Magic Music Visuals

Any chance 3.0 will support Apple's native Metal shader format?
Porting between GLSL <-> ISF <-> METAL has become ridiculously easy with AI now.

Upgrading the GLSL compiler sounds like a 3.0 "breaking change" thing to do. Would be great to be able to keep 2.x and 3.0 installed side by side to support those "old workflows" and get up to date at the same time.

Gemini tells me this... The Magic compiler is using an older GLSL standard (likely 1.10 or a strict compatibility profile) that completely lacks support for array initializers at the declaration level. Can anyone confirm the version of the GLSL compiler used in Magic and if it's something that can b...

Might be useful to some: https://docs.vidvox.net/project-milk-syphon

Oh man, totally missed Sadler's suggesting of doing the switch/case statement. I honestly had no idea you could get that complicated with logic programming in the expression editor! That might actually be the easiest thing to try first!

I've never tried the playlist feature in Magic to be honest, so SelfDrivingCarp might be on to something... but as the number of transitions goes up so does the number of layers, which could be burdensome. I think the MIDI approach would be the best approach for what I am after. I guess I could even...

I don't do visuals at my shows yet... not that advanced.

I just want to make somewhat better YT videos with some automation / progression.

But, let's say I was instead making the mix in DJ Studio ... would that make a difference?

Mixing on CDJ's, recording to AIFF, and manually creating the cue points for YT.

Let's say I have a 2 hour DJ set like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVM5y1WqQH4 and then that I also have a list of the cuepoints in a text file like: 00:00:00 1 Yass - That's What I Am 00:04:10 2 Simon Adams - My Friends 00:08:32 3 Mirko & Meex - Make It Right 00:13:25 4 Turntables Night Fev...

+1 for alpha images

Found this post incredibly useful !! THANK YOU! ... You're welcome! It's by far my favourite effect. Thanks for the thanks! :D 377 downloads and yours is the first in seven years! I really like your mix. I'm going to find it (and your other podcasts) a very inspiring source of audio when I'm workin...

#!/bin/bash OIFS="$IFS" && \ IFS=$'\n' && \ ffmpeg -i $1 -i $2 -c:v copy -map 0:v:0 -c:a copy -map 1:a:0 $3 IFS="$OIFS" I use this script to replace the audio track from Magic's mp4 output file with the raw audio compressed to flac format. reflace.sh magic-output...

Found this post incredibly useful !! THANK YOU!
I borrowed the oscilloscope code to create a video for my latest mix:

I thought the 65mb mp3 would fit into memory just fine. But, nope!

Loading it, not into memory, solved the issue. TY!

I tried to load a 4.5 hour audio file in Magic as an input source and it crashes every time. :cry: The same holds true for flac, wav, and even a 65mb 32k bitrate mp3 file. The crash dump was too large to post here, so I put it here : https://pastebin.com/raw/VyYG76W2 :!: Also, I didn't realize that ...

I've tried the ISF plugin as mentioned here, looks awesome... but, I'm curious how I can load an actual cubemap into an ISF like this one from shadertoy? https://www.shadertoy.com/view/ld3SDl

Aye, I am aware of having MIDI parameter control in Performer... but this is only for live performances.

Being able to produce a video as if producing a song by being able to save the midi performances to graphical timelines that can be edited is what I am after.

I'd love to be able to use the raw audio I input directly in the Magic output video. For example, I use a FLAC file as the input audio, place that FLAC directly inside of the mp4 container Magic renders. At the moment, post-processing involves swapping out the AAC audio for the original FLAC like th...