Comments on: Tiger: Free Real-Time Interactive Eye Candy Maker — Quartz Composer

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 31 May 2005 12:51:11 +0000

Got some pretty good results using QC on a MacMini, which has relatively low hardware acceleration for 3D (and the Quartz 2D option is still at the default ‘off’ position Tiger ships with) - it even gives you the rendering load.

It’s a very easy environment to use.

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 06 May 2005 11:58:55 +0000

no substitue for MAX/MSP and Jitter?

I beg to differ, this blows away MAX/MSP/Jitter and it’s free.

the trick is it’s very easy to use Interface builder to build a proper Cocoa Mac OS X interface and link it to parameters in a QC composition.

QC also has full integration with OpenGL / Core Image and Core Video so it’s many times faster than MAX/MSP/Jitter

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 05 May 2005 19:08:31 +0000

:sigh :upset :eek :x :p :grin 8)

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 03 May 2005 22:08:30 +0000

To be precise, Quartz Composer is quite a bit more than PixelShox was.. It’s had another whole year of development, including integration with Core Image and Core Video, which didn’t exist when PixelShox was available.

-jcr

By: admin

admin — Tue, 03 May 2005 14:45:58 +0000

Have you tried it on your older machine? I wonder if this will even run on my PB.

Of course, one way to go is Jitter . . . though no matter what, you’ve got the same resources to play with.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 03 May 2005 14:44:49 +0000

Wow, looks like you’re right you’re right! Seems the Pixelshox developer wound up at Apple. I loved Pixelshox, so this is great news.

I’ll try to post some brief ‘vjing with QC’ tutorials by the end of the month.

Peter 8)

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 03 May 2005 03:50:19 +0000

I was looking forward to Quartz Composer but found out that it can’t run on my old iMac. You need at least 16 megs of vram and some programable videocard gpu. Pixelshox (QC’s direct ancester), does run on my machine, but it’s unfinished and is not compatible with .qtz files (Quartz Composer’s output files).

Aside from MIDI controllersI know that you can have controllers that use the audio input in Pixelshox, I can imagine that those are in QC too.

Note that you can also use .qtz files as screen savers and even play them in any Quicktime aware application.

In any case this application is just too cool…I’ll buy a new Mac just so I can use it :)

By: mute

mute — Mon, 02 May 2005 17:27:11 +0000

Yup! And it looks more useful than just that, too– I didn’t have a chance to mess with it much.

(finally, I am no longer “guest.” I also posted that giant list of places to download free AU instruments a couple of months ago, too.)

By: admin

admin — Mon, 02 May 2005 17:08:32 +0000

I’ll check it out. And do I need an AU test environment? Yes, I do! :-)

Now, erm, Apple, about this shipment of Tiger (cough, cough) . . .

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 02 May 2005 15:37:55 +0000

/Developer/Applications/Audio/AuLab

It’s basically an AU plugin test environment, but it appears to be complete enough that if all you need is an AU host that can take MIDI and let you play your synths and use effects and so on, you can. It looks pretty cool and has some reasonably signal-routing options and so on.