https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh1SC3VgT-Y A real-time polyrhythm instrument: multiple pendulum voices swing in TD, each on its own period and phase. When a bob crosses a shared center line → hit → MIDI note to Ableton Live (any VST).
The last time I posted here, TDLidar was v8.0.0: an iPhone that streamed depth over NDI and tracking over OSC.
MCX 2.0.0 is out — and the MCX family has grown into a full toolkit for generative audio, visual patterns, and pattern-driven sound inside TouchDesigner.
https://youtu.be/rD7GHs_x0CI !Try TDMap! Why TDMap? MIDI mapping in TouchDesigner is the kind of job that quietly eats your session. You wire MIDI In CHOPs, scaling, and button logic. You add filtering when values feel jumpy.
Live coding turns programming into a creative instrument. Instead of writing code privately and executing it later, artists write and modify code in real time to generate music, visuals, and interactive systems during performance.
Built a single TOX that wraps Spotify's Basic Pitch polyphonic-transcription model and exposes it as proper TD-native I/O: One CHOP input — any audio source outActive CHOP: 128 channels (ch1n0..ch1n127), one per MIDI pitch with current velocity. Wire to instancing, GLSL, DMX, midiout — anything.
This three-hour session is designed for beginner to intermediate users to explore real-time visual generation in TouchDesigner, focusing on different methods of audio and data integration.
So you want a MIDI controller in your TouchDesigner immersive toolkit. What should you get? What features matter when you’re shopping? In this blog, we’ll go over the key things to look for in a MIDI controller for TD work and give a few of our recommendations.
In this beginner-friendly tutorial, you’ll learn how to use MIDI controllers inside of TouchDesigner. We start with the basics of the MIDI protocol (what MIDI is, how it works, and what the values mean) and then move step by step into TouchDesigner.
