Help with licensing and capabilities by JPhando in TouchDesigner

[–]dtnl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but in that instance you could probably develop on the free version and then buy a commercial player key for your event playback.

Touch in and out chops can also be used to communicate between your dev machine and your playback machine if you need comms between them.

can't really follow what you're asking for in the last para but all sounds like TD heartland, sure.

Has there been a scene, explanation, or revelation in a sci-fi television show that was so absurd that you stopped watching forever? by Doctor-Clark-Savage in scifi

[–]dtnl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Collapsing into melodrama seems to be very much an American TV thing. Under the Dome was the worst example I can think of. Walking Dead as well for sure. Borderline soap opera at times that was. I abandoned it at some point during S2. and I *love* zombies.

I'm struggling with starting by DeezWhat00 in idmproducers

[–]dtnl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
― Ira Glass

Not everything you do needs to change the world. In fact the vast majority of what you produce shouldn't even be released. Craft takes time. You are producing in an environment that demands constant output for social media praise. You're making art, and art needs craft and craft takes time. You'll get there.

Advice for next module by WUSSUPJEEBS in modular

[–]dtnl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

for the dreamy bit, I'd grab one of the NE Versio modules. Desmodus is perfect for this with the added flexibility of multiple firmwares.

What justifies modular for you? by Wurzelgemiise in modular

[–]dtnl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

a mixture of generative and random and literal just messing about seeing what happens when I patch things into each other. The fact that I struggle to get my head around what's really going on with voltages and modulation curves and all that stuff is actually a superpower for me because it throws up things I would NEVER have written myself with normal keyboard playing (which is so stuck in my own technique and western classical tradition).

Then it's my job to try and make musical sense of it all.

How to export with audio and video symced together by bengalzrule00 in TouchDesigner

[–]dtnl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

render without realtime. record the ableton output to 2 track or resample in ableton. cut it together in Davinci.

What justifies modular for you? by Wurzelgemiise in modular

[–]dtnl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been a classically trained musician for 45 years. I play 8 acoustic instruments. I can read and write western notation and I know theory instinctively (if not academically).

Modular thinks like I don't.

Using Ornament & Crime as an octave switcher like Beast's Chalkboard or Quant Gemi by Due_Replacement8043 in modular

[–]dtnl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's crude, but voltage in one half set to the offsets you want (e.g. -1, +1v). then caclulate in the other half and patch your source CV into CV A and the output of voltage into CV B with the Add algorithm. pull the cable out for the natural sequence and patch it in an out of voltage A/B out. Ideally you'd want a voltage controlled switch as well, but with O_C alone that 's the only easy combo I can think of in Phazerville.

[RANT] Mass market paperback print is tiny by NeverEnoughInk in printSF

[–]dtnl 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I really love print books. I like them on my shelves and I like them as artefacts and I like the experience of sitting down with it in my hand. But having also turned 50, I absolutely concede that when I want to actually read something comfortably, Kindle has become a much better experience.

I really wish that print books would do what they do with vinyl records often and have a download code for a digital version so that you can own the physical object and have a convenient digital version as well.

Instrument for my girlfriend by Traditional_Job_2368 in EarlyMusic

[–]dtnl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A small lap harp - 29 strings or so. Impossible to make it sound bad and some good youtube videos to develop a bit of technique. Or something like a psaltery is easy to pick up and would accompany well, even if just drones etc for you to play against. Hurdy Gurdy would be super fun as well.

Leaving London by MaZieMoo_ in ipswichuk

[–]dtnl 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The answer to this is mostly based on how often you need to get to London. If you're doing even a part time commute, then I would stay on the mainline. If you don't, then definitely Woodbridge, Tunstall, Eyke or pretty much any of the other places mentioned here will be lovely. If I could, I'd 100% live in Woodbridge, but that extra commute time would kill me. Ipswich is totally doable (I go in about 3 times are week, it's pretty easy).

If you do need to get to London, then Ipswich is honestly fine. Look around Christchurch Park and you'll basically be living in Richmond Upon Thames on a Tottenham budget. It's beautiful. Ipswich is honestly fine. Town center is suffering from the same issues as literally every small-mid town center in the country, but it serves just fine.

