Hear, hear! Syncing is nice sometimes, but I'm all about using my monkey fingers to achieve the illusion (and defy synchronicity when I choose).
dan On Aug 18, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Chris Wood wrote: > Alternative solution: wire up a couple of keys to your QC inputs and do the > beat synching manually. You'll probably get way better results, and you can > easily sync different things to different drums or other instruments, at the > expense of lots of tapping :) > > If you wanted to, you could quite easily determine the average time between > taps over say 10 taps, then repeat.. this gives you a quick and easy way to > set the comp up to sync with the beat. It's fairly accurate, and if it starts > to drift or the bpm changes you just start tapping the space bar again. > > Audio input based sync is just never as good as midi or manual :) > > Chris > > > On 18 August 2010 14:06, Sander Loonen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I have in the past tried sort of the same thing. > getting a lighting desk to respond to certain frequencies in the music/room. > I borrowed a 31 band graphic EQ and ran the sound through there. > this made it possible to adapt to the music being played by the DJ in a very > quick way. > also it makes it very flexible if the instrument/sound you want the video to > respond to changes. > > it also give no noticeable latency. > > have fun, > > sander > > On 18 Aug 2010, at 10:43, Pippa Tshabalala wrote: > >> Great thanks. I'll check it out. Reading all the other responses, yes a >> hardware trigger unfortunately is probably not going to be viable here, but >> the idea is experimentation so we'll see what we have available and if it >> works :) >> >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 6:28 PM, George Toledo <[email protected]> wrote: >> The name is AudioTools, and the download is at the bottom of this page: >> >> http://kineme.net/node?page=1 >> >> One thing to keep in mind, is that it sounds like if you aren't getting any >> kind of line in, so you're going to have to be relying on built on the built >> in mic, or get yourself a basic audio chain going. You probably would want >> to look into PZM's or some SDC's like Earthworks stuff if you have to go off >> of "room sound". >> >> -George Toledo >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Pippa Tshabalala <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> Its more along the lines of my boss is a DJ, and our company puts on a lot >> of award shows. We want something we can use in Arkoas as part of a set, >> that reacts to specific frequencies, in this case the kick. I like the idea >> of being able to take the kick frequency as a line out directly, but that >> won't always be possible (depending on the event). I think using the Kineme >> plugin (do you have the name by the way? I haven't had a chance to log on to >> the site to check yet) and isolating the frequency will be the best bet at >> this point. >> >> Luckily I do have the opportunity (although not as frequently as I'd like) >> to work directly with the sound and lighting engineers but I'd like to come >> prepared with something that at least works on my machine beforehand rather >> than relying on a line out when I don't know if it will work. >> >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:36 PM, George Toledo <[email protected]> wrote: >> Shoot. Well if working in tandem with the sound guys is possible then >> definitely get isolated tracks. On top of that, boards like the digidesign >> FOH consoles have ability to put plugins on the auxiliary sends, so you can >> put some gating and compression on the signal and not effect what's going on >> w/ the main sound system. Aside from that you could always employ some audio >> gear in your own rack. >> >> >>> On Aug 17, 2010 10:26 AM, "Pippa Tshabalala" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll try them out and see what works :) >>> >>> We're actually looking to bring the quartz patch into Arkaos (which I've >>> done with other patches to varying degrees of success), but I haven't been >>> able to isolate the kick as of yet (although granted I don't have much >>> experience in Arkaos so that's a bit trial and error at the moment). >>> >>> But all much appreciated! 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