Audioreactive Particle Cloud - TouchDesigner Tutorial 10

In this tutorial we create the visuals presented in this video:
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IG: @elekktronaut

[@alexlappano435]

Gotta say man, your tutorials have really gotten me addicted to touchdesigner! great stuff.

[@hamad.learns]

Dude you don't understand how much I appreciate this tutorial. Thank you thank you thank you !

[@wendyzhoudesign]

Thank you so much! You're tutorials are so inspiring, and your aesthetic taste is so nice!

[@benjaminsmith9191]

SOLVED: There isn't a SOP input in the new particlesGPU, so you have to convert the noise SOP to a CHOP then to a TOP. Instructions on how to do that are here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6LSZH1rq71jm68 at 20:00.

[@florenciabruck]

thanks that works

[@fcahz7851]

thanks it worked!

[@Chris2001beast]

Thank you so much!

[@polinapowers]

blessed

[@ivannicola3733]

great man

[@triin6859]

Amazing tutorial. Quick and to the point! Thanks for making this 😀

[@mauriciomassaia]

Mate you are brilliant! Thanks for sharing all the tutorials.

[@enaj]

Just wonderful. ❤️ to you. Very grateful for this🙏🏽 much love.

[@Volpearg]

Hello Bileam, I'm learning a lot with your videos! Really the work you do is great, and visually nice.

[@cheetahlion79]

Great tutorial! I'm learning so much from these so fast.

[@karolinewinzer9599]

Amazing tutorial, really clear and easy to follow, thank you so much!

[@lunchwithalens]

Thanks for sharing this - great work! My fps was fine at 60 - 1080ti and i9-7900X - and the latest TouchDesigner build - 2020-23680. Non commercial so only initially 1280x720, but pushed to 1280x1280 and stayed at 60 still.

[@royazzy94]

So helpful - Thank you we look forward for more artworks from you :)

[@JureJerebic]

That was so much fun to make, first time using TouchDesigner, thanks!

[@liminal_reads]

This is amazing, thank you so much for sharing this!!

[@thomazcardoso2418]

You're going directly to heaven, man

[@vnc_ptk]

*follows everything second by second* = looks completely different 😩 thank you though for these amazing tutorials!

[@Schaudochnochmal]

Thank you! Lot of searching for correct values, especially for live input

[@pluginhuman2709]

Great tutorial style- not too much, not too little:)

[@edwardnixon1782]

This is a great tutorial. Thanks! I haven't checked down in the comments for an answer to your question about frame rate degradation. But I tried implementing this on a MacBook Pro and was getting circa 8 fps! I'd be strongly tempted to say that the particlesGPU container is the culprit; there's a lot going on in there. Certainly, to my mind, a lot that isn't necessary for *this* particular patch. I tried something similar to this with a straight particles object and got it running at 30 fps. Don't know if I'm missing anything important feature-wise, but I'll take the fps and figure out how to add anything I think need myself. Thanks again. You're doing a fine service here!

[@rickajax]

Yeah after only inserting particlesGpu I get 24fps on my macbook pro

[@rey_nbows]

Awesome stuff and great tutorial! Thanks so much! UwU

[@Synthikat]

Awesome! Thanks for the great tutorial thats exactly what i was looking for.

[@Tutybanana]

really cool to see you here, ha! :P

[@Synthikat]

@@Tutybanana Hello :)

[@alexeyparkhomenko6237]

man this really rocks. much thanx!

[@annalaborova2977]

Thank you! Perfect tutorial :)

[@nowaccki]

Awesome trick w the camera movement

[@nathanmulligan6065]

Amazing, tanks for this mate!

[@pedrofx9519]

Thank You!! A greatest Tutorial

[@jongo8535]

Thank you so much. This is amazing

[@Tibbon]

This was great. Thank you!!!!

[@utkutemel4674]

Thank you very much! It was so useful

[@reuviebarbon4756]

Amazing tutorial. Thank you.

