Magic Music Visuals

Yeah like less then 10fps but, its happening whenver I spout any software to another unless its TouchDesigner in perform mode, and even then its unstable... Probably has to be something with my new-ish laptop or Windows or something, I've definitely come to the conclusion its not Magic at this point.

Hi, I am using Magic, trying to Spout either into Resolume or TouchDesigner and whenever Magic becomes the active program/window on my machine, I get major lags in both Touch and Resolume.. Wondering if anybody else has had this issue and any tips to possibly fix it?

I figured it out, I dont know if its new but the drop down arrow with the Show Audio Devices was unchecked, I got it now, thanks!

Hi, on my Windows 10 machine, I had major problems getting Stereo Mix to work, finally i found a much better replacement for it in VoiceMeeter, I am able to use VoiceMeeter in TouchDesigner but when I try to use it with Magic, the only option I have is my Microphone Array... I was just wondering if ...

Thanks for that explaination! I'm pretty sure that TouchDesigner has native GLSL support, I dont really know and havent really messed with the GLSL in it that much because I use ISF effects far more then GLSL shaders. But thanks I'm going to look into this more.. The coding language that I would nee...

Would it be possible to convert an ISF effect to GLSL? I would love to use some of my ISF collection in TouchDesigner, but currently it looks like Touch only supports GLSL

If we could get something like that bigfug plug in working in 64 bit magic that would be super rad.

Oh wow. Very cool, I dont fully understand all the math behind all the modifiers yet, thank you.

The start time cuts out some of the video i believe.. I would like it to just offset the time which it starts, so it will play the whole loop, just start at a different point, not cut any of it out.. I dont know if im conveying what I mean the best, but i dont believe that the VideoFile module can d...

Is there anyway to offset a video in Magic, without cutting any of the content out? I have some seemless loops, but occasionally I would like to use the same video, multiple times in the same scene, but I want them to have different start positions, so they all dont loop exactly the same way, at the...

Im not sure Eric honestly. I feel like some 3d models work perfect within Magic, then others look weird and dark in areas they shouldnt, etc. I was just wondering if anyone else noticed this or found a method that works 100% of the time with 3d models

I've been using and more 3d models in Magic and I'm wondering what is the most stable way to get textures working correcting in Magic. I feel i have had the most success with OBJs and MTLs but I still get objects that dont work with their materials all the time.. Just wondering if Magic has a prefer...

Hey I tried searching the forum but I couldnt find a result that matched,

where are the auto backups stored for Magic?

Would it be possible to make Spout out a Module, so we could send different cominations of nodes and or scenes out to a mapping software, instead of the full Magic output?

Dude WHAT!!!?!?!?! Artnik that is sweet from what I can tell looking on the ISF site. I'm about to add it to Magic and see how it works with my content.. And D1gits I just placed the 360 photo in a spingy sphere (or whatever its called) and tweaked the settings, the result isn't exactly what I wante...

I just bought a 4GB GPU, the EVGA GTX 960, and i already want more! I'm considering just buying another to SLI and double my GPU, but I would only do this if Magic had SLI support or could use the extra card effectively.

Oh and thanks for that link ive been wanting to research this exact stuff more.

Well done man.. If its cool I think I would have fun using this shader in my live sets and such?

Yeah its honestly not a big deal to me, I found a way to work them into Resolume pretty well. But I still like working in Magic and the more varation and ways I can do stuff the better. If it happens it happens, im cool either way.

Hmm I'll look into that, but I still think its worth the request..

If Facebook has the power to just take a single Panorama photo and give you the ablility to look around in 3D space, I feel like a super powerful software like Magic certainly should be able to do the same thing.

You made this Shader??

This is cool thank you for sharing!

Hey I've been making these 360 Panorama Fractals in Mandelbulb, and they are super cool, you can look around with your Mouse and stuffffff.... I feel like if it was possible to use the 360 data or whatever (I'm by no means on expert on how the 360 of this works or anything really besides how to crea...

I just started using TouchOSC again with Magic recently, most everything is working now, with the exception of X/Y pads, has anybody else had trouble with this or maybe found a solution?

Hey when you Collect All and Export, if you are using OBJ files that have MTL texture files, Magic doesnt collect MTL files but it grabs the 3D.. Which makes the models not work %100 properly. Is this something that you can make Magic grab upon Export? Would be nice, and make Exports a little more s...

