Content Update 2

May 4

I started this visual by taking out BlackHole input and replacing it with a normal audio file as sometimes BlackHole messed me up as I was creating the visuals. From there I just took the raw sound connected it to a CHOP to SOP in order to get the XY positions, connected it to a Line Thickness to create a line, and then connected that to my Particle SOP. It created the shimmering effect that disrupted the colors in the back.

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This one ended up being one of my favorite visuals that I have created for this project but I wasn’t satisfied because it was not audio interactive enough for my liking:

May 6

For this version, I added more aspects to the Audio Portion in hopes that there would be more reactivity and it seemed to work. I connected Sphere SOPS that reacted to the low-frequency band of my sound, fed it into a different Geo and layered it on top of the original Geo.

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The visual ended up looking like this:

I quite liked how that one looked, because there was more evidence of reactivity but I still thought it was a bit too messy, I wanted something cleaner and smoother.

Going from that one I tried to modify it by using box along with the sphere but I’m not sure anything really happened.

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The visual kind of ended up looking the same as the previous one:

I deleted the box and instead added a twist and transform after the Sphere SOP and ended up with an Audio Band in the middle of my visual.

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I like how the band is focused on the center of the visual and is reactive enough that it isn’t distracting but still reactive enough.

As I used the colors in the back as a subtle background, I focused on the foreground. I wanted to have something more crisp and visible.

This was what I ended up with:

This is getting closer to what I wanted. I liked the glowing circle but the next step is to make that audio-reactive as well.