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Yes, I predict x86 may give over to ARM - though maybe not for Magic users just yet.

See this thread for benchmark project and a place to record results - though also post results on the forum if you can - I'd be interested.
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In that other voicemeeter post the OP had neglected to choose the correct routing next to the volume control (B1 virtual output in their case). Screenshot 2025-01-11 205108.jpg This is unlikely to be a Magic issue - more likely voicemeeter or sound card setup. As to why it used to work and now doesn...

See this thread: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2484

Nice - thanks for reporting. Benchmark it.

If Magic crashes, you should see errors in your event log - this may give a clue as to what is causing the crash and perhaps the lack of output. There are some reports of permission errors for nvidia drivers, though not related to output, but since an elevated Magic solves the problem, this does see...

In an earlier feature request (a long while ago!) Global BPM - yes, this is on our list. But as you describe it, some users might be upset if the BPM affected things they don't want to be affected. So there would have to be some way to indicate for every individual setting (i.e., every individual mo...

Thank you everyone for your kind words and encouragement.

I've just uploaded a version with a binaural soundtrack - listen with headphones.
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The 'jitter' is largely dependent on the audio you're reacting to and the frequencies you're selecting. Magic gives 5 gross audio bands which are good enough for most cases but within those bands are a lot of frequencies. That is where the 'jitter' comes from and, if you want to mitigate it, you mus...

Connect your 4 videos into a Null node. To toggle all videos on, power on/off the Null. To toggle each individual video on/off, toggle the power of each video.

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Where is this parameter located in which context menu? The Magic manual tells you. Right click on a module and select Show Param For. NB. you won't see the Bypass for shaders that don't have input nodes - in that case, you have to use Power. BypassParamMenu.png So far I have always done this with a...

The manual says, "The Iterator module draws its input the specified number of iterations" and "The internal Iterator# reports the current iteration number as controlled by the Iterator module". The manual doesn't tell you how to use the iterator but I've done several tutorials de...

Hi Joel,
There are other users with vastly more midi knowledge than I but perhaps this thread from a few months ago might give you some pointers...
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When I do visuals, folks always come up after to ask me how I do them and what software I use. I think I may have persuaded many to buy a Magic licence this way over the years. One such bought a licence recently and now, every time we cross paths, he asks me a barrage of questions (even while I'm tr...

Hi Text module or TextFile module (Used with iterator ) Mix with original after the Blend - there is a feature request for wet/dry effects Mask takes the value of one image to modulate the transparency of another - it doesn't texture map on 3d objects. Create and download shaders with the ISF Shader...

All went well last night - no technical glitches. I would perhaps make different choices given more opportunity to review it live beforehand but on the whole I am pleased with how it came out. The recording is 360 so navigate around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHNlNTcLWhk An unwrapped still fro...

I think I have had shaders that work in the ISF editor environment but not in Magic I've just had that experience with a multi-buffer shader that ran in the ISF editor but not in Magic. After trying a few obvious attempts to fix it, I gave up with Magic_GLSL_compile_errors.txt giving this error/war...

My guess would be that your transition time is longer than your scene length. You show start times in your screenshot. Turn off 'Show start time' to see the scene lengths.

Bypass it until you need it. If you can't see the bypass parameter, show it via the context menu. You should be able to work out the rest.

The shaders that will give the most issues are the multi-buffer shaders and any shader that is 'golfed' i.e. optimised for minimal code length. There are also a few specific things that aren't supported which can't be fixed (breaks, cubemaps and others) and some standard issues that are relatively e...

There was a similar question not long ago: https://magicmusicvisuals.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3227 The same advice applies to your question but here's the logic to get from here to there. You need some time for the movement - that could come from a number of sources but let's use an Increase modif...

It's expected - you load them directly from the GLSLShader module.

If you implement this node group, you'll be able to see chords. Where 'Midi Piano' is the source midi channel with the chords in it.

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Or, if you want to see which notes are being played...

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I'm not doing the audio but, yes, Reaper is driving the piece and feeds its multiple tracks into a VST that (I think) handles the the ambisonics (O3A) decoding and spatialisation. I can't remember the name of the VST but it seems there are several out there. Talking about audio and Magic - one thing...

Cheers Terry - its on 8/11 in London.

A collaboration for which I will provide the visuals has been accepted into the Sound/Image24 festival, a week long celebration of audio-visual art. Here is a photo of our piece being tested on a fully circular 360 screen together with 16.2 speakers outputting an ambisonic soundscape. The resolution...

