Resolume Avenue's reaction to beats

[scratchy]

Hello Visualizers

Yet another post from the Scratchy

Ive started to use the trial of Resolume Avenue and I was hoping to find a few VJ's here with experience with this awesome piece of software.

Ive read the manual and tweaked the program all weekend. So far so good Got all my vids working and it displays it on the big screen with ease.

Just have one thing I just cant seem to figure out.

I want my sliders let's say opacity or hue to work with the beats.
So that I dont have to do that manually. In the dashboard there is an option to connect multiple options of the effects to sliders called Link 1..Link 2...Link 3 etc. Is there a way that I can make those sliders move with the music ?

In Composition Properties>Composition Audio> I turned on the Audio FFT to External devices which makes the bars give out a nice reading of the music. Tweaking the Gain and Fall makes it easy to adjust to the type of music. But how do I connect the LINK 1.. sliders to it so that the music moves these.

So far I see it pickup the beatcount but I just cant get my vids to really interact with the music.

Any advice on this is more then welcome

rgds

Scratchy

[Daxx]

Hi Scratchy,

you can assign opacity by the little arrows next to 'opacity' in the layer selection.

There you can chose from: Bpm sync, composition beats, ...

I always use Composition beats.

You don't need the links, they can be useful when you want to assign certain parameters to knobs or other midi stuf.

good luck

[scratchy]

Eureka !

Thanks so much, I completely missed that option.
I hooked them up to my External input and everything moves now

I completely missed those darn little grey arrows
( Let's just blame the daylight and the fact im working on 2 beamers instead of displays ehehehe )

This is so freaking awesome that Im dancing on Cyrez-D together with my visuals hahaha if this is the fx it has on me I wonder if I can blow some life into the party im Vj-ing at this month (it's know to be kind of dead the first couple of hours)

You mentioned you hooked it up to composition beats, does that work when you pick up the audio from a external source like a microphone ?

Darn this is great it makes resolume come alive Im gonna buy the package tomorrow (first have to rob that bank)

Thanks a million Daxx

[Daxx]

Good luck robbing the bank! You can do it ;-)

I always use the bpm tab function, because I don't like picking up the audio. But experiment a bit with and you'll find what suits you best!

grtz

[scratchy]

Hya Daxx,

Im still kinda figuring out whats the best way to make things react to audio. What is the best way to pickup bpm. Do you use one of those Midi inputs ?
Ive noticed when I use the external Audio input that its a bit bouncy and irregular. I can imagine that using bpm count would result into a more fluent matter of changing parameters. Im just not sure how to approach this. Tonight Im gonna practice at a friends house who is a professional tekno DJ. He is gonna show me some of his equipment (hes got alot

What is the best way to hook up resolume to a Dj set ?

(hehehe I warned you people in previous post. NOOB ALERT )

Thanx so far

[vjair]

Avenue cannot calculate the BPM from an audio source. your two options are:

1) avenue has a manual tap tempo function.
2) use a device such as the Red Sound range of units which can analyse audio and create a midi clock based on the results which you then send to avenue ( avenue can respond to midi clock )

personaly, i prefer using the first option. the second option can work well, but can introduce some latency.

[scratchy]

If I use the manual tap tempo function. I need to know the BPM right ?
Im going to use avenue nsync with a dj. What I understood is that most music that he plays is around 130 BPM. But is that enough to get imagery n'sync ?

I saw that you can resync the count in Avenue, but if used manually isnt that something you really have to pay attention too while VJ-ing ?

Cheers

[vjair]

Originally Posted by scratchy

If I use the manual tap tempo function. I need to know the BPM right ?
Im going to use avenue nsync with a dj. What I understood is that most music that he plays is around 130 BPM. But is that enough to get imagery n'sync ?

I saw that you can resync the count in Avenue, but if used manually isnt that something you really have to pay attention too while VJ-ing ?

Cheers

the manual tap tempo works by tapping the onscreen button ( or a midi controller ) in time with the music, you dont need to know the bpm as avenue calculates the BPM frm your tapping, you just need to be able to tap along in time.

yes you will have to pay attetion to the music, but realy you should do that anyway, especialy if you are trying to provide syncronised visuals.

[dEp]

if you're on a tight budget and want automated beat tracking, it would be fairly easy to make a patch in vvvv that sends beats (it has built-in beat trackers) via osc or midi to avenue.

have a read through the avenue manual, you'll learn a lot

[scratchy]

Thanks for your advice I printed out the manual and read through it.
Learning alot, somethings still dont make sense. But I'll get there