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Hey guys! I need a little knowledge if anyone has any to share

I'm trying to do something that I kinda thought would be pretty straight forward but i'm having some trouble tracking down the software to do it.

All I want to do is trigger still images with a midi note. Like a slideshow but triggered with midi notes. If I could overlay the images and adjust opacity even better but thats not too essential. I have been looking at modul8 and although it looks super sweet I think it does way more than I actually require and is pretty expensive.

Does anyone know off an app that will do what I'm looking for?

Any help would be mucho appreciado!!

Thanks in advance!

Nick

If yer on OS X Tiger or Leopard you could easily do this with Quartz Composer. Its bundled with the Developer Tools. The stock com[postions should get you going. Check out http://www.zugakousaku.com for some cool QC Compositions...

Peace

Opentzt (windows): http://opentzt.sourceforge.net

is free, and very powerful. It displays .jpgs and .bmps as well as movie formats.

It's also designed a little differently than other vj programs, and I had some trouble getting midi to behave. Here is a link to a screenshot of what eventually worked (scroll to bottom of page):

http://www.vjforums.com/showthread.php? ... ht=opentzt

Her's a link to the manual:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Transwiki:OpenTZT

It seems the main webpage, opentzt.com is down. I am really surprised that this excellent vj app has not found a large fanbase, especially considering the price. It is hard to find other users.

Anyone else use opentzt with Live?

e.

Hi! I'm quite a noob when it comes to live visuals and triggering images with Ableton and Push2. Would there be a way to assign an image to a midi note and then sequence it and in a perfect world then mangle with that the way the VJ software normally allows? Thank you!