Try obj and make sure the corresponding mtl file and image textures match and have no spaces in the filenames. Search for 'mtl' on the forum.

Getting anything to move is a matter of applying modifiers to X and Y (and Z) on translations with Source set to '(No source)'. Getting exact motions, apart from the simplest linear translations, takes a bit of experimentation. Here's an example of a figure of eight. Screenshot 2024-10-10 103227.jpg

As you know, double-click is already taken. Screenshot 2024-10-06 092154.jpg I hear ya, but a double click isn't vastly less cumbersome than the menu. The fact that there are (at least) three ways to start a scene (arrow, double-click, menu) ignoring automation and playlist gives you sense of the pr...

Can you post a simple version of your project that demonstrates the issue? 5 scenes and skipping the final scene when advancing through the playlist, containing content we have access to.

That screen is amazing and suits your lovely visuals!

If that were me, I'd reinstall drivers and check the usb cable. Magic has clearly found the audio interface at some point. When you receive that message, magic can't find the device it had used during the previous session. I don't know enough about asio to say if it would keep a driver in memory but...

I have used a few old audio interfaces without issue: ZOOM U-44 - from 2016 and the M-Box 3 - RIP (2005-2010). I've never used a Behringer but I don't see any reason why that wouldn't work with Magic - except there are folks grumbling online about the quality of its drivers. Have you done all the so...

I couldn't access your video. I know little about midi but the video below was created in Magic with a midi file. You'd need a single channel of just the notes you want displayed in instantaneous duration for each note so as not to make a mess. It would be very challenging to generate a clean 'score...

This has been asked for a few times. The devs have said at various times they'd look into it but nothing has been forthcoming. There are no Magic plugins (as far as I know) but there is an SVG plugin for Resolume. Unfortunately, Resolume didn't like other apps using their plugins so that way is clos...

The Waveform module is a Geometry module hence it is quite resilient to scaling. If you want to focus on the low end, for example, just scale and translate in X until just the low end is visible. However I agree this could be useful especially for circular waveforms that can't easily be scaled (in X...

The syntax reference for expressions is here: https://github.com/ArashPartow/exprtk/blob/master/readme.txt The Magic user guide has some basic examples: https://magicmusicvisuals.com/downloads/Magic_UsersGuide.html#GlobalsInExpressions For a little more advanced use of globals, vars and code in expr...

The Flip H and Flip V modules were created by VIDVOX - perhaps there is no easy way to flip media in vdmx. Another use case is it does what is says - some prefer the simplicity. Both flips are very simple glsl shaders and I'm guessing you must be using the iterator with 100s of instances to see degr...

It would be better to see a screenshot of your Input Sources window. Do you have audio loaded and is it assigned to source 1 and 2.

Does this do it for you?

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Different users have different ways of working and I'm just a regular user. If midi feedback was asked for by a fair proportion of users then the devs would take notice. For me, I get enough feedback from the visual. I have an apc-40 but I don't use it - I prefer TouchOSC and feedback would not help...

No, I think everyone appreciates when features are suggested or there's any contribution to the forum (I do). Why there was no response, I can only say from my pov. 1. Not relevant to me 2. I agree for the odd occasion when I do longer scripts but not enough to respond. 3. I didn't fully understand ...

You're doing something wrong if you're not using 100% gpu. Seriously, try Afterburner, that gives a more accurate picture of resource use. Some things are parallel, some are serial (audio, video), some are memory based, some storage based (audio, video). So if your scene has few things that can be p...

Magic will only output one Spout per instance and only on the same machine. NDI will do more if you have the right hardware/network. Recommend you try Spout and NDI test sources that come with their installs if you're not already familiar with the technology. This thread gives some advice for NDI: h...

There is a lot in there and it works very well. Nice one.

Check System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts to see if any system command is assigned. Perhaps just a dirty/old/damaged keyboard? I would say it's very unlikely to be something in Magic. There's a hot key for my KVM that switches computer on occasion but I've never worked out what it is.

There's a fairly comprehensive discussion (with screenshots) about responding to time-based events in this thread: https://magicmusicvisuals.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2950 If you need more basic info on the Increase modifier, look here: https://magicmusicvisuals.com/downloads/Magic_UsersGuide.html#...

