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MotionMod

by zealtv

MotionMod is a motion detecting modulation plugin. ...

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Type
MIDI Effect
Author
zealtv
Version
1.0
License
None
Live version
8.1.1
Max version
5.1.7
Downloads
20,901
Updated
2011-03-07

Description

MotionMod is a motion detecting modulation plugin.

It's made from two other patches:

andrew benson's hold still

http://cycling74.com/2010/09/13/jitter-recipes-book-3/

and peakmod by zlatko

http://www.maxforlive.com/library/device.php?id=58

It's fun having your involuntary headbopping modulating things. Can also make for a musical security alarm.

Video of it being set off by a novelty drinking bird here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtLEaWvT-sI

Comments (27)

  • du · January 26 2010
    thanks for the VERY cool patch
  • badmarsh · January 30 2010
    thankyou
  • john · February 02 2010
    love the bird, had one forthy years ago! to headbang lfo's is the closest to punk we desktop engineers could hope for! love it and many thankz from john in stockholm.
  • Pooks · February 24 2010
    nice very nice! thanks for sharing :-)
  • solarhouse · March 22 2010
    thx
  • benoit1842 · May 30 2010
    I only have a black screen !!!!!! What am I suppose to do.... I think it's my camera who's not set well.....PLease help...
  • selene · June 06 2010
    Same as benoit1842 : the camera works, but only a blanck screen in live. How do you configure Motionmod ?
  • zealtv · June 18 2010
    hmmmm.... not sure about why you're getting a black screen. i'll have to have a dig. only suggestion right now is to jump into your system preferences and make sure your desired camera is set as your default video device.
  • xbuster17 · June 28 2010
    hi. looks great. but the only output signal available is 'device on' , would like to map it to a filter freq for example ... how can i do so?
  • pryds · July 01 2010
    hi! is there any possibility to use a video-clip (mov, avi, etc) instead of the wabcam as input? do somebody know a patch able to do that?
  • Sapience · July 20 2010
    dope but i have no idea how to use this? :(((((((( tutorial perhaps?
  • zealtv · July 25 2010
    @xbuster17 just make sure you drop motion mod into your track after what ever you want to modulate. motion mod populates the list when it's loaded
    @pryds that's certainly possible with a little tweaking. will put it on the to do list
    @sapience i'll put a tutorial together for the next version. main thing to get going is a drop down list of video devices... short on time at the moment but it's on the to do list. maybe some one else would like to hack at it in the mean time?
    If anyone isn't seeing any video signal, try adjust the threshold while providing the camera with lots of movement. otherwise check your OS video settings, motion mod should be drawn to the default video device.
  • monkeyapple · September 10 2010
    No video here
    on windows 7
    microsoft vx 700
    wasted money on a webcam just to use this
    if you could tell me how to edit it it to find my webcam i would happily do that
  • Genda · November 08 2010
    Hey i have a problem too with black screen!!!I don't see nothing i have checked the System Manager and the camera its working just fine!!Normally when you start the program you should directly see trough the camera right?
    Please if someone knows solution please help i really want to try this out!!
    Thanks
  • Genda · November 08 2010
    And a what do you mean by " motion mod should be drawn to the default video device."??I have to Drag the thing to my camera but where in live i don't know such Option?
  • verlis · January 09 2011
    very cool midi plugging~ thx for share
  • sidora · January 28 2011
    For the windows users who see only black, try changing jit.qt.grab for jit.dx.grab in the patch.
    It worked for me.
  • mverzola · April 29 2011
    I have no options under "target parameter" regardless of target device. When I do get "target parameter" options they don't correspond with that device...looks like they're compressor settings? I'm confused.
  • jamland · July 23 2011
    nice crazy!
  • sham79 · September 29 2011
    Really like the concept of this device but suffering from blank screen syndrome and target parameters not being recognised(no drop down menue appearing).
    Using win7 64 like others who are having issues with this patch however web cam works fine with VIZZable M4L video devices.
  • bnovak32 · June 28 2012
    For those with black screen syndrome... I had the same thing. I realized I had Vizzable open in another track and even though it wasn't running, it was causing the video not to show in motion mod. Once I deleted those tracks with Vizzable, motion mod instantly came to life. So, make sure nothing else is utilizing the camera while running motion mod.
  • artoo · September 25 2012
    so I am a newbie to m4l. I downloaded MotionMod - didn't work :(
    so I replaced jit.qt.grab for jit.dx.grab as per a comment above. Woot - got it cam working, and mapped to a vsti parameter.
    But now when I go to the VSTi (sugarbytes turnado) that parameter is stuck at 100% and when I hove over it i get a message like "this parameter is locked as it is being edited by a max device".
    Any ideas?
  • mark2590 · December 15 2012
    Hey guys - got this to work, I have the output running to the freq on an auto filter - but its super choppy - like its at either 0 or 100, at a million fps. i've tried adjusting and going in a tweaking the parameters - but no luck. any suggestions? much appreciated.
  • pravda23 · July 05 2013
    Any successful Win 7 users?
  • Coco1987 · September 29 2014
    Hi I made an updated version with a dropdown menu to select which input source to use. May I post it here to share? Ho do I do so?
  • nmicrocosm · February 15 2015
    Yo really love this device but when I instantiate it, it seems to make it so I can no longer undo in my ableton session. It just constantly says "Undo Change Dry/Wet-R" even when I'm not controlling anything with a dry/wet feature.
    Do you know what might be causing this or how I might be able to stop it?
    Thanks!
  • Lepista · March 23 2021
    Just reminding myself this exists for the future

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