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Mad Men

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:08:00 +0100

Mad Men

chikuwaq: Brad Mehldau, Highway Rider, 2010, in full, 104...

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:35:39 +0100

chikuwaq:

Brad Mehldau, Highway Rider, 2010, in full, 104 min.

A masterpiece. (!)

Frank Marcel Davide

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:38:38 +0100

Ce samedi à ne pas manquer 20.30 à Uhrwiller (F) un beau concert pour tous ceux qui préfèrent remettre leur comptabilité à la semaine prochaine ;) et les autres évidemment!

Strasax Live - Ce soir 20.30 - Illiade. Album...

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:18:22 +0100

Strasax Live - Ce soir 20.30 - Illiade.

Album Release. wooooooooo.

l'ONJ a 25 ans

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:22:34 +0200

l'ONJ a 25 ans

Love their work

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:54:00 +0200

Love their work

You're a Wizard now Harry 1/2.

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:27:00 +0200

Chameleon + OSCulator + Qlab + TouchOSC = Incredible power wand of the gods.

I’ve worked with Chameleon for a year now, I really love how this is made, simple, fast and efficient. There were a few issues in terms of how to use it in my workflow though. Sometimes I work alone in this venue, 150 seats, 30 PAR lights, 20 PC and 5 Profiles and a fixed structure that you can reach with a lift. Installing is ok, but focusing WAS a drag.

I also use Qlab so I can fire up audio or midi cues to recall settings on a digital desk, make fades, recall FX presets… with a Korg Nano Control MIDI controller. The great thing would have been to be able to send MSC or some control changes to Chameleon to fire up the next light cue. But Chameleon does not respond to midi input for now - the devs said that they’re looking into it. Chameleon however is really good with keyboard shortcuts so I thought, what if I could fire up a keyboard combo with a MIDI message.

But what if I could use OSC ? that would be even neater because then I could send messages from my mobile device to virtually any software… I’ve tried a few solutions that were working with my nano control but there was too much latency (0.5s) to be reliable. I could not measure the latency properly but I suspect it was not constant. Moreover nothing could handle OSC messages. So I did a quick lookup no the internet again (well it took me the afternoon tbh) and found OSCulator and this was actually it. P e r f e c t. !

Tested on a macbook (white) core2duo with OSX 10.7.1

Whatcha need

OSCulator : http://www.osculator.net
Chameleon : http://www.maclightingsoftware.com

This will be covered in another post :

Qlab : http://www.figure53.com

TouchOSC EDITOR on the mac : http://hexler.net/software/touchosc

TouchOSC on you iPhone iPad : checkout the appstore.

What you need to know about

MIDI
OSC messages (not too much, OSCulator does most of the things for you)
Applescript (just a little)
Patience =)

Configure your system

Go to System Prefs > Universal Access and tick “Enable Assistive Devices” like so
Install the apps

Chameleon + OSCulator

Launch OSCulator : first we need to configure the app like so
Click on parameters > I/O and adjust the midi input to your midi controller and OSCulator(8000)
Now we need to make it learn a few things. I will only show you the tricky bit since you can very easily figure out the rest for yourself : let’s automate the Cues Helper.
First we need to make the Cue Helper appear go to : Parameters > AppleScript and make script called cham cue helper. Then copy this bit of code and compile (click on the hammer).

Applescript Code - cham cue helper:

tell application "System Events"
tell application "Chameleon" to activate
tell process "Chameleon"
    click button "Cues" of window 1
    end tell
end tell
end tell

Let’s script the other keys.
Make two more scripts called cham cue helper go and cham cue helper reset and paste the following code.

AppleScript code - cham cue helper GO.

tell application "System Events"
tell application "Chameleon" to activate
tell process "Chameleon"
    click button "GO" of window 1
end tell
end tell

AppleScript code - cham cue helper reset.

tell application "System Events"
tell process "Chameleon"
    click button "|<" of window 1
end tell
end tell

The last two keys that can be reached for now on the helper are the > & < for previous and next cue. These ones are pretty easy to make. Click on Key Combos and add a new combo with the + sign at the bottom. Then a small popup window appears : press the left arrow on your keyboard and close the small window with the mouse. Select the target application and add a memo (this is important because as you’ll quickly see, this window will get crowded !) Voilà, you just need to repeat this step once and press the other arrow when prompted. (Of course you will have to do that once for each key you whish to control with your MIDI controller.