Any Increase modifier acts as a timer from the start of a scene (or a reset) at which you can choose your moment. There is also the PlaybackTime internal that is a timer from the start of the loaded audio. Both in seconds. There's no absolute time for a clock but there are no doubt many apps out the...

It has been a little while since I looked but you're right, laptop GPUs are hobbled on memory now - very disappointing. I've had 24gb on my desktop for years, I'd just assumed they'd stay the same or even go up, even for laptops, especially for machine learning. Luckily, Magic doesn't have to be too...

Screenshot 2024-07-17 190805.jpg Almost anything would be better than T2000. A 4090 would be more headroom for sure but a matter of degrees over other cards. The only reason to definitely go for a 4090 is for the 24GB. I do quite nicely on a 2080 though I hit frame rate slow downs in some heavier s...

Perhaps Voicemeeter might help you. But it sounds like you'd be better off asking in the rekordbox forums.

No rotation or scaling - just translation in X.

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Ah, good old Tony Benn. Putin has run out of bullets and must fawn to kim jong un for a resupply. But we shouldn't get political on this forum!

Nice vid tho.

I like it. Visually well done and suits the music. Overuse of kaleidoscope IMO, though it is put to some good use in the first half - second half is gratuitous kaleidoscope. Make sure your images reach the edge of the output and you have Corners turned on when using it. I hope to see more of your st...

Midi and perhaps OSC but not Ableton Link. You'd need the Performer version.

Yes, there are simple ways and more complex ways to automate to time (and midi/osc, audio). The simplest and arguably powerful is to use the playlist. At the module level, where appropriate, parameter modifiers default to 1 second and you adjust it up or down to shorten or lengthen the period. If yo...

Inspect your magic config and the audio section of device manager, for duplicates. You could also try disabling/enabling/defaulting audio devices from the Windows Sounds->Playback dialogue.

Try Help-> Reset All Settings? Perhaps the audio config got messed up.

There are many ways to roll one's own circular waveform but it's great to be able to add a quick circular wf when constructing scenes live or semi-live. The circular waveform's peaks are big for most music which is great for some cases but it is also nice to have the peaks scaled down. For a non-cir...

A short demo I just posted to my channel. Simply scaled 3d models bopping to some dubstep. It was challenging to get the models to integrate with the background and it is still not very convincing but, Magic isn't a 3d modeller, so its not too bad.

Resolume 7 has abandoned FFGL so unless you copied DLLs from a previous version, you wouldn't. Here's one that works that you might try: https://www.7dex.de/works/ffgl-plugin-32-64-mpeg-artifacts/ If this doesn't (easily) work then there is something more fundamentally wrong. Send a screen shot or t...

The spectrum has a transparent background but, because you're using effects on the spectrum, this removes the alpha. You could add a lumakey to recreate it but this has the drawback that dark areas of the image will show the background (stars). You'd be better off simplifying it and using a Mask mod...

Magic on my rtx2080 pc idles at around 18% gpu on an empty scene. As to fading in and out, there are several ways. Top and tail the playlist with empty scenes. Have a Transparency node add a small Threshold on Volume and a healthy chunk of Smoothing. Use a Mix node with just one input with modifiers...

Hey I sent an email last week and a day later a message through the contact page. Magic's activation is still playing up for me. I've been getting this every time I start the program Capture.PNG I can enter my key and get in but on restarting the app, get it same thing again. Deactivating the app do...

Sounds like your almost there. Did you make sure that 'listen' is checked? Then set your Playback thru your DDJ.
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The controller is just a controller, no? It doesn't do any audio. I don't really know reckordbox but I would imagine its like any other audio app. Are you using the built-in sound card or external sound card? Either way, to set up VBCable for magic to react to, it needs to be installed and enabled o...

I was rocking 10.16 of NDI plugins for a gig a short while ago from my PC across a switch to a mac, live streaming the performance through OBS. That worked without any of the difficulty you seem to be having. I upgraded to 10.21 now and it still works (get a test image) without issue and didn't have...

Most media/elements comes into Magic aligned to centre. Only text can come in left or right aligned. When dealing with elements of similar dimensions this isn't an issue but, especially in JPEGFolder and VideoFolder, when elements have significantly different dimensions, it would be good to left or ...

I've been preparing some images (removing background, scaling, rotating, adding green screen etc). Part of my workflow is to prepare images for one side of the output then rotate them (using Windows Explorer context menu 'Rotate Right') to suit another. While doing this I note that the Magic Image a...

