Hello guys. I’m new to TD and haven’t done any programming before, but understand you can trigger video clips via MIDI. I want to have one “idle” video clip looping in the background. On top of this idle clip I’d like to trigger 37 different videos using my 37 MIDI keyboard. And playback should stop as soon as a key is released, meaning going back to the “idle” clip again.
I was wondering if someone in here might be able to create a TD file for me that should get me up and running. I’d be forever thankful. I don’t know if this is much to ask for, but I thought I’d try. Or if anyone could point me in the right direction here I’d be thankful as well, just know that I’m a complete beginner here.
Fingers crossed
I have put together a very basic example to illustrate how I would approach this.
The example should give you a starting point to familiarise with Moviefilein TOPs, Switch TOP, and basic CHOP operator workflow (TOPs are the nodes in purple, CHOPs in green).
Mess around with the example to understand how it works. After that the next step will be to add a MidiIN Chop, get your midi device connected and replace those buttons with your midi messages.
Video Playback.toe (4.3 KB)
I hope it helps!
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Thanks a bunch!
I got my MIDI device connected, added CHOP midiin chop and CHOP select. Got a MIDI note to trigger the movie clip, but it’s static / no playback. I’m doing something wrong here I guess.
Could you maybe set MIDI up for me as well, and I’ll just change the MIDI settings after?
My personal take on the forum is to help people getting unstuck, and hopefully guiding them in the right direction to find a suitable solution for their work.
It feels a bit awkward that you are asking basically for fully finished networks.
I’d suggest you share your implementation of my example and we’ll take it from there!
For finished products you can put out a request here in the forum and some TD freelancers will get in touch with a quote.
Sorry I don’t mean to sound harsh but I see you asking for help while showing very little effort on your end.
I totally get that. I actually tried to upload my sketch, but the forum won’t let newcomers do that apparently. Is there another way I could share it here maybe?
I’d really like to learn TD, seems very very versatile. I’m just not used to work with programming, node or coding.
If I get really stuck I might put out that request for a finished thing indeed.
The file uploading limitation (among other things) is something that got introduced relatively recently in the forum because it was getting all sorts of spam.
Unfortunately I am not sure if the limitation disappear after a certain amount of messages of what else is the action to get the limitation removed. I could ask in the forum.
Can you describe what sort of error you are getting when you tried to connect your midi message to the network I have provided? you said the movie it’s static, no playback; is there also an error message somewhere? (like an x on a operator).
There is a chance you might have to rename your midi messages using a rename Chop and rename your midi channels from * to something like v[1-37], this will rename all your channels (perhaps received as ch1n64 or something like that) to something more “digestible” by this type of network.
Maybe try to put the rename after the Merge CHOP. I am not sure that this is the solution, it’s hard to say without seeing your network. Can you upload screenshots?
Thank you, think I will look into the basics of TD a bit, do some research first. A fresh start =)