Daisuk
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I dreamed I had a video Octatrack last night. It was crazy. Could basically do everything the OT can only to video. And all the step-buttons had small screens on them and showed previews of the video slices in loops.
Maybe that should be the next Elektron box. Video Octatrack! Man, that would be cool. 
I like your dreamsā¦
I dont think they be true within the next 10 years or moreā¦ but 
it has my voteā¦ for the time being your probably better off with some vj program on your laptopā¦
(hint: the octatrack does send out all kinds of midiā¦ so hook those up with videoāsā¦ and you almost have an instant video-show)
It would be cool to do some VJ stuff with the OT. I was excited by the idea of doing it in M4L but never found anything suitable. I wonder if there are any nice free VJ apps.
I thought a while about freshing up my āshowā with some light-show equipment that is being controlled by the octatrack through an MIDI-2-DMX converter. This should be possible and fun.
But i dismissed the idea because i want to focus myself on making music, not light.
yea, this is something I would like tooā¦
And it should be small and portable, with a camera attached to itā¦
There should be an IOS app like this actually
guga
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ā¦just wondering how long itāll take before one of the big guys out there will come out with something similar to your dreamā¦
if you look at some of the new (expensive) mixing desks or even djs controllers, youāll find that some of them come with wee graphical displays which either show you a waveform or a sequence; technology wonāt take long to get to that stage and then itāll be real fun
Daisuk
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Oh, yes! 
Should definitely be an app that does it. But having a proper hardware interface controlling this would be awesome. I know Roland released a video sampler a few years ago, but it doesnāt look too impressive in all honesty.
Got a friend whoās a great VJ (www.madsmeskalin.com), heās doing all kinds of crazy stuff, touring around Europe with it and stuff, heās using Resolume, which seems to be a pretty good VJ program. I might consider getting that at some point, but music is the priority at the moment.
Wellā¦ free VJ software exists :
the following is old but free http://aestesis.eu/elektronika/ There are others too if you google for itā¦ like [url=āhttp://www.visualjockey.com/ā]http://www.visualjockey.com/
There is dedicated hardware like : http://milkymist.org/3/ which is inspired by milkdrop the visualization engine of winamp.
For paid softwareā¦ you got resolume and arkaos vj (or one of its newer incarnations)
In the time I still worked with my vcr and my video-camā¦ I had a pc with arkaos attached to my midi-networkā¦ which was niceā¦ the mc909 was driving arkaos
so i had realtime videos going straight into the vcr instead of the cam.
I am sure you can get simular results with the octatrackā¦ might even be better
cause the crossfader sends out midiCC which you could tie between some crossfading filterā¦ make it move a bit moreā¦
So yeah happy days for those who like to tinker with stuffā¦
Yeah, lovely dream. I took the last year off from all technology to flush out my pipes. But before I packed my gear away, apart from learning how to work away from the computer with my MD, OT and Minitaur, I was also exploring the power and joy of audiovisual performance.
My set up had ableton and resolume running together on a 17" MBP controlled by a monome 40h and three faderfoxes. Some of the resolume control was automated via midi clips sitting in my live set but I could jump at will from taking manual control of either the audio or the visuals. I didnāt get to the point of performing live but I tell you the fun that I had with my projector and monitors set up in the living room was almost unbearable. lol.
I had started thinking about how I could run the midi control from the OT but my launchpad of choice being the monome I couldnāt integrate them without the computer.
hereās where I got to.
Daisuk
10
Ah, sounds very interesting! Iād love to see that video, but YouTube is just doing my head in these days! Iāve tried upgrading flash, installing this plugin into Chrome and another one, disabling that, going Hmtl5 video et cetera, et cetera, but YouTube just remains a piece of shit to use these days. I could go on and on about how much I hate YouTube, and how I canāt understand that Google aināt doing anything about it (as a lot of people are having troubles with YouTube this days).
In short - I canāt watch your video. 
Put it on Vimeo?
Daisuk
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Nice! Thatās pretty cool.
Thanks man. The real time resolution is much higher and the colours much richer. At the time, the only way to record out of the computer was via a crappy converter at standard DV res. The box did some strange dilution to the colour as wellā¦but you get the idea.
Iāll start playing again with it all when I get my stuff out again in the next couple of months.
This is my HSS3jb video synth. Has midi control over most functions. I need to use it more!
jamrod
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I really love this idea. I know that it makes more sense to use a computer for this kind of thing, but you got me looking for hardware video samplers. This Korg Kaptivator doesnāt look that great, but I never even knew it existed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrcJ7-Y4qlU
editā¦that didnāt work
well if you happen to have a spare Ā£10k lying around after youāve bought your quadrinity you could always use these:
to do something like this:
guga
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really nice! and interesting device. more videos please
I have a custom HSS3jb too, quite fun little boxes, especially because almost everything is assignable to MIDI CCs.
Did this with mine a while back. Itās being controlled by Live but same principles apply if you were controlling it via the OT.
