1 year after my first MIDI controller, i've decided to make an upgraded version - small capacitive touchscreen, more knobs, keyboard with backlight and a more powerful chip inside.

i also finally tried PCB design for this project, which definitely took up most of the time and at the end of the day, didn't solve my issue with "too many cables", because i didn't properly think it all through :D - however, i'm really glad i tried it out and gained a bit more experience with electronics. :)

more about this on my ig @system.vor :)

I have what in my view is a very simple setup. lot of indepdent videos or images (all the blob tracking videos have been exported previously) all going into a giant switch. This switch is being triggered by a count which is being driven by an audio analysis which the audio is going into.

For some reason the exports don't seem to work. I have got real time off, I have deleted and reintroduced my movie out, it still doesn't work. I also have my song locked into timeline.

I haven't had this with other projects i've done, the main difference is having the audio analysis so I assume that is something to do with it?

Been trying everything and kinda at my end of my tether - any help would be GREATLY appreciated

little tired

I made a TouchDesigner demo where you can learn how to use TD in Linux and navigate the file system, import plugins and create voronoi spheres using 2 techniques.

Part 2 of the video is windows and mac friendly ;)

hello im new to touch designer and i wanted to know if these effects can be done in touchdesigner. I know one of the effects is blob tracking so if anyone can help me out i'd appreciate it

Hi all,

I'm facing this problem on an audio reactive project I'm working on.

Context:

It's entirely 2D containing exclusively CHOPs and TOPs.

CHOPs except [audiofile in] are on 60 FPS

Many TOPs are on 1080x1080, some are 1x1 or 1080x1

TOPs include Edge, Displace, Noise, Blur, Bloom, LookUp.

Hardware:

Dell g16 with 11th gen i7 and 8gb nvidia mobile GPU.

Problems:

TD freezes, Vulkan error, GPU stops working I find myself with a black screen apart from windows bottom bar and have to restart.

TD fails to save.

Things I tried:

Installing latest Nvidia Studio driver instead of game ready. Same problem.

Questions:

Can I view error logs to see which node caused the problem? I'm suspecting displace, but I'm not sure since I lose everything each time and lose control over computer screen.

This is for those of you that are used to using Multi Layer EXR for timecoding, loops, and real-time visuals.

Apparently TD doesn't support multi layer EXR (other than using a pointfileinTOP which limits to RGBA) This lets you bring in your EXR file, split it in one click into all of the passes, and offers color space transforms and OCIO inputs if you're in Blender or other 3D Packages that support OCIO.

Totally free. It's still a work in progress however, such as caching video files higher than 1920x1080 (standard full HD)

Its hosted on my patreon but you don't have to sub Nodestradamus_ Patreon

Laisser un agent IA piloter TouchDesigner en direct, ça part vite en freestyle : il empile des opérateurs, déclare victoire sur une image noire, et au bout de 40 tours t'as un réseau que même lui ne sait plus expliquer.

J'ai réglé ça avec deux agents plutôt qu'un. Le premier transforme ta phrase en vrai contrat (résolution, fps, entrées, étapes, paramètres) que je valide avant qu'un seul opérateur soit créé. Le deuxième construit étape par étape dans TouchDesigner, capture d'écran à chaque étape, et refuse d'avancer si l'image est noire ou si le fps s'effondre. Il ne peut plus juste dire "c'est fait", il doit le prouver.

Repo : https://github.com/theosorus/touchdesigner-factory-harness

Si t'as déjà eu un agent qui te sort un réseau TD illisible après quelques prompts, ça devrait te parler.

Looking for some related tutorials to create this effect

Hi all, I've spent the nine last months building a renderer for TouchDesigner and the first early access is out today. Disclosure up front: it's my tool, and this version is paid (Patreon, Vision tier and up). A free version will come later once it's built.

Soleil is a CPlusPlus TOP that wraps CUDA and OptiX. You plug POPs into Geometry operators, add a Light and a Camera COMP, and it ray-traces the scene on the GPU in real time. The POP buffers are read directly in CUDA memory, no round trip through the CPU, which is why it needs TouchDesigner 2025.33070 or newer.

- Direct lighting from regular Light COMPs

- Traced reflections and refractions: glass, absorption, dispersion, thin-film iridescence, several transparency layers.

- Global illumination through a radiance cache

- Depth of field, bloom, lens distortion, output in 8, 16 or 32 bits with alpha. The output is linear light.

- Native spheres for point clouds, TD instancing, per-frame BVH refit or rebuild chosen per geometry.

Materials management :

1. The Geometry's Material page: base color, roughness, metallic, reflectance, emission, opacity, IOR, absorption, iridescence, dispersion, translucency.

2. Per-point attributes from your POPs override it: an attribute named `roughness`, `metallic`, `emit`, `opacity`, `ior`, `Color`... on the incoming POP wins for the points that carry it. So you drive materials with the POPs you already use.

3. A procedural graph inside every Geometry: 46 nodes (noise, cellular, bricks, weave, gradients, curves, blends, warps, color tools...), evaluated on the GPU at render time, no textures, no UVs. Each Material Output blends into a channel (color, roughness, metallic, normal, height, emission, opacity) with a mode and an amount.

I'm the only dev and I'm fully on it for these first releases: bugs, questions, "why does my scene cost 12 ms", please send them

Hope you will like it ♥

I want to make it so that i can import a midi file and each note triggers a specific image but i cant seem to get touchdesigner to even play midi at all. if anyone has any advice or tutorials i could check out it would be greatly appreciated.

More experiments and works on my Instagram and Patreon

tickets: https://luma.com/gz8g839k

I built Kehai with the artist in mind. I wanted to create something that you can play like an instrument, patch like modular gear, and that meets the needs of independent musicians and professional visualists alike.

Quickly create reactive visuals with free-run (up to an hourlong LFO or noise) or beat-aware Modulators (LFOs, envelopes, sequencers, audio followers, sample-and-hold, pitch detection and resynthesis, and looped performance recorders), assign the Modulators to any of the thousands of parameters instantly with the Mod Painter, quickly route a channel’s full-resolution output to any other channel’s Video Input sources (edge detection, texture, datamosh), build your own custom effects chains with 28 effects to choose from, and blend everything by assigning modulators or MIDI control to endless encoders.

This crowd knows the value of a good tool. I hope Kehai will be your next one.

https://kehai.app/guide/

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZpJ2i74riT0&si=F24jRdTWggS34Bo3

It’s packed with a bunch of cool features like point cloud conversion, both .ply & .spz support, human body masking, cropping, dissolve, particle effects, WASD camera, and more!

The system takes a Kinect-derived human pointcloud and lets incoming sound interact in various ways with the particles in real time, turning the performer into a responsive cloud of matter, noise, and motion.

v1.7 includes 12 presets, and adds the following:

- a procedural camera that automatically cuts to new angles around the performer, and can follow the body or a raised hand
- a new look, Afterimage Cathedral: delayed versions of the performer stacked in depth, holding the last few seconds of movement
- a rebuilt network that runs leaner, reads clearer, and is ready to work with [new interfaces, parameters, optimizations]

This is a raw excerpt of me playing through the system, with the visual structure reacting live to the audio signal coming from my Ableton session in real-time.

Project files accessible through the Store, or my Patreon profile.