Im considering buying and learning touchdesigner but would like to ask you guys if you beleve its the right tool for me,
basicly i want to set to set up a kinect to a gridspace where each grid box represent a dmx fixture combined with a midi note. basicly a dmx led wall. where the person standing in front of it should cast a shaddow of light onto the wall via the kinect. The siluete from the kinect should correspond to LEDs on the wall and with each lit LED, a midi not should play. I hope my explonation is clear enough
Is this possible to set up all within Touchdesigner with a midi interface and an entec dmx interface ?
Hello.
I would say definitely yes (disclaimer: Im a programmer here at Derivative
But basically we offer Kinect Support, bidirectional DMX support, bidirectional MIDI support by default. (Though non-commercial licence restricts DMX to 32 values per CHOP / DMX packet).
Whats the LED resolution youre aiming to drive?
The grid is only 16x10 pixels… what im trying to figure out is how to create the grid in touchdesigner.
I need 160 grid cordinates that each sends out a midi note and a dmx value when the kinect input activates that value.
a small note:
in order to send out 160 distinct midi notes, you’ll need to use multiple midi channels (which shouldn’t be particularly difficult) since midi note pitch only goes from 0-127.
Countless ways to attack it, but one small idea:
Create any grid of any resolution, but map the spot the user lands onto back into the range you need (16 x 10).
Ultimately use the tscript ‘midi’ command to output the note you want based on this user interaction.
