2004.01.1 : project : vade001


vade001 is written in Max/MSP/Jitter, and uses Kurt Ralskes brillaintly executed AUVI Jitter library.

I grew weary of playing with what I considered with largly over-engineered and crash-happy tools such as VDMX, or much sparser and more toyish applications with limited functionality. I wanted to make an app that had suitable controls, many interesting and dynamic effects functions, 3D capability, and was fast, stable, and worked efficiently. My initial few trials of writing a large performance patch gave me a genrally good idea of what to do and not to do. The general feature set of vade001:
  • 2x 4 track video channels with ram caching and preloading
  • Live video input via quicktime digitizer
  • 2 Dynamic effects/filterchains
  • All effects have LFOs with presets, wet/dry mixers, internal feedback and full gui control (thanks to AUVI)
  • Video feedback capable effects and mixer with support for Xfade with op modes, lumakey, chromakey, wipe, picture in picture
  • 2D/3D text modules based on openGL
  • 2D painting, pattern, noise, and pixel text modules
  • nurb generator
  • .OBJ model import
  • full texturing system that allows textures to be grabbed from any point in the rendering chain and mapped to any openGL object
  • full rotation/camera system for each openGL object instance
  • intuitive, modular gui interface
  • midi/keyboard triggering
Now for the bad news. The AUVI library strictly prohibits releasing any compiled/packaged Max/MSP Application that uses the AUVI library. This means I cannot distribute my app with AUVI included. Ive tried to work out some deal with Kurt (the programmer of AUVI), but to no avail (Kurt if you are out there, email me!). So Im techncially not allowed to release vade001, so for all intensive purposes development has ceased. The current beta is missing some standard features that would make it much more usable, namely:
  • saved/reloadable presets (should really use patrstorage in Max 4.5 )
  • well though out midi/key mapping
  • various features you want but I dont care about..
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