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This is a little simpler and will run for hours without slipping. For added security, put the ramp in a global.

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Tying up this thread, this is what I had in mind during a waking up dream - the poly arrangement changes on the beat. 144 polys in total for the cube with no cooling fan noise. Nice!

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perhaps a custom ISF would make a good workaround Even the simplest ISF has a similar overhead as Transparency and other FX. Unless you meant something else? How about a pseudo-random number generator? An interesting idea. I had trouble with your link but rolled my own simple PRNG with an expressio...

I use random triggers a lot with iterators, often to randomise the colour across iterations. In this case, I want to use a random trigger to control the transparency of polygons. In Magic there are two ways to add transparency - using a colour node or a transparency node. A colour node requires both...

Yes, the scene or media would still be running. But you could also have a power off on the scene that activates when the fade is complete. Sync the two nodes using a global. Screenshot 2024-02-22 212809.png Also, depending on your exact use-case, a multimix may work for you. That will turn off input...

Put the video in its own scene (e.g. MyVid) then use the MyVid scene in all your other scenes. If you play a scene without MyVid within it, the video will restart when it plays again.

Add some smoothing...

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I'm no mac person but in the video you're trying to save to the Samples folder which is within the Magic application and is therefore likely a permissions error. Try saving to another location, somewhere you have write permissions.

Given there is no Magic specific guidance for expressions and Magic doesn't implement all of ExprTk, for things like this you just have to suck it and see. If a function is implemented you'll get a param error given nothing else. With a unimplemented function you'll get a reserved keyword error. The...

Ignore the image. That'll never work. Follow the instructions below in the next reply.

OK the advice above still works and now we have the much longer Hold. Perhaps you don't really want real random? I'm guessing you want to display each image once and only once in a random order. And when you say "with no result", really? There isn't any way to have a randomised sequence th...

Try Help-> Reset All Settings? Perhaps the audio config got messed up.

This has been asked for by others: viewtopic.php?p=10830

Despite the performance caveats, I have also had a need (for alpha purposes) and appreciate the bump.

But, who knows, maybe already implemented in the next version!

A Threshold modifier on the VideoFile Power parameter?

That's a very nice effect - especially in real-time. I occasionally use an older FFGL which does a similar effect (ModularDelay) but if the buffer count pushes the limit of GPU memory it can crash Magic. FFGL will likely be deprecated with v3 so that won't be a long term option.

Magic only uses the maths and logic parts of the expression toolkit. Expressions must return a number.

It is not possible to write your file in reverse? Or find some way to tail it outside of Magic.

There's no expression or internal that will give you the last line of a text file. At the risk of being obvious, why not just enter the number of lines?

Twenty minutes of ambient - although predominantly ai, magic was used.

The playlist has keyboard hotkeys for next and previous. You can just use the playlist directly or the internal global value of the playlist, "Playlist Entry #" in modules.

First thing after this sort of situation, if you can't get into Magic is to remove the config file.

I ran this batch file:

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:a
echo %time% > time.txt
timeout /t 1 /nobreak
goto a

And used the triangle oscillator set to 2.0.

While the batch file executed, Magic updated the text once per second.

If it is a race or blocking condition making it unreliable then perhaps working around it would be better. For example, continually re-loading the text file from the text file node using an oscillator. At the very least, it might help you debug/diagnose.

You must not be familiar with...
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I reckon it's more Floyd-Steinberg. Use a Resolution node to increase the dither effect.

Hey sharkford, Not many rules in this forum and I don't think anyone would mind you asking. The technical side of visuals is a relatively small part, in my opinion, and most of my thinking goes into what is new, interesting, awesome, perfect, whatever. This is the first downside to your request. You...

This does what you describe, no?

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There are just seven modifiers that allow -ve values and most of them don't make much sense - when would one ever want to Trigger or Clamp on -ve values? Offset, Scale, ok but the others are arguable. You could use a global to go from -20 to 20 and use that to scale in an expression, same with offse...

I can't test midi here right now but I think you have to assign the param to the modifier first, then you will see the option to clear the param and adjust its range.

I'm not a mac user but have you tried Reset All Settings?

Also just playing... ran a screenshot from your vid through SDXL with the prompt "a row of mech warriors". Unfortunately, AI video tech is far behind AI image tech right now so creating a video would not be viable - but perhaps one day in our lifetime. a row of mech warriors [SDXL sd_xl_ba...

Merry Christmas to all forum members

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