I have been experimenting with the Puredata plugin Gem to create visuals that react with audio. At first I found it really hard to get the hang of and was on the verge of giving up all together, I couldn’t seem to get any sound and the Gem plugin wasn’t showing visuals, after a night of downloading different versions of both puredate and Gem I finally got it to work. To begin with I just started with simple objects such as spheres cubes.
After experimenting for a while and from the help of YouTube I managed to start experimenting with flashing lines and adding objects onto of this.
Now I had found objects and a colour scheme that I thought looked good together I began to experiment with adding sound. I created an 8 step sequencer that played a kick drum every 1st and 3rd step with a different percentage of playing for the other 6 steps. When. the kick drum was played it changed the size of. the outer cube. I also added hi-hats on every step that rotated. the inner cube on its X axis.