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ProjectM – The most advanced open-source music visualizer

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Re: ProjectM – The most advanced open-source music visualizer

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Post by colordrops »

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?

Re: ProjectM – The most advanced open-source music visualizer

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Post by kaladin-jasnah »

From time to time I run projectM on songs I like. It's designed to be an open-source implementation of the Milkdrop visualizer (I think), so it also runs on Linux unlike WinAmp/Milkdrop. Its visualizations are very psychedelic and mesmerizing.

It is very entertaining and I highly recommend giving it a try. You can download extra presets or use the ones that come with it. It's also worth noting that I had to adjust (increase) the beat sensitivity and fiddle with the audio output settings to get it to work on Linux. It also works better for faster-paced songs IMO.

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Post by CoolestBeans »

colordrops wrote: post #2

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.

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Post by matheusmoreira »

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...

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Post by grepfru_it »

01100011 wrote: post #6

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?

Re: ProjectM – The most advanced open-source music visualizer

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Post by grepfru_it »

There is also an android port of this app. It is pay to play but you can easily copy over presets from the original source and aftermarket presets. I run it on my android headunit which brings back the nostalgia of 90s aftermarket stereos with a simple visualization that plays on loop (except this one is interactive and fills a 9" touch screen :D)
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