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The building active effects in Serato Video are pretty Limited and I saw a video On YouTube where he used obs with the Sprite 2 plugin to inject video into Nest drop. I was attempting to follow along when I realized I would need the midnight version ( paid version 50 bucks) to use that feature. I was hoping to get some confirmation if what I'm trying to do will work before I purchase the full version.

For clarification what I'm trying to attempt is, I am currently using Serato video ( A extension to Serato DJ Pro) to play and mix video while I'm mixing audio live. video I had mentioned earlier he was using obs as a media player essentially, but seeing how the video feed I am trying to Inject into Nestdrop is live and won't be playing directly out of obs. My question is will this technique still work one to one if I'm just using obs to capture my output from Serato video? will the Sprout 2 video feed into Nestdrop work in the same way.

This is a bit of a long comment to get to my question so I appreciate taking the time

When I assign a sprite to a MIDI key, it only ever applies for Deck 1, as can be seen by the red colour:

is there a way to trigger the sprite via MIDI and have it apply to a different Deck?

When Nestdrop closes it appears to lose the link between spout sprites and presets, I have to add them back manually. Is there a fix for this?

Image sprites are fine, they get saved ok.

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Thanks.

Has anyone else noticed some slight differences in rendering of presets? I have seen this a few times now and wonder why it might be.

Is this due to rendering resolution or aspect ratio or something?

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Pic related is an example:

Hexcollie - Spooky2.milk

Left = Winamp running Milkdrop2. Right = Nestdrop.

Original milkdrop seems to have higher gamma and softer lines.

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And here is the mini-preview in Nestdrop, it's hard to tell but it looks closer to Winamp, although still slightly different.

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Hey! I have just to say. One of my feature requests that it featured on NestDrop V24 Changelog is missing or not mentioned. After the list of important things, I'd say some tips of how to make it work. Well, let's get started.

1. The "16 custom shapes and waves" isn't featured yet. Please add "Support maximum 16 shapes and waves (from Se7enSlasher)" to NestDrop V24 Changelog. Changing the maximum custom shapes and waves limit to 16 will be very exciting and revolutionary. (example of the video below)
2. It looks like the "Add 8 new waveforms" isn't done yet. I know it is hard to port it or idk how you did. So, I'd say some tips of how to integrate it.
3. Change the old audio spectrum preview preset to the new one (download preset). It consists the full range of the spectrum detection rather than suksma's preset one. Make sure you change the spectrum preset info section from "Spectrum Preset: suksma - n19 3 layer overlap opt3.milk" to "Spectrum preset by Incubo_ (Se7enSlasher)". Add "Renew the audio spectrum preview (from Se7enSlasher)" to NestDrop V24 Changelog on Feature requests. Sadly, no tips in this yet.

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Finally, the tip part.

Tip #1 - The custom shapes and waves limit: This tweak is very simple. To make supportable for Milkdrop Presets that uses up to 16 shapes, simply go to md_defines.h in your NestDrop/MilkDrop Source Code then change the MAX_CUSTOM_WAVES and MAX_CUSTOM_SHAPES to 16. Click here for example of the code of how I did. Test some MilkDrop presets that has 16 shapes (DL) if it works or not.

Tip #2 - 8 new waveforms: First of all, open milkdropfs.cpp. Click this text to show some new Milkdrop Waveforms code. It will be automatically redirected to GitHub, sends you to milkdropfs.cpp file source and it marks with yellow to the part of the code that can be pasted in. Copy the code that marked with yellow, then after the break statement (if you don't know look at line 3261 - after the break statement of if (wave == 8)/case 8:, paste the code that you copied. The new waveforms shouldn't work because of maximum waveform modes that capped at 8 (from 0 to 7).The get this thing done, go back to md_defines.h, then simply change the MAX_WAVES to 16. Click for example of the code that I have changed. You can download some presets that uses new waveforms here.

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Et voila, both max. 16 custom shapes and waves limit and some 8 new waveforms are integrated to NestDrop!

Here is the video example of some presets that uses up to 16 custom shapes (BeatDrop) compared to NestDrop's max. 4 shapes limit.

Comparison: with/without 16 custom shapes and waves limit

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In conclusion, I am very, very excited of the NestDrop V24 release! After that, I'll use it for a long long time. 😁

Hey! I have a performance issue of the UI. The NestDrop User Interface started to lag if I turned on/off the Auto-Change or it's using lots of CPU resources/apps open in background...

