Hi,
thanks for going to Music China! :)
On 10/18/2011 01:10 PM, Yi Zhang wrote:
Be able to control with sliders and knobs: Ignazio asked whether we can put M1
board into some sort of box with sliders and knobs.
Yes, I talked about this a bit already - some ideas are even on the wiki:
http://www.milkymist.org/wiki/index.php?title=Milkymist_devices_roadmap#Milkymist_Live
But mechanical design is painful and expensive, so I think we'll still
stick to external controls for a while.
1) Content needs to be _powerful_: This is the feedback I got from a VJ artist
(he is also taking some other roles). He said the patches need to be powerful,
unique, and wows the audiences. What we have now are too weak for professionals.
Did you show the effects using the camera? They are the best ones and
people usually like them.
So how can we make it easier for people to do that. Better documentation on how
to write patches,
This is (slow) work in progress:
https://github.com/milkymist/flickernoise-handbook
a patches pool, easily upload and download?
We already have a patch pool with 1-button download (part of the web
update). Upload is a little more complicated, users need to take the
.fnp files from their M1 using FTP and e-mail them to us.
2) Flexibility of mixing the patches: Maybe I don't know how to use M1 or we
really don't have this feature.
We do have this feature for almost 1 year now (!) but it's not the first
time that I notice that people fail to grasp how to use it. We certainly
need documentation and/or better UI design there.
Click on the "Keyboard" button in the control panel, and you will be
able to map patches to keys on the USB keyboard. For quick testing, if
you use the "Auto build" button, it will automatically map all keys to
the available patches.
Then, define the first patch of your show by clicking the "First patch"
button in the control panel.
Finally, just start the "configured performance mode" by clicking
"Start" and "Go". Voila, you can switch patches live, in a controlled
way, simply by pressing keys on the USB keyboard!
You can do the same with MIDI, OSC and remote control, just click the
corresponding buttons in the control panel. You can also save/load the
associations and other settings into a .per performance file.
3) Display images between patches: During trade show or exhibitions, what
people want is to show their company name, brand name once in a while on the
screen.
This is a planned feature for FN 1.1 - there will even be the
possibility to mix the images into the effects (like it does with the
camera signal atm).
4) Some way of controlling: Being able to modify the predefined arrangements of
patches will be needed in a real time performance in case of changes during the
show.
See #2.
5) All big LED are using DVI connector. So maybe we need to think about
supporting it.
We talked about this yesterday on IRC. It may even be there as soon as
the very next PCB batch. DVI-A is trivial, DVI-D will come later with a
FPGA bitstream update.
Best,
Sébastien
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