Many people are using Pd and GEM to do these sorts of things, but it takes some investment and time to create the pieces/patches. Pd and GEM are not neccessarily the most friendly of environments, since they are really programming languages.
If you are looking for something that gets visuals up on the screen quickly, you may want something like Bomb by Scott Draves (http://draves.org/bomb). Ron Pellegrino has a number of links as well (http://www.microweb.com/ronpell/MusicVisualizers.html)
There are some tutorials in the packages and a lot of helpful people here on the mailing list if you want to learn more about Pd and GEM!
Later, Mark
============================ = mdanks@stormfront.com = Lead Programmer PS2 = http://www.danks.org/mark ============================
-----Original Message----- From: Gerben Meijer [mailto:gerben@oxygen.nl] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 8:34 AM To: pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Subject: [PD] Beginners question
Hi,
I started looking at PD and GEM today because I have heard that it might be suitable as a live video effect/mix/styling tool. What I intend to do is to use PD and GEM to create visuals that are (somewhat/somehow) synchronized/responsive to audio input. I'm running PD and GEM on both Windows and Linux. However, the PD enviroinment is far from intuitive, and I can't seem to get anything out of it that even comes close to what I intend to do with it. I am wondering if there are people who use it as such (sort of a video/visual artist/jockey kinda thing), and was hoping that someone could point me in the right direction here. I have quite some experience with computers but this programming enviroinment is not exactly something i can just jump into :)
Thanks for any help. It's greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Gerben http://infernix.net