So I am working on preparing this patch for a performance in about a month and a half, and I was wondering if you guys had some advice/techniques on making it more "playable" via midi messages. I want to build up the systems one element at a time, and I think that I will be able to do that without much hassle. Perhaps changing the shapes, colors, placements etc. would be worth looking into. All you have to do is send audio in via JACK, or load a sample and plug the output into both fiddle and bonk. I know its still a mess, but hopefully you will be able to decipher it.

-Evan_

http://www.4shared.com/file/91293133/9499630/repeater2.html

here it is

Hey straitfire, this is very nice indeed... I guess it's probably a work-in-progress, but maybe a few suggestions:

• for the GEM noobs among us (myself included) it's always handy to indicate where to click to get the thing going
• secondly it's always nice to have a little sample player included because not everyone has immediate adc~ available.

But like it said, very cool...

Yeah I am building this for performance so I kind of overlooked those things (oops!).
As soon as I get the time I will label things a little more clearly and include something for playing soundfiles.

-Evan_

This is very beautiful, Thanks a lot.
If you want to play with midi you can try moving the camera.
Good luck for your performance.

dude that is amazing.

I agree, adding movement to the global camera would really head fuck you (in a good way) I hate how not easy it is to make things look good in GEM, you have to really work the alpha, i find, to get effects that look any good. - I don't like the harshness of the edges of your shapes.

Have a look here for ideas on having colour respond to audio : http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-2287-slow-change-visualization-audio-signal

I am actually using that patch as a basis for the color change of the "arms". i am using colorede lighting so that kind of interferes with thte changes, but is something that I need for my performance.

I had no idea I could move the camera!! How ( as in what object) can I do this?

@ arif: So how do I deal with the harshness. is working with an alpha channel the answer? I have never really messed with it as I was more concerned with creating something that worked properly.

I appreciate all of the suggestions and I will continue working to please your eyes.

-Evan_

To move the camera you send messages to the gem window, like view <x> <y> <z>.
Check the help from gemwin and then click viewing.

Well I'm no GEM wizard, I can't actually tell you how to resolve the issue of harshness... - this is where, (in my fantasy,) I'd send out the data with OSC to a computer graphics engineer who could take my data and make it look good.

have a look at [alpha] it's dead easy to use. and works great when creating an ever evolving picture, (and gemwindow is set to 'buffer 1'). I used it once to create a "sound painter" that draws one pixel (of colour and size related to amplitude) whenever a bonk is detected. After 30 mins of sound, you have a lovely blended image.

polygon_smooth will help a little with the harshness. Also, clever utilization of alpha layers. To my taste, this is one place where GEM suffers. There are a bunch of suggestions around the PIXEL forum about this, most involve 'ghosting' your polys with one or more slightly transparent copies, either with recursion or by using pix_snap to create feedback.

hey StraitFire,
I'm just getting into this GEM stuff, but I have made a customized version of your repeater2 patch. I will figure out how to upload it if anyone wants. I filmed it at the beginning of a youtube video I just posted.

the video isn't that great but I figured I'd share it. I think the next step for me is adding midi control, oh yeah and learning how bonk~ works. I kinda just attached objects together until it looked crazy. Also added random numbers triggered by the bonk~ bangs and controlling various parameters and some more shapes. I also added a bunch of inlets to your light subpatches. long story short its really trippy and possibly seizure inducing depending on the sound input

Will,

the video was blank...I'll try again later.

And if you could post the custom patch I'd love to check it out.

Bonk~ took me awhile to understand, and I am still figuring it out. Basically it analyzes different frequency bands. I find it very useful for this type of thing.

Sorry for late reply I forgot to subscribe to the topic.
Attached is my latest version, do you happen to know where to get the movie file writing codecs for [pix_record]? I want to record some video from GEM for an audio/video project I'm working on.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/WillWompaRepeater.pd