Tutorial: Intro to Audio-Reactive Visuals
And now for something completely different!
This video provides insight into how we create visual accompaniments to our music; consolidating various approaches and techniques to help you get started creating your own audio-reactive visuals. We hope you enjoy!
00:00 - Intro & Examples
01:31 - Basic TouchDesigner setup
03:06 - Working with audio
04:45 - Connecting sound to visual
05:46 - Refining audio data
08:15 - Adding Noise
11:35 - Working with MIDI
13:17 - Basic particle system
17:01 - Refining MIDI data
20:31 - Working with automation/OSC
25:02 - Working with multiple audio channels
28:56 - Feedback
31:45 - Geometry instancing with feedback textures
37:15 - Using audio spectrum
40:04 - Glyph visualizer walkthrough
Project Files
Download TouchDesigner
TDAbleton Setup:
TDAbleton - TouchDesigner x Ableton Installation Guide
Basic Setup – TouchDesigner + Ableton Tutorial 1
LBAL Live Performance Setup
Comments (9)
Now this is something I didn't even know I wanted but I'm stoked to try it. I hate taking photoshoots and filming music videos (the performance parts) but this might be a nice alternative sometimes
That's super cool! Really interested in trying touch designer. Appreciate the tutorial, please do more! Is there a way to add in custom 3D models (like from blender) and manipulate the vertices using audio signal?
Absolutely! Here's a couple of tutorials to get you started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ9gBmenn28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruHVM5KZjB8
Yeyyy Wow, that was a really nice tutorial.. tried a couple of times to do an audio reactive video with audio coming from Ableton , but I always had lagging problems. I’m so happy to have seen this and that I can send audio directly from Ableton through the loopback function of the audio card to touch designer. Geniuuuusss ☺️👌😊Thanks a lot for this tutorial…. really really interesting and inspiring… Woow 🤟🔊
Does anybody knows where to get the TBA 2.5.2? cause thats the vertion I have on my TD, and the one from the Link on de description is 2.5.1, and aparently that just cant comunicate well enough =( I cant find the 2.5.2 anywhere, not even on the TD official site, so I´m a bit concerned! (btw, great video! I´ve been obsessed lately learning TD, so this felt very synchronized to me)
tdAbleton comes packaged with TouchDesigner. If you download the latest version of TD it will include v2.5.2.
Absolutely love the touchdesigner tutorials! Theres so few resources ive found detailing the connection with ableton and tdAbleton interface. I guess a question i have is can you use ableton as a hub for sending midi and audio info from external hardware into touchdesigner? Could I say send midi from my polyend play through ableton to touchdesigner or is there a shorter path to take?
You could do either! TD has MIDI input for handling external MIDI devices directly, or you could pipe everything through Ableton before sending to TD.
only like 10 minutes in but this is so on point to what I've been trying to do for some time. I tried unreal engine using the niagara particle engine but this seems much easier to prototype. very cool!