Modular synth video sequencer
This has been an exciting week. I’ve been learning how to use Max/MSP/Jitter and just picked up an Arduino micro controller so I can interface my modular synth with Max.
Max is an amazingly powerful and just generally amazing programming environment. I’ve been hearing about how awesome it is for years. All of the rumors were true.
For the clip above I plugged the voltage from the sequencer in my modular synth into the Arduino which then sent digital data to my computer which is running Max. I programmed a custom video player in max which advances the video as the incoming voltage increases. There are two potentiometers next to the Arduino board which I used to take larger steps through the video. The voltage from the sequencer is a little noisy which translates into a really interesting flickering and warbling effect in the video.
Dan Gr said:
March 29th, 2009 at 8:54am #
You should check out Processing as well, which I’ve found is a more versatile (and object friendly) multimedia coding language. Also real easy to learn, it can interface quickly to hardware and smoothly manipulate/generate sound and video. It’s also possibly open-source.