@jhoepffner said:

</<p>Another easy possibility is a smartphone with touchOSC.</p>

 
Yes! This works very well, and you can create your own control panel on the smartphone, so gives more options than the simple clicker I suggested before.

@gel_mystery

if all you need to do is basic scene control, in other words just advancing from one scene to the next, wireless presentation controllers work well. These are the things that corporate folk use to control their PowerPoint presentations! 

Logitech ones work well in my experience. R500s is good and cheap. You still have to get Isadora to recognise the ‘click’ but that’s not hard.

HTH

Mark (not that Mark)

@gel_mystery

Hello,

It depend on your skill but I would recommend:

– OSC instead of midi : named address, 32 bits int and float, text

– Wifi over bluetooth, more reliable, better range, multi-computer network

You can build a cheap interface with Arduino or Rapsberry, including buttons, fader, touchscreen.

Another easy possibility is a smartphone with touchOSC.

@gel_mystery

i have a Korg Nano Kontrol and also the bluetooth Studio version. I hardly use the bluetooth one because it has pretty limited range, eats batteries and tends to disconnect at exactly the wrong moment, so I use the old regular controller with a USB extension.

Hello, 

Utilizing Isadora in my performance art duo with no tech crew. sigh. would love a recommendation for a good wireless midi controller for basic scene control. 

Thank you 

Hello all, 

If you load a multichannel audio file larger than 128MB into the Sound Player, you get the warning 'may introduce noticeable delay, freeze or crash. . .' etc.  Are there any suggestions out there for best way to play back (for example) a 4 minute 4 channel wave file? Thoughts I had: split the interleaved 4 channel wav file into two 2 channel mp3 pairs, and play them via the Movie Player. 

Any thoughts for a 'best practice' solution for multichannel audio larger than 128MB?  

Thanks!

Greg Brosofske

@gpeddino Here's a screenshot of the Isadora system:

I made a simple testing system with Ableton and Isadora. Ableton outputs MTC (via the LiveMTC add-on) directly to Isadora, which is running a simple set with MTC Movie Locker, Movie Player and a Projector. I've also tested a second version with Ableton outputting LTC, which is then converted to MTC with Lockstep (I'm on a Mac) before Isadora receives it. Ableton also has the same video on a track, so I can compare them both and see how locked they are.

The thing is: I've noticed that there's always some delay between the moment I press play in Ableton and the moment Isadora starts following the timecode. And the worst part: this delay is always a bit different. Sometimes up to three whole frames, sometimes less than one. So there's no way for me to just add an offset. I've checked the FPS and everything matches. What could be causing this? Is that something I have to deal with or are there ways to troubleshoot/fix this? Thanks in advance.

@milt0n i ran it via proton on steamdeck. Wouldn’t have considered it stable or that usable but it worked. Tried launching it since and it doesn’t seem to work now. I wanted to see how capable steamdeck was for projects out of curiosity

@woland YUM! thanks for sharing the future!