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Visual Aurals - Music Animation System
« on: February 06, 2013, 06:37:31 AM »
Amiga Noob here.

I just obtained an A500.  It came with a LIVE! video capture device for the external bus... and a tantalizing airbrushed manual for a piece of software.

Visual Aurals - Music Animation System


Sadly, I can't find a single floppy in the box.  
Not even a copy of Amiga Workbench 1.3.  

I did however find a video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUC4oggwPFQ

Now I really want to get this thing running!  
A lot of this stuff is now public domain, right?

Anyone have a source for this?
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Re: Visual Aurals - Music Animation System
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2013, 07:01:17 AM »
I have a Visual Aurals Mindlight 7.  Is  that what you have?
It is a round piece of hardware made of transparent plastic so u can see the circuit board inside.  You plug your audio input into it and plug the Mindlight 7 into the joystick port.  Run the software and you are off.

It is the most awesome thing ever achieved by an Earth-based civilization.

All my floppies have long since died. :(
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Re: Visual Aurals - Music Animation System
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2013, 03:52:37 PM »
Just learned of the hardware portion.

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=1556

So no floppies and no hardware, just a manual.  
Outlook bleak.   =[
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Re: Visual Aurals - Music Animation System
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2013, 04:19:20 PM »
Lucky!!!!
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Re: Visual Aurals - Music Animation System
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2013, 05:36:46 PM »
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Just learned of the hardware portion.

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=1556

How strange and mysterious!

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
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Re: Visual Aurals - Music Animation System
« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2013, 05:43:39 PM »
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How strange and mysterious!

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
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http://videocam.net.au/fcug

I remember seeing a demo of this device at the World of Commodore in Toronto around 1987-88.

At the demo both you would stand in front of a video camera and a green screen.  Your silhouette would show up on the Amiga's screen and with your movements you could "hit" on screen pictures of instruments which would trigger sound samples.
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Re: Visual Aurals - Music Animation System
« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2013, 09:31:44 PM »
Cool and nice!
For live performances it could be still useful, especially with a genlock.
Would be nice to resurrect it...
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Re: Visual Aurals - Music Animation System
« Reply #7 on: February 07, 2013, 12:39:42 AM »
You are very fortunate. It took me years of searching (3 yrs) to find a LIVE! board! Do you have the power supply that comes with it? IF so I really really need the voltages as I have a live 500 without psu.

Also that mindlight is pretty rare. I actually know the guy who designed it. I have the "Mind Eye" they next version of Mindlight. I have the software for that if it will help u.  Although the mind light is cooler looking, mindeye is next gen of it.. the programmer is a mathematical genius.

Search online for "Geodesic Designs"
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Re: Visual Aurals - Music Animation System
« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2013, 01:56:08 AM »
Speaking of all this business. I recently acquired the long sought after manual to Trip-a-Tron should anyone need it. It should also be available on Hall of Light very soon too.
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Re: Visual Aurals - Music Animation System
« Reply #9 on: February 08, 2013, 12:35:50 AM »
Xdelusion what does Trip a Tron do? I'd like the manual i can pm u my email addy.

@ OP

Please get back to me about the power supply on your Live! 500 unit. Thanks
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Re: Visual Aurals - Music Animation System
« Reply #10 on: February 08, 2013, 12:48:22 AM »
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Xdelusion what does Trip a Tron do? I'd like the manual i can pm u my email addy.

@ OP

Please get back to me about the power supply on your Live! 500 unit. Thanks


Absolutely, send me e-mail and I'll shoot it out to ya.

Trip-a-Tron:

http://minotaurproject.co.uk/ttron.php

I forget who I was in touch with that informed me about this program, but he was an old Amiga VJ from Chicago or New York if memory serves correctly and he used Trip-a-Tron to assign various video samples to the keys on his Amiga keyboard, he was then able to write a script to play them in a sequence, and or trigger them in real time by striking the key on his keyboard. I can not recall the address of the link which contained his work, but I do know I bought half the guy's gear off him. :)

 I'm am not 100% for sure, but I am almost certain that these videos listed below were all created with Trip-a-Tron, if not, then they should be totally possible with Trip-a-Tron.

[youtube]4yxoN-64lt4[/youtube]

[youtube]TUzGadkxjyw[/youtube]

[youtube]QgBAdkjY02k[/youtube]



Who is Download you ask? Why a collaboration of members from Skinny Puppy and Dead Voices of Air of course. ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Download_%28band%29
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Re: Visual Aurals - Music Animation System
« Reply #11 on: February 08, 2013, 12:54:09 AM »
Oh, and also I wish I could find a copy of Vujak for the 68k Mac to run under shape shifter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vujak

It was the software developed and used by EBN:

https://www.youtube.com/results?q=ebn&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=w1

I see no reason why it would not run under Shape Shifter.
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