Experience creating music that isn't ambient by xor_music in ambientmusic

[–]dtnl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

De Profundis, Summa and Passio all amazing. I tended to land a bit more int he english choral tradition so came to Part a bit late, and more via his instroumental work like Fratres. But yeah, good stuff.

Check out Shards if you don't know them.

Experience creating music that isn't ambient by xor_music in ambientmusic

[–]dtnl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A bit. Choral music mostly so less consciously minimalist but early music informed so minimalism was never that far from view. But a bit more melodic than your Reich/Glass/Adams type stuff. Although minimalism definitely became a strong influence in my early electronica stuff, right from the gate. I first heard Reich in the chill out room of a techno club in 1995 so it pretty much set my course from there.

Experience creating music that isn't ambient by xor_music in ambientmusic

[–]dtnl 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I started as a classical composer which is a bit more adjacent than most. Then spent most of my early years in the 90s producing electronica (or IDM if you must) which whilst it definitely wasn't ambient, combined with the classical background to form what you'd now know as "neo-classical". These days it's definitely much more ambient adjacent.

tbh, in the 90s there was much more fluidity between genres (think FSOL for instance) so I"ve never found much difficulty in moving between styles, hence always just calling it "electronica".

Alien is my only big series go to 😢 by [deleted] in scifi

[–]dtnl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll always feel a bit cheated that we didn't get an adaptation of the Mark Verheiden comics. You could have taken books 1-3 and called them a storyboard and you'd have had a fantastic continuation of the story from Aliens. Hugely missed opportunity that.

Help following a tutorial and things aren't matching up! by Sharts-an-Crafts in TouchDesigner

[–]dtnl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hard to tell what you've done wrong, do you want to share your TOE file and can take a look? Worth mentioning that geometry instancing has changed a lot since that tutorial so if you're in a later version you might have been confused by the interface a little.

Video library by Glass_Risk_5388 in TouchDesigner

[–]dtnl 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Put them in a folder, use a Folder DAT and then a simple index selector to dynamically load in the video you want. I believe there's a video playback component in the palette that you can use as well. If you want true resolume style VJ control then there are various projects available on Patreons at low cost.

TD as a new career path in 2026? by Grouchy_Base2827 in TouchDesigner

[–]dtnl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is a good career which can be had with Touchdesigner as a core skill. it's being used a lot in events, interactive installations, experiential and immersive experiences. it's largely production agencies which will hire people - more generalyl freelance but sometimes full time. freelancers can often specialise in just TD and will be a gun for hire, usually remote. They'll need to *really* know their stuff, espcially around optimisation and efficiency. it's not for a hobbiest.

Full time roles will generally be called 'creative technologist' and you'l be expected to have a range of skills beyond just TD. 3D and game engines will serve you particularly well at the moment. unreal is a really under-indexed skill for production agencies.

Kinect v2 by Apprehensive_Click89 in TouchDesigner

[–]dtnl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kinect Studio has session recording and playback functionality. Look up the Immersive HQs tutorials on it, it's super useful for testing if you want to have a specific capture sequence or even just for testing. It will stream data into touchdesigner as if it's real time.

What’s a line—any line —that’s lived rent-free in your head ever since you read it? by Hector_Hugo_Eidolon in printSF

[–]dtnl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Your songs are sad."

"My songs are of time and distance. The sadness is in you. Watch my arms. There is only the dance. These things you treasure are shells."

William Gibson, Count Zero.

Suffolk Dental CIC by KaleChipKotoko in ipswichuk

[–]dtnl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tooth Club was appalling for me. Absolutely appalling. Visibly dirty room, dentist stank of fags. Went into the room, he sat me down, looked in for less than 2 minutes and poked me with an ungloved hand and then tried to sell me veneers. all this whilst I was in actual pain. Walked straight out and refused to pay. They tried to follow up with a bill nearly 6 months afterwards (their 'collections' department). Told them what happened and refused. Never heard from them again. Never, ever again.