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Your right, I should name the bloke who composed it into midi, he did a great job, thanks!

Not yet Probably the v1.6 release!

Yes I know, need to pay microsoft quite some fee in order to not let this earmark as malicious. And renew every year. Perhaps in the future when there is more budget. For now, it’s just based on trust, nothing spooky going on in the app ;)

Thank you, you mean you'd like to multiply or divide the speed with one button?

@@FactorySettings I have a very similar tox and I included these two buttons, yes. But it is rather proving my visuals should use the "half" or "quarter" output instead :) But as a quick fix, that was useful for things that would change too frequently (I don't know, I had a geo rotating every beat and it gave nausea, so I had to slow it down for example)

I also added an option to type the bpm directly, for the miraculous case where you would happen to know it

@@zantaafio yes, I had that in there in an earlier version, got a bit in the way, but I'll consider it in the next update.

What malfunction exactly? Doesn't run?

Awesome! Love to see it!

@@FactorySettings i tried to add a link in a comment but it keeps deleting them

@@mikethom2119 email? instagram?

@@FactorySettings On here, dmd you on insta

Indeed! Spread the word! ;)

@@FactorySettings btw i have a quick question regarding this topic, is it possible to increment a value using this setup? Imagine an array modifier that increases its value each time the midi note gets triggered.

@@dannw1286 Yes, just like in the tutorial, you'd use the scaling of the cube to increase the count of the array. It's a normalized value, so you could for instance multiply it with 10 and use a rounding of 'floor' to make sure you get round numbers. Just like I did with driving the intensity of the light, it's almost the same expression, but only in a different place.

​@@FactorySettings Maybe I am misunderstanding your comment. The goal is to increase a steady variable using the trigger. When midi gets triggered 5 times, the count of the array should be at 5 aswell, with each trigger incrementing the amount by 1. Afaik the current implementation only allows the array to jump to an amount and then fall back to its base value. Ig its possible to change the value inside the graph editor, but that defeats the purpose of streamlining workflow.

@@dannw1286 Ah I see, well, that would involve an adjustment of the script exporter, currently, not sure how someone would use that information but if the community demands, I could have a look.

In theory, but it depends a lot on the environment, shape, material. I don't think there is like 'one' shape for a particular frequency. The audioreactive part at the end just generates a random variable every 4 bars.

Thank you! Yes, that would be a different formula, did you have a look at the website of paul bourke?

haven't had a look at his website. If there is another formula how do I translate it for touchdesigner? As it seems that the formula you put into touch designer is either adjusted or translated in some way @@FactorySettings

thank you in advance for any help you can provide

@@jibraanzobairi1990 In the GLSLmulti node, which appears around 13:00, paste the following formula to create a circular boundary, and also put the Noise node Noise style to hermit: out vec4 fragColor; uniform float speed; void main() { vec4 position = texture(sTD2DInputs[0], vUV.st); vec4 initial = texture(sTD2DInputs[1], vUV.st); vec4 velocity = texture(sTD2DInputs[2], position.xy / 2 + .5); velocity = velocity * 2.0 - 1.0; vec2 deritative = vec2(dFdx(position.r), dFdy(position.y)); velocity.st += deritative * 0.25; position += velocity * speed; // Check if the particle has moved outside the circular boundary float distanceSquared = dot(position.xy, position.xy); float boundaryRadiusSquared = 0.999 * 0.999; // Adjust this radius as needed if (distanceSquared > boundaryRadiusSquared) { position = initial; } fragColor = TDOutputSwizzle(position); }

Thank you for your reply. It's an old TOX, I might have to take another look at it and update it. I was working on a GLSL version, would make sense to pick that up again...

Thank you! Yes could work in theory, but I'm not sure if it's of much use. Your exporting the alembic based on a certain framerate, personally, if I would like to add a frame in between I'll just export it at 60fps instead of 30fps. You could experimenting with a crossTOP and sample two frames from the flipbook and see how that affects the movement.

@@FactorySettings I thought about using a different method instead of texelFetch with the tex3D top, but more like a rows and columns texture, where the rows (x-axis) pixels would be the position of the point value of the point geometry and the columns would be time/frame index of the alembic... that way you might be able to sample a point in-between the columns as a floating point value rather than a hard integer (on y-axis) and use the built in interpolation of a pixel to do it. We actually need this function because we want to dramatically slow the motion of an alembic down by quite a lot, linear interpolation is fine, but we want the animation to be very very slow, but interpolated.

@@bradonwebb2318I see what you're trying to do, if you'd like to have float accuracy sampling from a texture make sure you use texture() instead of texelFetch(), but you have to use normalized values instead of pixel coordinates. Another thing to be aware of is that depending on how many points you're going to use, your resolution can get pretty wide. Non commercial is already clamped at 1280, but there is also a maximum depending on your graphics card.

