene into memory. Once a video is opened, loading into GPU memory (Er...

Seems unix boot is the only way right now. Thanks for the link. And that image is intriguing! If Windows users don't mind lengthy process then Style App from MacDaddy.io is fairly easy to use. It could use some polish and acceleration but it's pretty cheap to try things out with. Here's one I did ea...

Like very mucho the vocals on that track.

If I may, what's your workflow for Deep Dream? Doesn't it take days for video?

I'm not sure I can tell you any more than the manual tells you but the post-processing is scene that can be added and automatically updated to all other scenes at the end of the processing chain. You can use it for anything you want but it is intended to allow overall colour correction/contrast/brig...

Ha! I haven't seen much of it but thanks for this. It does appeal to my sense of discombobulation.

I like your broken rectangle tunnel in 'lidar' - clean but twitchy.

That and a lot more...

https://magicmusicvisuals.com/video
https://magicmusicvisuals.com/uservideos

You could even drive the visuals directly from you DAW with the right configuration.

This might not stay up very long because of the music but that's the inspiration.

As to how, it is probably pretty obvious - some bitmaps squirted through a kaleidoscope (and a 3d banana).

Some of you will already know Hexler's Touch OSC but he has another application that is interesting for Magic users. KodeLife is his real-time shader editor which allows one to play with values on the fly and watch what happens in the output. It supports image textures (though doesn't seem to suppor...

What about this idea... Globals that are only local to a particular scene but which are exposed in the Scene module when that scene is included within another. This would allow a parent scene to pass values into the child scene. I think it would also be neater to have globals local to the scene for ...

I agree with artnik's critique. Given this sort of ambience I might try to animate the central figure more, perhaps like this...

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Free on giveawayoftheday today is PhotoDonut. Never used it myself but I mention it because it has a node based editor for creating effects (sound familiar?) and it looks like it has an interesting freehand painting mode which will clone from a photo in the chosen brush style.

Try this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=886&p=3876

Started at the beginning for me. Perhaps you'd closed down YouTube after watching half way. YouTube will often resume where you left off. Very relaxing music - felt myself more centred after just a few minutes. In my own personal experience as viewer/listener the visuals must have only positive and ...

Countdown.png You'll need a little bit of maths or experimentation to get the positioning right for this but with the values in the sceen-shot you'll get a perfect looping countdown. The Increase modifier controls the speed - I haven't timed this exactly but 1.8 seems to give close to 1 second. Thi...

Having midi files locked to a midi clock would be interesting especially if the midi recording was tied to a param or global. This is getting into timeline territory though. What about a new node for adding variability to beat triggering. sequencer_node.png Would output what, midi? Some other contro...

Here's sort of a way to do it, though you're stuck to a specific timing as it isn't off the midi clock. Record a midi file, tapping out the rhythm on your controller 1.2.345. Then replay it on loop. If you could then match this midi file to a beat clock or at least be able to change the playback spe...

That shader uses multiple (in this case only one) buffers to layer effects within the shader. MMV doesn't support buffers yet but it's been on Eric's radar for a while. That's the thing about software - it is fluid so things change around you and sometimes it is hard to keep up, especially as a deve...

Hey Nik - perhaps in your port you could parameterise the second value in the smoothstep with a range of 0.002 to 0.2?

This type of thing one can do right now... Annotation_Node.png It would be very convenient if certain annotation elements could: 1. Be added automagically to the node (e.g. midi assignments, FPS, used RAM/DRAM, spout status, BPM, gain, etc) 2. Could update in realtime and show status or warnings dep...

1. Colour balance: IMHO Hi/Mid/Shadow balance is clearly in the realms of photography and videography for correcting before you get to magic. 2. Gaussian might be too expensive for real time. 3. The polygon object can approximate a circle. 4. I think I'd have to see a picture ;) 5. There's not much ...

Nice - a reactive jellyfish. I especially like the way you mixed the audio with the midi to add interest to the 'keyboards' movement. Also, like the way you move from 2d to 3d.

In this graph I select frequencies from the input audio using a polygon - you have to pass this on the a GL or ISF visualiser though. You can do other things to the input audio too - like brightness and contrast.

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All excellent but I especially like the first example.

The arrow loads the scene and plays the scene. I don't find it confusing that the arrow is pointing to the edit-area since I see it as primarily a play button. So, even if there is a scene in the editor already, if it's not playing through the output window, then it seems logical to me that the play...