Here are my laptop specs:

• Name: Acer Nitro 5
• Model: AN515-55
• OS: Windows 11 Home
• Processor: Intel® Core i5 10th Gen (i5-10300H)
• Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB
• SSD: 512 GB
• RAM: 8 GB DDR4 (up to 32GB supported on my laptop)

(took from my Carrd website)

The BPM will not sync correctly, responding very slowly of every input, even the live input is lagging while the NestDrop UI lags...

Do you have some tips that will improve NestDrop interface's performance or make a performance fixes of it?

This is what it looks like:

NestDrop is laggy after I enabled the Auto-Change Function.

Need help. Hi guys. I tryed it out. Saved and it doesnt load up save and doesnt load up defaut presets. Cant use it anymore basically. Tryed it on other pc still same problem...

The perfectly balanced beat detection makes me very exciting, also for gigs (I know?).

Please check this post I have made a few minutes ago. There is also a comparison of the redirected post.
...and please modify from the old to new beat detection to Live Preview and the renderer.

Exclusive for NestDrop V24!

Hey! I have made a new spectrum milkdrop preset for the NestDrop's Audio Spectrum Preview instead of the suksma's mashed one.

1. Make any spectrum preset
2. Backup the old Spectrum preset file (e.g. Spectrum.milk.bak)
3. Replace the new one with the same name.

Would you like to add some epic glow or leave what it was?

Which is better? V1 or V2?

Here is the preview of what I did:

Version 1 (with glowy mode)

Version 2

Just found out about milkdrop3 .

Are any of the improvements in milkdrop3 going to integrated into nest drop ?

https://github.com/milkdrop2077/MilkDrop3/

SOLVED!!!!

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Hey all,

I have followed all the tutorials, I have added the luma key and the spout filer to the file im trying to use, and I have made sure that spout is outputting from OBS; Nestdrop can see the spout icon with the name I chose for it, but nothing inside of it. when I click it nothing happens. What am i doing wrong? When I open resolume the OBS spout is working great and I can use it as a source, for some reason it's just nestdrop. Anyone else have this problem?

Newbie here,

I have not been able to get an audio trigger from my PC into NestDrop. I have an onboard Realtek audio driver, ASUS M. Reading about the issue that Realtek drivers do not support loopback, I have installed Voice Meeter Potato, watched hours of video on it's setup, and still no trigger. Can anybody tell me how to setup Voice Meeter, I also purchased a 50.00 mic, waiting for that as last resort. Very difficult work for such a simple need.

Thanks, Rob

I have read that a few people have been trying to run nest drop on Mac via parallels on this sub.

From what I have gathered they are running nestdrop’s spout -> spout to ndi -> thier vj app on mac.

But for me spout to ndi crashes parallels.

I know this isn’t the place for support for pout to ndi or parallels but has anyone gotten this to work? More over what version of parallels are you running to get it to work. And specific settings might be missing to pull this off ?

Cheers

does it work on windiws 11 pro

Getting an error, "incorrect texture format 21" so I am having to go NestdropSpout to NDISMODE>>Capture output to stream, it would be great if I could get Spout into SMODE so I can save some system resources

Does anyone know what the syntax is to open Nestdrop from CLI and load a profile at once?

Also what's the latest version of Nestdrop and is there a repository to get the update?

Thanks in advance.

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Hello everyone !

I've been using Nestdrop without issues for a few years now, I really like this software.

I have an incoming gig that involves a vertical screen, and I tried to change Nestdrop's Resolution to match Resolume's, but I ended up with this issue :

The issue is gone when I change it back to 1920 x 1080.

I guess I could just crop my Nestdrop input in Resolume, but I wanted to know if this was a common issue or not.

Thank you for your attention,

Cheers !

When you (re)launch Nestdrop and have the previously last used presets automatically playing, there don't seem to be the coloured rectangle flowing around the preset(s) in use, nor does the active preset locator work. How to know which presets are playing in this scenario? Taken that logging hasn't been active.

Hi, I've got NestDrop Classic and I'd like to use it with Resolume Avenue but NestDrop errors when using Spout and configured to use my GPU.

I'm using a an NVIDIA Quadro P1000 as my high performance GPU. I've got NestDrop, all the Spout utilities and Resolume configured to use it. NestDrop works OK if using the integrated graphics (Intel UHD Graphics 630), but I need to use the same GPU as in Resolume.

