[sdiy] [OT] synthesizer visualization

[henry birdseye]

Thanks, B!

It was kind of a pain. Extracting the MIDI was a breeze with a script 
http://omino.com/pixelblog/2011/12/26/ae-hello-again-midi/ but there was 
a lot of tweaking. Most of it is Particular with a couple shape layers 
accessing the amplitude of the waveforms. The velocity channel of the 
midi help shape the particles. I tend to tweak a lot and hour and a half 
renders were typical to see the finished progress, so I spent some time.

Processing and Max have been suggested as ways to do new visual things.

That YT video rocks, and it looks like a b*tch to get the basic artwork 
prepped. Thanks for that.

Happy to inspire.

Here's the system but you've seen these before:
https://imgur.com/Caus05i

Henry


On 2/2/2018 10:35 AM, Bruno Afonso wrote:
> Hey Henry, really really nice!
>
> I believe you did this with after FX? I've been playing with trying to 
> display visuals for my tango Djing using openframeworks (it's very low 
> level, hence the difficulty for me) so it was really refreshing to see 
> this super elegant visualization based off midi. I'd love to hear more 
> about how easy/hard this was to put together (maybe off list if too OT)
>
> The most immediate idea that came to my mind was to use this approach 
> for educational purposes, for people wanting to visualize how to 
> compose/arrange voices/timbres in a composition. Other explorations 
> for a single instrument have also been made very helpful for learning, 
> see this bass take on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKBmkxFm7-U
>
> Sorry for the tangent, bottom line it was inspirational to me :D
> b
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 11:49 PM Justin Herrmann 
> <ebn303afxcut at email.com <mailto:ebn303afxcut at email.com>> wrote:
>
>     +1, I fully agree! Very impressive and professional looking. I
>     also enjoyed your other youtube videos.
>
>     Justin
>     On 02/01/2018, 10:41 PM Quincas Moreira <quincas at gmail.com
>     <mailto:quincas at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Holy cow, that was soo cool! I really enjoyed it, thanks for
>         brightening my evening :)
>
>         On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 5:42 PM, henry birdseye
>         <henry.birdseye at gmail.com <mailto:henry.birdseye at gmail.com>>
>         wrote:
>
>             Hi fellas,
>
>             I don't intend to spam the list but thought I would share
>             this visualization I made for a modular piece.
>
>             I sequenced this out of my computer after recording some
>             modular improv quality time, and since I had the MIDI
>             info, I used the Omino MIDI>After Effects script to help
>             make the video. Since I had velocity data, I used that to
>             shape the blobs of particles that show the notes.
>
>             https://youtu.be/FWTEWpqPIn0
>
>             HB
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