Despite having written Take Control of Apple TV back in 2014 and maintained it since, I don’t use the Apple TV often anymore. #1655: 33 years of TidBITS, Twitter train wreck, tvOS 16.4.1, Apple Card Savings, Steve Jobs ebook.#1656: Passcode thieves lock iCloud accounts, the apps Adam uses, iPhoto and Aperture library conversion in Ventura.#1657: A deep dive into the innovative Arc Web browser.#1658: Rapid Security Responses, NYPD and industry standard AirTag news, Apple's Q2 2023 financials.#1659: Exposure notifications shut down, cookbook subscription service, alarm notification type proposal, Explain XKCD.Congratulations in particular go out to long-time CDM reader and occasional contributor Cris Pearson (aka atariboy) for his thoughtful design work for plasq! This month you can stay tuned for more coverage on this program and how to use it, here and on Create Digital Motion. I’ve been playing with the beta for several weeks, and it looks very promising. The word I’ve heard from plasq’s internal development that the visualizations work just fine on the integrated graphics chip on the Intel minis and MacBook, so you don’t even need the more advanced graphics card on the MacBook Pro.Ĭompatibility: Mac-only, Audio Unit plug-ins, Universal binaryĪvailability: Now (30-day demo available) It’s a Universal binary, of course (though you’ll need Intel-native plug-ins as always), and optimized for dual-core chips. In short, you have a host that actually understands what’s needed for performance, from an interface you can see to robust remote control and easy switching between songs and sets.Īnd the whole product could be yet another reason to buy a MacBook. (Video, incidentally, would be trickier as it is quite CPU-intensive - for that you’d want a second machine.) Naturally, this runs on a second display, so you can run your visualizers on a projector while your “heads-up” display for your set list shows up on your laptop. Best of all, thanks to the fact that the visualizations are extremely modest in their usage of CPU (the visuals run primarily on your graphics card GPU), you can run the visualizations alongside your soft synths and effects on the same computer. (Building your own is a little tricky, especially if you’re unfamiliar with QC watch this space for a tutorial.) Since it’s been challenging to get useful MIDI control over Apple’s free visual development tool, and even harder to switch between patches in performance, Rax could be useful to VJs and visualists as well as musicians. You can run real-time visuals driven by audio and MIDI from your Rax setup, using either built-in visualizations or by building your own in Quartz Composer. ![]()
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