Follow Actions together with virtual MIDI buses is especially awesome. Hambone1 wrote:Follow Actions, MIDI effects, Live Clips, arpeggiator, virtual MIDI buses, dummy clips, etc are really powerful for both VJing and lighting.
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and organizational skills! I'm really itching to do all this with a Lemur. In this video tutorial well first cover how to set up VDMX to receive MIDI Clock from Ableton Live to keep the measure position between DJ and VJ apps perfectly in sync. You're really only limited by your imagination. If anyone has any suggestions about these types of programs, ideally something that can be linked to midi within ableton so that it changes as effects or scenes change, that would be awesome.
Live makes it easy to improvise all three with great results. I do a lot of djaying/live performances with ableton and am looking at some way to create visuals linked to the music. Getting audio, video, and lighting to work tightly together can be really powerful if it's done well. One button can send a thunder audio sample to the subs, flash the strobes and blinders, and trigger a nuclear explosion clip on the video screens. Rapid-fire positive/negative effects on the video are matched with synched strobes. For example, one Faderfox button launches the cameras into night vision mode, overlays a military-style night vision graphic over the live feed, and kills all lighting except the laser, which does beat-match tunnel sweeps across the room. I try to choreograph the video and lighting so they work together. hey all, just thought id post some lovin' for the echo audio indigo dj pcmcia card. At the beginning of the video you can see the polyphonic velocity sensitive keys in action (yes, the harder you hit the. Nothing is done in post, the same signal is controlling both audio and video. Follow Actions together with virtual MIDI buses is especially awesome. In this video, OSCulator is routing the OSC (& TUIO) messages coming from MSA Remote to midi and forwarding to Ableton Live and VDMX simultaneously. And with Max for Live now in Live Suite and on more Live machines, this should also be a boon to audiovisual collaborations.Īnd if you can find a live visual performer with whom to collaborate, it gets all the more powerful.Follow Actions, MIDI effects, Live Clips, arpeggiator, virtual MIDI buses, dummy clips, etc are really powerful for both VJing and lighting. In the Ableton Live Preferences in the MIDI tab under 'To VDMX' set the 'Sync' to 'On' option to enable MIDI Clock output. The ability to go fine-grained, for solo performances or instances that need lots of synchronization, all the way to larger grain, when you just need particular cues to pass off to a visualist, seems really nice. SingleNote: here, you can dig into individual notes – but with assignment that could theoretically be easier than simply using whole MIDI streams (which can be too much data)
Recently, someone reminded me of the Kontrol F1 by Native Instruments and after working out some quick ideas I got myself a Kontrol F1 via ebay and built a VDMX-set around it.
VoidGrabber: perhaps the most fun, you can use Automation and Clip Envelopes to send discrete information output for visuals VDMX is my tool of choice for doing visuals and I was looking for the best hardware-controller for quite a long time. TrackGrabber: here, pull track-level parameters (like triggering clips)ĪnalysisGrabber: this does more conventional audio spectral analysis
ParamGrabber: here’s where things get interesting - connect to any parameter in Live But speaking of VDMX, that superb tool is on a fire sale for a hundred bucks this month act fast!)
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(Any OSC tool will work – I’m rather keen to code around this with Processing, for instance, just for kicks. It’s best seen in this example with VDMX. It’s actually a suite of plug-ins for Ableton Live’s Max for Live environment that spits out OSC (OpenSoundControl) messages to any visual tool that can respond.Īnd as you can see in the video, the results are both effortless and profound. Livegrabber has got to be about the easiest way to do this I’ve seen yet. That means whether they’re working solo or with a live visualist, being able to get useful signal between music and visual tools and performance elements. Live performers simply want a way to have more intimate relationships between music and visuals onstage. 4 ways to sync VDMX and Ableton Live from Studio Rewind on Vimeo.įrequently asked question? Maybe incessantly-asked question.