Trigger Video Clips With MIDI Keyboard
Hello, I am in the process of creating a patch where I have a MIDI controller to adjust play speeds and effects on the Jitter video.
I would like to use a Midi Keyboard (M AUDIO Oxygen49) to trigger different video clips to play in the imovie box.
Different notes will trigger different video clips.
I have been told that using the notein object would be the best way. I am having difficulty understanding how to assign each key on the keyboard to the separate video clips.
Can someone please recommend a solution.
Thanks :)
One option is to use a ubumenu (umenu in Max 5) with auto-populate to get a list of all videos in a folder. Then, substract an the offset of your first not (suppose you want to trigger from key 49, make [- 49] after your note number, and go to the umenu.
(That is if you don't want to overlap videos. For that, you must design a different system with 2 players.)
Jean-Francois.
Thanks for your reply, At first I thought that would be best suited, however in some parts of the preformance I would like to trigger other clips somtimes which stop the old one playing then start the new one or be able to trigger clips on top of the other clips that are allready playinf(been triggerd)
:)
I have now managed to get a Umenu with the list of video files.
The next step would be to tell the umenu which video to play right ?
I have included my patch so far, Ignore the stuff on the right, that is for my midi controller.
Im not sure if the keyboard is correct, It was taken from a Jittter Tutorial (26).
Thanks
I have jsut thought, could I not use the pitch from Notein to trigger different clips ?
AS you click on each note you can see the pitch changes, is there a way the patch can understand whcih note has been pressed because of the pitch value.
There must be a way of assigning certain pitch values to different clips ?
Pitchs from keys :
0.03333
0.06667
0.08333 and so on !
:)
You don't want to trigger according to frequency, but rather stay with integers. For instance:
To use the [imovie] object, first have a look at the object Reference (in Max Help).
If you want to do more video work in the future (overlap movies, crossfade between them...), you should give Jitter a try.
J-F.
woah , im totally lost, im afraid, I have no idea what that code was you pasted :(
Could you perhaps look at my patch and edit it accordingly and post it up on here.
I can understand better if I see what is happening.
I hope that is ok
Thank you
:)
to save you some grunt work,
heres what I made that kinda fits what what you want
the bottom is where you drop the movies, the top is what is selected
Thanks for the reply,
Now It seems that the code you have pasted is the code from your patch, I assume that all I need to do to see the patcher is to paste this code somewhere. I am afraid I do not know how to do this
I'm sorry I am such a Noob at msp, I'm sure I will get it eventually !
Thank you
:)
Ok I figured it out, you literally copy and paste the code.
Thanks I will have a look :)
Awesome, Now i See that when the keyboard key has been selected it changes the file/s in the umenu.
So now what is the next step to playing these clips ?
Thanks for your help
Max tutorial 12, or Jitter tutorials.