We've just uploaded an example file that allows you to follow along with the Isadora 4.5 Introduction video.

@mr_j said:

even shows ipad battery level

 Yes, I really like that one of the parameters TouchOSC lets you broadcast is the device's battery level. Such a handy feature.

@woland Hello all. I am sorry I am ut of the forum at the moment. But Here is my take for the ambisonics in Isadora. I'll report much much more in the future because I believe this is one of the future of sound in real time applications, recorded sound and xr projects creations in Isadora.

In order to solve Simon problem we have to think in 4 stages

1) Recorded versus live

So, first of all, I have no experience in real time use of microphones in Isadora. I was able to conect a Zylia SM1 and a Zylia SM1S, third order ambisonics microphone in Isadora but for the moment I don't see a use case for it. It worked, but I'll dive into live later. My work is done solely on recorded sound at this moment, but I answer here for recorded sound. I hope it can help and I think it might.

A little bit of theory

You all probably know the rule of thumb to understant High Order Ambisonics (HOA). The higher the order the higher the number of micrphone capsules inside an ambisonic microphone and the higher is the spatial precision and lower signal to noise ratio.

The rule is the following : order +1 suqared

First order : (order 1) + 1 =2, squared = 4 : First oder (like Ambeo) is 4 capsules

Second order (order 2) +1 = 3, squared = 9 (minimum)

Thiurs order (order 3) +1 = 4, sqared = 16 (minimum)

etc.

2) A format versus B format

Now, the second thing to know (and maybe this is a part of the problem that Simon is having), is that the raw recording, called A format, is useless per se. A format is just used to transcode into B format in order to get to he spatial harmonics that can be really used to rotate pitch yaw and roll the rource and spatialize it.

Normally a microphone outputs just the A format. A daw, through a plugin -vst or otherwise- can transform it into B format and then only rotations and translations can happen. It CAN do it in real time, but if you work like me with recorded sound... there is no need to ask isadora to do something that you can render as a file to free cpu for other stuff.

So I only work with files transcoded into B format.

3) Virtual microphones (or not)

Once you have the b format the new amazing sound possibilities in Isadora allow the Audio FIe player to play HOA files, only then you can use rotators like my favourite IEM Scene Rotator you could place virtually infinite virtual microphones in the chain and move the microphones towards or far away from the sources in ordeer to navigate into the sound in real time in 6 DoF (six degrees of freedom : translation on x, y, z axis and rotation on x y and z axis). But just rotating inven without placinv virtual microphones is already astonishing because scene rotation is very different from traditional panorami potentiomenters in daw and mixers. PanPot (Panoramic potentiometers so called in the audio world just lower the volume of one ear (like isadora Audio Output "pan" input property). In ambisonic workd this is meaningless because through a rotato you really feel that the source is moving WITHOUT lowering the volume of one of the ears. The source is "REALLY" moving into space. So, unless you want 6DOF (for VR applications for instance) you don't need virtual microphones creation and translation in space : rotation is enough. Ambisonic rotation is more subtle, but so much more realistic. I'll never be able to go back, personally

4) Rendering

 Thaat is where lies another complexity but essential stage for playing the sound. Ambisonic files fo either throug a multispeaker setup or a headphone. in my experience a 2 speaker set is not enough to perceive at the same time the sublte source shifts. It works better starting from 4 speakers. But it can work very well in a headphone. In the case of 2 speakers or headphones you need a binauralizer that renders whatever order into 2 channels. This is called binauralization.

So please remember that isadora is ONLY compatible with VST 3 (so, forget the Sparta Ambisonic plugins for the moment because they are VST 2) Download IEM plugin suite and try this patch directly with b format. It works for me b-format-isadora-test.izz douible click  the scene rotator and move the yaw from -90 to +90 you'll hear (better with a headphone first) the miracle of ambisonics screenshot-2026-08-26-at-02.37.56-resized.png

Please keep me posted

@bodo said:

should be able to play one mp4 (i know hap is better) ....???? are there any known incompatibility with izzy

Yes, but there are various ways that different software can spit out mp4 files. There are known issues with certain quirky things like embedded timecode tracks and the h265 codec (though that problem may be limited to Isadora 3 and older) that can cause issues in Isadora, which is why our first suggestion is always to transcode any media files that are misbehaving in Isadora.

@jrhooker

I agree with @woland re HDMI emulators. It can help to stop this kind of glitch where if one connection falters it affects them all. But not always.

These ATEN ones are cheap, cheerful, and effective.

It's curious that the Viewsonic's connection drops only when both projectors attached. Do you have it set to the HDMI input, or is on auto-find connection? 

Who makes your USBC to HDMI dongles? IME cheap ones can be problematic and not even the HDMI emulator will solve an issue with them.
I've never encountered the OREI brand before. I see they are based in Illinois. You could reach out to them and see if they have a suggestion.

HTH Mark (not that Mark)

@michel

Ok,makes sense. We should get together for a beer sometime but not so many as last time! Got a new studio and its the best I've ever had.

@craigw said:

I used to be able to have a Videos and Pictures Tab at the top of the bin picker.

I don't think this was ever possible. I tried with 3.2.6 and 4.0.0 and it wasn't do-able in either of those.