[@qingyaocui2357]

Thank you so much for sharing this !

[@JoePetrakovich]

Thanks this was great. Would you ever consider doing a more real time tutorial where you discuss why you add each node on the fly? So we can know your thought process.

[@hrodvithit]

While I think it's nice to be able to follow a project tutorial through and have a nice looking file out the other side, it can be better to try understand the nodes before you try follow and watch with understanding.

[@terramorph3D]

Thanks a lot, amazing lesson!!

[@alex-shortt]

this is great, thank you!

[@dekofschipper8412]

Thanks man, great tutorial. About the fps, I noticed that inside the particleGPU all viewers are by default activated. I seem to remember that disactivating all helped quite a bit. Just a thought.

[@skinnybreakfast]

Man this is soooo awesome! I made my first ever project with this! Thank you Sir! I look forward to supporting you on Patreon and any other way possible. :) I have a noob question: How could one automate colour changes over time? So in other words, the colours change as time goes on. :)

[@sealt00th]

Good stuff dude!

[@RemmyMusic1]

Spectacular tutorial....

[@desebeth]

Hey there. The issue with the frame rate seems to be the setting of parameters. Try setting them not by referencing a CHOP, but by writing to them from a chopexec1 from the CHOP that is supposed to control it, so for instance op('particlesGpu').par.Drag = val and so on.

[@christopherquine]

Big Thanks! FYI I am getting full FPS with the exact configuration.

[@VLRN_]

For anyone struggling to get a similar look with the new software and ParticlesGPU updates, here's what I changed : * Envelope node -> change "envelope width" to 10 * Add math node between filter and null and apply these values -> From range [0, 1] to range [60, 0]. Basically we invert the drag value and make it more intense, you can tweak the 60 value in the math node to get more or less effect

[@slznva]

Thanks a lot! I figured out that changes (increase the numbers) in Turbulence may also help to get that effect in new particlesGPU

[@lostinspacestudio]

very interesting.. would love to see more sophisticated analysis of the audio..

[@kaptained9009]

Ableton/users library/theshit ! Ok that’s a very familiar path somehow 👾 thnx for sharing dude !!! 🙏🙏🙏

[@elekktronaut]

Haha well, it's always tough to find folder names. No problem!

[@kutiekandise]

Holy shit this is amazing, I think I'm in love!!

[@wesleyoh732]

Hum.. can not connect SOP noise to particleGPU and newest version something looks different.. sigh

[@Nanotopia]

thanks again and again for your time and energy putting these together! Now if I can figure out how to make particle clouds turn into different forms from reacting to live audio - shazam!! that said, I'm a newb so, probably not! lol

[@bradybauer9287]

for live audio you can just use an "audio device in" CHOP (select the microphone or audio interface you want to use) and plug it in where he is using audio file in CHOP

[@unveil7762]

You can connect optical flow in the input of particle gpu and play also with that looks good

[@jimmysimmons6477]

Can you please explain this a bit more? I am familiar with optical flow and trying to expirement with this.. do you connect optical flow to the TOP input of particlesGPU or the SOP input. Do you do any other tricks to get it working? thanks for your help!

[@mareletudor]

Very useful!! Thanks

[@Jangonoesunjuego]

Awesome! Tyou Bileam :D

[@NateHorn]

Amazing thanks!

[@audegomusic]

Amazing tutorials :) with the newer model of TD, how do I link noise to the GPU?

[@hectorbazo8112]

Thanks for your Videos 😊

[@borjonx]

Thank you soooooo much - THIS IS AMAZING!!! I have a much better understanding of the system after pause/play, pause/playing through this tut. Took me about 2 hours to get through this 16 min vid. btw - are you Taron of VervePainter?

[@elekktronaut]

You're very welcome! Idk any taron, I'm bileam 😌

[@melanin9635]

You are a god.

[@truefiasco2637]

Another brilliant and professional tutorial thank you so much! I learnt something new with each one. Is there any reason to use the particle SOP instead of the particleGPU tool?

