SubscribeI wanted to use my VAST patch for my gig on saturday night “Infected Mushroom at Psychedelic Academy 003″, but Inside-Us-All were using their layout of dual hexagon screens. End result: in 48 hours I had to try and combine Quartonian Mixer and Quartonian VAST into “one patch to rule them all”. Two hours before the gig started on saturday afternoon I had ready an ugly hybrid mutant monstrosity, a dual headed monster, too stupid to die but too ugly to live…. but it it lived long enough for the gig. Presenting “Quartonian VAST-Mixer”
This is basically now all my patches linked into one performance monster. This is the way to go, adding more tabs and controls as I make new patches but it’s time consuming to make an interface that works in live performance. The current result worked for the gig last night but it’s a weird hybrid of direct quartz composer keyboard controls and cocoa interface. No one except me could expect to use it, which is a bit of an issue.
I intend to put out a 0.55 release of Quartonian Mixer soon which will be some bug fixes and minor new features. This will be the final “composition only” version of Quartonian Mixer and will be CC licensed.
After that I will turn Quartonian Mixer into a cocoa application, merge it with VAST, and add load save options / previews and proper dual screen output. I haven’t yet decided how to license / sell the Quartonian Mixer / VAST Cocoa application. It’s too much work for me to give it away but not polished enough for me to sell as a commercial application. Some options I’m considering are “donationware” (donate a minimum amount to a charity of my choice and I send you a copy) and “barterware” (send me vj loops and I send it to you).
Feedback appreciated.
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Your “performance monster” i can imagine Roger is a real box of tricks. I Know what you mean by no one except you could expect to use it, just too much qc goodness - i’ll sort the GUI out after i stop having ideas for this vj project (or well that’s what I’m doing at the moment), with my own qc project its becoming more and more my own personal tool – but why not.
I spent a long time weaving through Quartonian learning how every last node worked and what a learning curve! i wouldn’t like to think where i would be with my project if i hadn’t come across yours!!! (I must buy you a pint sometime).
I think you’ve put enough work and given enough back to the vj/quartz composer community to get something back out of Quartonian. “Barterware” made me smile i personally think that’s a brilliant solution - you would be keeping the vj community spirit alive (swapping programs/vj loop just like dj’s trade records). Maybe the charity work can start when this vj thang kicks off and we can perform at the live 8’s of the future.
Left by JAy j on April 4th, 2006