Wechselspieler software maps video movement to MIDI events, providing a useful tool for translating video streams into MIDI sound.
The software has a simple, user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI) that helps users define and edit the image region to MIDI mappings with ease. Wechselspieler has numerous features that include multi-object video tracking, video image binarisation using colour thresholds and difference images, and video input from S-Video, composite, TV, local and remote file streams.
Wechselspieler offers customisation through all MIDI parameters, which can be controlled for trigger regions and image binarisation while the program is active. Additionally, the software offers flexible image processing customisation through the use of the GStreamer media processing framework. The software has session management support, which means that on start-up, the program automatically restores the state before you last quit it.
Wechselspieler offers support for the OSC protocol, which allows users to integrate it with other software such as PD, SuperCollider 3, Max/MSP and others. Other improvements in the latest release include fixes for GUI bugs concerning video input startup and selected regions display.
To run Wechselspieler, your system should meet the following requirements: gtkmm 2.0.x, libxml++ 1.0.x, gstreamer 0.8.x, libglademm 2.4, ALSA, liblo and gnome-icon-theme.
Overall, Wechselspieler is a great software tool for artists and musicians who want to explore new ways of creating sound from video streams. It offers numerous features and customisation options that allow users to create unique and engaging soundscapes. The software is also easy to use and comes with numerous binary packages for Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 distribution.
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