I’ve been using midi controllers with Quartz Composer for a while now and mostly they work, however I’ve just recently discovered some major bugs in the current (10.4.5) midi implementation which I wanted to share information and workarounds on here. Unfortunately for some of them there is no easy solution and it severely limits [...]
Now that I’ve been getting into building Cocoa interfaces for my Quartz Composer patches I went looking on the net for additional Cocoa controls that might be of use to me.
By far the most useful look to be Stick Software’s Circular Slider and Concept House’s CHappKit.
Most VJ’s at the moment are “stuck inside the square”, their visuals in clubland are a small patch of light and motion floating in the larger environment. The sound and the lighting rig are everywhere, omnipresent, but the visuals are only visible in a small part of the audiences field of view. Future [...]
Ok so I’m not the first to link this but it’s just about the coolest new interface technique I’ve seen. Multi Touch Interaction through Frustrated Total Internal Reflection.
I did visuals last night at Fairy Tales at the Coronet together with Quadroptica and Inside-Us-All. I used my latest build of Quartonian VAST and a second machine running Grid Pro. A couple of things have come out of this including my decision to expand the scope of the Quartonian blog.
I’ve been thinking more about state storing and logic processing in Quartz Composer based on some comments made by Vade. Currently the options are very limited and seemingly that’s a deliberate design decision on Apple’s part, you’re not supposed to store state in a Quartz Composer composition. So what’s the options? Hack [...]
The QC Hidden patches work fine on Mac’s that don’t have Clockskew’s enabler plugin installed. I tested this by compiling an XCode App that uses them and copying it to another machine which didn’t have that plugin.
A Round up of Quartz Composer quickies: Make Quartz Composer files with PlistPro; A great tutorial from Momo the Monster and Eskatonia Visuals performing at Synergy Project, SEOne London this Friday (Tomorrow)
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