Magic Music Visuals

Vidvox have released a cross platform version of their ISF Editor tool for beta testing, pre-loaded with lots of their ISFs

https://discourse.vidvox.net/t/isf-edit ... s-beta/647

You can add a Scale modifier of -1.0 and Offset modifier of 1.0 The Invert modifier is a shortcut for that. It's a common operation, so it's worth having one modifier instead of two, even though they accomplish the same thing. Indeed, but then there's Just one adjustment. One loses the facility to ...

This could be a starting point, if I understand your requirement correctly. You can add a Scale modifier of -1.0 and Offset modifier of 1.0. Then the Color Monochrome module will output monochrome at zero volume, and saturation will increase with volume. Use a more negative Scale value to make the m...

Yes, you can use modules like Mix, Multimix, or InputSelector to change their input based on MIDI velocity or audio pitch. The above are all Layers Modules . For changing between scenes this way, use Scene Modules as inputs to these. The Mix and Multimix can give a gradual fade between scenes, wher...

The Performer edition of Magic has MIDI control of the Playlist.

MIDI can be used for navigating forward or backward in the playlist or to select a specific scene.
https://magicmusicvisuals.com/downloads ... .html#MIDI

@Eric I'd given this matter some consideration offline so I'm adding these thoughts belatedly in case they can contribute. Sadler may wish to differ, but here's my penny's worth: - Multi-instancing could be enabled by a module menu option, regardless of how the instance count is determined. - When ...

Ah yes! I hadn't fully appreciated the versatility of your idea. :oops: However, perhaps my proposal could still work: Suppose that, when "Multi-instance" was checked, the output pin count behaved equivalently to the input pin count. An additional output pin is added as soon as one adds a ...

This looks very useful

The instance count need not be explicit and a "Multi-instance" checkbox would be sufficient. Outputs could be added to match the actual number of input noodles, which would nicely match the way in which input pins are added.

Try these. Peak and Average will "slow down" hectic jitter (also try Smooth ). The difference between Average and Smooth is quite subtle. See https://magicmusicvisuals.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1411#p6590 Scale will alter the amount of modulation, Offset will alter the unmodulated...

You're welcome Colum!

Try "ctrl+shift+R" (Window > Window Layout > Reset Window Positions)

This will bring all windows fully onto the screen. It's sometimes hard to find a window if only a thin edge is showing.

+1 for this, it would be great with bass and synthesiser lines too. Much more revealing of the structure and frequency dynamics. LMan, firstly I really like your logo and music, but I'm puzzled by your reference to the left-hand of the oscilloscope. The triggering is on the rising zero-crossing in t...

Many thanks Eric!

I'd like a option to open a project at the current Graphics Resolution, rather than that saved with the project. Two use cases: 1) Live performance, facilitating successive use of large projects saved with different resolutions. On loading a project I often have to re-set Magic's Graphics Resolution...

+1 for folders in the Globals pane.

This would greatly help organisation and management, and neatly complement your planned per-scene "Locals". viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1693&p=7787&hilit=globals#p7792

Use the LumaKey module before the Trails module to make the black areas of the video transparent, then Trails will work as you want it to.

Beautiful work!
Very effective movements to the heartbeat.

Really effective visuals! Well done! Also good to see you DJing - looks like a great gig - wish I'd been there! The videos are excellently edited - I especially love the varispeed at 00:37 in your VJing video. The videos certainly capture awesome atmospheres, but have their own perfect cutting to th...

Thanks Eric, the neon glow is a favourite of mine and works nicely hue-shifted too.

https://vimeo.com/288624718 Waveforms again! Inspired by the track 'Married the Sun' by Before The Breakdown from their debut album 'Fake Me Up'. Music used with permission. Full contact details for the band in my Vimeo description, including links to their album on Spotify. This is just one scene....

Does this help?

