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#1 User is offline   labby 

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Posted 21 June 2012 - 11:29 PM

does anyone know of any software that will project visualizations onto the cyc of our theatre, and move in time to the music being played?

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Posted 22 June 2012 - 06:51 AM

I can't find it - but I'm sure there was mention of a plug-in for windows media player that did this?

I found this one
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Posted 22 June 2012 - 06:56 AM

Doesn't Windows Media Player do that?
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Posted 22 June 2012 - 09:24 AM

Do I guess that the computer running the projections won't be the one playing the music? Cause if it is then visualisations may be all you need.

However if you're wanting to use the line input on the pc to affect the visualisations then I think winamp has a plugin to do that. Do a bit of googling. Sadly I'm typing this from work and our internet filter won't let me on half the results because they're personal blogs on how to do it. Think it's possible though.


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Posted 22 June 2012 - 08:24 PM

Use Winamp, select one of the visualisation plugins (milkdrop etc) then tell Winamp to play linein://
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Posted 22 June 2012 - 09:39 PM

Once you have your visualisation sorted, one trick that works is using some fairly drastic EQ settings to get a more dynamic response from the software. Try to isolate the fundamental attack of the beat.
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Posted 12 July 2012 - 10:49 AM

I use http://aestesis.eu/elektronika/

Free to download and use but you will need directx 9

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Posted 16 July 2012 - 10:50 PM

Virtual DJ does it, itll output the visuals to an extended desktop/ second display which still allows you to use the software

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Posted 25 July 2012 - 03:15 AM

One to try: http://www.soundspectrum.com/g-force/

http://www.softwarevj.com/ A website which users compare various VJ products. Quite a few to check out.

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Posted 29 July 2012 - 10:17 AM

I used to use a piece of software called Dreamrender. It's not made anymore but I was able to download it but I can't remember where from. It came with a selection of visualisations (Dreams) and there were also 3rd party Dreams you could download for free.


Edit: just found Dreamrender 2 http://dreamrender.en.uptodown.com/ and it's free.

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