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Magic Visual Keyboard round 4

Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 7:34 am
by skarabee
I now have a virtual drummer and some keyboards all playing through midi and audio files. No sync problems noticed here. All is done in one renderd scene. I used midi CCs to show/hide elements. Colors are not tasty and models are very basic, this is more a proof-of-concept. The hardest work is done, I have now template scenes for virtual instruments in many flavours. I'll share some soon.

Still exploring and discovering new amazing things in MMV.


Re: Magic Visual Keyboard round 4

Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 6:00 pm
by Magic
Awesome :). My only suggestion would be to make the drummer bigger, maybe even twice as big, just to give more impact to it.

I love the keyboard at 1:15, very cool.

Re: Magic Visual Keyboard round 4

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2017 12:39 pm
by skarabee
Yes I agree, the spider drummer looks a bit thin. In my first attempt I made it bigger but I needed some space to put the 2 other keyboards for the demo.
The solo keyboard is my first model a flat 39 keys, through a spherical mapping with a sine osc movement.

I wish I could use more detailed 3D models or at least find some with good textures, but first I have to upgrade my hardware. My 7 years old laptop is slowly dying...

Re: Magic Visual Keyboard round 4

Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2017 2:42 pm
by dj0le
Nice! The piano bits are phenomenal, I love that.

As far as the spider, another option might be to just make the arms travel a lot further? For instance, if they were moving twice the distance per beat, then they would look much faster and match the tempo of the drums better.

Re: Magic Visual Keyboard round 4

Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 5:24 pm
by visuality
Really beautiful piece of work, congrats on this, I love it. Its rendered so nicely as well, great job.

Re: Magic Visual Keyboard round 4

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 10:14 am
by Trygve
This one kicks ass ! At lest id did to me so I finely got to buy MMV today... Shared it on FB so hope u get more views ! Now I start to believe we can do something close to the famous Animusic shows, just in a simplified way...

Re: Magic Visual Keyboard round 4

Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 1:22 pm
by skarabee
Welcome Tryge!
Yes, it's by far more simple than Animusic, but with a little work, we can animate our dreams.