Toggling modules with musical transitions

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Toggling modules with musical transitions

Postby SandyAndy on Sun, 02 May 2010 08:34:10 GMT

Is anyone else doing this???
I've VJed 2 Brown University parties and its been going well. I want to know if anyone else vjs this way:

So there are shortcuts for every module. I have them all set on the buttons and wheel of my wacom tablet, but you could just as easily set them on the keyboard.
For instance:
Set Pull Shapes to P and set pressure shapes to R.
I'll use "Massage Situation" by Fying Lotus as an example. k is the snare, t is the high hat.
It goes "mmmhh t-k-t-t--t-k-t- aaaaah t-k-t-t-t-k--t"
so for the "mmmhh" I would press R and do a waving motion in and out to the beat, (also I'm in Displace so I'm basically drawing the moving beat and capturing the up and down flow.)
and for the "aaah" I'd press P without even picking up my pen and the shapes will explode into pullled shapes. Then I pick up my pen and start over for the next "mmmh"
you can do this between any two modules. I play around with Mic shapes, Speed Shapes, and X Shapes, just pick a sound for a shape, and then when the sound changes or transitions, press another shortcut and its relatively seamless. I feel like a DJ spinning my Tablet wheel. I try to use my best judgement on what modules feel right for what insturment or sound.
(btw my settings are almost always Vector shapes, mirror vertical+horizontal, limit set to 4, color switch on, usually displacement.)
Is anyone else working pretty much the same way? I'd love to start a dialogue about making this style of set as seamless and entertaining as possible.
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Re: Toggling modules with musical transitions

Postby dasAdam on Tue, 11 May 2010 17:55:58 GMT

its just to hard to imagine it i guess?
dont you have any videos showing the events?
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Re: Toggling modules with musical transitions

Postby Rayn567 on Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:19:55 GMT

I am also interested in using my tablet and Alchemy in this way. Is there a video tutorial you can show us?
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Re: Toggling modules with musical transitions

Postby obstacle on Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:27:45 GMT

ive been dong this for a while now at music festivals and such
but since im in school there are large gaps between when i do visuals
i really like the set up you have
i also have been using shortcuts to transition between
my vector library for pull shapes is crazy big so im actually trying to fine different combinations of complimentary shapes to have together.

if you have any more tip let me know
also what kind of music do you do visuals to?

ive been trying to find a way to incorporate a particle program along with alchemy

glad there is someone else out there who knows what they are talkin about
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