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I've loved playing with this over the years - it's a great project. I've been to a couple music shows where the VJ had a serious setup with what looked like ph

I've loved playing with this over the years - it's a great project. I've been to a couple music shows where the VJ had a serious setup with what looked like physical mixers with buttons, knobs, and dials, and some quite complex software going. Does anyone know how to learn about the state of the art in VJing?

CoolestBeans 5y ago
Not sure about “state of the art” but if you’re on Mac, VDMX (https://vidvox.net/ https://vidvox.net/) is a good place to start looking. Its sort of like a DJ mixer for video sources but lets you do other things like control parameters of your video sources with a MIDI contoller for example.
- grepfru_it 5y ago
  Back in the day there was MilkyMist (https://m-labs.hk/gateware/m1/ https://m-labs.hk/gateware/m1/) I am extremely heart broken I never bought one before it was discontinued (the software and hardware is open source tho)
- mxxx 5y ago
  +1 for VDMX. When you understand the fundamentals of how to build stuff with it you can almost create your own version of most of the other software available on the market. Plus the vidvox dudes are legends.
ruined 5y ago
if you want to get into hacking on a real ntsc/pal signal there is a whole universe of very expensive eurorack gear. on the low end you could check out ch/av for a VGA synth. you probably want something a bit higher level. for a simple raspi-based device that lets you play with video feedback and has midi-tuneable features check out video_waaaves and other software by andrei jay. combined with a basic edirol video mixer and a couple sources this could get you pretty far. for coding visuals, learn glsl on shadertoy, p5.js and threejs from streamers like yuri artyukh, and check out what people are doing with commercial software like touchdesigner or max/msp
ushakov 5y ago
there is also Resolume: https://resolume.com/ https://resolume.com/ and TouchDesigner: https://derivative.ca https://derivative.ca
arcin 5y ago
VJ's tend to use multiple different apps and connect them using syphon (Mac) or spout (windows) to share textures. I've seen resolume (clip heavy content) and touchdesigner (node based "visual IDE" ) mentioned. Those are all big in the space and offer something unique. I wanted to add https://www.synesthesia.live https://www.synesthesia.live to that list. It has a ton of audio reactive content and the best audio reactivity in the space. But the key really is in using other apps + syphon/spout to combine all the textures into unique content. Then manipulating that in something like touch designer. Full disclosure: I'm one of the creators of synesthesia.live but use multiple apps, Touch Designer everyday.
nuclearsugar 5y ago
Worked with a friend to create NestDrop. It's a VJ interface wrapper for the Milkdrop engine with support for Spout output. http://nestimmersion.ca/nestdrop.html http://nestimmersion.ca/nestdrop.html Also curated and organized about 9800 Milkdrop presets from the community. https://thefulldomeblog.com/2020/02/21/nestdrop-presets-collection-cream-of-the-crop/ https://thefulldomeblog.com/2020/02/21/nestdrop-presets-coll...
- trollied 5y ago
  Thank you for the presets curation! Amazing!
- bwooster 5y ago
  How would you feel about using this or a subset of them as the default preset bundle for milkdrop? It needs a better curated default.
bj-rn 5y ago
There is also vvvv[1]. They have a bundle of free workshops available here: https://thenodeinstitute.org/courses/node20-vvvv-workshop-bundle https://thenodeinstitute.org/courses/node20-vvvv-workshop-bu... Especially the one called "Beyond Sound and Visual" by Natan Sinigaglia[2] might interest you. [1] https://visualprogramming.net https://visualprogramming.net [2] https://natansinigaglia.com/works https://natansinigaglia.com/works

CoolestBeans 5y ago

Not sure about “state of the art” but if you’re on Mac, VDMX (https://vidvox.net/ https://vidvox.net/) is a good place to start looking. Its sort of like a DJ mixer for video sources but lets you do other things like control parameters of your video sources with a MIDI contoller for example.

grepfru_it 5y ago
Back in the day there was MilkyMist (https://m-labs.hk/gateware/m1/ https://m-labs.hk/gateware/m1/) I am extremely heart broken I never bought one before it was discontinued (the software and hardware is open source tho)
mxxx 5y ago
+1 for VDMX. When you understand the fundamentals of how to build stuff with it you can almost create your own version of most of the other software available on the market. Plus the vidvox dudes are legends.

ruined 5y ago

if you want to get into hacking on a real ntsc/pal signal there is a whole universe of very expensive eurorack gear. on the low end you could check out ch/av for a VGA synth. you probably want something a bit higher level. for a simple raspi-based device that lets you play with video feedback and has midi-tuneable features check out video_waaaves and other software by andrei jay. combined with a basic edirol video mixer and a couple sources this could get you pretty far. for coding visuals, learn glsl on shadertoy, p5.js and threejs from streamers like yuri artyukh, and check out what people are doing with commercial software like touchdesigner or max/msp

ushakov 5y ago

there is also Resolume: https://resolume.com/ https://resolume.com/ and TouchDesigner: https://derivative.ca https://derivative.ca

arcin 5y ago

VJ's tend to use multiple different apps and connect them using syphon (Mac) or spout (windows) to share textures. I've seen resolume (clip heavy content) and touchdesigner (node based "visual IDE" ) mentioned. Those are all big in the space and offer something unique. I wanted to add https://www.synesthesia.live https://www.synesthesia.live to that list. It has a ton of audio reactive content and the best audio reactivity in the space. But the key really is in using other apps + syphon/spout to combine all the textures into unique content. Then manipulating that in something like touch designer. Full disclosure: I'm one of the creators of synesthesia.live but use multiple apps, Touch Designer everyday.

nuclearsugar 5y ago

Worked with a friend to create NestDrop. It's a VJ interface wrapper for the Milkdrop engine with support for Spout output. http://nestimmersion.ca/nestdrop.html http://nestimmersion.ca/nestdrop.html Also curated and organized about 9800 Milkdrop presets from the community. https://thefulldomeblog.com/2020/02/21/nestdrop-presets-collection-cream-of-the-crop/ https://thefulldomeblog.com/2020/02/21/nestdrop-presets-coll...

trollied 5y ago
Thank you for the presets curation! Amazing!
bwooster 5y ago
How would you feel about using this or a subset of them as the default preset bundle for milkdrop? It needs a better curated default.

bj-rn 5y ago

There is also vvvv[1]. They have a bundle of free workshops available here: https://thenodeinstitute.org/courses/node20-vvvv-workshop-bundle https://thenodeinstitute.org/courses/node20-vvvv-workshop-bu... Especially the one called "Beyond Sound and Visual" by Natan Sinigaglia[2] might interest you. [1] https://visualprogramming.net https://visualprogramming.net [2] https://natansinigaglia.com/works https://natansinigaglia.com/works