best way to make visuals for music? vsts?

is there any gfx vsts that you can get? whats the easiest way to get started?

i can do stuff in 3dsmax with an audio controller, but thats out of the sequencer.. i found one vst for modular gfx vst but its no longer online... it needs to be modular and have good controls. dont know where to start.

anyone know anything?

In the past I've had a play with Gephex - http://www.gephex.org/

It's kind of like a simpler version of Jitter (although to me it was more like a video version of Jeskola Buzz), is free and available for Windows/Linux (and an experimental version for Mac OSX

looks pretty neat, when you say it's like jitter do you mean it has no msp like components where that you could use visuals to control sound. by the looks of it seems like it can only go one way = sound 2 visuals

Doesn't sound like it'll really fit your bill but how about Processing? There's piles of stuff about to get you started, and lots to yoink snippets from. There's an OBJ loader too, which you may be able to put to use? I wouldn't mind getting to know some more, but there's too much other stuff I'm trying to learn at the moment :( http://processing.org/ http://www.openprocessing.org/

just a quick youtube search http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0XPk9OZhY

You can always then use different sketches for different scenes, or what have you, and edit them together.

ask SQUEE

:)

Do you want the visuals to be in sync with music the whole time? As in every little frequency reacts with the pixels according to the music like something from the Gantz Graf video?

To be honest, I haven't tried any VST Visual plugins but I'm 100% sure that it'll end up looking like something from Windows Media Player.

Also, do you want the visuals to run from the computer that is also processing the music?

  On 9/19/2009 at 6:59 PM, Squee said:

:)

 

Do you want the visuals to be in sync with music the whole time? As in every little frequency reacts with the pixels according to the music like something from the Gantz Graf video?

To be honest, I haven't tried any VST Visual plugins but I'm 100% sure that it'll end up looking like something from Windows Media Player.

 

Also, do you want the visuals to run from the computer that is also processing the music?

1: would be nice - but i understand of the program needed to make such a thing like gantz. i can do it offline, but wanted some online help - yes a bit like media player but more solid/line/3d type objects as well as that cloudy type thing you get w/ media player.. like http://www.soundspectrum.com/whitecap/ but polyphonic inside the daw really

2: yeah i know

3: hmmmmm not my laptop haha

Will your friend's show be 100% live as in no one knows what will happen next or will it be a "planned" live set where everything is set up just waiting to be activated?

  On 9/19/2009 at 7:21 PM, Squee said:

Will your friend's show be 100% live as in no one knows what will happen next or will it be a "planned" live set where everything is set up just waiting to be activated?

live from fl to make clips (hence the multi-channel nature of the visuals, video feed from ableton (same machine??? if it can handle.. actually he probably doesnt care if it does handle or not) good if we can add in jpegs to the art and whatnot, like a simple photoshop/everything toolset.

does one exist?

edit* if we can route stuff like the peak controller (midi( to the visual fx controls it would go down craaazy!!

You should get Resolume and run it on a seperate computer. In my opinion, it's the best video/visual trigger there is. You can add a midi controller to it and control all your effects with it. You can also add cues to your videos so you can trigger certain parts of the videos whenever you want. This is a great feature because even though visuals aren't always noticed by the crowd, the constant flashing and back forth between two clips or scenes enhances the audio experience.

  On 9/19/2009 at 7:34 PM, Squee said:

You should get Resolume and run it on a seperate computer. In my opinion, it's the best video/visual trigger there is. You can add a midi controller to it and control all your effects with it. You can also add cues to your videos so you can trigger certain parts of the videos whenever you want. This is a great feature because even though visuals aren't always noticed by the crowd, the constant flashing and back forth between two clips or scenes enhances the audio experience.

thanks squee

haha just piqued my interest on how the style squee is progressing:] whats been happening in the scene?

Arkaos can be linked with Ableton

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in some aspects similar to jitter, but operating in directx realm

  On 2/8/2010 at 11:22 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

incidentally, how was gantz graf made? like, with what program?

Max MSP/Jitter as far as I remember

  On 2/8/2010 at 12:05 PM, Squee said:

  On 2/8/2010 at 11:22 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

incidentally, how was gantz graf made? like, with what program?

 

Max MSP/Jitter as far as I remember

as i read @ alex rutterford's interview it was made in Lightwave, animated frame-to-frame, without any generative stuff, with rutterford's student assistance

Yeah he said something like he'd wished there was some sort of automated system that he could've just ran it though but there wasn't so was all done 'by hand'.