Author: jjdeprisco
Sonic explorer, sound artist, guitarist in Fricknadorable, software designer.
One fateful night in the early 90s, at an open mic in Bloomsburg, PA, I met Tom Dennehy. His mix of Dr. Demento-style originals and Weird Al Yankovic covers immediately endeared him to both me and, my future wife, Audra. Life was never the same after meeting Tom. His combination ...
This project dates back to when I was still living in Central PA. This sound sculpture combined hardware, software, sound design, and some light fabrication. Besides mounting everything on the board, I also made a custom circuit board to manage the Teensy connections. This turned out to be a collaboration ...
I came to Touchdesigner from timeline-based video editing in programs like iMovie, Adobe Premiere and Davinci Resolve. For a few years I also built patches in Magic Music Visualizer. I was always frustrated by the UI of iMovie and similar programs. I never found their UX very good coming from ...
During the Spring of 2020, Audra and I were living in an apartment in Bala Cynwyd (West Philly). To pass the time during quarantine, we’d play cards on the edge of our dining table (next to my electronics workbench).Sometimes – while I reigned supreme as the Rummy King – we’d ...
How to export? Start by doing a web or YouTube search for “How to export stems from ____” filling in the blank with your DAW of choice. Every major DAW has an instructional tutorial online about this feature. Each DAW offers slightly different export options, but the concept is the ...
The latter part of 2020 was an intense period of Touchdesigner study. Treating my study like a college course, I dedicated up to 30 hours a week to working through lessons and tutorials, and experimenting on my own. The samples below are some of the initial experiments from this period ...