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Off to NAB… some quick hits…

Posted by roger on April 22nd, 2006

NAB

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.. Apple made back end changes to the Quartz Composer engine in 10.4.5 and 10.4.6 although some bugs were fixed there are some fairly nasty regressions as well. The best I can do is post some work arounds for now.

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Cities of the Future V2.0 with iVisualize

Posted by roger on April 14th, 2006

“Cities of the Future V2.0″ is one of the quartz compositions included with the 1.0 release of iVisualize, its been tidied up and improved and now runs very well inside iTunes as a Visualizer complete with track names and album art.

Cities V2.0

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Hidden Patch Enabler on Intel Macs?

Posted by roger on April 8th, 2006

Clockskew’s hidden patch enabler is a PPC bundle and he never released the source code. Also, he seems to have disappeared off the net entirely and has not answered his emails or updated his blog for over six months. I’m hoping someone else can duplicate his work but in the meantime use this patch that contains one of each hidden patch and will load fine on Intel mac’s.

qc hidden patches

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Grid Pro Beta 2 out…. now with QC comp parameter controls…

Posted by roger on April 4th, 2006

The Vidvox guys have done it again. Beta 2 of their complete Cocoa rebuild is now out and available from this thread on their forum. It now has full native speed Quartz Compositions playback and the ability to display published number inputs as sliders in the Grid Pro GUI for a clip.

GP Beta 2

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One Composition To Rule Them All

Posted by roger on April 3rd, 2006

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 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”

vastmixer

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Grid Pro Universal Binary Beta Now Available

Posted by roger on March 27th, 2006

Grid Pro UB
Vidvox has just released the first beta version of their complete rewrite of Grid Pro as a fully native Cocoa application. Read the rest of this entry »

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The State of Mac Intel VJ Apps.

Posted by roger on March 24th, 2006

Intel Core Duo

My MacBook Pro is on order…My Quartonian apps are already universal binaries but it will be nice to be able to actually test them :)

What about the other VJ apps out there? Whats native? what will soon be? and what’s likely to take a long time coming?

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VST Video Plugin For Ableton Live

Posted by roger on March 23rd, 2006

VST Movie Player
I’ve just been made aware of a Video player plugin for Ableton Live thanks to this thread on the VJ Forums.. Read the rest of this entry »

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ToxicMedia Framework and Multiple Compositions?

Posted by roger on March 22nd, 2006

Toxic Software
Another geeky Cocoa dev update: I haven’t had time to check it out yet but I just have come across the Toxic Media Framework from Toxic Software which is BSD licensed and adds some very interesting extra palettes to Interface Builder. Read the rest of this entry »

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Quartonian VSM Fullscreen version

Posted by roger on March 21st, 2006

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”.
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Drive Multiple displays on a Mac Mini

Posted by roger on March 14th, 2006

Mac Mini dual
Ever wanted to attach multiple displays to a Mac Mini? Now it’s possible. Read the rest of this entry »

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BPM Tapper and Midi Clock composition

Posted by roger on March 14th, 2006

bpm tapper
Here is my skeleton Composition that has both a tap function generator and a midi clock input and lets you swap between them on the fly. Read the rest of this entry »

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