Will Cycling 74 create a basic VST host?

["Krispen Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

Well, as usual, all roads lead back to MAX/MSP. :)  It must be the Rome of 
the effect processing world.

Now, Jeff, if you could just get Cycling 74 to create a user friendly 
(graphically pleasing and easy to use) interface, they will have me sold. 
They don't have to provide maximum programming capability to every user. 
Some of us just like to buy software and have it work right out of the 
box. 
For instance, why don't they create a nice VST host that is ready to go, 
but 
beats the pants off of others, like Chainer, EnergyXT, Plogue, etc in 
terms 
of flexibility and power?  They could do this...it would capture a market 
that they don't have now...sort of like Linux...I know a lot of Linux 
users 
who just say, why don't you go to Linux, and all our MS OS problems will 
go 
away...yeah right....I don't quite see the normal consumer user using 
Linux 
with Red Hat yet. Programming may be fun and gratifying for some folks, 
but 
not others. I don't want to build my own VST host in MAX/MSP...I want them 
to do it for me, and make it look nice and easy to use.  They could 
probably 
do a survey of the current VST hosts out there and come up with some great 
design ideas that improve upon them all.   You remember our conversation 
about this, Jeff.....

Kris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Kaiser" <loopersdelight@pfmentum.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 11:38 AM
Subject: Video looping/Audio Looping: Together


I love Cycling74....

I have Jitter and plan to integrate it into my performance rig....what
a beautiful piece of software. I plan to have the looping software I
use trigger the processing of live video of the performance.....so the
musical  improvisation will have visual counterpoint.....I hit a
button, move a fader, press a pedal,  it affects both video and
audio....but it will have to wait for my next more powerful laptop.

best,
jeff

Jeff Kaiser
http://www.JeffKaiser.com
pfMENTUM.com • AngryVegan.com

On Aug 20, 2006, at 10:22 AM, bruce tovsky wrote:

>
> On Aug 20, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Jeff Kaiser wrote:
>
>> have you boys heard of Jitter....?
>>
>> Integrates with Max/MSP......
>
> listen to the man, he knows what he's talking about. ; >)
> it would be fairly easy, once you had overcome the initial
> shock of dealing with a fairly complex piece of software,
> to create a live looper that could capture video to a buffer
> and then allow you to process it in any way you can imagine.
> jitter has a new set of tools that allows you to push some of
> the video processing onto your built-in graphics card and also
> do some wild 3-D manipulations. when radiohead was doing it's tour a 
> couple of years ago for
> "hail to the thief" they used a jitter-based system to do live
> video manipulations of the band, using computer-controlled
> cameras on stage. it was beautifully integrated into the stage
> set and worked really well with the music. which makes sense,
> since they use max/msp in creating it.
> www.cycling74.com
> cheers
> bruce
>
> bruce tovsky
> www.skeletonhome.com
>
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