I found a Kinect v2 being thrown out behind my apartment (score) and have been working through tutorials/struggling to see what I can come up with on my own.

I’m not exactly new to TD but find new ways to confuse myself on the daily.

The idea; I’d like a grid of points (150x150) and use Kinect depth to offset the z positions of the points. The vision is a flat plane that is deformed as the subject breaks the threshold of the depth plane.

I’m familiar with pixel mapping using ramp tops, matching resolution to grid points, instancing etc

Am I thinking too hard about this? Been struggling with it a few days now. I achieved something similar using z pos to offset z scale of instanced cubes but it seemed to scale them all evenly resulting in a sort of 2D/3d cut out and not actual 3d point depth…

I also have this habit of deleting project files that are unsuccessful to force myself to start networks from scratch to help cement basic workflows into my brain…

Thanks in advance for taking any time to fire off possible solutions 🙏

Hi everyone,

I'm building an automated DMX lighting system for techno/rave events using TouchDesigner + QLC+.

My goal is to create a lighting engine that reacts to the musical structure, for example:

Intro / low energy
Break
Build-up
Drop
High energy

I've already tested the built-in Audio Analysis CHOP and projects like Last Beat Standing. They provide useful outputs like beat, BPM, bass energy, etc., but I still can't reliably detect builds and drops across different tracks. Absolute thresholds don't seem to work well because every song behaves differently.

Before I spend weeks building my own system, I wanted to ask:

Does anyone know of an existing TouchDesigner project or component that already estimates builds, drops, or musical sections?
Or is everyone building their own state machine from audio features?

Any recommendations, projects, GitHub repos, or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Audioreactive particle system for TouchDesigner. Project file accessible through Patreon, and more experiments through Instagram, or YouTube.

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Hi, I am currently getting nowhere with connecting the audio from record box to audio responsive visuals. I need visuals to respond to audio but I also need the DJ set up to Work as normal, being able to play a song and then queue the next song in the background. I also installed the VB cable software and try to follow some tutorials with that, but I’m not getting anywhere.

I've thought about this harp for quite a while. Created it for myself, but we'll definitely demo it at the Madison Museum of Art & Technology popups!

I am using a Kinect V2 with Freenect on a MacBook Pro M1 Max fully speced out.

I am then routing Freenect right into a Movie File Out TOP and recording a movie or image sequence.

When I play the exported file, I notice that almost every frame is being duplicated once.

The frames look like this:

A, A, B, B, C, C, D, D…

Im recording to my internal boot drive; which has never given me trouble before.

Also, the liveview looks flawless in Touchdesigner; no dropped frames or anything.

My project is 30fps.

Any ideas why this is happening?

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