Hi David,

I am looking for the same setup with a Macbook Pro and think to go for a Razor Core X with an external eGPU. It will power up the macbook with 100watt and can run an super heavy card with 4 dedicated outputs as well. Now Radeon is the first choice, but just read about a script that also allows NVIDIA cards and that is also very interesting. A 9100 got 6 DisplayPort outputs... In time you can scale up the graphic cards just by swapping them. My first choice was the Datapath FX4 SDI, but now I think more in this direction and go from DisplayPort to SDI with Black Magic converters.

@despina
Ooops, I missed that you have windows 10 on your laptop.

I would suggest getting the Xbox One Kinect Seonsor AND the Xbox One Kinect adapter.
You need both, since the Kinect comes with a plug for the Xbox only, and this needs to be adapted to USB3 for your laptop. (your laptop must have usb3)

I suggest using Kinect2share: https://github.com/rwebber/kin... to interface the Kinect with Isadora.
Kinect2share makes it very easy to get a number of the available video feeds from the sensor, as well as, the Body tracking data as OSC (opensoundcontrol).
I am happy to help you with getting that working if you run into any issues (I built Kinect2share specifically to use with Isadora)

Cool! Thank you!

@mc_monte 

This might be manual material

Dear @woland thank you for all your support !

Best,

Maxi Wille

Dear All,

This has nothing to do with Isadora, but I'm simply posting this here for the good of the internet since I just lost 12 hours of my life to this stupid problem.

Mainly, there are a lot of articles out there about problems with file sharing on Windows 10 v1803. This all turned out to be a red herring and led me in the wrong direction. Things like turning on SMB 1.0 support, changing various settings in "Advanced sharing settings", and about one million more suggested solutions. (This article hits nearly all of these suggestions, but is perhaps the most confusingly written Microsoft article I've ever seen.)

But the problem had nothing to do with windows. Instead it was because we updated our FrtizBox 7590 and it changed a setting behind our back.

[SOLUTION]

I found the answer in this knowledge base article from FritzBox, specifically the step labeled "Allowing wireless devices to communicate."

Once I enabled the "The active wireless devices displayed below may communicate with each other" checkbox, my file sharing was working again.

I hope that saves someone else some time.

Over and Out,
Mark

Dear All,

While researching a question in this thread I came across a useful, free app called Go64. It will scan your drive for all 32-bit applications so you'll know which ones will stop functioning on macOS Catalina, which will not run any 32-bit apps.

Worth a download for sure if you are expecting to upgrade to Catalina.

Best Wishes,
Mark

Dear Community,

So, as I've noted previously here, the whole situation with legacy plugins on Catalina is a real bummer. (If you haven't read my previous post, suffice to say that new security restrictions are going to prevent older plugins that have not been officially 'notarized' by their developers from running on Catalina.) We're going to get all of our plugins notarized, but obviously there's a lot of useful video and audio plugins out there that will stop working because of these restrictions. This doesn't just affect Isadora, but every application that uses plugins, starting with giants like Photoshop and Ableton Live and on downwards to smaller apps we know and love.

So, while it probably won't change the decisions of the Apple juggernaut, I nevertheless encourage everyone to copy the message below and send it to Apple CEO Tim Cook at his email public email address tcook@apple.com. They should at least get some sense this is an imposition that stifles our creativity.

If you have the desire to personalize the message below, please do. But make sure to sign your name where it says XXX.

Best Wishes,
Mark

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Dear Tim,

The security restrictions imposed by Catalina on non-notarized plugins is a massive step backwards that will negatively affect an incredible number of macOS users that rely on audio and video plugins. There are hundreds and hundreds of amazing legacy plugins -- created by indie developers or as open source projects -- that remain incredibly useful, but are never going to get notarized because those the people that created them moved on for one reason or another. While I champion safety and security, the fact that there is no way to opt-out of these restrictions at one's own risk is incredibly discouraging. Thousands upon thousands of users like me rely on extending their software's capabilities through plugins.

We need an update to Catalina that allows us to run these legacy plugins so that we can continue to use them in our creative endeavors.

Sincerely,
XXX

Dear Mark,o/Media art

I agree with you about the importance of Woody and Steina Vasulka for Video/Media art. I never meet them but their work accompanied me all the time and I always show their work to my students. We lost a fantastic man.

best

Jean-François

Just came across this article on the development of the Kinect.  Pretty interesting deep dive into the little piece of hardware that we know has taken on a new life of it's own outside of gaming...

Hi everyone

Was wondering if anyone has had this problem before. It seems that on launch Isadora gets hung up on a Lead.dll file. It gets to this file then stops loading everything else. What's weird is that there is no crash. The program is still running and the izzy icon in the taskbar is there but no window. None of my other programs are doing this just Isadora. Reinstall does not work. 

@DillTheKraut i checked my harddrive and looks like the attempt to control the ascender hasn't been worked out, there is some heavy back and forth involved in the communication with analog way. But i can really recommend bitfocus companion they take care of it. It is difficult to send a "T-Bar Level" with companion but analog ways products doesn't really like it at all to be in-between memory settings. In the downloaded livecore commands there shall be an overview of all variables you can use "LiveCore_TPP_variables_for_v04-02-23" with the "send custom command" in companion. Just be aware that they start there numbering with 0 so preset 6 has to recalled as preset 5 internal.

ok that's great! thank you very much!

Is it possible to export an HTML canvas element (that involves a live video feed) directly into Isadora?

(we are using the p5js library to create elements that overlay video input and want to be able to pull the video out of the browser and into Isadora.)

@woland wonderful info. THank you!

@dbini said:

Johannes wrote about the first piece i made

 Brilliant!!

Important info about Hewlett Packard SSDs. 

Summray: "Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has once again issued a warning to its customers that some of its Serial-Attached SCSI solid-state drives will fail after 40,000 hours of operation unless a critical patch is applied."

I don't have any of these drives myself, but I thought it would be good to post this as a public sevice announcement. Details below.

https://www.techradar.com/news/new-bug-destroys-hpe-ssds-after-40000-hours

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docLocale=en_US&docId=a00097382en_us

@n-jones thanks, there is a lot of great info in your post. Lots to research.

@bonemap, @dbini, I have the go ahead for this little mobile projection project.  I'll do a separate post on this too, but thought I would add the information here too.  Again, I have no idea how this will end up, but I think it'll be fun to experiment!  I'll be strapping some projectors to my truck, projecting onto apartments, houses, storefronts and lawns of various Cincinnati neighborhoods; bringing projection art to the people, as it were.  Since we'll be moving, we can't really do any sort of mapping, and the content should be pretty atmospheric and textural, given we'll be projecting onto a multitude of surfaces.  But thematically, it should focus on our current separation, and what still connects us, either as a city or globally.  There will be a small stipend for this, but I can't give a concrete amount at the moment; basically whatever is left of the funding after equipment expenses will be divided up between collaborators.  Just let me know if you'd be down to play, and we'll work out the specifics.  Thanks!

@mark

Great. Thank you Mark.

Yes it is a perpetual license.

I have the necessary info, albeit the email is not functional since i stopped using it a while ago.

If I may use this channel, I can give it away for 250$ or so. Thank you.