Magic Music Visuals

With a combination of Increase, Clamp and Smooth modifiers you can have elements move into position on scene change. Perhaps not as easily as the OBS plugin but certainly with more control and options.

"Loop current" will keep the current GIF looping forever. Could you then put a trigger on the "Goto next" based on audio, oscillators or specific times?

A couple of 2021 works.

Your Loving by Bring the Beat Mack

BLEP by Arconic Music

All done in Magic.

Here is a design repeated using an iterator affecting colour, z-distance and scale. In this case the design element is a video which, when repeated would have the same resource requirements as n video files (where n is the number of iterations). If you were trying to do this with scenes it would pro...

Try prefixing (and suffixing) 'scene' with / e.g. '/scene/'? Test with another program e.g. TouchOSC or Chataigne.

[Edit] It seems the / isn't required, just tested in TouchOSC:

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I've only used learned prev/next buttons to control the playlist from TouchOSC and it has always worked flawlessly for hours. In your case I don't think you need to learn, just type 'scene' and then issue these commands. oscurl 127.0.0.1:8000 scene 1 oscurl 127.0.0.1:8000 scene 2 If I understand cor...

Terry is right that the best way would be to put together a shader/ISF that takes two or more frequencies. However, you can do it directly in Magic with a few nodes. Dissect the attached.

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Yes, it does overwork the computer a little and use a bit more memory but I don't think as much as the AntiAlias module. Eric can confirm this with more authority. I imagine the output window as a viewport into another world, especially when dealing with 3D and media greater than the output resoluti...

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So i must understand only some modules are described in the manual? Any other source or wiki page that has information regarding specifics of each module? blackdot, a Magic user on here, created several guides to the various shaders that can be used in Magic. Find that here: https://magicmusicvisua...

To retain an after-image, I use a Trails module set to 0.985 or thereabouts.

After your expression use a Ramp modifier set to 0. The output of your switch then becomes the rotation speed. It is quite satisfying to use a dollop of smoothing after the expression to give a soft start to the rotation.

There isn't a vector module, true enough, but you can load (monochrome) vectors if formatted as a font. Try webdings.

Yeah, that works. An oscillator on the Goto Start seems to work too.

doleo: Can a JPG be animated, then? Because this module would accept my folder full of MOVs. And I never knew JPGs could be animated/loops. You might be confusing the VideoFolder with the JpegFolder. If you have a sequence of jpg images then you can play these frames back using the JpegFolder accor...

No, I mean change the visual according to changes in the music. I would say, with trance, that the visual should adapt every two bars or every half minute. Some music needs more some less and in your extract I'd be more intrigued if there were 5 or 6 visual changes.

Why not just use separate Text modules, formatted the way you want, and all connected to an InputSelector, which has the input selected from the Iterator? ;) If targeting characters this would mean an explosion in nodes. I've been working recently at the syllable level (lyrics to the melody) and th...

Needs to be mixed up a bit more (IMHO) but interesting nonetheless. Is that a 3d object you're using to occlude the the wave effects?

Keep up the good work.
Sadler

I like using feedback trail effects myself but the movement/scaling/positioning of your dancers is very interesting.

Here's something sorta similar from Oct last.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGKyujbH8h3/

Peace and love to you too!

You could adapt the timer idea adding a bit of maths for converting your tempo into seconds and changing the wraps to suit your time signature. You'd have to track your tempo and other attributes if they're changing but Magic is certainly capable.

Hope this helps.
Sadler

You can do this with short loops using the JPEG Folder module. Just attach the Index# to a source.

Hope this is what you're after!
Sadler

Hey Nik, welcome back.

I could open these in 32bit Magic. This project 'disappeared' Magic in 64bit for me also. Not much interesting in the Event log but the crash was in there. I couldn't see anything obvious that would cause a crash but didn't go through everything.

Sadler

One can target and manipulate words, transformed through the iterator node, with "Magic\\Music\\Visuals" and do the same with individual lines, syllables and characters in a similar way. This is fine for a set of, say, 4 letter words in a monospaced font. However, you cannot satisfactorily...

I'm not really a font expert but I can see all variants of Banschrift (for example) in Magic and where there is a bold version, the bold checkbox displays it. I'm guessing here but, if there isn't a bold version, Magic simulates bold by widening or doubling the font. I looks like italic is always si...

Right, thanks for clarifying. I'm sure many folks here would agree that this would be a welcome addition to Magic's 3D capability but it doesn't exist yet. You have a few options though. For low-poly fake wireframe you can use an Edges module. This isn't perfect since it doesn't draw an edge when th...