Type Sound in the Windows search box.
Click on Sound Control Panel

Set as highlighted in red below

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Sorry Eric, I missed your reply until today. :oops: ...I'm generally not in favor of an application being able to recursively search an entire drive or even just a folder... I'd be happy with searching equivalent to Magic's recursive scan of a single "Additional Module Folder", which is we...

Imaginative and beautiful, in so many dimensions. Great work!

Cool!
Many thanks Sadler

Somewhere in my many Magic projects is a scene I can't locate. I know its name, but not which project it's in. I tried extracting strings from the .magic files, but found nothing meaningful (perhaps by design). Is there a way of finding my lost scene? EDIT: It would be great to have a tool that woul...

... A useful variant could be an option to constrain the luminance to a desired range, which would avoid the area flashes.

Is the Vidvox "Auto Levels" ISF shader any use as a starting point? I don't really understand what it does, and don't have access to Magic at the moment, but I imagine that one could total the intensities of each input pixel in one pass, then output inverted or direct in a second pass. I t...

Magic doesn't have MIDI output. You can't output any dynamic Global values that Magic derives from music or calculation. You can control a Global from MIDI, so in order to "share" a Global with another MIDI device you would need to feed them both with the same value from some external sour...

Perhaps you are unintentionally clicking on a tab's "x" button when selecting it, which will hide that tab.. From the User's Guide: "... All "x" buttons can be hidden by choosing the Hide Close Buttons option. This saves a bit of space, and prevents tabs from accidentally be...

Cool! Thanks Eric.

It's only the Add Input that really needs a keyboard shortcut, so ideally please save one for that.

Alternatively, once a menu option is available, a keyboard shortcut for "Repeat Action" would be perfectly acceptable (and of wider application).

It would be great to have the option to be able to paste from the clipboard when using Add Input , although I imagine this would only be meaningful/permissible if there was a single signal path in the clipboard contents. A keyboard shortcut for this would be really cool, similar to the Replace With ...

No problem!

This is a very friendly forum - a great place to ask when you're stuck (and when the User's Guide doesn't directly help).

Glad to be of assistance!

Try setting the Scale to "Fit Height" on all four Image modules.
At the moment only one has this scaling set, so when you export to a lower resolution the other three unscaled images will be relatively larger.

Very many thanks visuality

It's very helpful to have such insightful feedback - it crystalises what were almost sub-concious design objectives.

The Kaleidoscope must always have an input source, else you will see nothing on its output.

If you add a Starfield to the kaleidoscope input, with default parameters, you will always get an output.

Thanks Eric

Would it be practicable to have a StopFrame module similar to the Resolution module, but with temporal rather than spatial resolution adjustment such that the output from the preceding modules was only rendered intermittently, saving GPU cycles?

Fixed

Many thanks Eric!

walmartian wrote:...Output values of 0 or 1 is perfect...

Even better than perfect if Ctrl/Cmd & Shift acted as /2 & /4 dividers after the key was mapped, giving options of 1.0, 0.5, 0.25, 0.125 as the output value during performance.

Many thanks Sadler :) Good point about the projector throw. It would look much cleaner if the image was just on the black backdrop. I'll try cropping next time I'm projecting on it that way. Changing the actual throw wasn't feasible with the setup I used that day - I just swapped two projectors for ...

https://vimeo.com/273350696 It makes a nice change to work with solo instrumental music. From the Vimeo description: My Rainbow Curtain (TM) visuals at the GSMC InFusion event 10th April 2018. The backdrop was far from ideal, being largely matt black drape. Quick grabs from mobile phone! The final ...

Also, right-mouse Edit>Remove causes a spurious module to appear. Again Menu bar Edit then shows option to Undo Insert Module.

Just noticed very similar symptoms here, certain big projects only, two different systems. - Bug shows if I use the right-mouse context menu to Cut, but not if I use Ctrl+X on keyboard or menu bar Edit>Cut . - Menu bar Edit then shows option to Undo Insert Module . Clicking that option makes the spu...

