Hi Everyone!
I am an Embedded Systems Engineer. My hobby is developing real-time music visualization technology. The technology allows the creation of fully autonomous intelligent electronic devices that can interpret the musical audio stream into visual light images. I've been working on this idea for 30 years, so long, because it's a hobby and it's often difficult to find free time for this.
I call the technology itself RTMV-technology. Initially, RTMV-technology was developed as a 2D visualization option. But to create a full-fledged 2D prototype today, for me, it turned out to be quite expensive to manufacture. Therefore, an attempt was made to a simplified version - 1D visualization. The idea was to get a relatively inexpensive instrument that you can simply connect an audio signal to and enjoy the light images while listening to music.
This project got a name - CLUBBEST and was initially focused on club music, but as time has shown, it is suitable for visualizing any piece of music. Of course, there are many limitations associated with using inexpensive components and using a low performance MCU, but even in this case, I received a lot of positive feedback. For me, the most inspiring reviews were when, after watching, subscribers write - “I saw the music.” Yes, I created this technology in order to - See the music. And I get such feedback all the time, as the technology develops.
Initially, I made CLUBBEST as a tool for my PC to listen to music. But as it turned out, it can be successfully used for the workplace of a composer, musician, DJ, and also used as a decorative decoration for the interior of clubs, cafes, restaurants.
You can find a video of the work of visualization technology for musical works on my
YouTube channel. On this channel you can find a video of the prototypes of two systems - CLUBBEST M68 and CLUBBEST M100.
I follow the work of the DJ who create live music. I often watch their work in broadcasts and I see how they lack a system that could visualize their work in real time. Light visualization makes it possible to greatly enhance the musical composition and give a completely different perception to the music. All existing visualization tools and light sources require preliminary preparation, and for grandiose musical SHOWs, lighting specialists are involved, who preliminarily write a light composition for a music track, which is subsequently used during the SHOW. A lighting engineer is a composer of light, and if such a person knows his business, then you can really see a beautiful light spectacle, but more often this is not the case, more often it is a chaotic control of lighting devices, with the option that somewhere, somehow, the light will hit the beat of the music, and that's good. There is another weakness of the software visualization of the SHOW, that such a visualization is written “only once”, with frequent repetition, it becomes boring to the viewer and becomes uninteresting, the so-called fatigue effect sets in. This is due to the fact that visually a person has a large visual memory and he simply remembers subconsciously everything he sees, and if what he sees is repeated, then interest in him simply disappears. RTMV-technology is free from this effect, it allows you to always generate a new visual show for the same music track.
For DJ which uses live music, the version of the preliminary program description of the future SHOW is not suitable, such SHOWs require real-time visualization. For beginner DJ modern visualization tools are in principle unavailable, and if there is an opportunity to purchase them, then hiring a lighting engineer to write a composition of a specialist, and this is no longer realistic. In such cases, the DJ himself has to study lighting engineering and try to somehow visualize your performance.
My technology enables DJ concentrate on the piece of music and leave the visualization to the electronics.
CLUBBEST visualization tools for myself and use them while listening to music. I really like it, but as the saying goes - “there are no friends for the taste and color”, so I began to make videos of real musical compositions and DJ performances so that you can show them and get people's opinion about how they perceive this type of visualization, how this visualization corresponds to the music that it accompanies. And it would be interesting to get the opinion of practicing DJs .
But here it is better to see once than to hear twenty times .
P.S. if my developments are of interest, I could tell you more about the project.