That thread you refer to was about drawing polygons. The word 'wireframe' there was used in the context of a stroked shape without fill. Since you ask about 3D models I guess you don't mean this, do you?

Thanks for sharing these.

Here's another for your collection - transition using any (B&W) image using the starfield module.

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This is something that has been discussed and requested a few times.
https://magicmusicvisuals.com/forums/vi ... 130&p=5137

There's two questions to ask yourself here, 1) why would you want to smoothly mix between, say, multiply and average? Seems a bit random. And, 2) how would you smoothly mix between a multiply and an average? They're fundamentally different effects requiring different input images. Most blend modes a...

Assuming you're clicking the "Get audio/MIDI length" button in the export dialogue, perhaps there's an issue with your audio file. Try a different audio format (.mp3, .wav, .aif, .ogg, or .flac. ) or post your audio here.

You can do it with NDI. Either have the same scene go to multiple outputs or different scenes to multiple outputs. NDI would have to stay active for each output though and your frame-rate will take a hit.

You can send OSC from OBS to control the playlist.

Given a number of iterations 'n' and the band of interest 'b' the lower bound frequency would be 20*(1000^(1/n))^(b-1) and the upper bound frequency would be 20*(1000^(1/n))^b. Using this for the example above (24th band of 100 bands) gives 98 for the lower frequency and 105 for the upper frequency ...

Perhaps not the answer you would like to hear but if you want frame accuracy - and I think that would be best for a 4 camera setup - then use a video editor instead of Magic. You can always add effects and reactivity in Magic afterwards (or before editing). You can keep video in sync to a certain de...

Chataigne looks pretty cool, thanks, especially since it supports Kinect! I will check it out but in this instance probably a bit too much for this small question. Terry, my question is even simpler, I think. The full spectrum goes from 20 to 20k Hz. Taking a very simplistic approach, dividing the r...

I have a fairly specific frequency band I'd like to have elements react to. I created a spectrum of 100 bars which shows nicely the frequency I want but how to convert this into values for custom frequency range. Does anyone have any ideas?

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oscillator-attenuation.jpg In this node the OSC fader input value goes from 0 to 1 (from touchosc). Before the triangle oscillator I multiply the OSC so the value now goes from 0 to 10. The triangle oscillator without any input goes from 0 to 1 in 1 second when is value is 1. When it is fed by the ...

Do you mean 20 seconds? Then use an Increase modifier on the Input # set to 1/20 or 0.05. The value will increase reaching 1 after 20 seconds then 2 after another 20 seconds.

I picked your blue and rendered it from Magic to MP4 and the colour shifted a bit (~ 3%). Have you tried different file formats?

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I've never been too concerned about slight colour shifts since the projector and environment does a lot worse.

This is fairly simple. Use a trigger on the source of (say) Y rotation. As a trigger increments by one (360 degrees) scale it by the angle you want - 0.25 for a cube. Since the cube will rotate 90 degrees instantly, you won't see the rotation until you add some smoothing.

The developer of Spout also coded the NDI plugins for Magic. That's why Eric suggested that forum. Have you tried checking NDI on each computer separately? That way you could identify whether it is a PC problem, a Mac problem or a network issue. You can also run NDI senders and receivers outside of ...

I don't know what your trying to achieve but you can compress all those globals into a single expression:

(abs(floor(x*8.5+0.5)%2-frac(x*8.5+0.5))-0.5)*x

if you remove the gate it will work as expected though you would have to deal with negatives. If you use an abs on the expression each button will continue to count but stay positive.

Try a scaled trigger modifier that is triggered by midi source.

I haven't done this exact thing myself though I have sent live video from vMix over NDI (between two machines). You'll need NDI, the NDI plugins for Magic, a virtual audio port and a player that supports NDI (e.g. VLC). These are all freely available on the web. Search this forum for the plugins. Se...

Hey, the perspective warp is adapted from Inigo Quilez: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/lsBSDm

Make sure that you haven't disabled your microphone in Microphone Privacy Settings. Your symptoms suggest that it is turned off.

I still don't have a complete work-around but if you connect video Start Time with the Playback time combined with a volume threshold on Speed as Eric suggested it gets you a little further. You have to click the Go to Start trigger to sync the video to the playhead. If you really need the stop and ...

The "Ignore Reset" option is in every node's context menu in the beta and explained in the beta help.

This isn't perfect but it does half the job.

