Magic Music Visuals

Hello everyone!

I am trying to have a scene selector driven by the MIDI clock. I have 5 scenes :

- scene 1: 20 video files plugged into an input selector. The index is changed on beat. Works fine.
- scenes 2, 3 and 4: 30 GL shaders plugged into an input selector, and a transform module after the selector (3 different transformations, thus the 3 scenes). The index of each input selector is changed on beat. Each scene alone works fine.
- scene 5: pictures triggered on beat. Works fine.

I then have a final scene, where I want to mix everything: scene 5 is always visible, in the background. And I have an input selector to switch between scenes 1 to 4, triggered on MIDI beat/4. When the input selects scene 1 (videos), everything goes fine: I get a different video on each measure (MIDI beat/4). But when the input selects scenes 1-3, it's always the same GL shader that is selected; it looks like the input selectors from scenes 1-3 have no effect.

So my question is: what is the best practice to have a "scene selector"? I tried with a multi-mix module in the final scene and I get the same result.

Thank you!

it looks like the input selectors from scenes 1-3 have no effect.

Hmm, I'm not sure why that wouldn't work. Could you post some screenshots of your scenes?

Here are the scenes :

- "fractal beat" is scene 5
- "videos" is scene 1
- "animation" xx are scenes 2, 3 and 4

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Your "Animation" scenes are feeding into a MultiMix module, but the MultiMix module is set to 0. So, only the first Animation scene is ever displayed.

Maybe that's the problem?

When the MultiMix module is set to 0, the first Animation is displayed and it behaves normally: the Input Selector in the Animation scene works fine and the differente GL Shaders are displayed one after the other. This is the result I want to have.

However, when I link the MultiMix Parameter to the MIDI clock, it changes from 0 to 2 and should select one of the 3 Animation scenes I have. When it does so, each of the Animation scenes (Animation, Animation 1 and Animation 1 1) seems to restart: the Input Selector of each Animation scene is reset to 0. It looks like the Input Selectors from Animation scenes are not running independently from the Final scene.

I don't know if I made myself clear...

I think I understand. The issue is that InputSelector and MultiMix reset their input modules when the input changes. And when a module is reset, its modifiers are also reset. So in the Animation scene's InputSelector, the Trigger modifier resets to 0 when the Final scene's MultiMix changes. Does that make sense?

Maybe I should add an option to InputSelector/MultiMix to *not* reset the input module(s)?

Thanks Eric for the explanation. Everything makes sense now. I guess that the option you mentioned would solve my issue .

Hi Eric,

I guess you spend your whole time on version 2.0 of MMV. Any chance to get this "do not reset the inputs" option in version 1.65+ ? Or do I have to wait for version 2.0 ?

Thanks again.

Believe me, I am always trying my very best to implement everyone's requests . I do have to balance them all though, and it's hard to know to when certain things will get done. What I can promise is that your request is on my list, and I will get to it as soon as I humanly can .

Thank you for your answer, Eric. I know you work hard, be sure I appreciate this !