Funny you should request those things... It will be available in the next release. ...Funny you should mention those specific things because they are all coming very soon -- in one of the next few releases... When requested features are about to be picked up for development I'd love to have the opp...

Glad to be able to help, John.

You'll find this forum very supportive regardless of your experience level. Lots of enthusiastic Magic users, many doing advanced work but happy to help newcomers!

Best,
Terry

Ah, that image is in CMYK colourspace. For Magic (and web) you need sRGB colourspace. Here's an (old) link that shows how to see which colourspace an image is in https://www.p4pictures.com/2012/01/check-you-document-colour-profile-in-photoshop/ For a given image you can use Photoshop Edit>Convert to...

Hi John, I'm glad the Kaleidoscope issue is sorted :) I can see that there is a (severe) image problem from your screenshots, but need the actual files to compare before I can try to see what's happening. You could perhaps upload to the cloud and just put the links here using the chain link "In...

Welcome John :) I'm sure you will get your issues resolved via this forum. They raise further questions so more information would be useful (see below). I've used Magic for years but haven't got any immediate answers, but you will find other users very responsive, and Eric (Magic's creator) will ans...

Mouse shortcuts seem to be the way for me under Windows 10. I already have a Logictech B110 mouse, where the wheel button can be used to send three additional codes. Using X-Mouse I have mapped the mouse wheel as follows for an initial trial (X-Mouse codes in green) Middle Button -> Select , Copy {L...

:) I wasn't "in the zone" when I posted that previous comment ; superficially the changes seemed preferable and only later did I realise the negative impact on my workflow :( I do have my left hand on the keyboard - it rests on the Ctrl & Shift keys which I use for fine parameter adjus...

..or moving the "Paste" option to the top of the "Replace With >" list.

Yes, 2.12 Beta, compared with v2.11. Sorry I didn't make it clear. :oops: It's a module's top-level right-click menu options ( Cut/Copy/Remove ) that I'm missing. Also, neat for the top-level menu would be adding Replace With Paste , to save having to scroll right to the end of the Replace With > list

I hardly use the keyboard at all when I'm "in the zone" developing a scene. Just the mouse, keeping my eyes on the screen. I really miss being able to Edit Copy a module with just a couple of clicks. Now it takes me 50% longer, and noticeably impedes my flow! I know I could get mice with e...

Glad to be of some help. Hopefully you will get some specific recommendations here.

.. use an external dedicated graphic card...? I believe the short answer is "Yes, you can use an e xternal GPU ". I have no direct experience, and can't make recommendations, but the keyword to search for is " eGPU ". On this forum, among other posts, I found https://magicmusicv...

... and you could loop each video, restarting it every time it was selected, but the sound wouldn't loop until it had completely finished playing the entire audio from beginning to end. I think you'd need to use MIDI to control an external DAW/sequencer to play the appropriate audio and control Magi...

I don't think Magic will do what you want, especially if you need audio as well as video switching. Magic doesn't play the audio from a video file (although that feature has been requested several if not many times). You can extract the audio to a separate file then add that file in the Input Source...

... You'll then need to rename the file name/extension, removing the (now visible) ".txt" from the end. eg HotShower.FS.txt would become HotShower.FS which should now work in an ISF module* https://www.mediacollege.com/microsoft/windows/extension-change.html *Shadertoy buffers are not (yet...

From your screenshot I see that Windows File Explorer is obscuring the issue - the files are currently listed without their filetype extension. I think you'll find that eg HotShower.FS is actually HotShower.FS .txt The default File Explorer view option is "Hide extensions for known file types&q...

Thank you Sadler, I hadn't thought of using the Input Selector module in this manner so my perspective is extended too! Perhaps Eric will comment on the relative efficiency of ISF vs native Magic modules for the useful varieties of vision mixing in your feature request above. I guess we could protot...