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I reckon the new Reset node will sort you out. It will reset all params for all nodes upstream (except those you've chosen to Ignore Reset).

https://magicmusicvisuals.com/forums/vi ... 10&p=10516

My guess would be your are, at times, trying to push 25MB frames at 30FPS = 750MB/sec. Is your HD fast enough? Not to mention overlapping these in your test comp - more bandwidth required. The best laid plans o' mice and men!

It is a good setup but I feel your performs deserves better visuals.

so your saying insert a blank active scene at the top of your playlist, and start the render on [1] to lets say 5 total slides... render goes from [1 - 5] while [0] is a black active scene, it renders then will iterate back to [0]. Am I getting this right? Almost. You have one or more complex scene...

Apart from a new option to exit the app (which would require saving the comp, no?), you try these two work-arounds. Assuming your complex scene is responding to music, then you can disable nodes based on volume. You could do this for one node just before the magic node. That would stop much of the p...

This questioned has been asked and answered fairly recently.
https://magicmusicvisuals.com/forums/vi ... f=2&t=2455

2021 is out!

https://borisfx.com/products/particle-i ... #whats-new

Thanks Eric. Yes, the first seems to be the favourite. I posted these because they incorporate (imho) some interesting Magic techniques - part of my experimenting.

Someone commented elsewhere that the spiral wasn't really 3D but being native to Magic it is easy to fix that

Imagine where you want the point of rotation to be then move that position to the centre of the screen. Then apply your rotation and move the element to wherever you need it. There is an order of operations when dealing with transforms.

More stable here but red and blue channels are swapped?

Here's a few geometric concepts done completely in Magic (apart from a default cube). The Fibonacci spiral is completely calculated in Magic too and uses 1400 instances.

Same here, now I've checked. Given the error occurs in ntdll.dll, this might indicate a memory allocation bug in the NDI plugins. Given this functionality is an interaction between four systems (MMV, plugins, NDI, source) there's a 25% chance the issue is with Magic. But given Magic (and NDI) is wel...

This app is focused on real-time, audio-reactive, animated video. If you want CMYK print ready images convert it: https://www.rgb2cmyk.org/

menu items and keyboard shortcuts specifically for this, if you weren't already aware

I did need a reminder - thanks!

This is an interesting suggestion. I occasionally find it a minor inconvenience to attach many inputs into a subsequent node - situations where the node I want to connect to is off the screen. Not sure its worth changing the workspace for that though. One thing to bear in mind, if you connect many n...

Certainly a journey - good audio and visual tone.

Your arithmetic is off. Trying work it out on paper can help. As an example using these modifiers in this order: Scale(0.1), Offset(0.1), Increase (0), Wrap (2), Scale (-1). The # of each iteration will be 0, 1, 2 etc. so the value will be scaled and offset by 0*0.1+0.1, 1*0.1+0.1, 2*0.1+0.1 etc. wh...

You could use a few bitmaps of clouds (preferably with alpha) and use the iterator to move/scale/randomise them. You could do a similar thing with the star field though each cloud would be the same. You could look for a GL shader with appropriate licence. For realistic clouds the preferred solution ...

Unless you want transparency I'd recommend rendering to MP4 (or another video format) from Magic then using Ally to convert to DXV for Resolume.

Thanks Eric. That's certainly worth keeping in mind. In this instance, with the rotating buildings, reducing (or increasing) the resolution destroys the effect. All the windows get crushed together since I did not use image scaling on the images for the window tiles. They have their own aspect ratio...

Thanks folks, much appreciated!

There are several ways to 'turn off' a branch of the graph or bypass a single node. Read the section Bypass/Power Parameters and look at the sample project https://magicmusicvisuals.com/downloads/Magic_UsersGuide.html#DisablingModules You can also use the Transparency module and the Input Selector t...

A little programming knowledge would certainly help but isn't essential. The syntax of the expression modifier is C like but uses very little C notation (no data types, pointers etc.) The expression is awesome for glueing bits of magic together with conditionals and once you get your head around it,...

Normally to have a video sync throughout you'd just put it into its own scene then include that scene wherever you need it. But I don't think that would help you in this situation. Perhaps an expression might help you, something like this: if (PlayBackTime > normal_speed_bit_start and PlayBackTime <...

Here's a new piece of work. I created this using the iterator to tile images of windows into rectangular planes. You need a lot of discipline to keep within the 3d realm and it is definitely not real-time - render out only.

You can also use the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+T and Ctrl+R for next and previous scene - you don't need the playlist for this but you need to have the tabs visible for this to work. https://magicmusicvisuals.com/downloads/Magic_UsersGuide.html#TableOfKeyboardShortcuts OBS can send OSC using a Python ...

