something that will really help is to make a ‘mood board’ of the kind of visuals you’d like to produce, both video and still image.
even think about color palette, the elements you’d like - shapes, real footage, noise/static etc
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Its some mix for sure, listened to it countless times.
Downloaded Ebooks Suite and tinkering as I type this but come to the realisation that I can either focus on the tunes or visuals, one or the other! Will be the former but good to have a little play now and again.
So cheers everyone once more.
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İ find it helpfull to create some stuff for instagram like only making an easy track for 1 minute and working on the visual after that 
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Haven’t seen this posted yet, seems like a pretty new project - converts ‘audio to visual’ - as far as I can see, it’s an OSS project.
https://astrofox.io/docs/layers
Demo reel here:
edit: MIT License …
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My system when I used to do alot of projections for psychrockbands in the past and which im trying to relearn again for some solo technogigs was: Import some danish silentfilms, Italian experimentalfilms from 60s, 70s san fransisco gayporn, bbc naturemovies of deepsea creatures and growing mushrooms, surgeryclips, bat giving birth from yt, polish sci-fi, stupid phonefilms, maya deren etc. And then just freestyle in premiere pro. Work fast and rough and layer shit and mangle with effects. Its really fun and when you get into it and can layer and distort with some finesse you can produce hours of entertaining visuals in very little time. I never felt no need to sync it.
Do you worry about licensing? Or is there some length of footage you’re allowed?
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Touch designer videos look amazing, but it’s definitely deep software usually executed with expensive lighting/projectors.
I’ve tried A LOT of video software.
VDMX if definitely my favorite for being highly customizable, midi capabilities, effects, not too difficult to learn, but deep enough to explore for a long time.
With any stuff like this, it’s about how much work your willing to put in.
It takes a lot of time to craft solid video displays that work well with music.
I like it when the work I put in gets better as a result of the fun I have with exploring the software.
One thing I would offer up for thought, I’d start to think about lighting that’s not done with video, projectors, or LED screens.
If your playing local performances, try your best to come up with a simple concept that’s easy to set up by yourself quickly, anywhere, that’s fairly dramatic.
Sone of the best light shows I’ve seen used 2 hardware lights and a fog machine.
Create an atmosphere that’s super fun to be in.
Nah its underground and mostly use weird stuff that very few people would even recognize.
so this dude TAS Visuals (https://www.youtube.com/c/TASVisuals) i always watch on youtube makes visuals for large festivals, mostly psytrance, but his visuals are so fucking good that i like getting a bit high and just play them on a playlist.
i can’t remember which software he uses to create his material (i think it’s Cinema4D, it’s somewhere in the comments in one of the videos), he merges everything on stage with Resolume.
although he deleted lots of his stuff, there’s still plenty of work left on his channel, you can get some ideas if you like his stuff.
btw, blender is also great for creating 2d/3d stuff, very deep software
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Went to cgi school 12 years ago but got so depressed and tired looking at a screen all days(and often all nights) when I got to working so stopped doing that. Started Maya yesterday for the first time in like 9 years and its incredible that alot of the shortcuts is still in the musclememory. Made an evolving blob of ectoplasma. Its beautiful!
so TAS dropped a nice video with a bit of visual overview of how he creates his clips with Resolume and Ableton Live, he’s sending midi to Resolume…
Where do you source it from? I’m interested in similar footage. Thanks
Karagarga. Mostly the experimental and videoart sections. Rips from youtube and various cineast streamingsites.
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Its INCREDIBLE. I finally got my stupid head around touchdesigner!! And when you understand some basic systems and signalflows and can start freestyling you realize this is IT. I excused my earlier failures with that I could get the same results much easier with the stuff I knew(maya, ae, resolume…) but its not so.
Also thought you needed to know python to make the good stuff but you just should learn absTime.seconds to get stuff animated.
And if you use Ableton=check out TDableton.
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Very basic audioreactive videotest I made the first day in TD. Working on very more complex stuff.
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