My last two shows I got a little insight on how some Profressional Djs do their own visuals.. First are "The Funk Hunters" which I actually tried talking to one of them for a bit on how he ran his visual set, because he manipulated his own visuals live, they are some of the few DJs that us...

Solved.

You can just make another audio input with a different gain from the same source... very cool.

Could you apply a Gain to just a single scene, or just a single Waveform or Spec?

That would be clutch.

So I have a couple scenes that use some fo the GLSL shaders you include with Magic, are there any right rescritions or anything I should worry about; or am I free to use them in my live sets and maybe some videos in the future?

Yup! that works perfectly, I knew it was possible, but i dont know the exact specific terminology to have figured it out reading all the modifiers again in the manual. So thank you for helping me out with that.

Hey I hope I can do a decent job of what im trying to do here... I want to push a button on my midi controller, and have it instantly turn on a Module, but its important to me that there is a delay when I turn it off, is there anyway to bypass the Delay when I turn it on, but have it work when I tur...

It is possible that even a lossless .AVI could have a smaller file size than the same video encoded with Hap. If you have a slower hard drive, the .AVI might play back more smoothly, because it's less data to read. For most users, the performance difference between video formats isn't noticeable wh...

I was having some choppiness with HaP still with some of my Fractal renders. I could take a video of this to show what I mean. Let me explain what is going on, I render a fractal out of Mandelbulb3D, which makes Image Sequences to render its output out. I complie my image sequences going on advice f...

Yeah that looks great, I dont think I've played with Lumakey enough. this might look better and give me a bit more control then the echo Trace ISF... thanks man

http://www.interactiveshaderformat.com/sketches/326

There is the effect im talking about, you can kind of play with the threshold to see what I mean by tracing parts of the video.

Its a bit like "Trails" but I've noticed it can kind of trace lines on videos without transparency, so it can work in places where trails cannot. I've tried Googling "Echo Trace Gif" because ive most def seen people use this effect on GIFs, but I can find any good examples, I mig...

I kinda like this Echo Trace ISF effect a lot, and I just started putting into some of my core projects and other stuff, and i think its crashing my Magic when combined with the multiple Trails modules I have in the scene or maybe some other modules, its got quite a bit, I'm wondering if its possibl...

Only 8GB im thinking about upgrading but I would rather switch my main hard drive to SSD first when I have the money

I meant like mid Twenties. So like I went from 26% to like 18 or 17 now. So about ten or a little less.

Hey awhile ago, I tried to test my system Dual Booting Windows 10 vs. Windows 7, and throughout my testing I noticed very little difference on my system, and actually the only thing that I thought was Resolume spouted more stable in Windows 10, less choppy at times, frame rate was more stable, other...

I think that goes above and beyond what I was asking actually.

The subject pretty much says it, I would like to be able to use my MIDI controllers to change a few parameters but have them stay at the value that the MIDI controller is sending, i noticed Magic resets the value for all the MIDI control when I export movies/image sequences.

Hey guys I use magic heavily in my production and figured I would share some of what I have made here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CSywiYZ6kM I also have a Instagram where I post pictures and stuff, a lot of those stills are things Ive captured from Magic, theres lots of videos on my Insta, all ...

The way im doing my fractal videos its actually not too bad of a file size and the playback is excellent in Magic.

In the manual it says the "Hap" format is the best so thats what im converting all my stuff too. Thanks guys.

Hey I was just wondering what the most stable codec or format or whatever for video playback in Magic is.

MOV?
MP4?

Please let me know some of my fractal videos ive rendered are playing choppy.

I figured this was the best place to post this, instead of making a new thread, but im working right now and I got a complex scene going on, thought that it would be really nice when you grab to move a module if you could make it so the connectors got highlighted or turned another color, at least wh...

I've used a MPD26 and it works fine. Not the same but similar

Cool that should be all the info I need. Thank you very much blackdot.

i have 3 same models of a korg nanokontroller. it works, but the problem isnt magic, it's windows in my case. first, i had to use the usb-install-software from korg, so windows actually recognizes three of the same divice (and then so did magic), unfortunately, the distinction between them wasnt ti...

Hey I was wondering if anybody has experience using two or more of the same MIDI controller with Magic. I am trying, and I have custom mappings for both separate controllers, but Magic will only respond to one of the two controllers I want to use. Like I said i have custom mapping set up, the two co...

Hey guys thanks for your response. I'll look into FFMPEG a little bit more, because its not the first time its been recommended here. I am using these, mostly, just to run back into Magic, as a way to save some CPU power, have videos instead of scenes. But I also may run them into Resolume, actually...

