Magic Music Visuals

A simple visualization of a musical version of Edgar Allan Poe's poem “A Dream Within A Dream”.
Nothing too fancy, but I didn't want to distract too much from the music.
It's far too quiet in this forum these days...

Have fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmM2UjCwPls

I think it's amazing how the great choice of background image takes even simple effects to the next level.
You've done some really clever things!

Visualization of a cover version of the song "Linger" by The Cranberries.
As always, feedback, criticism and suggestions for improvement are very welcome.

YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpHqqhwOBQw

Simple but effective video that supports the song (which I like) well.
I think it would have been better to make the whole video in the style of the first half (or repeat the first half with some simple changes) instead of just the kaleidoscope.
But all in all it's well done, I like it.

Indeed very impressive!

Ah, that's what I ended up doing in W10, screen-capturing and adding movie to MMV, changing background to green to use chromakeyfast to isolate text although that does slightly make the black lyric text slightly lighter (any help with that?) So with having a character limit count of just 50 on www....

Added a similar video but with a nice page-turning effect (realized with ISF) at the start of each chorus: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIZ-s-NRPdE Great work - I enjoyed that, can I ask again in regards to www.calligrapher.ai - how do you add the exported svg file to MMV? Keep the videos comi...

Added a similar video but with a nice page-turning effect (realized with ISF) at the start of each chorus:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIZ-s-NRPdE

Simple but perfectly supports your song.
I like it.
A lot!

Very good work; Thumbs up from me on YT - do these lyrics actually come from MMV - I would love some advice on how to achieve this... :) Thanks for your feedback here and on YouTube. Unfortunately MMV can't do anything like that, but https://www.calligrapher.ai/ can. Everything else is MMV with GFX...

Thought the talk part of the vocal is great. Thinking it would be great to have magic ingest srt for lyrical songs or poetry. [ Sorry for the late reply, life got in the way in a not so nice way ] Thanks for the positive feedback, Sadler. I would LOVE to have a module for lyrics/text with a simple(...

Some of you may remember that I'm always looking for new ways to visualize the lyrics for my songs without having to work on the visuals for weeks. Here are links to 2 songs with lyrics: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vBEgy9WnG8 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IPbPx0mk5E Feedback as always ap...

This is amazing, so smooth and really well done.
Care to share some more details on how it's done?

I think it's REALLY quiet around here now, hope you're all doing well.
Here's something new, I hope you like it:

A while back I made the video below, but it was quite a bit of work and probably not what you want:

It's pretty quiet here at the moment, so I thought I'd post my latest video.
Nothing too ambitious, but I hope you like it anyway.
Feedback (good or bad) is as always welcome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUNSBgejG-g

Looks great! How do you organize and control your different camera angles? The first time I did this (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7tvbWoWOlg ) I actually rendered as many videos as I had cameras, and let MMV switch cameras during playback (via Input Selector and Multimix), but one render t...

Another example of my preferred setup with MMV, iClone 8 and Stable Diffusion.

animation made with iClone 8
animation modified with Stable Diffusion
lyrics and extra blink and everything else made with Magic Music Visuals

Enjoy:

But to answer this finally, the question is perhaps: What do you want to achieve with the lyrics? Should it only be an information, do you want to make a video to a song or a karaoke version of it? Thanks for you feedback! The lyrics are just for information. Before, I made complete music videos, b...

I think that's a good start, especially the sequences with the synthesizer in the background look pretty cool.
Simple, but supports your song very well.
Welcome to the forum!

My 2 latest music visualizations to make song lyric videos a little less boring, maybe you like the general idea:

Video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYPKKn8ukfo
Video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URy3so6fBVo

I'm not a Mac guy, but under Windows the GPU speed is important. Do you still use the same GPU?

Look great! Are you using anything to control image timing? Yep, it's a special program called "Magic Music Visuals" :lol: Of course, when I create the morphs, I already have a rough estimate of how long each morph should be approximately, but the fine-tuning is done with MMV, speeding up...

