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When you say stop/start visuals, are you referring to the audio player section?
I have a Stop/Start button on the iPad version that seems to stop the entire visualization (as opposed to disabling layers).
I'd like to sync that start/stop to a MIDI start/stop coming from say Audiobus.
That start stop is only to pause the render engine for performances or if you want to take a screenshot of VS. By default VS's render engine is always running. This isn't suppose to be linked with the host's transport. Stopping the render won't revert your shaders to the original position, they will only pause and then continue once you press play
Thanks! Makes sense. So would sending a Program Change into a darker scene and then into the next scene with the next song should get me a similar effect then?
I believe so. Making a preset with only a black canvas can be your starting point and then you just need to change the preset (with the program change) when you want to start displaying something. You could also automate the enabled status of the layers, but that would involve more work than your solution.
Absolutely Massive update yesterday, here's the log.
VS and Preset Packs half off currently as well! Excited to play around with this.
"1.6.0
Jul 9, 2024
Important note:
Your existing presets will be migrated to a new format after launching for the first time
Please restore purchases after installation to download preset packs again as this is required to work
If you are using audio modulators and the presets are not working as expected please take into account that the audio modulator has suffered significant improvements and its parameters might need to be adjusted.
Full changelog:
Adds support to images in all layers
Adds support to videos in all layers
Adds new material browser
Adds single preset import/export
Adds buttons to cycle through materials without the need to open browser
Adds MIDI mapping to preset change buttons
Adds MIDI mapping to audio panel play/stop buttons
Adds manual MIDI assignment (double press parameters with MIDI learn enabled)
Adds LFOs syncing to host playback
Adds phase parameter in LFO
Adds record arm to sync record to host playback (press and hold record to toggle)
Adds “No files" label when main folder doesn’t have valid files
Adds shader materials search box
Adds portrait mode (toggled under settings)
Adds back button on factory files browser
Adds material clear cache option in settings
Adds scroll wheel handling to adjust parameters
Adds AIFF support
Improves visibility of disabled layers
Improves spectrum mode of audio modulator
Improves ADSR (adds decay and sustain parameters)
Fixes freezing when browsing a folder with a lot of videos
Fixes files not being shown in some circumstances
Fixes Ableton Link
Fixes video recordings only having mono audio output
Fixes MIDI clip playing position when changing position of audio clip
Fixes background layer render when changing resolution
Fixes audio output with bluetooth headset
Fixes copying/pasting HEX color with keyboard
Adds iOS photos and files providers to layers
Fixes background layer media from photos provider
Fixes iOS media loaded from Photos not persisting when save/loading presets
Fixes purchases not being shown in user account on Imaginando dashboard"
Looks like a pretty great update.
This made me laugh though:
“suffered significant improvements”
Noticed that too, lol. In some contexts, ‘undergo’ and ‘suffer’ are synonymous, but not here, haha. Looks like a great update. The Imaginando guys really keep working on their apps over the long term, it’s very impressive!
This is the result of thinking in Portuguese and writing in English! 😅 Thanks for the heads up!
Thank you for the great update!
I tried the image on layer new function. The image only seems to display when it is taken from the Photo roll. If I take an image with from Files it does not show up. Is that the wanted behaviour ?
How do I move a photo from Files to the Photo roll ?
I'm not being able to replicate that problem. Can you please share a screen recording showing the issue?
Thanks for the update @sinosoidal
Love being able to load images or video clips right into each layer.
Looking forward to see the results of this new possibilities!
A reboot fixed that.
What format of image is VS expecting for transparency ? I want to have a image with a hole in the middle and I want a video on the background layer to show thru.
@sinosoidal I cannot seem to make a png with alpha that is not semi transparent to the layer below it! Is that normal ?
@sinosoidal video link of image problem sent in PM
@ecou
You're right. there is indeed a problem with alpha and brightness in images. We have already fixed that and we will release a new beta. Blend modes weren't also working with images/videos and that will also be fixed in this next beta. Thank you for reporting
@sinosoidal @xglax Thank you for such a prompt response.
Any news? Super excited about working with the new features.
Fixes are currently in beta. If you want to join it to test them out please PM me your email so I can add you to testflight
Anybody else getting problems with the transparent PNG?
I have a simple square with transparent background made in Affinity Photo. I add it to layer one, put the transparency at zero and I can see layer 2 thru it. I don’t think it should. But maybe I am don’t understand.
Here’s my image in a transparency checker.
There is zero translucency. It would show in red.
I am on a M2 iPad Pro.
My blend mode is at normal.
How do you import videos ? when i select "import" (down arrow) on the image/video page and select my clip in the files pop-up nothing happens...
@xglax happy now videos can be imported on all layers. would you consider adding the position parameter to all layers? now it’s only available in then ‘original’ video layer
Could you tell me how to upload a video?
It took me a minute to figure this out also.
It seems by going to the material browser, which one would naturally assume, you can only access the “Perplexon” video clips under the “Media - Image/Video” tab. And as you’ve discovered, trying to import a video on this screen doesn’t work.
Instead;
Long press on one of your layer boxes to bring up this little menu, and tap PHOTOS
From there, you should be able to access your entire camera roll, videos and all.
That's crazy, they have to fix that !
Thank you very much
You’re welcome. Have fun!
Is there a manual for this app? I’ve found my way around the layers and modulation etc, and created some projects I’m happy with, but recording anything is a mystery.
Apologies if this has been covered already
Thanks all👍
If you open VS standalone and tap Help in the menu (hamburger icon top left) it open the manual in Safari. This doesn’t work in the AUv3 (I think it used to work). This is where it takes you:
https://www.imaginando.pt/products/vs-visual-synthesizer/help/contents
To record the video, press the record button (red dot in the toolbar) before starting your transport in AUM. I would think it’s the same in DAWs etc if that what you’re using. Play your piece through, then hit stop and wait a bit - it’ll pop up a share sheet and you can send the recording wherever you want. This doesn’t match the manual, which says it saves the recording in a Recordings folder which I can’t find on my iPad. I suspect the manual needs an update. The share sheet used to have an option to save the video to Photos, but that seems to have disappeared.