What is your favourite Isadora actor?

Woland

Hello all,

I'm curious to know what your favorite Isadora actors are.

I love Comment actors. They're the best. They're what let me annotate my Patches and User Actors/Macros so that I can come back to a project after a week, a month, or a year and actually be able to remember what I did.

It is unusual for a Patch of mine to have fewer than four Comment actors per Scene (not including those that I put in User Actors/Macros).

Best wishes,

Woland

DillTheKraut

@woland

Thanks for this thread. I didn't knew about the possibilities you have with the comment actor. Probably there is more to come with others ;-).

And another thing is getting ideas of improvements. I wrote a feature request before, asking for more possibilities to edit text in the text draw actor.
Now it came to my mind, it would be magic to have an actor like the comment actor, but with an video out!

Maximortal

I love two actors: gate and comparator. This two guys let you do more or less all you need

DusX

I have recently found love for Logical Calculator.
Paired with some Comparators, you can workout some powerful trigger options.

Juriaan

Oh, I have a love / hate relationship with the Data Array actor. That Actor has been an absolute blessing, and sometimes a curse..

Other actors that I absolutely love are :

Artnet combined with Matrix Actors(It was a real puzzle to find out how it exactly worked, but when you do, it is magic :))
Limit-Scale Value with the Max Value Hold and Min Value actors to make a 'automatic' learning system based on input
Curvetore, I really like the Interface elements provided that you can just drag the handles to create the curve !
And so many more !

crystalhorizon

wave generator

Random in combo with smoother (thanx to @DusX for that trick)

Shapes

Video in watcher

Envelope Generator

Effect mixer

Woland

@juriaan said:

Limit-Scale Value with the Max Value Hold and Min Value

Hold Range is also good for this

Skulpture

For me its a mixture between Sequential Trigger and Eyes!

dbini

have your favourites changed over the last 4 years? https://community.troikatronix...

dbini

.. one of mine has been killed off, another doesn't get used so much because its not compatible with the Mapper, which is getting plenty of action these days... so I'm going to have to say Projector.

Woland

@dbini said:

have your favourites changed over the last 4 years? https://community.troikatronix...

RE: the "double-go" discussion in that thread. I avoid the problem of accidentally holding down a button too long and triggering a double-go by using Keyboard Watcher actors set to "up" instead of using Multiblocker actors in front of Keyboard Watcher actors set to "down". That way, it goes as soon as you release it, (which when you press and release without holding is essentially the same time as when you press it down), and it's impossible to trigger a double-go instead of just being less likely

GertjanB

Javascript.

A lot of my old patches are now a lot more comprehensive and by combining data in json strings i don't have to draw as many lines.

DusX

@gertjanb
This makes me smile.

hairi

my favourites are:

- macro (I started off many years ago with building improvised hardware. getting a Macro to work is similar fun)

- javascript (saves me from wild combinations of calculators, gate, comparators, scaling)

I actually develop my logics and calculations often first with Isadora actors and then clean it all up inside a Javascript. Some things are soo much easier to do with coding than with patching. Not to mention the order of execution in critical cases.

- glsl (I got hooked lately to the math in use here. Many Isadora actors can be reproduced in GLSL, with the option to be customized )

- OSC actors / Syphon-Spout (when all else fails or gets boring, I use SuperCollider or Processing/Java to help out )

I enjoy this kind of thread because it allows to see the many different approaches that can be used to build great stuff with Isadora.

hairi

hairi

@gertjanb what do you mean by: combining data in JSON strings ??

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Woland

@hairi said:

@gertjanb what do you mean by: combining data in JSON strings ??

Original credit for all this goes to @DusX I just made it into an example Patch

>>>TUTORIAL PATCH AND MACROS/USER ACTORS<<<

Best wishes,

Woland

bonemap

@DusX

This is excellent! Thank you!

Best wishes

Bonemap

Woland

@bonemap

Thank @DusX

He's the one who actually created it, I just put it in an Isadora Patch with some Comment actors

It's great for piping tons of parameters between computers via OSC

Best wishes,

Woland

bonemap

@woland said:

Thank @DusX

I meant a collective thank you!

best wishes

bonemap

DusX

for reference.. the official Troikatronix article: https://support.troikatronix.c...