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Re: Video Visualization in Windows Media Player activated by audio



> Per Boysen schrieb:
>>
>> But no way to have an external audio input affect the graphics.

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Stefan Tiedje
<stefantiedje@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Just send it back in, either with a split cable, or route it from your
> interface...

Andy was particularly talking about the iTunes 8 visualizer, that I showed 
him.

STefan, are you saying you know a way how to hack iTunes 8? If so,
please share! I bet many would love to apply the iTunes 8 visualizer
to a live feed audio input.


> I was always wondering who the artists are who create these plug-ins. As
> I am on a Mac, you get this sort of stuff also in iTunes, but I have
> never seen an artists name mentioned for the visuals which come with
> iTunes. I think this is not fair, these artists are the Van Goghs of
> today, and deserve respect...


A couple of months before Apple released iTuens 8 there was a lot of
speculation that the visualizer Magnetosphere by Robert Hodgin should
be in the new software. Magnetosphere had been available as a free
download at the developers site but suddenly taken away due to "being
sold to a third party". Here's a video shot of the visualizer:
http://www.flight404.com/blog/?p=74

> Of course it would be possible to create such things in Max/MSP/Jitter
> and feed it directly with whatever sound you like...

Yes, Amigo - everything is possible in Max/MSP/Jitter ;-)

Did any one, except me, have a blast with Sonic? It was great on
Windows 98 but they never got it right when moving into Windows XP.
And I think the product was bought out by a third party investor that
never release it. Sonic just disappeared. Sad. I still think it was
cooler than both iTunes 8 and Winamp. The best part of Sonic was that
users could develop visual plug-ins that totally changed the dynamic
graphics (".vis" files). The custom vis plug-ins I liked most were the
ones that had a figurative focus - i.e. not passing through a cycle of
repeating abstract patterns but simply displaying a moving figure with
some attitude to it.

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Per Boysen
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