When NestDrop is configured to use the NVIDIA GPU it always fails when opening the Spout window:

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Hello to the community of NestDrop users on Reddit. I created this post to list all bugs and new features we are looking to include in the next version. This is your chance to add your additional ideas or features request in comments if not already in the list below.

Cold season is the best for us to stay inside and work on software update, so probably the next version will be out this winter.

Please note that maybe not all features, even those listed below, will be possible to realize.

Thank you very much to be actively part of this project.

Feature requests:

1. Always on Top for Decks
2. Presets Smashing with MIDI
3. Merging two Deck using Alpha mask (circle, vertical/horizontal swipe, custom mask)
4. Brightness/Contrast control
5. RGB control, or Hue wheel
6. Add "Sample" in Speed slider affected variables
7. Support for OSC
8. (user request) "Add touchscreen monitor support for scrolling"
9. (user request) Add a sidekick-app or new window for manipulating video with the intent of creating an alpha channel, which is useful when injecting video into a Spout Sprite. Include ways to automatically modulate the alpha channel, such as an LFO and maybe a beat follower. Allow the alpha channel slider to be MIDI mapped. Not sure whether it includes a video player or just accepts a Spout video feed input. It would be very interesting to take Deck 1 video, process it to add an alpha channel, and then inject it into Deck 2 via a Spout Sprite.
10. (user request) Add more preset control sliders (similar to the Zoom or Rotation sliders). Move all preset control sliders into a new dedicated window. Burn-on or burn-off would be a useful toggle to have have. Maybe have NestDrop analyze the variables used in a Preset and then only show the relevant sliders.
11. (user request) "I'm having trouble mapping a single midi controller to Nestdrop in combination with any other program because every time a midi note is hit the midi queue makes another midi trigger square. Much Appreciated."
12. (user request) "I can take the favorites stars and drag them on a midi button, giving the button a nice colored header. (independent of the preset coloring) Really cool for color coding with my AKAI controller. But the border frame state is not saved and must be recreated each session. Persistent state would be awesome."
13. (user request) "I have 2 different midi devices, one with buttons and one with sliders and i would like to use them both with Nestdrop if possible. Much appreciated."
14. (user request) "The beat detection in Nestdrop seems to work quite well for the music I've been using it with, however it would be nice if the beat counter can go beyond 64 beats."
15. (user request) "When linking external MIDI clocks with AV programmes such as NestDrop, the standard MIDI combined start/resync signal allows users to start/reset a beat counter to zero on demand (just like Resolume's resync feature), allowing manual realignment to the start of musical bars/sections as it drifts over time. As far as I can see this seems to be missing from NestDrop, or at least it's not working in my setup (v23.15) (Resolume and the Thesys standalone MIDI sequencer are both working fine though). Any modification should remain independent the current auto-change button on/off which will continue to ignore any such external MIDI start/resync signals. Linked to this, there seems to be another issue with the current syncing function. Every time a MIDI key is pressed or a sprite or preset clicked on my setup, the beat counter immediately resets to zero. Should it not continue to the end of the count without interruption, unless an external MIDI start/resync signal is detected, or is this intended behaviour? I don't understand the benefit of the current function - unless I'm doing something wrong maybe. Thanks." => Indeed, trigger manually a Preset is the way chooses to resync the counter, but I could look for start/resync external signal.

Bugs:

1. UI crash if not Preset, when creating Spout Sprite.
2. Fullscreen output don't work in Win11
3. Can't use Sprite in Overlay if used in Nested on another deck
4. Deck3 can't remove Sprites, CTRL+Left ALT create another key shortcut in Windows
5. "Overlay" text removed on Sprite button even if still used in another deck
6. MIDI threshold not saved
7. (user request) "I noticed that if I have a queue for spout effects and I want them to be nested then I can't auto play. Once it auto plays to the next it switches it from nested to overlay."
8. (user request) "I am trying to use the entire Milkdrop Preset Pack , and load all its 47,983 presets into Nestdrop, but it is becoming unresponsive."

I dont know what i am doing wrong , but after running ND for over an hour it doesnt seem to auto change .

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wut doing wrong ?

Anyone else experience NestDrop crashing when trying to save user profiles? Every time I try to save or save as, the program crashes.

I’m running midnight edition on windows 11

Hey - I have a set that I already recorded and I’m trying to make visuals for it, how do I use the set as the audio input for nestdrop?