@@FactorySettings thanks we've got no issue with wide textures, our point counts are not too large and i think it can work, will look into texture()

You're welcome! Depends on how you've set up the pulsation? You mean that the shapes changes?

yeah even when i, for example play a single 90hz tone, the shape changes every now and then@@FactorySettings

@@nestarose1332it really depends on what treshold your using, what does it do after the RMS?

oh i found it left some dumb toggle on... ty for helping tho ;) @@FactorySettings

You'll do yourself a great favor in finding the error yourself. if you really get stuck you can always send it, I'll have a quick look... info@factorysettings.net

No, it isn't, I get this question a lot. It's always something like a missed indent or a forgotten quotation mark. The thing with code is that it's never wrong, the writer is. That might sound harsh but I encourage you to just go through your code one character at the time.

I'm sure it is exactly right, I have sent my code to my friend to check, there could be no wrong. I think it might be version problem. @@FactorySettings

GPT helped me. It changed the code import random def onOffToOn(channel, sampleIndex, val, prev): num1, num2 = random.uniform(.1, 10), random.uniform(.1, 10) op('constant1').par.value0 = num1 op('constant1').par.value1 = num2 return then it is right @@FactorySettings

@@user-op3tw5wq2xyou can send met the .toe file, I'll have a look

GPT helped me, it changed the code. import random def onOffToOn(channel, sampleIndex, val, prev): num1, num2 = random.uniform(.1, 10), random.uniform(.1, 10) op('constant1').par.value0 = num1 op('constant1').par.value1 = num2 return then the error fixed. my version is 2021. @@FactorySettings

I'm sharing the steps how you can build it on your own. You'll gain knowledge of Touchdesigner and a bit of coding. If that's not enough, you could consider becoming a patreon where you can download the patch and loads of other stuff.

@@FactorySettings Thank you for your response. I followed your tutorial but the pattern doesn't respond to the audio, and I was wondering if you could tell me where to look for errors. Would really appreciate your help, as I am doing this for my uni project. I also joined you on patreon and tried to run your patch but my sound doesn't change the pattern..

@@antoninamazaeva9657 Hi! I've replied to you via Patreon.

I would do that differently, try looking for 'noise loop tunnel', I believe paketa12 and polyhop has a tutorial about it.

What does the info in the error say? Because if you'd follow along exactly, it should work.

i have the same error, it says "syntaxerror: unexpected eof while parsing"@@FactorySettings

@@nestarose1332probably just a typo, use your hawk eye to track the error, the tutorial is not wrong...

Grasshopper, as in , a mediaserver? Not sure how you need to export it, what is your goal exactly?

Not sure what you mean by that, but the velocity of the midi data, you know like the 0-127 range, gets normalized to a value between 0 and 1. So yes, in this cube scaling example, the higher the velocity, the higher it will scale.

Hi thank you, what errors are you encountering?

@@FactorySettings The angles for each bone in Blender for the Kinect 1. Turns to any direction when im exporting to TD. im trying differents combinations.

Hi, thank you. All channels get their own channel, all notes belong to a channel. So if your midifile has one channel and multiple notes, it should fit one line. It all depends on how you arrange your midifile. A channel would be a drumkit, another a piano, another a guitar. So that would be 3 channels, then every channel has its own notes.

@@FactorySettings ok that's not what happened in my test. I exported a midi region in Ableton so it should just have one channel. the channel then got 'exploded' onto different squares in after effects after i ran the script on it. each distinct note in the sequence got a square.

@@efnbrg Then it works correctly ;). This is how it's currently working and most convenient for most users. The squares are visualizing the notes, and notes on the same line belong to the same channel.

@@FactorySettings Ok then my feature request would be all note data (as long as it's monophonic), to be on one channel and one line of keyframes. In my use case I would not use the squares, I would only want the keyframes to pick whip over to another element 🙂

@@efnbrg Ah yes I see, like you mentioned, that would only work with a monophonic track. I'm not very proficient regarding AE, but in blender I would just select all squares and merge them, 2 seconds ;)

It should be quite easy to remap the values from the midi velocity to something you'd like. So in your situation that would be 6 * var - 2, to go from 0 to 1 to -2 to 4

@@FactorySettingsChatGPT helped me recode it :D I now have cubes rotating from 4 to -2 and made a "Copy Rotation" Constraint to all the keys ;) ...I can then generate a new song and only copy the song data your app generated. But now my problem is, when I generate a new script in the same project, it's empty for Keyframes - I have NO idea why. I will find out some other day :D

Hi, no not yet. Patch is available at our patreon though.

@@FactorySettings I cannot pay my debt

Have a look at our tutorial and you'll find out! ;)

Oops, sorry I didn't see there was a tutorial@@FactorySettings

same question.

Have you put your TOP to 32 bit float pixel format? If not, you're values are going to be clamped at '1'. This might be the case. I've mentioned this quite early in the tutorial, somewhere around 1:40.