Poll : Would KVR benefit from a video forum?

[sjm]

You forgot the third option!

[whyterabbyt]

Heh, i dunno, probably. it definitely looks like linux when its booting up, which i happend to see but didnt get a chance to read through the terminal output. Ive not seen that mentioned anywhere, tho ive not looked into it either.

It was the spec that made me wonder, it mentions having 4 cores. Plus its one of the few systems of that kind of size with HDMI -and- RCA video.

Hmmmm. Eeeenteresting. <strokes chin>

[whyterabbyt]

You forgot the third option!

I did indeed. Im not even sure what it is?

[vurt]

fish!

[whyterabbyt]

Oh, yeah, now I remember.

bloody hell, im a bit simple today.

[sjm]

I'm sure salmon'll come up with a funny suggestion.

[whyterabbyt]

poll fishxed.

[guitarzan]

The CHA/V (CHEAP, HACKY, A/V) video synth definitely looks like it would be a cool project, but since the whole concept of video synthesis is pretty unfamiliar to me I was wondering if there might be some good free or cheap virtual video synth stuff available?

There's been some mentioned in this thread, but you'll have to dig through. That's the obvious advantage of an actual forum; being able to separate out lists of tools into their own threads, as happens with everything else.

Hmmm… thought I’d been keeping up. I remember some free software but no specific virtual video synths, with oscillators, filters, modulation etc.

Until that CHA/V video I wasn’t even aware that the term video synthesizer was so literal — they really are synths just like audio synths but dealing with video signals rather than audio.

Well, that gets my “yes” vote on the Video Forum poll as I begin wading through this thread again.

Still say projectM, which is pretty much an openGL version of Milkdrop, if upgraded with a virtual hardware video synth type GUI to replace the script programming, would be a fantastic software video synth. To be most useful to me it would need to be able to do offline rendering at any resolution, aspect, and frame rate and output a video file rather than be limited to realtime hardware acceleration only (there was a WinAmp AVS plugin that could render offline). In a quick google search I did see similar projects have started over the years and never got past the planning stage, so maybe there are some huge obstacles I don’t know about.

[elxsound]

poll fishxed.

Just because I know everyone loves editing posts for the thousandth time...

It might help to add "Poll" to the thread title to get a better gauge of interest or just interest in fish.

[Double Tap]

Now I'm torn. I'd like to see what happens in a video forum but I'm also interested in the ins and outs of unusual scales and microtunaing.

[vurt]

Now I'm torn. I'd like to see what happens in a video forum but I'm also interested in the ins and outs of unusual scales and microtunaing.

[whyterabbyt]

Hmmm… thought I’d been keeping up. I remember some free software but no specific virtual video synths, with oscillators, filters, modulation etc.

Aah, right, I get you now. I think this is the closest?

https://www.imaginando.pt/products/vs-v ... ynthesizer

[guitarzan]

Aah, right, I get you now. I think this is the closest?

https://www.imaginando.pt/products/vs-v ... ynthesizer

Yeah, that looks like the kind of thing I had in mind. Free to try, EUR 99 to buy (which is about $118 USD) which isn’t too bad, and they have rent to own at EUR 9.9 a month for 12 months — that’s an option that’s new to me, cool.

I’ll need to see more video though, the one on their site seems pretty low res — more pixelated than WinAmp AVS 15 years ago on my old even then laptop, but that might just be the resolution of the video itself.
EDIT: found the same video on their YouTube channel and it looks great at 1080p. https://youtu.be/wVkC6LIGbbE

[Shabdahbriah]

An interesting collaboration here, and being as it is Richard Devine, e.v.e.r.y.o.n.e's interest will doubtless be piqued, and many will be clamoring to mimic it as the 'new-best-thing'. Regardless, it is becoming an approachable 'thing' to do:

https://youtu.be/f8wGNP4h_qI

Also, Richard Nicol at Pittsburgh Modular has been really getting into his video synthesis lately. Here he is using the atari video music into the circuit bent panasonic fx generator wj-ave3 into the Edirol V-4 with a feedback loop through the circuit bent videonics video editor tu-2000:

https://youtu.be/3BStaYo4-Wo

[sjm]

Without wanting to sound like a grammar nazi, it's "piqued" (as in prick, sting; same root as pike, the weapon), not peaked (reached the highest point). In the context it means to "arouse" or "stimulate" interest, not to raise it to maximum.

Lots of people get those two mixed up, so I thought it might be worth pointing out.