[@elekktronaut]

Thank you! Well technically using the particlesGPU should be many times faster to process. Any process on the GPU is a lot faster, it's why GLSL is so powerful for example. Idk why it's not properly working here. But afaik they're working on a new particle TOP exactly for the reason listed above. Does that answer your question?

[@user-gy6ke4rl3w]

THANK YOU!!!!!!! Very cool!!! =) And for mac XD

[@yashkorat6748]

Yikes! I've learned a lot from your style of explaining things. although I am stuck here with exporting, I have followed ur another tutorial on exporting. But, whenever I hit record button, the playback stutters or lags in between, and at a specific point of the audio part. Help me out, I have an amazing vocal mix to go with these visuals.

[@lucasluo2257]

Hello Thank u that USEFUL video , I have some Quesetion that about Where is particlesGPU PRESET in video 4:27?

[@anastasiakapra1844]

Mesmerizing work, congrats! Was wondering if I could use your Tutorial to upload my own version of it to accompany one of my friend's tracks :)

[@elekktronaut]

Sure!

[@anastasiakapra1844]

Cheers! 🙏

[@mattiadierickx6065]

Nice tutorial! Do you know how to fix it in order to have live sound coming from a microphone instead from an audio file?

[@scholasticdeth]

Thank you so much! This one is not complicated in constructing and very nice in sight. Can you give a hint how you can make the particles follow some path? Of a noise CHOP for example. If you make it a SOP maybe.

[@wrxnglove]

I was wondering the same thing. Im only just getting started with this software and was thinking about possibly adding a displacement map, that would cause the particles to morphe into a more recognizable shape. Perhaps a face or anything figurative.

[@synthestruct]

Great Tutorial! My guess on the FPS drop is the lumablur top, if you have the filter width set pretty high. When I tried this for a project, my FPS instantly dropped from 60 to under 40 FPS, so I ended up using a blur top, and composited the ramp-masked blur version on top of the original to create the same effect without the lumablur..it's the long way, but didn't have the same FPS drop.

[@elekktronaut]

Thanks for your reply! I've tried that as well but it doesn't change anything really :/

[@synthestruct]

@@elekktronaut Ah okay, worth a shot! :)

[@kidarchitecture]

my particlesGPU has 4 purple inputs and 0 blue ones...

[@ugurcanalan7120]

4:04 Noise and particlesGPU are not connecting to each other. It was said that it was due to the difference between the old and new version. A solution map video would be great.

[@peachsodaoverwatch649]

Same for me :/

[@ugurcanalan7120]

@@peachsodaoverwatch649 M2 problems

[@karatsevfpv]

same =(

[@parse_error]

Thx! 🤘

[@mariahpickett6592]

Thank you 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@eligna8154]

muy bueno!

[@diegoolea4332]

Thanks for the tutorial amazing. One question why when I´m exporting I cant see the real colors and I record the video and all is in white and black ?

[@DanielClaytonSSM]

Might have figured out the fps issue. Atomic counters aren't supported on Mac in TD. I noticed that the reference in the glsl top was 0 so I removed them still works and it gave me 60 fps.

[@Genesis-bu1my]

Super'man, gracias miL

[@jochemmessmer]

Awesome tut! I'm trying to get the ParticleGPU working on my M1MAX Macbook. But I get this error: 'Geometry Shaders not supported on this GPU or OS.' I guess not supported because of no OPENGL? Is there a work around? PS: the particleGPU also doesn't have a SOP input, is it because of the same thing?

[@sublimazed]

how has no one else ran into the problem of not being able to connect the Noise SOP to the particleGPU TOP??? It literally does not allow for a connection. Is this because touch designer was updated since this came out? I cant even get past the beginning of the tutorial because of this. Sigh

[@Stegs365]

Huge fan of your tutorials, I have worked through most of the beginner course at this point. Thanks so much for all the content you share! Unfortunately, this is the first tutorial I've struggled with, I can't get my particles to behave at all like yours do. The drag parameter doesn't seem to affect the particles at all.

