Nutcracker: Enhancement, Fade in and fade out

[smeighan]

You may think i dont read the "What would you like to see in Nutcracker?". Steve Gase requested the ability to fade in and out the nutcracker effects last April 25th. Well Steve, you got it.


Two new prompts on every effect (below the seq_duration) is
Fade In (in seconds)
Fade Out (In seconds)


0 seconds disables the fades. You will see when i add new values onto an effect your current effects will have these prompts, but they will be blank. A blank also disables fades so your effects will work as they did before.


Note the animated gif does NOT reflect your fades. To save disk space, i only show one rotation of an effect and let it repeat in the gif. Your sequences might have 5-10 of these rotations pasted together. In summary: Fades will not show on the animated gif's even though they are present.
Try pasting the effect into your sequencer (I am using lsp), the fades appear there as expected.

This required a change to every effect class and to the large library of code. i have tested lms, vixen and lsp.. let me know if you see any issues.


thanks

 

[fasteddy]

Again Sean you are really making these effects so easy for so many people across many different sofware platforms, Thanks once again. Im looking forward to seeing how people use these effects in their displays this year.

 

[smeighan]

Thanks. i get very little feedback from anyone saying they are using nutcracker. So either no one is using it very much or they are using and it works without problems.


I have no open bugs on the effects which make sme nervous, i know i have some.


Here some i know and will work on.
Spiral Effect: One pixel is shifted at the very end of the rotation
All effects: I was not handling the last end of a seq duration. If i had an effect that cycled every 5 seconds and you asked for a 27 second duration, you got 25 seconds instead. I fixed this yesterday.




These small tweaks are to finish making the effects be pure. ill continue to work them

 

[kane]

Thanks. i get very little feedback from anyone saying they are using nutcracker. So either no one is using it very much or they are using and it works without problems.


I have no open bugs on the effects which make sme nervous, i know i have some.

Hey Sean

I think a lot of people are trying to work out how nutcracker effects will work within their whole sequence. Obviously it will help them do small animations for one part of the display (eg matrix or mega tree), they then need to try and work out how this ties in with the other elements.

For me, the next issue is getting things in time to the music, as this is what I like to do. Ideally, it would be brilliant if an effect could be broken up into sections, and then these sections could be alligned to the music (either via beat matching, or matching to coloured intervals setup in LSP etc)

I think everyone is impressed with what you've done, it's just that most people are working out how they can use it!

Cheers

Kane

ps - did you ever get a chance to play around with that issue on the butterfly effect where there was a purple diagonal line that didn't seem to change?

 

[smeighan]

Thanks. i get very little feedback from anyone saying they are using nutcracker. So either no one is using it very much or they are using and it works without problems.


I have no open bugs on the effects which make sme nervous, i know i have some.

Hey Sean

I think a lot of people are trying to work out how nutcracker effects will work within their whole sequence. Obviously it will help them do small animations for one part of the display (eg matrix or mega tree), they then need to try and work out how this ties in with the other elements.

For me, the next issue is getting things in time to the music, as this is what I like to do. Ideally, it would be brilliant if an effect could be broken up into sections, and then these sections could be alligned to the music (either via beat matching, or matching to coloured intervals setup in LSP etc)

I think everyone is impressed with what you've done, it's just that most people are working out how they can use it!

Cheers

Kane

ps - did you ever get a chance to play around with that issue on the butterfly effect where there was a purple diagonal line that didn't seem to change?

For my Christmas show i will sequence an entire song in Nutcracker, all 3 minutes of it. I have started coding Nutcracker 2.0. I hope i have something to show in the next 1-2 weeks. I have finished marking two TSO songs (Wizards in Winter and a Mad Russians Christmas).


Here is the label export that has my phrases marked to within one microsecond from audacity. I will prompt for this music object file in a form. I will then create a form where for each phrase you give me the nutcracker effect you want.


I will create the effect exactly the length of the phrase. I will allow any single phrase to be created or i will batch create the whole song. With something like wizards.phrase1, wizards.phrase2 as the output files.
When using Nutcracker 2.0 you will never give a seq_duration, you just put an effect to a phrase.



0.261563 5.133486 phrase1
5.133486 6.751756 phrase2
6.749311 11.606566 phrase3
11.606566 13.229726 phrase4
13.212154 18.088345 phrase5
18.076735 19.725351 phrase6
19.702132 24.566712 phrase7
24.566712 31.013586 phrase8
31.013586 35.861063 phrase9
35.861063 37.523447 phrase10
37.488617 42.341587 phrase11
42.353197 50.445351 phrase12
50.445351 56.923719 phrase13
56.912109 69.837404 phrase14
69.837404 76.323991 phrase15
76.300771 81.157962 phrase16
81.157962 82.773787 phrase17
82.773787 87.621264 phrase18
87.621264 98.949156 phrase19
98.949156 105.412458 phrase20
105.412458 124.826812 phrase21
124.826812 131.290114 phrase22
131.290114 136.142480 phrase23
136.161814 137.787211 phrase24
137.775601 142.613117 phrase25
142.613117 149.130159 phrase26
149.095329 165.291247 phrase27
165.268027 171.758005 phrase28
171.746395 178.224762 phrase29
178.189932 183.040308 phrase30






I have not had a chance to look into the butterfly band. it doesnt always show up, depends on the radian value you pick , it seems.


i also need to work on spirals, one pixel each rotation is in the wrong place.


just more for the list

 

[Skunberg]

I'm still into my hardware. I plan to use Nutcracker but won't know anything till Oct. or Nov. about how it works for me. I feel fairly safe as others have already done a half mega tree. And arches are easy to sequence if the single string feature gives me trouble.

Brian

 

[BillyTRichVa]

I'm still in the process of getting my visualization in LOR together. I have gotten a few effects worked out and should start sequence work in the next week or two. I have noticed something strange with the snowflake effect, but I'm not sure it's the software or me with the problem.

 

[smeighan]

I'm still in the process of getting my visualization in LOR together. I have gotten a few effects worked out and should start sequence work in the next week or two. I have noticed something strange with the snowflake effect, but I'm not sure it's the software or me with the problem.

i havent looked at the snowflake class for months. i am sure there are still some issues with it.