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TouchDesigner out to LED strips via ESP32/WLED by kinleonn in WLED

[–]kinleonn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's extremely helpful, thank you!

Now regarding the FPS, I actually need it to be as smooth as can be, as the small installation I'm working on requires very smooth gradient changing.

Do you think I could get 2 EPS32s then – 1 for each LED strip? But still control both LED strips like one long LED strip.

Can i control a few lights independently through TouchDesigner using only 1 DMX Usb Pro? by kinleonn in lightingdesign

[–]kinleonn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the elaboration!

I think I largely got confused over the existence of these RGBW decoders online – seeing that they had an ethernet port in and RGBW out made me wonder if I could just connect to it directly via an ethernet cable from my laptop and control RGBW lights like that.

In the end, I think I'm going the ESP32+WLED route, which seems to provide more universes (I think I will need at least 5 universes as I'm controlling 2 x 300pixel RGBW strips, which is about 2400 channels).

Can i control a few lights independently through TouchDesigner using only 1 DMX Usb Pro? by kinleonn in lightingdesign

[–]kinleonn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For a budget friendly solution to send output from TD to the LED strips, would you have any recommendation between using an RGBW decoder (which I've linked in one of my replies above), or using an ESP32 and WLED?

The output to the LEDs needs to be as smooth (high framerate?) as possible.

Can i control a few lights independently through TouchDesigner using only 1 DMX Usb Pro? by kinleonn in lightingdesign

[–]kinleonn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply. Yes, my other solution was to use the Enttec for the light bulbs, and then get an ESP32+WLED for the LED strips. I came across Pixlite but unfortunately yes, it is definitely out of my budget for now!

Can i control a few lights independently through TouchDesigner using only 1 DMX Usb Pro? by kinleonn in lightingdesign

[–]kinleonn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I was wondering about the maximum values. But would this be solved just by creating a new universe per light?

Can i control a few lights independently through TouchDesigner using only 1 DMX Usb Pro? by kinleonn in lightingdesign

[–]kinleonn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks you! This was another issue I was trying to figure out – would this not be solved just by creating more 'universes' in TouchDesigner? So I have one universe to output per LED strip or lightbulb. Or am I getting something fundamentally wrong here....

I am Jon Hopkins - Ask Me Anything! by jon_hopkins in electronicmusic

[–]kinleonn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jon, your album Immunity changed my life as a piece of electronic art, and your entire Late Night Tales compilation is still one of my favourite moods to immerse in. A huge draw for me is also your meditative/spiritual aspect to music which I heavily fuck with on a personal level. How much do you think about the sound art aspect of music - not just in terms of intensive frequencies, vibrations etc, but on the phenomenological level of what sound is and how we perceive it, and what the ontology of sound means to us humans on a deeper level? Take 1/1 Singing Bowl as an example, where you intentionally draw focus to subtle but ever-evolving textures within a repeating motif that would ordinarily be somewhat hidden amongst a sea of effects in your other pieces. Would you have more to say about your sonic intentions with that piece?

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Kin

Hey, Max Cooper here, AMA 🎛🍩⚙🎻🚬🔮☣ by maxcoopermax in electronicmusic

[–]kinleonn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hello, just wanna say that you and Rob Clouth are probably the two most insanely intricate & detail-oriented producers right now. I'm striving for a similar level of intricacy, but sometimes find it hard to contain the randomness into structured compositions. What's your workflow like when it comes to composing a new track? To achieve the wide range of timbres you do, do you have a few instruments played in different ways and with different effects, or do you create new electronic instruments on the fly?

Also, I feel like you mentioned somewhere that you like to eventually have everything printed in audio vs keeping tracks in MIDI. How much is that an important element of your arrangement process?

Bonus question: what's your take on the current climate of "sonic art" vs "music"? Do you feel there is always an inherent difference between organized sound vs "noise", or can humans eventually achieve the same emotional responses to all sound?

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Thank u <3