Hey i have been rendering videos for my own clips. And I noticed to get a perfect loop for some stuff, you would need to make a video twice as long, and then cut it in half. Let me explain what I mean, I want a video clip, with the loop of the trails coming at the screen via the Z axis. Now that won...

I know you can stay on one scene but look at anothers programming by holding CTRL, but i was wondering if there is a way to lock onto one scene. so i could click on other scenes but Magic would continue to render whatever scene is locked or in the playlist?

Thanks

Hey so recently I have talked with Eric about seeing if Windows 7 has any signifigant performance boost when compared with Windows 10, so I have installed a copy of Windows 7 on a new partition on my PC, pretty much solely for Magic and Resolume(now that Im using that to projection map). This is whe...

Actually got some new projects that this would look beautiful implemented in, soo just a small bump because it sounded like you thought it may be easy enough to throw in there for me

Hmm, ok. Yeah Resolume is kind of expensive unfortunately. One thing you can try in Magic is using the Resolution module (or any of the other Effects2D modules) to "flatten" your scene. The scene will be rendered to a 2D plane, and then you can rotate/scale/translate the 2D plane in 3D sp...

THISSSSS!!!!! would be awesome. I know you guys are busy but yeah, this is a great request.

Is there anyway you guys could add a MIDI mappable button that plays back GIF animations and video in reverse?

I actually tried contacting few already we'll see if they get back to me. I would be willing to learn if I ever found the time maybe this is something I can work on in the future. For now I can continue to see if I can find someone with the know how. Because these look really good contolled with MID...

I know its been mentioned before but, if it can be done in GLSL shaders then I feel like I should share my opinion. There are quite a few 3d fractals I have found on Shadertoy that are really cool. Most of them are by the same artist so it wont be to hard to credit him. Snce they are possible in GLS...

Cool! That is incrediblely useful.

Hey I recently deceided I havent been using Shaders at all and maybe I should for some projects. I found some that I really like, but they do not work well at 1080p. While I want to downscale the Shader, I would like to have the rest of my project at at least 1080p. Is this possible or is there any ...

So I am gonna try my best to get a video out to you by Sunday. Just saw this now so idk we will see if i make anything up to my standards.

Cool, thank you. Heres hoping that its easy enough to implement, that it could be in a upcoming beta.

Hey I really really like the Param Range addition, I dont remember when you added it but i think it was recently because I dont recall seeing it much. But I think one small tweak would make it way more powerful, if we could select the bottom and top value instead of just the top or peak, that would ...

Hey i am looking into buying a projector and although money is tight, I want to get something worthy of doing live shows with, if anybody here has a recommendation they can toss me, im looking to spend no more than 300 and I would def prefer if I could do it on Amazon with the 6 month free financing...

Yeah thats kinda what I was conceptualizing I have to get in Magic and test and see tho.

Hey i was thinking of a thing that would be useful for me in some projectss, I think I can make it happen with what i have currently, but for the future I think it would be cool to have something that accomplishes this quicker. Basically what I would like to do is have a scene or scenes with contras...

Hey my brother was really digging some of my work and was wondering if there was a way to export these in a way that he could use in a screensaver?

Yeah if you see my last post I was having some massive issues with magic yesterday, I managed to fix them all too tho. That being said, this very same issue happened to me yesterday. I was able to fix it by, completely uninstalling Magic, AND, this is important, going into my Program Files and delet...

Cool, I'd appreciate that, I have done as much as i can to just use the kaleidoscope in that plugin, but it does some weird stuff to the aspect ratio so I figured I should ask, because i think its a nice effect compared to the harder cut thats built into magic, and if people wanted it to jump like i...

Hey I really like the way the ISF effect Kaleidoscope Tile, smoothly transitions from the next level of kaleidoscope, I was wondering if you can add this or an option for this in the built in Magic Kaleidoscope?

So for your competition Eric I have a few questions because im super interested: All we need is a finished Mp4 or other video file or do you want a project file? Can we submit multiple entries? When is the deadline? Do we have to host the file somewhere where it can play or can we just send you the ...

I was thinking aobut this and was also wondering, is there anyway to look at DPI settings right now, if not can you look into that for the future?

Yeah I am getting some really cool results from expressively switching between the two. Also just a small opinion that might not really matter, I feel like having to go to Edit>Remove for removing modifiers is a bit tedious I much prefer it being right there as you Right click. Thanks for your time ...

