Basic Visuals

jwarder's icon

Hi,

I currently have a MAX/MSP patch which processes TouchOSC, and control DMX lighting via my Arduino & DIY DMX Shield.

I am really interested in creating a visual effect which will change colour with my RGB sliders for DMX, I also want the visual to respond to sound.

Now I have been looking at other peoples visuals and become very confused, so I think I need to start with the basics, can anyone help or point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Jack

MJ's icon

did you do all of the jitter tutorials ?

jwarder's icon

I'm working through them still

seejayjames's icon

jit.scalebias for direct color changing of images or video. besides that there are dozens more effects you can play with.

For audio it really depends, snapshot~ can give you amplitudes to play with, or some fft~ to utilize frequency analysis for the visuals.

Try making some controllable, yet automatic ramps to change simple numerical values, use [scale] as needed, and apply them to your RGB levels. Also you can go HSL and send those values through [swatch], sometimes this is more intuitive to deal with color choice.

jwarder's icon

I think I'm going to use processing for my visual, I think
I will achieve better results.

Jack