My quartonian mixer still gets a lot of downloads, I’m not sure exactly why that is because it’s pretty clunky in it’s current state. The latest Kineme quartz plugins would let me make it a lot easier to use if I used all those, eg adapt it to use the “Folder Movies” patch “Image [...]
My latest demo VJ reel which uses Quartonian VAST to generate real time text and stills animation is now available to be viewed from the
Eskatonia Visuals” website.
Quartonian Mixer 0.55 is now available for download. Features include preview seperate from main output, HD 720p support, and many other bugfixes and improvements. Grab it from the Download page.
I’m off to NAB tomorrow and I’m going to try and post some items of interest to anyone working in live performance visuals… I’m expecting some great things from there, got some very interesting leads.
I was trying to post a new version of Quartonian Mixer before now but didn’t make it, apologies.. [...]
I 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 [...]
Ecume des Jours has modified the Quartonian VSM source code to add a menu that zooms to full screen on the second display. Download the modifed version “Quartonian VSM Fullscreen”.
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.
Quartonian VSM is a specialised simplified tool for creating beat synced animations from folders full of still images.
1.0 is now out, grab it from this page.
This version has big performance improvements over version 0.40. Up to twice as fast frame rate in some cases. Hex screen layouts have especially been much improved in rendering speed. Available from the download page now.
I need to put Quartonian development aside for a couple of months to work on some other creative projects.
I’m going to outline my future plans in the hope some other people might start to work on them while I’m elsewhere…..
This article left for the release notes, version 0.45 is now out and much improved.
Willow from Quartz Compositions has kindly agreed to host a user forum for Quartonian on his site. Please feel free to post problems getting it running, feature requests or ideas there. Also please post reports if you use Quartonian in a live performance.
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