Now it is time to get some MIDI input

Close the parameters window.
If you already have a few messages that appeared in the window delete them.
Now press your selected “cue helper” key on your controller. The midi message will be interpreted and will appear in the window (if you already have a few, a green square lights up before the message you’re currently sending so you can easily spot it)
Assign an event type in this case AppleScript
Select the AppleScript you which to launch : cham cue helper

That’s it now you should be able to make Chameleon’s Cues Helper popup appear.

Repeat operations for the other controls

I’m saving the best for next time.

I can make available a shortcut file if you need, just ask.

-Matthieu Zisswiller-

monkdemonk: Pierre Anckaert Quintet & Brussels Chamber...

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:47:01 +0200

monkdemonk:

Pierre Anckaert Quintet & Brussels Chamber Orchestra / Strings Attached
Pierre Anckaert (p)
Stefan Bracaval (flute)
Hendrik Vanattenhoven (b)
Guy Nikkels (g)
Mimi Verderame (ds)
Brussels Chamber Orchestra

Si toi aussi tu veux devenir un tueur…

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:15:40 +0200

Si toi aussi tu veux devenir un tueur…

The Sloganeer : Paradise

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 01:07:00 +0200

The Sloganeer : Paradise

Billy Taylor - 1958 The Subject is Jazz - TV Show

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:29:30 +0200

Billy Taylor - 1958 The Subject is Jazz - TV Show

Mega Hold wink

Mon, 23 May 2011 20:30:00 +0200

Mega Hold

wink

Steely Dan - Babylon Sister God this is tight. Live in NY - Two...

Thu, 12 May 2011 20:45:00 +0200

Steely Dan - Babylon Sister

God this is tight. Live in NY - Two Against Nature.

Likey ?

mandaflewaway: CLICK TO MAKE SOME MUSIC

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:10:39 +0200

mandaflewaway:

CLICK TO MAKE SOME MUSIC

Celebrating Yuri. Esbjörn Svensson Trio. Live in Stockholm...

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:28:07 +0200

Celebrating Yuri.

Esbjörn Svensson Trio. Live in Stockholm (2000)

Joni Mitchell Jams With Herbie Hancock, Bobby McFerrin, Wayne...

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:54:20 +0200

Joni Mitchell Jams With Herbie Hancock, Bobby McFerrin, Wayne Shorter, David Sanborn and Larry Klein

1987

Voilà un live comme on en fait rarement ces temps-ci. A noter...

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:49:59 +0200

Voilà un live comme on en fait rarement ces temps-ci. A noter que le disque de 1991 GreenHouse propose un des meilleurs enregistrement que YJ ait jamais fait.( A l’époque j’écoutais encore ca sur cassette). Bob Mintzer alors encore jeune homme signe de magnifiques arrangements dont voilà un extrait Live (96). A ne pas louper à partir de 5’00 le dernier thème et le chorus de Mintzer.

Tournée Audriel petite pause au Grillen à Colmar. Photos de...

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:07:00 +0100

Audriel

Audriel

Hugo - Audrey - Gabriel

Tournée Audriel petite pause au Grillen à Colmar. Photos de répétitions.

Self explanatory. credits : Floyd E Toole - Sound...

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:30:07 +0100

Self explanatory.

credits : Floyd E Toole - Sound Reproduction, Loudspeakers and Rooms.

Le vent parmi les roseaux, de la poésie en huit point zero. Les...

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:30:00 +0100

le vent parmi les roseaux

Marie - Stephane - Jeanne

Arnaud

Le vent parmi les roseaux, de la poésie en huit point zero.

Les textures sonores s’enchevêtrent autour de deux magnifiques voix et d’une contrebasse à facettes. Les compositions sont enivrantes ; on y retrouve quelques influences contemporaines, pop et jazz habilement travaillées qui chatouillent l’esprit. Le travail sur le son est très intéressant, multidiffusion 8 points, boucles et traitement en temps réel des voix et de la contrebasse par combinaisons de filtres, d’effets dynamiques et temporels.

Voix Marie Schoenbock & Jeanne Barbieri Contrebasse : Stephane Clor Machines : Arnaud Corbellari

Création Lumière : Cyrille Siffer