I'm starting to get the hang of this combination. Base images created with Stable Diffusion, morphed and moved with FantaMorph and MMV, and lots of small but effective detail changes with MMV. Skip the first 40 seconds if you have arachna, ahem, anrachno, oops, I mean anarcho ... if you are afraid o...

As discussed here https://magicmusicvisuals.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2989 it would be nice to have an audio quality setting for mp4 (or other) export formats. I know I can replace the audio later with ffmpeg (or a video editing program of my choice), but it would be much more convenient to...

The "making-of" part of your video is pretty cool, you do some interesting stuff there. I'll be sure to watch it again later. But, to be honest, the finished video in no way represents the effort you put in, the images change so quickly that a random display, perhaps pseudo-colored by volu...

This shows once again that less is sometimes more.
Even if there's not much to see, it's fascinating to watch for a while.
Well done!

Magic wrote:I'm pretty sure mp4s can't be larger than 4GB. Maybe try another format?

Just FYI, my longest mp4 rendered by MMV is 12 GB, filesystem is NTFS.

New visualization with: Background created with iClone Singers created and animated with Stable Diffusion 2.1 . These are 8 famous singers morphed sequentially into what you see. Rhythmic morphs and warps and lights from MMV. Enjoy, and feedback (good or bad) very welcomed: https://www.youtube.com/w...

This is kind of a tribute song for Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan. Since almost all public images of her are copyrighted I generated some anime-like images with Stable-Diffusion and used them for a background slideshow with MMV. Simple, but does the job. Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

The important thing for any timed expression is the 'inrange' function - simplifies the conditions for activation greatly. I've never noticed the 'inrange' function, so far I've always used millions of if() statements, which are a bit better readable, but as you said, hard to reuse. Thanks Sadler 8-)

A great style that suits the music, singing and sentiment of the song. Constantly expecting her to sing the words though - you should check out first order modelling To be honest, during production I also sometimes expected her to sing the lyrics. :lol: I've tried this model (albeit a different for...

This face is killing me

Although it fits the genre perfectly, it's a bit too fast-paced (at least for me) to really enjoy because it takes my attention away from the music.
That being said, it's really, really well done with lots of cool effects!

A song about someone who is afraid of going crazy, and probably already is.
In line with this mood, the video is also a bit crazy, a lot of new experiments went into it.

Feedback (as always) highly appreciated.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLAMH6dhTWQ

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[apologies for hijacking your post] No MMV in this one but this is a recent visual I created for a live gig using stable diffusion. Separate SD sequences spliced together in an regular video editor. No problem. As you already wrote over at YouTube, there's a huge market for those AI generated image...

Another visualization I created for my own music. Ingredients: AI-generated images, created with Stable Diffusion (see https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion). The images are based on the lyrics of the song. Morphing the images into a huge animation sequence (in this case 4320 images) and creat...

I've no chops for music so I rely on others - not blaming others of course. This was my choice. I was looking for something less musical and more Avant Garde All good, after all we are in a "visuals" forum, and with the label "Avant Garde" you are safe :lol: And, BTW, as a kid I...

That's pretty cool...iterators are the coolest thing ever!

The music is nerve racking, though

Since it's a bit quiet here, I decided to post another music video.
Most was done with iClone, only about 20% was done with MMV. I hope this is ok, if not just let me know and I'll delete this post.

Enjoy:

Seems there's not much going on here during vacation time so I thought my tribute song for those who influenced my music but are no longer with us would be a bit of a change. The slideshow is nothing spectacular, but my goal was to not distract from the song too much. Enjoy: Eleanor Lennox: Survivin...

I agree, that's really, really good. And I like the song

Next step to get a (more or less) realistic performance of a singer.
Song composed by yours truly, singer animation with iClone8, cut/blend, lights and some blinking stuff with MMV.

Enjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7tvbWoWOlg

I think your video does exactly what it should: support the film score, but does not distract too much from it.
I like it.

I think there is a reasonable way to do this, which is to link the Start Time parameter of each VideoFile module to a Global with an Increase modifier. When each video becomes active in the MultiMix, it will therefore start at the correct time (as long as the Scene Start parameter is enabled, which...