When one clicks on a scene either with the folder list arrow or via the tab the scene plays and the arrow is disabled while the scene is playing. This is logical and helpful though perhaps you might want to consider keeping the arrow as a synonym for Synchronise modules if it is the currently active...

Yes, like that. Yes the beat-clock, trigger and wrap work as expected when the scale is bypassed.

When scale=0 is enabled whatever input is selected remains - I don't want this.

I want the sequence to reset, not to retain the current Input#.

Hi blackdot, how exactly are you employing the beatclock and the input selector? I'm using 0.5 Trigger on beat-clock with a Wrap for the number of inputs. Toggling a scale modifier doesn't work for me as it leaves the last input on the screen. A Bypass puts all the inputs on the screen. Using a tran...

what would be a case where you couldn't achieve it by using other effects further down the line? I was thinking Invert but I guess if you have two Invert nodes in series each with different midi settings that would do it. Though with two colour nodes in series the second won't do anything until the...

When reading a beat-clock the InputSelector always starts from 0 but more often than not doesn’t show 0th input or shows it only briefly after a (manual) power on. It depends on when before the beat the power is turned on for the module. A work-around would be to add a dummy 0th input but perhaps it...

Nice one - thanks for the explanation. I did try waveclock a while ago and again just now after your post - wasn't 100% satisfied with its tracking and still not really - looks like you're getting better results.

What did you use to capture the video? It looks quality.

the inputs are synced to the beat with waveclock

I, certainly, would appreciate hearing more about how you synced the video - I'm not that au fait with waveclock.

What you're asking for is global variables for modifiers. I also think this would be an addition that adds a lot of depth to the program and I think it is on Eric's radar. But half way there, one can apply modifiers directly to globals and then modify those values individually in each node (instance...

Personally, I would stick with nVidia. Going from a GTX760 to R9 380x isn't a massive leap in performance.

If I were to hazard a guess I would say your graphics card crapped out. See if you can reproduce it. I doubt very much it's a Magic bug. Check your event log to see if there's any record of the exe that crashed - also, if you catch it there's also an indication of what went wrong on the BSoD. I use ...

I think its a lovely mixture of colour shape and sentiment. Nothing to do with technical ability in my opinion and even then, I'm a great believer in a growth mindset.

What I would say is: http://www.comicsanscriminal.com/

That's exactly how I'm doing it. A small box centered vertically and slitscanned while reacting to volume, bass and notes. No scrolling necessary, the slitscan does that. The bars are created by the Blow FFGL which extends pixels to the edge.

Thanks artnik. I might just experiment with your suggestion to make it more seismographic. At the moment I'm simply blowing from the center to the right edge. It might be a bit trick matching rotation to y-distance. Glad to hear it made you grin. That could just be braces tower. I quite like their m...

This is my first attempt at using the playlist to generate a video.

JEL wrote:Yes, but that only resets a single value, not the entire node.

You can just replace the node and all params will reset.

Have you tried double clicking on the modifier label?

In this image audio is visualised from a media player at full volume going through VB-Audio Virtual Cable. On the left you can see the audio goes from 0 (in the middle) to 1 (top) and on the right the same music offset by -0.5. I guess, if the audio is normalised to 0-1 you'd expect the peaks to tou...

All FFGLs are currently 32bit only. Yes, limited main memory but not GPU memory.

Thanks for the link Tanooki.

Sounds like a codec issue or perhaps file corruption. Try exporting to PNGs and see if you see the same in the frames.

Me likey.

Here's a link to the about page that describes V2:
https://www.interactiveshaderformat.com/about

No contact details tho.

I guess we'll just have to wait while things settle down and some of the non-working shaders get fixed.

It happens with a few FFGLs but not all (Sparkles, Lines and others). Never noticed this myself having not used Resolution module very much.

Good colour and variability and feel for the music - but too much damn kaleidoscope!

You could do with a luma mask on that circular logo and I would avoid rotating the canvas and making the edges visible.

Since I keep shaders, FFGL and ISF together with my media, I also consider these as assets rather than modules. I'll grant you that the lines are blurred when you have a very versatile effect that is more of a module than an asset. I guess the main distinction from MMV's pov is that shaders must be ...

Some interesting stuff and I quite like a bit of glitch here and there. Downloading emulators sounds like too much work though 8-) I'd prefer to hand craft or pre-render some glitch or 8-bit stuff or recreate it in MMV before using an emulator. https://www.videocopilot.net/products/twitch/ I have al...

