Spencer McGuire - VMeter Frequency Visualization - Revision history

Sdmcguire at 00:13, 5 May 2015

2015-05-05T00:13:29Z

Sdmcguire at 00:13, 5 May 2015

2015-05-05T00:13:08Z

Sdmcguire at 00:12, 5 May 2015

2015-05-05T00:12:23Z

Sdmcguire at 15:27, 29 April 2015

2015-04-29T15:27:59Z

Sdmcguire at 13:58, 29 April 2015

2015-04-29T13:58:58Z

Sdmcguire: Created page with "The VMeter device is usually used as a touch-responsive volume controller for Mac and PC, but also happens to be MIDI-compliant, which allows for experimentation in Max. The M..."

2015-04-28T20:58:36Z

Created page with "The VMeter device is usually used as a touch-responsive volume controller for Mac and PC, but also happens to be MIDI-compliant, which allows for experimentation in Max. The M..."

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The VMeter device is usually used as a touch-responsive volume controller for Mac and PC, but also happens to be MIDI-compliant, which allows for experimentation in Max. The Max patch attached to this page works by taking in an audio input, splitting it into three individual sets of integers that control the three shown visualizations.

The LED's are controlled in three sections and controlled through the Aftertouch information in MIDI, with each section counting upwards in binary. Sending 1 to the first section illuminates the first LED, 2 illuminates the second, 3 illuminates the first and second, 4 illuminates the third, and so on. This means that the 7 LED's for the low, middle, and high visualizations are controlled by sending 1, 3, 7, 15, 31, 63, and 127. The best way found to do this was starting at the bottom with 1 LED and filtering the incoming numbers from each stream; a certain range of numbers activates an increasing number of LED's; this means the Max patch requires a lot of objects to run it, but it works!

I decided to make this because I've had this interface for a while but never realized it could be reprogrammed to serve other functions, so using Max with this device was an instant choice for the final project.

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Required Hardware:

--Mac or PC

--[http://vmeter.net/ VMeter]

Required Software:

--Download the source code available here and paste it into Max.

[[File:SourceCode.txt]]

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In action:

<youtube>tjcnLngs38w</youtube>

[[File:Vmeter_screenshot.png]]

Above is shown the majority of the Max patch running the project. Off to the left is where "send lights" and the brightness control are both sent with "midiout" to the VMeter.

[[Category:Interactive Systems]]
[[Category:Multimedia]]
[[Category: Advisor:Manzo]][[Category:Foundations of Music Technology (2300)]]

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 In action:
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 Above is shown the majority of the Max patch running the project. Off to the left is where "send lights" and the brightness control are both sent with "midiout" to the VMeter.

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	Above is shown the majority of the Max patch running the project. Off to the left is where "send lights" and the brightness control are both sent with "midiout" to the VMeter.		Above is shown the majority of the Max patch running the project. Off to the left is where "send lights" and the brightness control are both sent with "midiout" to the VMeter.
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		+	I'll be putting up a proper video upload soon!!!

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	--Download the source code available here and paste it into Max.		--Download the source code available here and paste it into Max.

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