I have it - works but kills frame rates so I never use it. If you still want it, make sure its the 64bit version.

way to successively delay iterations, which is a good idea and I will put it on my list. I think artnik already suggested this a while back in the original Iterator feature request thread... https://magicmusicvisuals.com/forums/search.php?keywords=transforms+and+delay&t=1795&sf=msgonly +1 f...

OK then. Decide how many echoes you want, and create differentiated versions of each. In my example above, I changed the x-location and the transparency of each echo. Then use an Input selector to display each echo in turn - no need for extra delays. A Trails helps here to give each echo some persis...

Is this the kind of thing you're looking for?

Check you can see it in "Sound Control Panel". Does it work in other apps? The manual for your device says, "If you change the setting of this switch, you must close all software, disconnect the USB cable that connects the UA-25EX to your computer, and then reconnect the USB cable&quo...

You could. Large models would take some moments to load however. You cannot automate a camera per se, but you can rotate and transform models thereby effectively moving the camera.

You would be better off using a a shader to simulate galaxies rather than polygons.

Apart from a couple of simple objects from Blender this is done completely in Magic. I hope it is useful and interesting.

Well, IDK Reaper but I guess it is acting like an ASIO device somehow and therefore Magic hears it through ASIO4All. VLC and Firefox aren't ASIO devices - you'll need a software audio router for those and other apps.

Have a read through this...
https://magicmusicvisuals.com/forums/vi ... p?f=3&t=10

ASIO drivers are intended to reduce latency from hardware and won't help with audio from other applications.

It is very likely a particle system and could have been created in any software that has particle systems as a feature. Houdini, TouchDesigner, Blender, After Effects and many others. It looks like some noise has been used as a particle effector. You should checkout Particle Illusion from BorisFX. T...

Hello peeps, in this tutorial I cover some basics of making visuals react to audio, how to combine and layer reactions and how to set-up a basic BPM driven scene. I make use of globals and expressions throughout. Comments welcome, I'm still a newb at these. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV1GuJzbSK4

Check for, odd characters in the path, permissions, file corruption, a funky JPG format, try other directories on your SSD, do a chkdsk - assuming your not on a mac.

What do you mean by 'put'? That is, how are you compositing the image?

Eric is right for real extrusion, better off creating them elsewhere. However it is possible to fake them in real-time to a certain extent.

A quick video shows the effectiveness of the 3D and showing the (two) nodes required to achieve it.

Thanks Terry - it is good to have any feedback on these tutorial attempts. I hear you on the format of the video - you're right - a bit less up front and a musical reminder at the end. Will bear that in mind for the next one ;) I have a short list of tuts I'd like to do - will add one on reactivity,...

One behavior I don't understand is when I click "Play" on that audio file it takes me back to the first scene in my project. I think this is probably because you have "Playback Control" enabled on the Playlist. This will sync the playlist with the loaded audio so that the start ...

Magic is powerful enough to create this design in just a few nodes...in this tutorial, I walk through how to recreate it.

Just for kicks I installed Snap Cam (PC) and its fine for me in 2.3. I'm not a mac guy but if you've moved to Mohave you might have to update (or abandon) various video capture devices if they haven't moved on since Catalina. On top of that 2.3 has removed 32 bit and quicktime which some virtual web...

Assuming your 'lips' have an alpha channel, scale and blur a copy then multiply with a swirling texture. Then place the untouched image on top. It won't interact with the edges of the lips but it will be close to the effect you want.

Hi, The Iterator Basic Examples sample composition should be visible without any user or audio interaction. If you cannot see anything then something more fundamental is happening. The Iterator Cube Example does respond to audio but you should still see something there too. Perhaps you could expand ...

No, Performer won't help. Look here: https://magicmusicvisuals.com/forums/vi ... 220&p=5650

Magic won't record live audio (thru VB-Cable etc.), live midi, Spout in and similar live stuff during movie export. If you want to capture live output and live audio you'll need a video capture facility. Magic will respond to audio, midi etc during movie export if its loaded as a file into Input Sou...

Hi Peter, Magic cannot export to any video formats with transparency (alpha) yet, though I am confident that that feature will come eventually. But all is not lost. Magic completely supports alpha internally so you could work with multiple tracks completely in Magic and only render out the final res...

The direct (first) input to the second translate is the image centered, and the second input via the first translate is a copy of the image moved to align with the edge of the first image. We now have two of the same image side-by-side. The second translate slides both images together. The Ramp loop...

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