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Not to be confused with the community-loved but hated-by-nintendo mod of smash brawl, Project M: https://pmunofficial.com/
Always surprises me just how out of touch this company is. Just finished reading that huge Twitter thread. That's just so sad.
I've loved playing with this over the years - it's a great project. I've been to a couple music shows where the VJ had a serious setup with what looked like physical mixers with buttons, knobs, and dials, and some quite complex software going. Does anyone know how to learn about the state of the art in VJing?
Not sure about “state of the art” but if you’re on Mac, VDMX ( https://vidvox.net/ ) is a good place to start looking. Its sort of like a DJ mixer for video sources but lets you do other things like control parameters of your video sources with a MIDI contoller for example.
I am extremely heart broken I never bought one before it was discontinued (the software and hardware is open source tho)
Everytime I've tried to run this it ends up crashing and being utterly unusable on Linux. I've been trying for about 15 years on different hardware. Nowadays I just use a webgl based visualizer.
I've played live gigs with Project M projecting on a backdrop behind the band. I ran the visuals from my linux laptop which also doubled as my synth. TL;DR: whatchutalkinboutwillis?
I've loved playing with this over the years - it's a great project. I've been to a couple music shows where the VJ had a serious setup with what looked like physical mixers with buttons, knobs, and dials, and some quite complex software going. Does anyone know how to learn about the state of the art in VJing?
for a simple raspi-based device that lets you play with video feedback and has midi-tuneable features check out video_waaaves and other software by andrei jay. combined with a basic edirol video mixer and a couple sources this could get you pretty far.
for coding visuals, learn glsl on shadertoy, p5.js and threejs from streamers like yuri artyukh, and check out what people are doing with commercial software like touchdesigner or max/msp
Imagine how much more awesome these visualizations could be if music files came with more than 2 channels. I'm reminded of old tracker software which had simple visualizations for each track. https://youtu.be/eclMFa0mD1c Imagine what could have been if every instrument or voice had its own channel...
given that alas consumers of the world are expected to enjoy bundled finished products, it seems semi unlikely. so perhaps this suggests a great use case for stream seperators like the one posted a couple hours ago Cassiopeia[1].
ultimately i'd love for music to be more like html- an encoring of content that the user's agent then renders as it sees fit. having individual streams, or something even more complex lije an ambisonic recording that encodes position would unlock a lot of experimentation & play. i had not considered though how useful such discreization could aid in visualization, which right if the curf sounds very promising.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28966795 https://www.lalal.ai/blog/meet-lalal-ai-cassiopeia-a-milesto...
I've loved playing with this over the years - it's a great project. I've been to a couple music shows where the VJ had a serious setup with what looked like physical mixers with buttons, knobs, and dials, and some quite complex software going. Does anyone know how to learn about the state of the art in VJing?
and TouchDesigner: https://derivative.ca
Music visualization is really underdeveloped in my opinion. I've never seen anything I find impressive. The problem is it never really looks very much like the visualization relates to the music I'm listening too. Usually you just kind of see the rythm of the music at most. I want to see something where harmonies look like beautiful patterns, noise looks like noise , and perhaps you could even pick out individual ins…
Music visualization is really underdeveloped in my opinion. I've never seen anything I find impressive. The problem is it never really looks very much like the visualization relates to the music I'm listening too. Usually you just kind of see the rythm of the music at most. I want to see something where harmonies look like beautiful patterns, noise looks like noise , and perhaps you could even pick out individual ins…
As a starting point, you could separate the different instruments, which I'm pretty sure is a solved problem by now.
Music visualization is really underdeveloped in my opinion. I've never seen anything I find impressive. The problem is it never really looks very much like the visualization relates to the music I'm listening too. Usually you just kind of see the rythm of the music at most. I want to see something where harmonies look like beautiful patterns, noise looks like noise , and perhaps you could even pick out individual ins…