I'm still a total beginner but I haven't seen any art made with touch designer that looks as "high quality" as this stuff
https://www.instagram.com/regen.digitalart
Just wondering if anyone has any idea or guesses how these may have been made, or if anyone has suggestions or links to learn about doing stuff in this vein
I'm not fond of the rest of Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement's catalog, but I'm obsessed with Ambient Black Magic and Flying Fish Ambience and looking for stuff similar!
I'm not fond of the rest of Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement's catalog, but I'm obsessed with Ambient Black Magic and Flying Fish Ambience and looking for stuff similar
Does the Audio File In CHOP read multichannel WAV files over 4GB (RF64/BW64, or Wave64 .w64), streaming the full duration without truncating at the 4GB mark?
I need to play back a single file with 65-channels (48kHz, 16-bit, ~15 min, ~5.6GB) Locked to Timeline. The docs say it streams from disk and keeps only a few seconds in memory, but say nothing about RF64/ds64 support.
- is there a channel-count ceiling for the Audio File In CHOP
- is RF64 or Wave64 more reliable in TD?
Computer I’m using to build the show: TD 2025.32280, M1 Macbook Pro, 16GB RAM, macOS 14.7.5
Computer we will run the installation on: M series mac mini (haven’t decided yet which one) with 16 or 32 RAM
Thanks
disclaimer: i tend to over-explain so i used ai to help keep this concise.
I'm working on a laser segment for a live show. I'm using a Script SOP with a Hershey-style single-stroke font feeding into a Laser CHOP → Laser Device CHOP → Etherdream. Most characters project fine — the galvos trace the strokes cleanly. The problem is punctuation, specifically periods ( . ), dashes ( - ), and slashes ( / \ ), which don't show up at all.
The Hershey geometry for these characters is either a single point or an extremely short line segment. The galvos skip over them regardless of step size or blanking settings — every other character works fine.
What I've tried:
- Tuning Pre Blanking On Delay — helps with letter completeness overall but doesn't fix the missing characters
- Increasing and decreasing Step Size — no effect on the missing characters
What I'm considering but haven't tried yet:
- Replacing dot geometry with two short crossing strokes to give the galvos something to actually trace
- Adding a minimum stroke length check in the Script SOP and padding anything below the threshold
- Using a dwell point approach for dots instead of a stroke
Has anyone solved this or something similar? Is there a standard approach for rendering very short or single-point geometry reliably through the Laser CHOP, or do I need to pad the geometry in the Script SOP to make those characters large enough for the scanner to catch?
I'm helping my partner to find training for ArchiCAD. She's proficient with Revit and Rhino but has never used ArchiCAD and just started a new job where it's all ArchiCAD. Looking for a personal or over zoom training does anyone know of this?
As far as I know, nothing at all has changed in my setup. The last time I opened the project, my laser output was perfect. Now it looks incorrect. If there are several circles being projected, there are lines connecting them, which should not be there.
i'm playing laser wav files (5 channels, xyrgb) into laser device chop. Its been working great for two weeks and now i see blanking lines. cant figure this out. ive tried different ports on my computer, ive restarted, ive messed around inverting the math on the rgb channels, nothing seems to help. my version of touch designer is the latest one and that hasnt changed in the last few days either.
The only way I can get rid of the lines, is if i play my wav in VCVRack, and send the audio to touch designer using blackhole audio driver. in VCVRack i carefully mix a tiny bit of negative dc offset signals into the rgb channels until the blanking lines go away, that seems to work. However, i didnt need to do that before.
when i use other laser software like Liberation, the laser output over etherdream looks great, so something is happening with touch designer, i cant figure it out. here is a link to my touch designer project and a WAV file to load in the audiofilein chop.
please help!!
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12WONyZE5_dZAJDA_F76gZyDcYwY-E3IH?usp=drive_link