Interaction is the bread-and-butter of countless memorable projects, installations, and even games. Be it scrolling your way through history or playing plants as musical instruments, Arduino Uno’s are a one-stop-shop for DIY brilliance and clever interaction, often requiring only a bit of coding and some hardware. The Arduino Uno, legendary among microcontrollers for its ease-of-use,…
Face tracking in TouchDesigner is one of the most exciting new features to come out recently. This is thanks to the implementation of the NVIDIA RTX face tracking features included in the Maxine SDK. Let’s dive into setting this up! Setting up face tracking in TouchDesigner Setting up face tracking is actually quite easy in…
Have you ever wanted to stream YouTube videos or other video platforms directly into TouchDesigner? Previously this was kind of possible, but the performance of the playback wasn’t anything to write home about and it was technically impossible to do any meaningful audio routing. With the latest 2022 updates to TouchDesigner, both of these problems…
If you have iPhone 12 or a newer Apple mobile device, or the iPad Pro 4th generation, you may be thinking, does my iPad have LiDAR? The answer is yes, there’s now LiDAR capability for both iPhones and iPads. Now you can do a 3D scan of objects, scan data, buildings, or architectural space and…
One of the most exciting new features introduced in the latest experimental version of TouchDesigner is the native support of VST plugins. With so many plugins out there, there’s a vast amount of audio tools that can be experimented with, without having to use any external software! If you’re new to audio production or haven’t…
With the new release TouchDesigner supporting VSTs, you may be imagining (or drooling!) over which VSTs you might turn to first. But if you’re new to audio production and VSTs in general, you might not see a lot of the excitement or know what plugins might give you the most bang for buck. In this…
For some, MIDI is a thing of the past and a protocol you’ve likely not touched in years. For many developers, especially those working with artists, music equipment, or other sound-focused softwares, MIDI is still one of the go-to staple protocols to use. A recent question in The HQ PRO was about how to load…
As the years pass and newer and newer gear comes out, we often have to re-evaluate what we’re using in our installations. Depth sensors are a prime example. The amount of companies that have entered and exited the depth sensors market in the last few years is wild. In this post, we’re going to look…
Datamoshing is a super fun effect to build and has been increasingly finding more creative usages both in real-time and rendered media. In part #1 of this series, we covered the high level implementation approach. Now it’s time to dive into TouchDesigner and start building our datamoshing component! Read part #1 There have been a…
Datamoshing is a super fun effect to build and has been increasingly finding more creative usages both in real-time and rendered media. Implementing it can be a bit tricky though and in this 2-part blog series, we’ll look at a fun way you can build a datamoshing effect in TouchDesigner. What is Datamoshing? Datamoshing is…