I'm not sure what you mean by "each letter disappears after the last one". https://youtu.be/043e6bXbZm0 I've attached the project. You'll need to change the source in the Input Sources Window. ( I used an MP3 of OddJohn's track "Feel Good In My Neighbourhood" https://oddjohnfr.ba...

The Clamp modifier will do exactly what you need. Set the value just a bit higher than the highest index you need to show the full text. Below I've added blank text as Input #0, so that the scene will wait for a beat before showing the first letter.

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...are You aware that You can always disable Your license on one machine and then enable it on another? ... So You should be fine. I don't think so. From the User's Guide (my bold): "Magic can be deactivated at any time by selecting Help > Deactivate in the main menu. This allows the activatio...

Many thanks Eric!

Thanks for the explanations :D . I shall attempt to be more precise. ...It depends on who you ask, but "Fit" and "Shrink" usually mean to preserve the aspect ratio, which is not what you want... Preserving the aspect ratio of the input image is exactly what I want. The images I w...

...I just added a "Stretch" parameter to all the Media modules... Cool, :D :D :D, but from its name I'm wondering about the exact functionality of the new parameter. For my application in some cases a "shrink-to-fit" might be needed in order to fit the limiting dimension of the ...

A client has given me a collection of JPEG images which he would like to be incorporated into some visuals. Some images are very wide, perhaps having a 3:1 aspect ratio. I tried using the JpegFolder, but many images are severely cropped at the sides as the JpegFolder module is always filling the hei...

Emphatically no! :o A fixed aspect ratio would give huge black bars at the sides in some venues or huge grey bars top and bottom in others! I naturally want to use the full width and height of any venue's projector and screen! At the moment Magic provides no native means to divide a screen evenly r...

...Magic is designed to work independently of resolution... Awesome, I use and love the option of Magic adjusting automatically to match a projector or display's native resolution. However, at present this very feature can cause translation issues when the aspect ratio changes between venues. Three...

This is a bump to an incidental request made previously :) https://magicmusicvisuals.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1001&p=4505&hilit=scene+name#p4505 ... I'd love an option for the text string to dynamically follow the current scene name if the text string was eg %SCENE% ... %PLAYLIST% ...

I have some scenes which I need to adjust "manually" depending on the aspect ratio, and others (using feedback) which need adjusting for different frame rates. Could we have the following "Status Information" values available as Global read-only variables so they could be incorpo...

Update: Using Spout I've just realised that under Windows I can use Spout senders and receivers to enable feedback around a series of modules, although there are some issues. 1) There is an apparent problem with levels, and blacks sometimes get crushed. The fix seems arbitrary. 2) The Spout Receiver...

Bigfug has updated his plugins to 64 bit for Resolume. They work in Magic Music Visuals 64 bit!... IMO still good value at £19.99 for the set even if one only uses the feedback module (it gives much cleaner results than the Zooming Feedback ISF). https://www.bigfug.com/product/bigfug-ffgl-effects-f...

Thanks Eric for the right-mouse button fix in V2.11 :D Reigel observed that a minimised module will reset if double-clicked (Minimise/Maximise Modules https://magicmusicvisuals.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1461#p6791 para 2) Further, I notice that a minimised module will reset if left-clicked ...

Many thanks Eric!

I often inadvertently reset a module when I'm trying to copy it, which can be very disruptive to my design process if I don't realise that this has happened!

I'm sure I must be a bit too click-happy when I'm copying, but please restrict the reset functionality to a left-button double-click.

...How can I make the Magic window play in full screen? Briefly, Ctrl+F (Windows) or Cmd+F (OSX/macOS). From the User's Guide: To enter and exit the Magic Window's fullscreen mode, select Window > Magic Window Options > Toggle Fullscreen or use the shortcut Ctrl+F / Cmd+F. On multi-display systems,...

DemBambiSeiMudder wrote:the oscillograph is awesome... this makes it so much more clear!
Thank you

Thanks!