[@ambientdreamwaves]

I agree. I think its due to the changes in particlegpu.

[@hyun4427]

Thank you for the tutorial! BTW does anyone know how to use imported fbx instead of sphere? Want to put some visuals but fbx mesh doesn't work independently without info in/out

[@VisualBeatLab]

I loaded an old version of teh software it was pretty easy to find 2019.20140 27 Nov, 2019. the only thing i have an issue with is I get to much spin on the particle groups sometimes.

[@badador]

thank you for the great tutorial. when I try to export the video, it's black with no sound. do you have a tutorial for exporting or maybe you've shown it in one your videos?

[@hollyafonso]

I have the same problem :/

[@jamuuddaloopguru9218]

Such a great video - I have learnt so much from you and this is what I have particularly wanted it for - visualizing audio ........But......... with a more recent version dragging the audio nulls over the turbulence and other ParticleGPU parameters makes the visuals from ParticleGPU onwards just disappear and I get not nothing. I have tried using op('null3')['chan1'] etc and it changes the value just nothing happens on-screen. As a TouchDesigner newbie I would really appreciate it if someone has a solution. Thanks very much.

[@jogi9206]

did you solve it man? i got the same prob

[@spcfsu1]

Quite the same problem here... Particles vanish after a few seconds, no matter what I write in the parameters...

[@joko2105]

@@spcfsu1 Did you find a solution?

[@domgraveson1942]

yeah same problem here too... after the particles GPU nothing. On a Mac, latest everything

[@WalrusesAreTheOne]

In the beginning, what were those 2 operators you didn't delete? I can't see them.

[@MykhayloMusic]

How did you make your renderer to display in the background?

[@user-yw6ks6we6b]

Anyone know why my background won't turn black like his when I connect the level to the ramp + lookup at 3:05. Also what were the three competes he kept in the beginning of the video?

[@FashionGirl723]

so cool. how you add music?

[@fcahz7851]

Hi! I'm following the tutorial but I have to problems, in the particlesGpu can't find the presets menu /: and also, how do you make your background show the work in progress? thank you !

[@Chris2001beast]

I am having the same issue

[@Qwert_Zuiop]

I think because you got a newer versions of touchdesigner so a lot of parameters changed...

[@dorukaan]

same :(

This is awesome! How do I preview the render on the background?

[@morfiusx]

The little blue button on a given OP.

@@morfiusx thank you!

[@undressedbroccoli]

For some reason the drag is not slowing down the particles for me, even when I don't use the audio and just use a constant value. Anyone a clue what is going on here? (I am using a newer TD version than in the video here)

[@truefiasco2637]

yeah my GPU is pretty shit and my PC struggled with the fps, but changing the number of particles did affect the FPS.

[@freivonstil]

The ParticlesGPU doesen't seem to have the SOP input anymore. ALso the whole addon looks different in the preview now. Is there a workaround?

[@HarisCupina]

I was looking in comments, is this been resolved by now, and how to proceed without SOP input in ParticlesGPU, and found out your comment here asking the same. This is an obstacle for me at the moment, don't have workaround :( shame

[@antonbezdenezhnykh4261]

@@HarisCupina Oh no! I was looking the answer to...

[@DylanMoore0]

Fantastic Tutorial! I'm having trouble getting the Luma blur to act in the same way it does in your setup. As soon as I drop in the luma blur and connect the ramp, it applies a transparent gradient to the background. It's a bit hard to describe, but there doesn't seem to be the same tilt shift effect at all. Any idea what's causing the luma blur to act so differently? I've watched that part over and over again but can't find a difference in the params either.

[@elekktronaut]

Thanks! Hm, it's hard to say like this... Maybe write me via Instagram and send me a photo

[@crismollee878]

Hey did you ever figure out what causes this? I have the same problem

[@durolipons9560]

Okay I've gone from the noise operator to a 'sopto' then a 'chopto' but the only values that work are the 'rgb' values. Im using version 32050 which is a further update from the link below so that doesn't work either.

