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Anyone doing live visuals?


velvetkevorkian
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My mate used to do visuals stuff (might still do it) he used [url="http://www.vidvox.net/"]VDMX[/url]. He created a lot of his own plugins using Apple's Quartz Composer (one of his plugins was used by the guy who does Richie Hawtins visuals).

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A mate did some for us a couple of times a few years ago. If I remember right, it required a PC projector, a microphone, a laptop and Winamp. Basically the mic feeds the live sound into Winamp, which has customisable visualisation, which is output to the projector. It looked good, but was just something else to carry around and set up.

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I haven't used it live (because my band split up before I got chance), but I bought a massive, fully pro' Projector, and plugged it into my laptop, and displayed some "electric sheep" screensavers (in the house) It looked great...

My plan was to make some of my own graphics. I'm an artist on computer games so I have plenty of 3d & 2d art skillz (was that the sound of my horn blowing itself?) :)

*note: search for "electric sheep" if you're interested in abstract visuals. It downloads new ones over time so although the selection is limited at first, you get some great ones over time... and you can (or could at the time) download specific ones that other people have posted.

PS for sale: 1 massive projector and 3 > £200 lenses. Bah...

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What kind of spec did you decide you needed for the projector? That's the main area I have no clue in.

As for visuals, I've been doing a bit of graphics programming (mainly using [url="http://processing.org/"]Processing[/url]) so was figuring on rolling my own visuals. Got lots of ideas about syncing to midi from the band, making it audio-reactive etc. Of course the band is entirely hypothetical at this point :rolleyes:

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well I just went for an old, but powerful Barco machine. Bought it off e-bay for about £250 iirc Bought a short throw lens from ebay seperately... The res is only 1280x1024 but the lumens is high as these things were designed for theatre/club use. it's like this... [url="http://www.aboutprojectors.com/Barco-BarcoReality-6400-projector.html"]http://www.aboutprojectors.com/Barco-BarcoReality-6400-projector.html[/url]

MRSP $24,995.00 lol... The old ones like this have been superceded by smaller lightweight models with better performance now, but they have the *silly* price tag like this one did back in 2000 when it was new. However for my needs this was gonna be *MORE* than adequate...

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