2022/10/21

Synesthesia v1.20 Update (for real this time) + Scene Drop #5

 

 
 
Synesthesia v1.20 is Live!
Our Biggest Update Ever
 
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Hope everyone had a great summer festival season. We’ve been hard at work making Synesthesia easier to use for beginners and more powerful for professionals, and we’re excited to share the results.

v1.20 is a big update, with improved UI, new features, and faster performance. Here are some highlights:

  • Scene Library Updates - Browse your scenes easily with multiple scene folders, improved filtering, detailed scene cards, and faster performance for large scene libraries.
  • Preference Saving - All preferences are saved from your previous session. No more resetting your audio device!
  • Pane Resizing - Adjust the UI to suit your needs: expand the preview window and sidebar while working on scenes and presets, or hide it to save space while performing.
  • Improved Scene Builder - Configure your scenes without touching JSON using our new scene editing panel, and edit your shader code in our improved IDE.
  • FPS Customization Change your FPS limit in settings to manage resources, and smoothly control the speed of a scene using an FPS Slider* (*Pro feature).
  • Complete OSC API* - Control Synesthesia with a fully-fledged OSC API and built-in address tooltip, including routes for controls, playlists, presets, media, and more (*Pro feature).
  • OSC Controls Output* - Output control updates and information over OSC, allowing complex 2-way integrations with OSC-enabled apps (*Pro feature).
  • Mouse Controls - Directly interact with the scene using your mouse, allowing intuitive interactions like drawing or camera control. Scene developers can learn more in our docs.
  • Control Group Actions - Each control group can be randomized, locked, or reset independently — a great way to explore scenes and build presets.
  • Screenshot Button - One click screenshots. Share your creations with the world, or update your scene thumbnail with a click.
  • And more! Check out the full 1.20 changelog here

Some of these new features are experimental or preliminary, and we’re excited to flesh them out moving forward. If you have any questions, feedback, or ideas, we’d love to hear them.

Enjoy!

 
 
Our Biggest Marketplace Drop Ever!
 

We recently dropped 9 new scenes that utilize the new 1.20 features (listed in order of appearance above): 

  • Ayawhatska by Toosami
  • Space Engine by Syntax Division
  • Pixel Tunnel by Syntax Division
  • Mouse Demo by Synesthesia
  • Groovy Gravy by Toosami
  • Glitch Lines by Leon Denise
  • FM by UFFFD
  • Flow Machine by The Void (and Flow Machine - Lite)
  • Classic Psych Feedback by UFFFD

We also updated the following 3 scenes, adding compatibility with the new version and various improvements. If you have purchased these scenes, you should download the free updates from the "My Scenes" tab in the Marketplace. 

  • Saturn Survey by The Void
  • Glitch Machine by The Void
  • Atamata by Synesthesia

With this scene drop, we welcome 3 new artists to the Synesthesia Marketplace. You can view more of their work at these links: 

JPF_Voltage2_03.mp4

JPF_Voltage2_03.mp4 from Jana Pavla Francová on Vimeo.

VOLTAGE 2.0 je audiovizuální performance ve spolupráci hudebnicí a audiovizuální umělkyní Lenkou Kočišovou VJ Janou Francovu a tanečnicemi a choreografkami Marlene Kahl, Canay Sevgim, Markétou Kuttnerovou, Magdalenou Junkovou a Jolanou Šturmovou. Performance byla uvedena na jaře 2022 v Berlíně (Vierte Welt) a v Praze (Ngo Dei).
Experimentální video je založeno na paralelách mezi stavem vědomí v mikro a makro měřítku, které mohou poskytnout nehumánní perspektivu. Umělkyně Jana P Francová používá skutečné vědecké zdroje z mikroskopu z astrofyzikálních studií. Změnou úhlu pohledu se pozorovatel může pokusit interpretovat existenci v širším smyslu. Akkamiau (Lenka Kočišová) pracuje s lidskými zvuky emocí a modifikuje je pomocí neurálních sítí – sebe učící se umělou inteligencí. Materiál z mikroskopu laskavě poskytnul Pavel Payne z výzkumného centra CEITEC.


Voltage 2.0 is a collaboration of Berlin-based musician, audiovisual artist and art director Lenka Kocisova, visual artist and educator Jana Francova and dancers and choreographers Marlene Kahl, Canay Sevgim, from collective collapsetofraction and Marketa Kuttnerova, Magdalena Junkova and Jolana Sturmova, from Czech republic. This video was recorded at the premiere at Berlin’s gallery Vierte Welt in March 2022. In April we repeated performance in gallery NGO DEI in Prague.
Experimental video is focusing on the parallels between micro and macro state of mind in order to create a nonhuman perspective. Artist Jana Francova chooses visuals from actual scientific resources of natural science (microscope) and astrophysics research. By switching the points of view, the viewer can learn to interpret our existence in broader perspective. Akkamiau (Lenka Kočišová), who works with human emotional sounds, makes sound and their interpretation generated by deep neural networks - an artificial intelligence self learning technology. The visuals arekindly provided by scientist Pavel Payne from CEITEC.

Awards Graphics Concept - VJ Loop - Blender Procedural Infinite Looping Tunnel

Awards Graphics Concept - VJ Loop - Blender Procedural Infinite Looping Tunnel from Distant Future Animation Studio on Vimeo.

Each project we work on brings something new, a new challenge, a new technique to try out, a new style that we're trying to achieve. We often start of analysing tutorials on YouTube and suchlike to give us a starting point.
This video is the results of one of the tutorial with a couple of settings tweaks and adding a few extra effects.
Here's a link to the tutorial in case you want to give it a go - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O9aCkgeD0A

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