It also wouldn't make sense functionality-wise because then the same Control ID would be used by Picture Players and Movie Players, but they use different kinds of media and those media have different index numbers that don't matter to the other kind of Player actor.

@zimt said:

is there a reason to run it in Rosetta ?

 The only real reason to run Isadora in Rosetta mode is to use the 'OpenNI Tracker' actor which is EOL.
The core libraries used for the OpenNI tracker, haven't been and will not be updated for use with Apple Arm processors, so the OpenNI Tracker can't be updated either unfortunately.

@zimt said:

is there a way to make numpy and openNI work in ARM mode?

Maybe, this configuration isn't tested. You may be able to install a python virtual environment via terminal forcing the process to run under x86_64.
That will give you an 'intel' version of Python, and if the version is exact (it is 3.12.10 currently) Isadora (running under Rosetta) may be able to use it, and when you install the required modules via PIP, you could use something like: 

arch -x86_64 /path/to/python3 -m pip install --only-binary=:all: numpy==2.5.2

to force the intel version of numpy to be installed.

...As I said, this is untested, and definitely a more advanced install/config. I would avoid it to be honest.

@bonemap

I have discovered that the issue is with Mac OS and that this is a common problem with touchscreen overlay devices using a Mac.

I have found this utility on Github that identifies and attempts to fix the issue:

https://github.com/shueber/Tou...

Best Wishes

Russell

@mark_m said:

Can I achieve this by hacking the preferences somehow?

 Unfortunately not. I believe Isadora binds to the first available device, which on PCs can change depending on config/build.

Do you want to start a support ticket, and I can dig into see if I can workout a workaround?

I think this add-on might be what you need: TROIKATRONIX : ISADORA - DX – Rotate Canvas

It uses Matte to create a new canvas at the required 'rotated' dimensions, and then drops the image into this new canvas. 

@woland

Sure, here we go:

Liveaudio 2 OSC:
https://alexxaudio.gumroad.com...

Audio-Automation 2 OSC:
https://alexxaudio.gumroad.com...

@jaio

If you can find a suitable cube LUT, for converting rec 2020 to rec 709, you could use my 'color grading' shader (TROIKATRONIX : ISADORA - DX – PY – Cube2LUT – ColorGrading).

This should allow you to convert the color, but will not be as true to source as making the conversion in something like Davinci Resolve (my recommended option).

a workaround is to use a font with a capital version like Bodoni 72 and Bodoni 72 small caps and to switch between both.

Best regards

Jean-François

Honestly this confused me too when I was buying my first projector. Lumens measure total light output from the projector itself, while lux measures how bright that light appears on the screen - lux depends on both lumens and screen size. So same projector will have higher lux on smaller screen and lower lux on bigger screen. For comparing projectors, always use lumens since that's the consistent measurement regardless of screen size.

I use an Optoma projector and when I was evaluating, I focused on ANSI lumens specifically - that's the standardized measurement. Some cheap brands advertise "LED lumens" or "peak lumens" which are inflated numbers, not real brightness. For dark rooms 2000 ANSI lumens is fine, ambient light rooms need 3000+. Don't get fooled by high lux numbers on small demo screens in stores - always ask for ANSI lumens rating before deciding.

@emullis

Actually, if you humor me one more time, there's one thing we didn't try. Based on the fact that you stated this same setup used to work for you with an older version of Isadora, we should try that.

Can you:

In Isadora, go to Help > Open Plugins Folder > TroikaTronix Actors PluginsSelect everything in that folder, then right-click one of them and select "Compress"You'll get a .zip file that you can later unzip and use to restore the contents of this folder later if need beDelete everything except the zip from that folderQuit IsadoraInstall an older version of Isadora using our Legacy Downloads Page (I'd suggest starting with 4.1.1 and working backwards)If you want to keep the recent version of Isadora on your computer too, see this article on how to install multiple versions of Isadora on your computerTry streaming data from Rokoko again with each older version of Isadora and see if any of them are stable with your v2 suit.

One other idea, that unfortunately requires different hardware, is seeing if a Windows computer running Rokoko Studio and Isadora is stable for you. I know this worked for an artist I collaborate with in the UK who uses a v2 suit.

@dusx

Thank you. Managed to do this with the help of Claude Sonnet 4.6  which showed me how to retrain the data using something which has the same landmarks as in your Mediapipe pose tracking examples.
This seems to work very well, thank you. 

Not sure how to share the process? 

I took maybe 25 photos of each of 14 poses (yes, different handstand shapes, of course!)

Then organised them into this folder structure

training_data/
    arms_crossed/
        photo1.jpg
        photo2.jpg
        ...
    arms_raised/
        photo1.jpg
        ...
    lunge_left/
        ...

And then followed Claude's instructions. 

Here's my Colab notebook:
https://colab.research.google....

After I'd successfully trained that and got the files out the other end...

It then gave me the python mediapipe code. 
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi...

And that outputs the OSC into Isadora. Two streams, one telling me which pose it is, and the other giving me the confidence about it.

Hope this is useful to someone!!!

Cheers

Mark (not that Mark, who I'm sure doesn't use Claude to do his coding!)

@woland Thanks a lot. That makes sense... ;o)

@jjhp3 said:

Any ideas about getting the VSTs?

Depending on the names, sometimes you can look them up to find them (if they're from a specific company).