When a large number of scenes are desired as inputs to (eg) a MultiMix module it would be neat to be able to select the scenes in the Folder Panel and have a menu option to add them all as Scene modules to the Edit window.

Thanks Eric. All is now clear.

I made a Magic oscillograph project to illustrate the differences between Average and Smooth.

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The difference is the algorithm. I'm not sure if I could explain it without getting into the math -- how much detail are you looking for? :ugeek: The math would be fine thanks! Edit: I'm particularly interested in the time window over which the smoothing is applied, whether the window is rectangula...

The rectangular time window and processing for the Average modifier is explained in detail in the User's Guide. I'm wondering how the Smooth modifier differs. To date I never felt the need for more smoothness than the Average modifier gave me, but suspect I'm missing something more than a Smooth val...

There are some great, and totally free, "scary" fonts by Chad Savage at http://www.sinisterfonts.com/

I'll be using these for my Halloween gig.

ps I can't get your DBS tune out of my head, but the vid was such fun I don't want to!

A further thought Preserve connections to the Magic module When copying a scene having many connections to the Magic (output) module it would be useful to automatically preserve these when pasting to an "empty" scene, perhaps by substituting a "dummy module" for the Magic module ...

Sure those sound good. :D :D :D :D Lemme think about the Rename thing though, I'm not 100% sure about it yet. My Use Case is when I'm developing a particular scene or experimenting with a new module. I duplicate a scene if I get an effect I like, then try variations on the duplicate. I often leave ...

Copy and paste to existing project +1, and further: Copy/paste between two simultaneous instances of Magic. This would further facilitate the use of one instance as a project browser for the other. For this purpose I find it helpful to use one Light UI & one Dark to facilitate discrimination be...

I love it, but there's a typo on the text (Freudian slip?) unless you intend to subliminally substitute "Don't be sacred" - quite a different message from the title! That WOULD be scary!

If multiple scenes are selected in the folder view I would find it very useful to have options for the following: - "Keep Scene in Graphics Memory" - "Exclude Scene from Post Processing" - "Rename Scene" The present menu could be expanded, eg Duplicate Selected Save Sel...

tnx a lot, Sparkocam worked perfectly for me ... "Magic's graphics can be sent to other applications in real-time using Spout"... what other apps you suggest to work with beside magic ? I'm glad Sparkocam worked for you :D Naturally it depends on what you want to do and how you want to do...

...I don't know how to add my camera to the list in the VideoCaptureDS module... For a USB connection I believe you need to use some additional driver software (possibly all derived from Canon's SDK). I can't vouch for it, but SparkoCam is one such. http://sparkosoft.com/sparkocam . There's a water...

... some of the new ISF effects have no true "dry" setting ... where the parameters are at absolute zero and the incoming signal is completely unaffected... This applies to other types of effects, eg FFGL, not just some ISF. You can add a Mix module as shown in the photo. (Now corrected :...

All good IMHO, but my favourite section by far is from 2:00 to 3:00. Very powerful and effective.

... what do you think about the idea of importing linked compositions at load time? Very convenient. Maybe there could be a file with a list of #include directives, control of the corresponding Merge options and perhaps control of SceneTabVisibility/TabDisplayOrder/FolderDisplayOrder. Perhaps an op...

This is exactly what I need. I remember seeing this topic but had only recalled the headline concept of local/scene parameters from my first reading. On review, I now realise that Sadler's post elegantly summarises one of the requirements that emerged from the challenges of a recent project - for t...

I think you simply need to download and install the 64 bit version. You can have both installed and available - 32 bit is needed if you want to use any current 32 bit FFGL shaders, otherwise 64 bit should be better for large projects. Edit: Use the link (to all the download options) you received whe...

I would like to choose one audio file as the source for all generated video effects and another that is used as the main audio file that is rendered with the video. Hi Ben, thanks. What you request is already possible. You can import two audio files, and mute one of them. Even when an audio file is...

Cool!
I really like it.

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