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Re:sell out, video looping, MAX/MSP on BeOS, other new, cool software

At 10:12 PM 3/14/99 -0800, you wrote:

>
>(yeah, it's one of those bogus advertising deals where they get tons of
>free publicity and I only get paid if something is bought by clicking on
>the ad....it's a start anyway....)
>

I've got a couple of purchases pending from Sonic Foundry -- I'll make it a
point to make these through the link on the LD pages :-).

I've found Sonic Foundry products -- Acid, SoundForge, DirectX plugin
packs, etc. to be first-rate, and recommend them highly to anyone
interested in digital audio.

Speaking of which -- I just read that Opcode's MAX + the MSP digital audio
extensions are due to be ported to BeOS/Intel -- I think we had a thread on
MSP a while back, but for anyone who isn't familiar, MSP is a very flexible
and powerful tool for doing high-end, high-custom digital audio work on a
PPC Mac.  Given the native DSP power of upcoming Intel processors, MAX/MSP
on BeOS/Intel could turn out to be very interesting in the context of
looping/manipulating live analog audio in real time.

On the video looping front, Amsterdam Studio for electro-instrumental music
(STEIM) is offering a program called 'Big Eye', which appears to do
midi-driven video manipulation in real time.  The program costs $199/US,
but a free demo is available for both 68k and PPC Mac.  

No way my wheezing 68k Mac can deal with this, so if anyone who is more
amply endowed Mac-wise would like to check it out and report back, the
demo/info is available at:

 http://www.xs4all.nl/~steim/main.html

The STEIM pages also contain a link to a mailinglist dedicated to live
video performance/improvisation.  

I think loopers and others who perform live electronic music are on the
right track in looking to live video manipulation to add visual interest to
performance.

Finally, I just bought a $50 program from Amulet Software that adapts
Cubase/VST plugins to the DirectX environment. It works great -- DirectX
users can take advantage of the many free, high-quality VST plugins out
there on the net.


http://surf.to/amulet

rob