Nice tune and video. You singer has a great voice. Could do with having one of them at hand myself. What software did you use to visualise the vocals? Thank you for the nice feedback :) The software I've used is iClone8 (https://www.reallusion.com/iclone/). Not exactly a bargain, but compared to DA...

Because I now have a good singer at hand and therefore no longer compose so much pure instrumental music, the next logical step was to visualize the vocals. Since MMV is not really suitable for this I had to learn a completely new software, and my first results are quite good. And, of course, MMV is...

Some of you might remember when @Sadler introduced PyTorch to generate videos from texts, see https://magicmusicvisuals.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2737 One problem we discussed privately was that those scripts often create some kind of graffiti of the text and how to avoid that. This discuss...

Sadler wrote:This test render was created using a modified version of Particles 2 from IteratorBasicExamples:

This looks even nicer than the Starfield-module, I have to try that.
Thanks a lot for the idea and the video

When I create stars with the "Starfield" module with a very low speed some stars suddenly disappear, see the orange one here https://youtu.be/fj-aZ1ZAzIs?t=78 This happens only in the final render, not in the preview, and it's visually not very pleasing. It would be nice (not only for this...

Same here, but since I started posting here last year it was always this way.
No idea why, other forums with the same software allow it, so it can't be a security thing...

...and see it consistently jump to specific points in the video over and over.... True(!) randomness might even get your project jump to the same point all the time (unlikely, but possible). What you want is pseudo-randomness, means no point is used twice (or only if you want to), possibly all inte...

After (re-) watching a couple of videos from the usual suspects (Sadler, Terry Payman, skarabee) who use iterators I decided that I have to learn using them. Boy, you can do amazing and crazy things with iterators, and I barely scratched the surface of them... Here's a first try, more on the calmer ...

For those who might be interested how the copyright claim from Adrev Publishing has ended: TL;DR: their software to find copyrighted music (in their own words: " Adrev has grown into the industry’s standard bearer for innovation ") completely sucks :shock: I denied their claim and offered ...

I had this idea for quite a while and finally found the time to realize a first version.
Expect some more when I find the time and a way to make them SFW

As always, best viewed in HD over at YouTube;

Wrote a song for some new visual effects and got me first copyright claim from a company called Adrev Publishing which seems to be one of YouTubes copyrights tests during upload. Funnily enough I couldn't even find the song on YouTube which they claim I copied...it's called "Ode To Zanzibar&quo...

A simple EDM song to test some new effects I put together.
The sexy girl from my last Giger video was still in town, so here's another collaboration with her

As always, best viewed in HD over at YouTube:

When I modify visuals via the feature "Frequency Range" it would be nice to have a little button which lets me only hear what's actually going on in this frequency range.
Is this possible or is this diametrical to MMVs base architecture, means hard to implement?

On my search for new visuals I stumbled upon Fractal Flames and think they are quite interesting.
Find below my first experiment with it, maybe you guys get also some inspiration from it.

Works best in HD, so watching it over at YouTube is recommended:

I like it, both the visuals and the music. That's the kind of music I listen to when coding software.

53 secs into the video: https://youtu.be/SZzehktUeko?t=53 (the black shadows) 244 sec into the video: https://youtu.be/SZzehktUeko?t=244 (generally an amazing scene) I have a basic idea with polygons and iterator frequencies in scale and translate modules and whatnot, but especially with the camera ...

Some technique I often use for my relaxing/chillout videos is the layering of shaders with various blend settings, where the topmost layer is what you actually see and the hidden layer(s) are just used for coloring the top layer. It's simple, easy on the CPU and gets the job done. Enjoy: https://www...

Is there a tutorial somewhere on how you are fading between the various shaders in Magic? I suspect this is achieved with playlists, but also, you could be setting keyframes somehow to morph the variables in each shader. The obvious and easiest way are playlists, the next one (with less options) is...

I also like your video a lot, really amazing effects.