I've been wracking my brains for days trying to think of a way. Nice one! This works for one column at a time for the APC40 because the buttons are on different channels for each column. But I can show six different scenes with one column and one input selector. I guess with eight input selectors I ...

Not skeletal data or depth sensor but with the latest driver (2.2.1608.31000), which I assume came with the Anniversary update, Magic now sees the Kinect V2 camera directly (as a webcam) and it scales to the comp without issue. I am assuming to a certain extent that it's the driver version that's im...

The chaps at Resolume mentioned they're working on 64bit for Avenue/Arena v6 which will include 64bit FFGL. Whether Alex May updates his plugins is another matter.

Yes, nifty and with an invert toggle and swap nodes and params with one button!

Let's say that your next devotee is Eva Longoria. Type here name and then when ready to go change the message selector. Her name will be used in whichever Complex Scene is currently running through the Complex Scene Selector. There are other ways this could be achieved too.

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I couldn't get the feedback effect I wanted with any of those IFS modules but I guess their respective developers have different ideas about what constitutes a feedback effect - I would have thought there were many video feedback loop type effects that could legitimately be called feedback. Here's a...

From the manual: To edit a scene without displaying its output in the Magic Window, Ctrl-click (Windows) or Cmd-click (OS X) its tab. The scene being edited does not have to be the same as the scene being displayed; this allows edits to be made without disrupting a live performance. Use the "Sc...

What would Center do though? Mmm, I seem to have something in mind at the time but now doesn't seem too logical. I was having difficulty centering concentric equilateral triangles and it occurred to me it would be easier if it would rotate about its circumcenter (or whichever centre coincides for a...

The only experience I've had with this is exporting out of MagicaVoxel. For MMV to load the material you need to make sure of two things: 1. There is an object (obj), a material (mtl) and a palette (png). 2. There are no spaces (and probably no non-ascii) in the filenames. Apologies if your question...

At present, the image module resizes images to fill the output window while maintaining aspect ratio. This presents problems when bringing in images for animation that have been scaled relative to each other in an external program prior to MMV. The model node has Size and Centre options, can the ima...

Try placing a single image module in the comp and rendering that.

Let us know the results and the specs of your machine.

I get the impression that the webcam arena is a bit of a mess and that if a developer gets it working in Skype they think that's their job finished. This is only my user experience though, not any dev insight. For instance, my MS LifeCam Studio works in Skype and MMV but not in Resolume. I have a Ki...

OK. What you might like to try then is right click on the node and Show Param for Bypass. Then you can assign midi to turn the node on and off.

When I add the invert module post a Jpeg or video file then to a magic visualiser it doesn't go back to a normal picture after I disengage the button Disengage which button - "Invert Alpha", "Bypass" or "Power"? 20 scenes...to a master bus to add my effects chain there...

Added another video in first post, just for fun.

Personally, I prefer to change the visual within two bars or when there's a change in the music - that's not to say I don't repeat elements later. I leave the individual beats up to automation unless I want some visuals ahead of the beat. It's fine to stop the motion when the beat drops but not when...

Resolume can play MP4s (if you rename them to MOV) but, at least on my machine, it gives terrible frame rates. There are also many reports of instability using MP4 and large images. DXV and MJPEG are always advocated by devs but never MP4. I've also tested HAP in a mov wrapper in Resolume which is b...

https://magicmusicvisuals.com/downloads ... ingModules

And to the OP, an enjoyable mashup.

If the background plate is absolutely identical. Be difficult though. Components of the foreground might still match the background.

Could you try a depth camera to generate a mask?

Or you could always invest in a Lytro light field camera!

Let me try again... You asked: I'm trying to create a guy that bobs his head along to music, but when the music stops he stops bobbing his head. In your screenshot you have Source->Sin->Scale. Using this modifier stack, when the music is, say 0.8, the sin will add to that and take it from 0.8 to 1.8...

If you want to rotate 2d plane (i.e. image) or a 3D model so that it bobs to the music then Translate up (Y) to change the anchor pos to the 'neck', Rotate about X with angle set to 20-80hz with Smoothing, then Translate down (Y) to move the neck back onto the body. For a video of someone nodding, u...

Export to mp4 then convert to DXV. There are several ways to convert files to DXV. Vegas, After Effects, Streamclip, Media Encoder and probably others.

If you have Resolume installed then that codec should be already installed.

I'm not that familiar with Ableton but I would guess you'd have to get it to push midi to a virtual midi port (e.g. midi-yoke) and then have MMV listen to that port. Ableton can only send to midi devices and MMV can only receive from midi devices so if you want to send notes from Ableton to MMV you'...

