PrettyScope (paint with sound), released!

[No_Use]

here's a short video I made using Prettyscope. randomly frozen waves being fed through. very cool program! being able to make the screen wider would help for youtube videos.

That looks amazing! Do you mind sharing the preset?

+1

Initial (quick) test report:
Win 8.1, GForce G210, Reaper 5.40 x32, working fine here so far, 0,0% CPU usage.

[nonnaci]

Looks sweet. If you extend the maths into 3D, I can see this being killer in AR/VR. Imagine this integrated into the Unreal engine for example.

[Architeuthis]

Hmm... 3d... maybe for PrettyScope v3, I'll have to call it PrettyScope3D. Before I get into 3D I need to do some serious perfection of what I have now. I'm going to invest some serious consideration on line and dot profiles so that no matter what settings you have it always looks natural. Right now it's possible to get ugly pixelly look with tiny dot size if you don't have the right settings. There's a lot of stuff like that I need to perfect.

[pilotredsun]

That looks amazing! Do you mind sharing the preset? I tried using the same audio input but I was not able to come up with anything like this. I couldn't get anything more than a straight line. It would help to see if there is some problem on this end.

If it's coming out as a straight line you need to have some sort of stereo difference. any plugin that delays the left or right channel by a few ms will make a mono wave appear on the scope

[Touch The Universe]

That looks amazing! Do you mind sharing the preset? I tried using the same audio input but I was not able to come up with anything like this. I couldn't get anything more than a straight line. It would help to see if there is some problem on this end.

If it's coming out as a straight line you need to have some sort of stereo difference. any plugin that delays the left or right channel by a few ms will make a mono wave appear on the scope

Thanks for the tip! This makes all the difference, even for basic sine waves. Beautiful

[xoxos]

so it makes sense, one channel is the x position, the other is y. so if you use a mono signal, if x is 0.5, y is also 0.5. if x is 0.3 y is also 0.3.. so that's why you get a straight diagonal line

try it with black vst

[ZeePok]

Just want to make a quick announcement, kinda good news kinda bad news for mac users. Linux version will be coming first, Linux is a nice stepping stone to doing the Mac version. But Robin has informed me that... it's "too early to invite linux users" not sure what kind of timeline we're looking at for Mac/Linux versions. Implementing host automation is also under way.

 
I guess builds/versions for older video systems are also way on the backburner?

Oh well, too bad!

[Architeuthis]

Yea, an older version would be unusable anyway. Will have to wait until there is time to setup a log system to know where you are crashing.

[aMUSEd]

Just want to make a quick announcement, kinda good news kinda bad news for mac users. Linux version will be coming first, Linux is a nice stepping stone to doing the Mac version. But Robin has informed me that... it's "too early to invite linux users" not sure what kind of timeline we're looking at for Mac/Linux versions.

Bum

[Architeuthis]

Yeah we need a video rendering function, these videos are too grainy.

[ontol]

having some fun with this so far, but not getting as nice results as does it's maker...just need a bit more time.

[Phil999]

interesting software, Architeuthis. Just discovered it today.

[TLW]

I'd like to sign up for this.

MacOSX
Ableton

[Architeuthis]

I'd like to sign up for this.

MacOSX
Ableton

did you send an e-mail? read original post for details

[Architeuthis]

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Just a random screenshot of the day. PrettyScope could use more inputs... would rather use one instance instead of many. Not sure how it will work interface-wise, could be a bit of work to implement.