Magic Music Visuals

I have often noticed that large projects can take a very long time (say 15s) to unload fully, causing a long delay before another project can be loaded. This has often proved a nuisance in live performance. I'd assumed the delay was due to some orderly memory release mechanism, but while investigati...

Apologies for my late reply - I've had a lot of urgent work. For what it's worth here is my latest Claude-assisted version of Akaskape's shader, which is still Work In Progress when I have time to spare. I'm currently working on the perspective, which at the moment depends on distance from screen ce...

I've just discovered that it's not as easy as it used to be to convert Shadertoys! I knew it's no longer possible to import and convert Shadertoy pages automatically. They had to incorporate bot protection as their server was being overloaded by scrapers used to train LLMs for AI. The upside of this...

Looks like the RUTT/ETRA effect. Check out the Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer for more info on this classic video instrument. Akascape created a Shadertoy version https://www.shadertoy.com/view/DdXfRj , which can be repackaged as an ISF for use in Magic. I've successfully done this, with permission. Ha...

Certainly not trivial! Magic's modules are only for visuals - none offer any audio processing (at least so far). Only frequency filtering of audio is available via modifiers. It needs much more complex analysis and processing to reliably extract a beat. I think external beat/bar detection will more ...

I've had some AI assisted success with python scripts sending OSC trigger messages to Magic using aubio as a realtime beat detector. Very early days yet, but promising. Beat detection is working fairly well with acceptable latency. Once every bar is relatively easy for 4/4 time, but deciding which b...

I usually rename an AI generated ISF module using that module's Edit>Rename function.

When I save, exit and re-load the project it would be helpful if the module's filename had my chosen name as its prefix rather than the original AI-chosen name.

I'm pretty certain I saw a forum post with a similar enquiry, and the official response was that the next version of Magic would run natively on Apple silicon.

Just found it again.

Magic wrote: ↑Mon Mar 09, 2026 3:17 pm Don't worry, Magic 3.0 will have native ARM support.

Am I wrong in thinking there's unimplemented functionality implied by " Exclude Scene From Post-Processing "? (" Exclude... " hereafter). Ticking or unticking " Exclude... " has no effect if a scene already has Post-Processing. It's a setting that can be changed but the...

Magic wrote: ↑Sat May 30, 2026 3:18 pm ... please let us be the judge of what requires minimal code or lots of code.

Apologies for my presumption

For clarity I've used only "Ctrl" rather than the full Windows/macOS "Ctrl/Cmd" and "Mousewheel" rather than "mouse wheel" Proposal (minimal dev work): Ctrl+Shift+Mousewheel adjusts font size (same as `Ctrl+0/9`) - Mousewheel provides more intuitive control of...

... MultiMix already has a Repeat parameter that automatically loops around based on the number of inputs. Is it because you want to create ISF modules that have that functionality? That is my main use case, specifically with non-linear transitions between the two active inputs. Non-additive mix wo...

Sadler wrote: ↑Sun May 24, 2026 9:43 am... That would work where all the inputs were the same.

Ah, thanks, I hadn't considered that, but I think it would still work if the actual input count was appropriately Offset.

...Here's my take if I understand correctly. I can see a benefit to this but it would break the ISF standard and possibly its stateless requirement... With great respect I disagree that my proposal breaks the ISF standard, and apologise for not making it clear that I was referring to a Magic Intern...

:oops: Apologies for spamming with a repeat feature request :oops: I've just been testing one of my ISFs where this feature would be very useful, and I couldn't resist asking again. If the input count of an ISF could be made available to it as a local Internal, functionality such as the MultiMix's &...

The video export resolution is entirely independent of the Magic project resolution, so no problem at all with editing and previewing in a Magic project of a significantly lower resolution. Although most of my Magic work is with Iive performance I occasionally make 4k videos from my Magic projects. ...

Cool!
Thanks for sharing

It is already transparent.

Make sure that OBS Spout Composite mode isn't set to "Opaque"

At present I use an external hardware mixer to crossfade/mix the outputs of two simultaneous Magic projects, but I want to experiment with using a Spout-receiving app as a more versatile alternative. For live performance I usually have two, three or more Magic instances running simultaneously, often...

Magic wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2026 3:51 pm ...We actually decided to add a "Report" button when Magic encounters an error, so that the dialog box will let you submit it to us. Hopefully that will be the most convenient for users.

Even better
Many thanks!