Hi all, i'm really glad to share with the list my latest project, cause without the help of everybody here i wouldn't be able to speak about it now.. ;) C::NTR::L is a "software", naturally Pd-based, for audiovisual live performances exploiting physical computing. It transforms a standard musical instrument in an augmented tool to control real-time audio-video processing, without the need of any external device (damned expensive) or MIDI. You play your score and to each note is connected an audio, video or audiovisual fx, and you can connect whatever you want with whatever you desire. It's Pd!
C::NTR::L is Cross-Platform for Mac, Linux and Windows (so far i've been able to keep the same patch working on all platform, too lucky...) By now it has been succesfully tested with electric bass guitar, guitar, piano (only two octaves working right now), accordion and trumpet. I conceived this project almost three years ago (when i was just starting to get aware of the existence of Pd). I was playing the bass guitar trying to control videos with resolume :( and sound with AudioMulch. wow.. i cannot figure out how! anyway, since my competences and passion for Pd grew up, i decided to make the whole project become a software for public use and to do it exclusively focusing on Pd. Today this is the result (I C::ntr::l Nature, my audiovisual performance for electric bass guitar and butterfly):
I sent out a call for beta-testers on the most used audiovisual-related forums (Pd forum too), i fixed most of the bugs and someone is planning to do things with my lil creature. Now I'm planning the public release of version 1.2 Beta in the end of this month (if i won't be eated by my everyday job).
I'm writing to the list not only to let you know the news, but specially because i would like to know if there is anybody out there who has time and will to help me in the cleaning and further development of the code. Being a webdesigner, usability and accessiblity are my first aims. I've many ideas and many suggestions collected in my to-do list, but being alone, the development would be really slow, maybe even pointless. I would be glad to answer to all questions, technical, conceptual and more... and to explain more in depth how C::NTR::L is working. I know everybody is quite busy, infact i would be really glad also of some little help with some taks.
I'm also developing a new interface trying to make C::NTR::L user-friendly for real. But this is another issue that i also would like to discuss about with the list. My idea, maybe pretty ingenuos, is to create a software for audiovisual performances so easy to use also for no-Pd'rs, that one would download Pd (and starting to familiarize with it) because of the interest towards C::NTR::L, or any other user-friendly software - unfortunately i don't see many around. For sure it wouldn't happen with millions of people, but maybe it could help in the spreading of Pd, and OS multimedia creation.
further link (still have to update some contents, but....the most is there....)
www.thesaddj.com/cntrl www.thesaddj.com/icontrolnature
sorry for the very very long e-mail. best