Thanks for this - works great. It would be great to see this interact with 3D models with environment lighting or even some sort of light wrap or projection.

I sometimes try to reset values in MMV when I've been working in Resolume. A right click menu option would satisfy me. Or have a default option in the parameter preset menu :D Another parameter option that would be useful (especially for fractals and other sensitive effects) would be to limit values...

This makes quite a nice bounce:

Tri Osc 1.0
Power 2.0
Offset 1.0

Try it on XY Scale or Translation on Y

1) no difference - they're the same devices 2) Yes 3) Look to buy, look to learn, look in MV? 4) Plug it in, let the driver install, add an input in the Audio/Midi window, choose your device from the list 4.1) https://magicmusicvisuals.com/downloads/Magic_UsersGuide.html#MIDIInput 5) No. Click the S...

Circle with small triangle @ about 16 minutes.

Nice to hear (see) you had some good sub woofer action.

You're probably not looking for my opinion but I know I often like to hear some specifics on my set and the evening in general. So, here's my opinion... boxhead man :) footballer :( Trump convention :) Mary Poppins :) Circle with notch :( Dancing babies meh - I prefer cats Beer throwing @ 30mins :( ...

Good to Go Music has blocked this content in my country (UK) unfortunately.

RE: vertical connectors: Yes, it would just change how they look. I would add to that, that when connectors get very short the arrow could be removed altogether. Another idea: how about snapping modules together, a la Scratch . Then we could have combined transform nodes (or any nodes) while still h...

Everything would be forced into one specific and perhaps undesirable order if all operations were combined into one module.

This Pixar video explains order of transformations visually (from about 1 minute in). From Khan Academy's Pixar in a Box lesson.

Those shapes in the video are very interesting but I'd imagine they'd be more suited to 8bit music and certainly not grungy rock. I don't know what could be achieved by filtering but your vimeo video that you took your still from shows the potential. Something similar on shadertoy is this: https://w...

or perhaps a long press on the module could make it expand. Then no need to look aside. Perhaps...but I can see two disadvantages. The point of looking to the side is so not to disrupt the flow of a minimised layout. A long press is time consuming and not much different from expanding a module (ass...

Absolutely - on the order of operations. I've taken advantage, and been tripped up, by transform ordering and, now you mention it, I can see the rationale for maintaining separated operations. But, for the sake of real-estate, perhaps then consider the suggestion to more neatly stack modules, having...

Well, not really. Just bringing together a few simple elements. Could be much more developed but just having a bit of fun at this stage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQmXT7loNak Even with fairly simple elements the final project is quite complicated - admittedly, not using sub-scenes as much as I...

Why don't you take Magic out of the picture and monitor your midi source.

http://www.native-instruments.com/en/su ... ontroller/

I don't see that here. I left it running for 20 minutes or so and no build-up.

Perhaps this is related:

Special Characters

Sorry to pull this thread again but... It would be good IMHO if when the UI bypass button is toggled it on it will invert the action of the midi CC. With rotation for example, when the module UI bypass is off, the thing will rotate and stop when the assigned midi control is pressed. When the module ...

Play your audio from outside of MMV in your favourite gapless player on the PC or from a audio input on your soundcard. Get hold of a virtual audio device like VB Cable that is able to route audio into MMV and (optionally) listen to your speakers. This setup can be used for live DJ or band etc. If y...

It remains to be seen how far Alex May will take his nodal programming development, Fugio , but already aspects of it are looking interesting. Alex has been putting out tutorials for the last few weeks as he adds features and tomorrow he has hinted that he will introduce some visual aspects in his t...

I was testing TouchOSC using an XY Pad to send midi to MMV to scale a polygon. My testing showed that MMV receives 100/cc_value in the Scale module. If the midi range is 0-127 then the maximum scale value is 100/127 (0.7874) and if the midi range is set to 0-50, MMV receives 0-2.0. Is this conversio...

You can switch between several models using the input switcher.

Before a Model Folder node I would prefer to see ambient occlusion, vertex colouring and environment lighting - if these could be done in realtime of course.

Manipulate the value inside MV then. e.g. (value/127) - 1

If it's a network issue then a slow internet connection isn't the problem - TouchOSC doesn't need an internet connection. If you create an ad hoc network from your PC and connect your iPad to that there won't be any interference from internet traffic unless your network is overloaded. The chunkiness...

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