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Bebot

grimmwerks — Sat, 16 May 2009 18:55:04 +0000

Just saw this app on TUAW and my fear that robots will take over has gotten one step closer in reality. Â Though that little mechanical friend seems so cute (awww! A tuxedo!) it’s really powerful (as I’ve been claiming our future overlords will be!), as seen in the super capable mits of Jordan Rudess:

Multi-touch OSC Client for iPhone

grimmwerks — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:32:27 +0000

Saw this over at Peter Kirn’s CreateDigitalMusic and luckily I’ve got a jailbroken iPhone, so I’m going to have to play with this. I’ve already had TouchOSC going through OSCulator to control Live so there’s nothing new there – but would like to see if the multi-touch control is reminiscent of the reactable.

MSAFluid for processing (Controlled by iPhone) from Memo Akten on Vimeo.

iPhone Live and Screenflow

grimmwerks — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:33:03 +0000

I finally got akaRemote installed and launching properly on my iPhone (copy to the iPhone via AFP, then chmod -R 777 *), and, using artificialeyes.tv on my MacBookPro as translation to Ableton Live, I threw together this little screencast:

This is also using the fantastically new ScreenFlow which allows you to have two video sources at the same time: youâ??re desktop AND your iSight as input. ScreenFlow also keeps each video source seperate so you can edit it AFTER youâ??ve recorded â?? here I scaled up the iSight track, used a shadow, and added the Apple-influenced reflection on it. Guess you could say this post is a two-fer. I intend to write up a separate post about ScreenFlow, and am going to play more with akaRemote and Live. I fooled around slightly with the accelerometer sending midi control, but it was a bit iffy. I hope that soon my hippie dance will influence the music, just as the music causes me to hippie dance.

DIY: Make Your Own Open Source Video Mixer

grimmwerks — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:32:39 +0000

Thereâ??s a number of programming languages that allow you to manipulate video – high end applications like Max/MSP/Jitter, or open source languages like Processing are common examples of these languages. Lately thereâ??s been a bit of a new kid on the scene called PureData – or Pd – which seems to be Maxâ??s open source younger brother, as itâ??s created by the same father.

Beau, aka DJCypod created a great video tutorial on building a simple 2-way mixer in Pd, which you can see here:

Found via CreateDigitalMotion.

** originally posted at scribemedia