A VJ style Video Piano Trigger in QLab

[micpool]

More lockdown madness.

This is a thrown together  VJ style Piano trigger for playing Video clips from a MIDI keyboard with opacity mapped to incoming note velocities.

White Notes C2-C4 are the video clips

Black Notes in those octaves are Modifiers for scale and speed.

Occasionally images will stick ON. You can clear them with key C#2. I don't think there is currently a programming solution to stop this from happening.

It will work straight out of the box (you will have to set your video display to the surface) with example content. (DIY Futurist Cinema style).

The main things of interest are:

It uses a Cue Cart in another novel way. You can drag new video files onto the keys represented by the buttons in the cart. Hit update and those files will then  be allocated to the keys in the main player

The opacity of the video cues is dependent on the velocity of the incoming MIDI notes, this is achieved just through QLab  network cues and OSC.

The cues retrigger as in a proper VJ app, but also fade in and out , which is often tricky to do  even in video playback software that is designed from the ground up for live VJ use.

The Generator cue list programmed itself from the  script cue  (numbered GEN) in that list.

It's another extreme boundary stretching project. It's fun to play with, but I wouldn't use it, as it is, for anything serious!! 

Download here:

https://we.tl/t-BCGH9eIn4P.  (100MB)

Mic

[jimsta...@zoho.com]

Great stuff, Mic.

Your use of the keyboard reminds me of the 1970s Hawkwind lighting rig - with Kodak carousel projectors run from a keyboard. All designed and operated by "Liquid Len" Jonathan Smeeton.

Some of the first live perfomances using projected images. Jonathan's system had one octave to advance and one octave to retard a slide, the third octave projects. Or something like that, it's been a while.

Decades later, THIS is how it's done!

Very nice.

Jim