Hey I was wondering how possible it would be to add MIDI learn to this parameter?

Trails:

Z/X

Thanks

Ahh man, here is hoping its sooner rather than later, I would pay to add this to my Magic.

Perfect. Honestly a better solution then what I was hoping for.

How far along the road do you think this is? Just curious, I think this is the top thing on my wishlish in Magic right now.

Yeah I think thats just about the only thing i can do right now. But my problem with only being able to export image sequences is that I cant use my MIDI controllers and take spontaneous photo captures like I do now, since image exports start the programming over again. That limits me quite a bit, b...

Hey so I use Magic a lot, I make music visualizers mostly, but I have been experimenting in making animations and even just still images as artwork. And I was wondering if there is a way that I can render Magic at a higher resolution then my monitor is, so that is a more printable High Resolution im...

Hey I was thinking it would be very nice to add the Z axis to the Array Module, I feel like that would open up a lot of creative possibilities for me. I've been able to get a similar effect to having a Z Array but I just think it would be easier to just have it in the module. Also I think it would b...

Thank you.

I'm working on a project that I need something to rotate around the end instead of the middle of an object. Is there anyway to achieve this?

Vimeo allows download of the original file, so a collaborator or potential client can see an un-degraded version. I needed to upgrade to a Vimeo Pro subscription before I had sufficient upload allowance for a full HD high-bitrate file, and even then I am very unhappy with the degradation when strea...

Hey I tried uploading a few of my performances with Magic to Vimeo and I feel like there is much to be desired with the quality. Does anyone have any advice on how to post really high quality videos with no distortion, I really want to share my work and I spoke with some Musicians over the weekend t...

If you already have installed geforce experience, you already have shadowplay. Yeah I realized that when I read the file I download was just the Geforce experiance. I had a problem where it wouldnt show up though so I had to reinstall and troubleshoot for a while, but after all that, it works MUCH ...

I have made good experience with nvidia shadowplay, which is usually used for gameplay recording. But you can also record the whole desktop including magics output. It seems to be very tightly inegrated and causes almost no lag. Works only if you have a nvidia card of course. Maybe theres some equi...

Hi SplatterBrainz! Thank you for your motivation to help. The copy elsewhere doesn´t help. In my case it is no problem with the rights in windows - i think. These are my first tries with spout and receiver in magic. Perhaps i make another mistake. If you have enough time, is it possible to write me...

Damn. Well I'm kinda tight on money right now but was kinda expecting having to purchase something after all my attempts to record have turned out laggy. Oh well. Thats next on my list next to projector i suppose now.

The only other thing I could say after using the Annotations is too have a option to make the note visable when the module is minimized. That would be perfect

Hey this is a general question/poll about external software used to video record what happens on your screen. So basically I wanna see what everyone has tried as far as Screen Cap software and what kinda results they have gotten to find the best solution for me. I have the TechSmith SnagIt but when ...

Eric wrote: Let me know if it helps.

Yeah I'm sure that will help a ton. I'm currently working on a project that mainly is on one scene so things have gotten a little hairy, this will definately help me keep track of everything much better.

Hey I think a great idea would be, add sticky notes with the abiltity to change between a couple of colors, that way we can put a few notes by modules to keep track of projects that get a little overwhelming. Just a thought, because I was gonna suggest different colored modules as well, but I can se...

ok i tried different versions of spout, milkdrop in DX 9 and 11, i get it only in DX9 into magic. But magic always crashes in that second i select "sender"... Yo I have not had this particular issue but, when I was creating my own presets for Milkdrop, I noticed you couldn't save presets ...

Just put a "Rotate Vector" after a "Translate X". The amount of X changes the radius of the circle. You can have a polygon (for instance) move in a circle in all three dimensions. Hey Sadler Thanks for trying to help me, honestly I really appreciate it. Took me a while to figure...

Hey is there anyway to get things moving in a circular manner, maybe with certain mapping to the Translate module? I would prefer if the circular movement could be controled by a MIDI knob, but any help on this would be appreciated.

Man... I swear, I'm gonna read that manual all the way through one of these days.... Untill then thank you for all your help haha

Thanks the offset at -.5 is extremely helpful for going from positive to negative and back.

Yeah I second this. Would be a really nice, but it would be really cool if we could also map Next/Previous to a MIDI button. I think that it would be also extremely helpful if we could map the Bypass button on each module to MIDI, that, would be a huge for me.

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