Magic Music Visuals

Ah, interesting. Is there a way to run video into it?

Hi all, This was done in Touch Designer, and I was wondering if anyone had suggestions as to how one might accomplish something similar with Magic? The incoming color is creating different height displacement in realtime. https://www.facebook.com/hamsammichharpmics/posts/10211226677201069 Thanks for...

Hello smart people,

Trying to achieve a drippy mess of sine waves, kinda like this: http://ex.rzm.co.jp/centiscript/?f=1463 ... abyface%20

Not having much luck, though. Any ideas on the best approach to go about this?

Evan

Hi all, Just rekindling this as I seem to be running into a wall. Basically trying to figure out how to trigger Ableton clips that simultaneously trigger Magic scenes. I believe the issue I'm running into is that triggering a clip in Ableton isn't recognized as a MIDI command? I'm able to receive no...

Just to clarify, I have "Ableton + Magic Bus 1" (as created in Audio MIDI Setup) selected at the top of my Playlist window, followed by "Note Number" and "Channel 1". Each of my Scenes below that is mapped to a MIDI note, and is triggered when I press the appropriate pa...

Thanks, Eric -- still no luck, unfortunately. I'm using the Ableton Push hardware controller, and while Magic successfully recognizes hardware input (i.e. I can trigger Scenes with manual button presses), I can't get it to recognize and respond to recorded patterns of MIDI notes from Ableton. Has an...

Thanks so much, guys. Can you recommend a Mac alternative to LoopBe1? Or can I just use Audio-MIDI Setup?

HMM, something's not getting into my brain :oops: If, for instance, I have a MIDI clip playing in Ableton, how can I get Magic to trigger Scene 0 every time a certain note plays, Scene 1 every time another note plays, etc? Sorry if this is a dumb question but Note Velocity [Note Number] doesn't seem...

Thanks so much for the help on this, Eric. Really loving Magic. I was searching around here for sequencing abilities, but just want to double check that I'm not missing something. Is there any way for me to pay sequences of scenes via MIDI? Ideally using Ableton clips, or a MIDI hardware sequencer l...

Hi, I'm hoping to use a MIDI pad controller to control Magic, specifically for triggering sources -- i.e. hitting a particular pad/button on the controller selects one input (such as a polygon or 3D model), another pad selects another input, etc. Ideally, the velocity of this pad hit would affect th...

Thanks for the speedy reply. I'm on a Mac, and just tried the 32-bit version with no luck. The Matrox shows up on the sources list for VidCap, but I don't seem to get an image...

Hi all -

I'd like to run a live video feed into Magic via my Matrox MXO2 Mini capture card, and was wondering if there's any way to do this? It seems to show up for me in Magic, but there's no video...

Thanks,
Evan

Thanks guys! Super helpful stuff. Eric - I basically want to have them vibrate, perhaps bend and curl a bit as well. Sorta like vibrating, wavy graph paper. Just so I'm clear on this technique (sorry, I'm new to this kind of scripting), do I keep adding the "Translate" modules one-by-one u...

Hi all,

Looking for some advice on how to draw basic straight lines in Magic? Essentially I'm trying to figure out how to create a grid of vertical and horizontal straight lines (i.e. graph paper) that I can manipulate using audio, and can't figure out a way short of importing a movie.

Thanks!