[@jean-lucgodard6488]

great tutorial man i learned a lot, a question: how can make this visual react to the kicks, snares etc... it doesn't seem to react precisely to the audio I'm inputting

[@rickajax]

I think he explains this in his beat detection tutorial: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYaofXuVd5eqqac

[@jean-lucgodard6488]

@@rickajax thank youu

[@aliakbarmontazeri4320]

I set the audio dev out node like in 6:29 but it produces an error. Does different version affects the node? help me please

[@donitalia]

mines running at 60 fps but it looks like its running at 30 lol maybe my song is too fast. ill have to try to tweak some stuff. thanks for the tutorial

[@hamad.learns]

something is killing me, i cannot get the leaves to change to sand eventhough i followed the instructions exactly as layed out in your tutorial. even when I manually change the leaves to squares, it still doesnt look the same, it looks a lot more zoomed in! Also thank you so so much for sharing those gems!! :)

[@ammaralsaker592]

The Sand preset only works on Mac. I borrowed my friend's lap to build the network up to the Sand effect then saved it, transferred it to my PC and continued the tutorial. It works

[@hamad.learns]

Ammar Alsaker You are a legend Sir,

[@polinapowers]

heyo! so on touchdesigner version 2022.31030 particles GPU node doesn't have "presets" tab as well as "turbulence speed" options, nor SOP input(someone already mentioned that). i copied the particles gpu node from your file and it imported with those options so everything is good now, but i wonder why that's happening and what's the workflow for that step for future references if i have to use that node again. cheers!

[@user-sh1xo5nw7n]

from where did you get the project file?

[@ushnuofficial548]

Bro its better if for example you put a bad audio resolution into the audio file in ? or block the stuff inside the particle template TD ... TD have a template/program that show you how much GPU was consumed by the Operators. I think that you don't need the best resolution on this if you are going to destroy the 3D Material into a particles. Really thanks for the course. appreciated so much your stuff! Best Regards.

[@davidbucka]

haha so this is how we meet each other again :D

[@ricabucher695]

Hi there, first i just love your tutorials, just getting started and its so much fun! I am trying to rebuilt this but i just can't connect the noise to the particles GPU because i only habe purple slots. Why is that?:D Thanks for your help!

[@Renata12845]

I have the same problem.. :/ I tray Sop to chop, but doesn't work

[@dahyeseo3581]

I have same problem.

[@user-kc4bd3mp5l]

Havent tried it yet but you can try to use sopto then chopto, that way you will convert SOP to TOP

[@official_richielau]

Same here....

[@official_richielau]

@@user-kc4bd3mp5l ?

[@ellyeosss]

Hey! Im completely new at it, so I have a stupid question is that bg an operator? Which? It was saved from the beginning so I have no idea what is it :\ p.s. and biiig thanks for the tutorials it helps a lot I mean A LOT :)

[@phasetek]

Its a null TOP that represents the final output

[@mercurial1025]

hey my cloud isnt reacting to my audio, ive tried different audio file and the cloud plays a similar pattern, can u help?

[@agusbleuville5830]

hi! is there any way of doing this in real time with sound? from an external source like Ableton or any hardware synth. thanks :)

[@WokeSoros]

Yeah, there's a TD ableton package in the pallet. You'll have to look up how to get it working online. It's a bit of a trick.

[@v.savchuk]

Thank you man for so great tutorial. Have 60fps in 99%, I think it is all about GPU (my card GeForce 1080 8Gb)

[@pineapsysportals5158]

did we get a way to export with high frame rate? curious. export movie file size is massive and then down in handbrake but yee. thanks for this.

[@elekktronaut]

If you want to export it with high framerate, uncheck "Realtime" at the top and then let it render. But yea, file sizes can get pretty big.