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Reactive Audio Lights? (waveform.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I make music for therapeutic reasons. I've found that immersive visualisations and lights help with this a lot. I've already bought a couple of rack-mount spectrum analysers and they are awesome.

Do you know of other devices that provide a similar visual experience? I know there are a bunch of cheap bouncing led bars on ali express and the likes but there is a problem: They work based on microphones. I need to be able to plug them in because I use headphones most of the time.

I know it is kind of niche but any pointers would be appreciated.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah his videos are always interesting. For now I’ve decided to go with a small DMX setup because of its super low latency.

[–] rkk 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I haven't made all the decisions yet but my goal is to have a multi-sensory experience while making music in headphones. Meaning I don't need a professional light show nor do I want to spend much time programming lights.

What I am thinking now is I will build a Raspberry Pi based video synth to throw nice visuals on a spare monitor. Then if I want to invest some more I will get a roland vc-1-dmx to convert the raspberry pi hdmi signal to a dmx universe to connect some LED tubes around the studio.