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Experimental electronic music maker/performer and enthusiast.
Mainly use Bitwig, but also delve in Usine for anything extra.
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well, I guess pciexpress cards vent away because now days internal space of laptops and especially tablets is used up as much as possible, leaving only space for stuff like m.2 slots
after that Usine went for VCV-style patching support, so I also stripped down whole thing to a module, which is much more CPU-friendly than everything packed in single patch. What I was wondering though is some useful ways to extract note and modulation events from video feed. perhaps this could lead to some reverse VJ set, where what you see affects the music and not the other way around, or it could go both ways for different data

@sean_ae and since I was having a blast with Usine at the time, and it did support video data, I made a synth with this idea, which looked like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8DW8F0mqEE

basically 3 osc for RGB or HSL data of the video, you pick X or Y line to scan and it gets you pixel data from it, that goes into mix with traditional OSC shapes doubled as fallback if picture is basically one color fill, result goes to OSC wavetable array. then further processing and some modulators to keep it alive.

VidSynth for Usine HH3 version 1.02S

YouTube

@sean_ae hey Sean, I wanted to ask about one thing, related to once discovered 444 playlist (I think there were more) on youtube and then 2020 live streams that seemed to feature using video feed as data to manipulate audio or even midi. what did you try in the end and what seemed useful in regard of extracting live data from picture/video?

personally, around 2018 idea occurred to me that you could actually extract wavetable from picture/video on the fly, instead of traditional sonogram method

I once tried to sample this tray full of small screws, because sometimes it sounded like a snare I could use. recording didn't do it proper justice though

Got myself Gulikit king kong 2 pro gamepad recently and since it's super precise in controls decided to test it out in my DAWs as well.

There's a controller script to use it in Bitwig, but there are some things to iron out, so instead I have my Usine gamepad patchbay rack to convert any buttons and axis shift into MIDI data, which then passes it to virtual midi port. somehow crashed audio engine once still.

dug up this old attempt at covering Autechre's Yulquen as live set dancefloor version 🥴 inspired by odd recordings of early Autechre's live sets and underdelivered by my laziness
playing around with some new setup in Bitwig, learned that spectral devices although cool and helpful can get in the way when performing live after all, so should be used (and placed) wisely
gotta sort out nest of wires though. basically my portable monitor is mounted on arm stand now, and hosting a dock station for all the peripherals I have or might need, while carrying just HDMI and USB-C from desktop PC. and just switching out USB-C can get my tablet hooked up to it instead. pretty neat.
my setup now is more mobile while more extended and powerful somehow.