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I spent the past two months testing Pioneers new audio-visual mixer. Here’s a detailed first look:

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DJ RNDM & I just reviewed the new Serato VIDEO-SL plugin for Scratch Live and the Rane TTM-57SL mixer:

Check it out on Create Digital Motion now!

-Robotkid

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This mashup-of-crashups AV commercial for a Dutch bank was made completely in Max/MSP/Jitter — no post-production. Recognize that tune? It’s Katrina and the Waves’ “Walking on Sunshine”.

Update
Some more info about the video from one of the developers of the software used to make it, Mattijs Kneppers:

The composition was made by Eboman, using a general solution for video sampling that we are developing. My current role in our little company (www.smadsteck.nl) is to implement the software and coordinate the other developers, not to communicate with customers. All I know is that they were looking for something special and that they are very satisfied with the final result.

In response to my request for a screenshot of the patch, Mattijs said:

I’m afraid a screenshot is going to be hard. The patches are really big. The end user interface is Logic, which communicates with Max via Pluggo, with UDP and MIDI.

What I like about this composition is that the used functionality is very basic (triggering a movie and displaying it on a video plane is the one of the first things you try in Jitter). But to realize this specific video (to add the funk, to be creative), you need to be able to ‘jam’ with your video fragments. And that’s where max patching becomes serious software development.

Check out the video on the front page of their site for a peek into what they do, including some really cool wearable interfaces.

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