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VIZZable Ableton Live VJ plugins 0.9.2 & V-Module 0.4

Max4Live for Ableton has opened up great scope of possibilities for AV artists to apply visual elements via dynamic framwork – MAX/MSP/Jitter to bring new dimension to Ableton Live Performance with video Component.

In the recent development, update for a number of projects in this field has been updated which currently resides on Google groups:

http://groups.google.com/group/jitterinmax4live-

In particular:

VIZZable Ableton Live VJ plugins 0.9.2 ( by Robert Jarvis)

and

V-Module 0.4 (by Fabrizio Poce)

Both of these plug-ins have been co-produced to understand one another and work in sync in many cases as they use the similar architecture while growing group of artists continue to add new patches and develop new ideas via Google JitterinMax4Live Group

Check it out..

Qeve: Free tool for Live Performance and VJing

Free Tools for VJs??
Art of VJing is multi-faceted technological and artistic field. Most of us spend considerable time producing and developing content and establishing techniques for media manipulation. If you anything like me, then chances are that you’ll find yourself wondering about extending your favourite software as you grow through using it on a regular basis. Year after year you master some of the techniques, and yet you see great deal of limitations that are in front of you due to the closed development process of the software itself which in most cases you cannot interfere.

Let me modify!
If you have followed some of my recent posts on the subject of Pure Data VJ software, then you find that Pure Data has opened up numerous possibilities of developing your own software while utilising numerous Plug-ins, Libraries and Patches that worldwide community has released to date. These are very exciting times to be working in this field as knowledge and programs are at very healthy state. One of such AMAZING tools that I have only recently came about is : Qeve. It really encompasses large majority of your “wish lists” while maintaining its flexibility and cost. Free.

Without further a due, please explore this unique and promising piece of Pure Data software for Vjing: Queve!

“In art production the tool you use determine result of your work in many ways. Only by using free software you will not reproduce closed mind”
- Luca Carrubba aka Husk

Queve is a free tool for live performance and vjing developed by Estereotips collective with economic support by Catalan independent video maker association Telenoika and Center of visual arts productions Hangar from Barcelona. This software try to obtain the same usability of similar commercial applications (resolume, modul8, vdmx) while adding some unique features. Continue Reading

Milkymist – an open hardware VJ platform

(News via Piksel)The Annual Piksel conference is just around the corner for those that are not yet aware. This conference gathers leading developers and artists that work within Open Source Software which takes place in Bergen(Norway) between November 19-22, 2009. If you can make to this festival in person, then please,- do yourself a favour!!!

With festival schedule being announced, there is a plenty to see and discover (See Full Schedule). I will be doing my best to highlight some of the stand out projects that are likely to make a stand for years to come in the Open Source Visualism field. First up, – Milkymist.

Generat Essentials

Generat

Back to the topic of Pure Data VJ software.

generat v0.1
http://0io.org/projects.htm
software interface for live performances focusing on the utilisation of 3d primitives and models of 3d primitives, .obj files plus textures loadable and controllable in realtime XYZ coordinate scale, position and rotation background video / image render 4-band audioresponsive midi controllable.

Download:: generat_v1 patches.zip

Read: Online manual

MetaVJ 1.0 [Pure Data VJing]

metavj
At present moment there is a growing number of exciting Pure Data relating projects that relate to VJing. It becomes a prosperous to see Open Source field being filled with talent putting great amount of energy and skill to put together tools and methods for visual creation of Open Source Tools and Software.

As this field matures, it would be natural to see further integration through Pure Data to other applications (ie. Blender3D, Processing, Mother, Python) that cover additional methods and styles in digital creation.

One of such applications floating in the Open Source space. – Meta VJ has been recently released to version 1.0 and it definitely worth a look and future attention. While it has no documentation at hand at present, it still can be great learning curve and example for those that use same technologies.

Meta VJ 1.0
http://www.sharktracks.co.uk/puredata/

The MetaVJ is a new system of modular video objects available now for download. There are virtually no help files as yet, but these will be added as soon as the work on Metastudio 3 is done (for now). This does not work at all on Windows, and if you want to use the freeframe plugins you will need to install them (get the 1.0.5 version) and also the pdp_freeframe external from pdvjtools yourself.

To download, go here: metavj-0.1.zip

Processing Mother

mother Those artists that enjoy creating content using Processing (especially for live performance) would sure be interested in methods and techniques on dealing with manipulation of such code snippets/visual Synths between one another in live environment. Positively, sound reactive and midi controlled approach would also be of be of benefit.

This field is evolving and growing quite rapidly which is a good thing. Combination of open source technologies provide us with opportunityand ideas to push evolving scene to a new heights.

Open Source Multimedia Software

I frequently look for reference of Open Source Multimedia Software that at times I may require or as to give my friends some pointers on where to start with Graphics and Multimedia creation with Free and Open tools. To keep things short and sweet I had put together a list of tools that fit such criteria and yet still stay free and open source.

Please explore: Continue Reading

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