I have to confess, I also skipped some parts here or there...but unlike Terry I carefully skipped only in 5 second-steps to not miss any of them

Giger's Daydream: the other side of what I think was in H.R. Giger's head when he did NOT create his nightmare biomechanicals...
Technically nothing too sophisticated, but nice to look at

As always best viewed in HD over at YouTube:

This seemed to work however: Screenshot 2022-01-10 124243.png Yep, found an okayish solution with the trigger-modifier myself, even when it would be more convenient to have a "TriggerUp" and additionally a "TriggerDown" modifier. Thanks a lot, Sadler! The only thing which still ...

I have a global with oscillates from 0.3 to 1.3: value := sin(TIME) + 0.3 I would like to increase another global (myTrigger) each time this value hits 1.3 if(value == 1.3, myTrigger++, myTrigger) Problem: with float, you can't compare exact values. Workarounds (if value > 1.299) or using the "...

Sadler wrote:There's a much better way to do this now - you can have any number of bars in any shape you want.

What Sadler said, just increase the number of iterations.

Here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3mIxcFXT98 I use 128 iterations to display the bass-track at the top of the screen.

I like it

Yes, it's different, but in a good way. It's a good song and you tell its story.
I think it's definitely a good start with MMV!

Inspired by Sadler's "Dragon daydream" video I decided to give those PyTorch ML scripts a try, but my theme wasn't dragons but the phenomenal art of H.R. Giger, best known for the design of the Alien creature featured in the movie Alien . This is the first time my (base) visuals were creat...

Nothing too sophisticated, it's more a test for simple visuals for everyday use which do not need lots of time to implement.
Hope you like it:

Did you use AdaBins for the 3D effect? I'm just testing Aphantasia, it's cool but doesn't looks like yours. Edit : nevermind, I've used the (official) release v1.2b, which doesn't has illustrip.py. Cloning the master branch did the job 8-) Edit 2: care to share the text you've used? Is it in general...

The visual is using a PyTorch ML script called Illustrip and the music is composed by AIVA. There are better scripts but I don't have the hardware to run them Being a lifetime fan of surrealistic art I like this a lot. I've never heard of Illustrip before. What hardware did you use and how long did...

Goto Start for VideoFiles I knew already, but a video is not an option in my case here.

But, the Restart module is exactly what I need, thanks a lot for this information!

[So my findings here https://magicmusicvisuals.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2731#p11774 won't get lost.] Abusing the "Reload" trigger to restart the images with image 1 works, but who knows if this is still supported/possible in future versions of Magic. A dedicated trigger to start ...

So, I've found a (more or less) simple and practical solution if anyone else should have a similar problem: create a for the length of the animation suitable MIDI-clicktrack, here it was every 4th kickdrum trigger the "Reload" parameter of the JpegFolder module with it so every time it's t...

My only complaint is that your dancer isn't following the tempo of the music. Kinda distracts me. Can you adjust the speed? I've computed the needed FPS for the JpegFolder with 3 decimal places and it still drifts :( I guess I have to implement an expression which smoothly adjusts the FPS to the ac...

I had another Boogie Woogie song laying around, which was a good excuse to re-use my piano and place it into a smokey underground bar. Not extremely sophisticated, but at least it features one of my unavoidable dancers on the piano :D Best viewed in HD over at YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The option is cleverly hidden I must say

I searched for "Offset" in the manual.
Anyway, thanks both for your help, it's highly appreciated!

In my recent bass drum animation here https://www.youtube.com/embed/Fa1uTDLe9mg the pedal of the bass drum is triggered by the audio of the bass drum itself. Problem: the animation STARTS when the trigger is registered, however the beater needs some time to hit the drumhead and therefore is always t...

Did the disabled entry have a length of 14.4 sec?

I like the music a lot, exactly what I listen to to relax.

The shader you've used in the first half of the song, is this one out in the public somewhere or written by you?
It's beautiful...

Some more experiments using (pre-rendered) 3D objects controlled by the music, plus some more bling.
No human beings were hurt during the process.

