I'm wondering if we should perhaps call M1's ability to generate nice-looking effects on its own an "autoVJ" feature, much like an autopilot assists pilots and handles boring routine tasks for them, but doesn't replace them.
For example, for this video, I set up the controls such that the pattern was near a "tipping point" (*) (setup not shown), then didn't touch the controls while the sound was playing: http://downloads.qi-hardware.com/people/werner/m1/demo/MVI_1756.MOV The audio track is "Emergence vs Accension" by medicisoundsystem, featuring Snowflake, and licensed under CC-BY: http://ccmixter.org/files/medicisoundsystem/30478 http://ccmixter.org/content/medicisoundsystem/medicisoundsystem_-_Emergence_vs_Accension.mp3 Sorry for the poor sound quality. Seems that my camera's microphone doesn't "hear" my speakers very well when I position it close to the screen. You may also notice that it's actually the same vocals as in MVI_1747.MOV but with a different melody. Seems everyone at ccmixter likes "snowflake" a lot :-) The patterns are a bit repetitive but should be quite sufficient to afford the VJ a restroom break or a chat with admiring fans. (*) The modified "Tornado" patch basically has two modes: 1) it can produce a disc or bubble-shaped pattern with a tail of copies. If rotation is fast enough, this tail will wrap around many times and look more like a circle or the corners of concentric polygons. 2) if things reach the center, they get duplicated in what looks like an explosion. It's still the same mechanism as in 1), but the result can look quite different. The trick for getting highly dynamic patterns is thus to set the controls such that the volume of the music makes the patch switch between 1) and 2) from time to time. - Werner _______________________________________________ http://lists.milkymist.org/listinfo.cgi/devel-milkymist.org IRC: #milkymist@Freenode
