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January 28, 2019 at 10:52 am #111562
Long way off to doing anything with this idea (if at all). Interesting concept though so thought I would put the feelers out.
Say (as an example) I wanted to make an original table, based on a band and have some lights go in time to the drum patterns played by the band. DOF effects as I understand (from my beginning to read up on this), are created (partially) using a series of millisecond delays. So in theory I could create a bunch of different flasher “patterns” for each instrument on the drum kit and then bind them to light outputs with the whole thing being triggered by an event on the VPX table (at the same time as the trigger to start the music so it’s in synch).
Which then begs some questions;
– How to (with some automation) convert an entire song’s drumming into a series of “hits” seperate by delays in milliseconds? Is there a 3rd party tool that could help to infer the drum hits, with the end goal being to populate a spreadsheet for the entire song? Or would this be a massive job manually taking a song and timing the spaces between each drum hit?
– The resulting DOF effect code would end up being very long for each instrument, in order to map out an entire song. Is there any limit to the size/length of a DOF effect that would prevent DOF from playing the representation of the drum pattern?
– Could DOF (alternatively) work with midi to create the output flasher pattern? Or a way to automate the conversion from midi to the effect standard that DOF understands (ie to infer those millisecond delays between each drum hit)?
– To take it in another direction, could DOF in some way hook to a visualiser, say a winamp plugin, and display a version of the parametric EQ on the fly as a matrix effect? Or any other visualiser effects generated by the music player for that matter?
Has anyone thought about some kind of music to DOF auto effect generation tech before and come to any conclusions here? As I say it’s just an interesting question for now but I can think of a lot of great use cases for this kind of thing!
Cheers.
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