Magic Music Visuals

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...

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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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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

Still can't find a way to do it genuinely, but rotating all objects in the opposite direction to the rotation of the sphere almost works if you ignore the objects at the back (and the top and bottom).

Thought the talk part of the vocal is great. Thinking it would be great to have magic ingest srt for lyrical songs or poetry.

I still don't know how, sorry, but I've noticed something else. The errant noodle is connected to the null in the other scene. When the null node is moved around in the first scene, the noodle moves in the second scene. I have deleted almost everything in both scenes except for the null in the first...

It persists through a save too so I've attached a simple project (can only attached 3 files - hence the reply).

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A small and curious but not at all serious anomaly to report. A persistent errant noodle with an orphan, tethered terminus which is otherwise functional. Although apparently not connected to any node it transmits the contents of the previous scene - even though the previous scene isn't fully connect...

I've been playing around again with iterators in 3D. A sphere is relatively straightforward and works great when the object being distributed is also a sphere. However, when distributing 3d objects with few planes of symmetry or when distributing 2d elements, the rotation of each element on the surf...

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Some have had success with a number of formats. I prefer dae and obj.

What do you have so far?

Addendum: it is also possible to crossfade using just two JPEGFolders connected to a Mix node, using a global to alternate between the images.

The rmtp address is for the streaming app, not Magic.

The video from Magic goes to the streaming app via Spout, NDI or HDMI. The streaming app then forwards the video (and audio) to rmtp.

Just for context, I'm currently listening to an 8 hour mp3 playing from Magic (Windows). The file is 425MB, 128kbps. Sounding good.

Your dump indicates a null pointer exception but, as you say, one for devs to track down.

There's three ways to get video out (and in) to Magic: Spout (or Syphon), NDI or HDMI (to a streaming or capture device). You can Spout or NDI to streaming software that supports RTMP streams - e.g. OBS. OBS supports Spout and NDI. Magic has native Spout in and out and NDI plugins (nodes) for NDI. A...

The multi-mix and the playlist are the only options for crossfading. You can control both with midi but speed of transition in the multimix only.

There's some discussion about transitions in this recent thread: viewtopic.php?t=3085

It would be better for everyone, if those who are inspired or even just mildly interested, to try to recreate or adapt interesting effects - on here or elsewhere - and to post results. Even if mistakes are made, serendipity is strong in this activity and you get the benefit of learning for yourself,...

There isn't an option to purge broken links unfortunately, and as you say, it is an annoying (but useful) warning. There have been feature requests before to deal with this - auto find/fix etc. You can select the text from this dialogue and copy it to the clipboard. I do this when I have the patienc...

It is actually really simple. The basic idea is to find ways to move two or more polygons after applying them as a mask to some content. Trouble is, in order to mask one image (e.g. sprite sheet) or video to a group of polygons, they need to be 'grouped' as one. You can get around this by masking ea...

I had been thinking of an idea for a new suggestion for sprite sheets and related type effects. While trying to clarify that idea I discovered it can already be done. Here's one example that creates a video based spectrum effect. _ https://youtu.be/Ng4JC8TlRls ... I still have to explore what else c...

I would check for midi, audio, webcam devices or video driver - try disabling if possible. Assumption your using the latest build (2.33). Check task manager for other processes. Last resort, reinstall Magic.

In 2015 Eric wrote:One of the fundamental choices I made with Magic is that modules can only output visuals, not audio. All audio input/playback has to come from the Audio/MIDI window, which is completely separate from the modules.

See this thread Is there any way to play sound from video?

Start here: https://magicmusicvisuals.com/downloads ... AudioFiles

Audio is output to the current default device (at least for Win, not sure about Mac)

There are a few things to consider when dealing with transitions. A transition goes from one scene to another and therefore, must necessarily render both scenes during the transition - I often forget this and complex visuals stall on transition. This would be worse with layered transitions. Another ...

Hey Jeff, With a few adjustments you could make the sample spectrum very close to 'ocean mist' and it would a a great way for you to learn about the iterator. If you want to just use the JPEGFolder module to change images on track change you'll need to get a list of the times and write some expressi...

Load StereoSpectrum_30Band example project from the help menu.

I use the playlist for that sort of thing. You can type your timestamps right there.

OSC is exactly the same if using a momentary control. Though Touch OSC has momentary, toggle-press and toggle-release options. With either toggle option you don't need any additional modifiers.

Nothing, even your big green screen, will be good enough. Keying is hard. If you have Kinect, you can use the person id to generate a mask. Nvidia broadcast works well but only for one webcam. There are plenty of background removal systems, e.g. modnet but not real-time and trickier set up. You don'...

This is reasonably simple for ISF (and likewise GLSL shaders) but tedious to go through all files, and for the built-in effects these will get overwritten on any new, update or re-install, and of course many built-in effects are not ISF. Add a float parameter (e.g. 'dry') then add this line to the e...

It's a bit early for xmas so I hope you'll forgive the snowy street scene. This one is more for technology demo than anything else - pushing the limit for an ultra-wide bitmap - I think I can maybe go a bit wider though it does slow down scene load time. The wall decorations are overlaid within Magi...

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