Enjoy (preferably in HD over at YouTube):

... I've been writing music for years, but only recently started creating videos for my tracks... Same here, I've written (and still write) tons of music, and since I've discovered Magic producing videos is my second big passion, it's just such an amazing (and addicting) tool to add visuals to the ...

When I use a stereo input as main source (for listening) and also want to completely visualize this input I have to additionally provide a mono-downmix to get the signals from both channel together which makes the project bigger. It would be nice to have a checkbox to be able to have a mono-downmix ...

I guess someone has to start to get this rolling 8-) : Benchmark-Results for: Intel Core i7-4790K 4000.0 MHz 32 GB DDR3 RAM NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB DDR6 GLSL default: 2578.3 GLSL grid4: 114.2 GLSL tube5: 59.4 ISF Solid Color: 2533.9 Image: 2824.9 Text: 3430.1 Waveform: 3341.4 Generator: 3490...

I think real-time FPS measurement(s), as common used in gaming benchmarks, would give a much more meaningful and repeatable result. I completely agree, but the more accurate (and therefore time-intense to implement) it should be the less likely it will show up at all 8-) (and, BTW, I have tested lo...

So, here are the results of my investigations, and I'll add a link to this post as a TLDR; into the first posting. Problem: when you layer lots of .png images with a transparent alpha channel black dots/noise gets visible, especially in the brighter parts of your image Cause: the alpha channel of yo...

I guess Eric knows best what modules would be the most representative (processing and memory wise) for a proper GPU test, so maybe he could create a project (maybe from the sample projects which are already there) and as measurement we could use the time it needs to render the project in specific re...

Both the black and white key png's have many dots in the alpha, especially on the right-hand side. Hmh, interesting way to make this visible, in the graphic program the alpha-channel is completely clean. At least I can now check myself if it's possible to change the problem at the source (the keys ...

I would guess that since the dots increase the more keys you have, that your alpha isn't completely clean... My first guess too. I've loaded the keys into Gimp (graphic software) and verified that the Alpha is completely clean. Try disabling the black png(s) and see if that affects the white key pr...

I decided to expand what I've learned here https://magicmusicvisuals.com/forums/vi ... f=5&t=2692 a bit and created another more detailed visualization of a piano playing some upbeat song.

Best viewed in HD over at YouTube:

Wouldn't it be sufficient to use a global to add different channels together? Without knowing MIDI internals that would be quite tricky: Let's say channel 1 plays the note C with velocity 50, channel 2 the note D with velocity 40. A VSTi with input "Any" would play both nodes with the cor...

white-key.png Thanks for your time to help, I really appreciate this :-) My keys can't have transparent sides because when the neighboring key goes down this would be visible, This is how it looks during play: Update: I've uploaded the video anyway, so you can watch the animation here: https://www....

The picture below are piano keys, each key is a .png with transparent background of one single key of a piano. The 88 keys of the piano are added from the rightmost one to the left by directly connecting to the scene's output in this order. The keys are white(!), they are neither grey nor do they ha...

I often use long image-sequences with automatically generated image names, collected in subfolders like "Sequence1", "Sequence2" etc. When I collect all assets, the resulting folder structure is flat with one folder for all the files. The problem: - it gets quite messy in that fo...

I would like to react to any MIDI input independent of the channel, an additional option "Any" in the channel selector would be nice.
Most MIDI software has this option already.

Should be quite easy to implement

Disclaimer: I've never looked into the development kit. But, in general in C++ you don't use 'char' or 'char*'. Use std::string. And whatever comes in in a different, probably standard C format, convert it to std::string. So, in your case this is the way to go: std::string myPath (userData->paramVal...

I like your lo-fi approach of your video, it works well with your music (and that's from someone who has the tendency to over-produce things ;-) ) What I would change conceptually is that your video should have some kind of path where it leads the viewer from some starting point (e.g. a distance ove...

Probably the worst time to buy a new GPU because the prizes are completely out of control.

So the first question would be what your budget is.
And the second one whether you want a new GPU or a second hand one.

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