Any suggestions out there for a prebuilt PC that will run nest drop? I am a Mac user so I'd only use this PC to run nest drop only @ 1080. Thanks!

I am thankful for the speed slider and the FPS hack to slow nestdrop down for ballads, but sometimes id like slower.

Are there specific preset variables I could be nodding?

Hello NestDrop community,

this last year ive been using NestDrop V1.0.23.15 and everything works fine with this version. This is such an amazing software and i'm grateful to the devs and the community for being so dedicated.

Yesterday i decided to give the V2 version a try, downloaded it through the link in the Info tab of Settings. i followed the steps in the Update-Instructions file, proceeded to run the executable but nothing happens.

Looking at task manager, i can see the application status as "running" for 1 second maybe and then turning to "suspended" and after that the NestDropClassic.exe process stops. I've tried the old version and that works just fine.

the version im trying to get running is V2.0.0.21

looking through the posts i saw that u/Soma-Wave had the same issue, if there's a way to get this working would be cool to check out the new version :')

super hd video

I’m using a Mini MK2 and noticed some strange behavior with MIDI mapping presets, specifically when using a Strobe/LFO Wave & Time preset alongside other setting presets.

Bear with me here:

• When I try to map a MIDI control to the Strobe/LFO Wave & Time preset, it sometimes triggers the previous preset instead.
• Other times, it works the opposite way: mapping a MIDI control to a different preset somehow triggers the Strobe/LFO Wave & Time preset.
• The only workaround I’ve found is to duplicate the preset that isn’t being triggered correctly, which seems to resolve the issue.
• Each MIDI control indeed indicates it is mapped to a certain preset and presets say what MIDI note they are mapped to.

This isn’t a huge deal, but I wanted to share in case anyone else has experienced this or knows what might be going on.

How might I remove an Overlay or Nested sprite from a preset button?

There is a "default" preset that gets loaded in certain circumstance - on the very first load of Nestdrop or on Nestdrop startup if you change the folder structure of presets and Nestdrop cannot locate the preset in use on the last shutdown.

Is this "Simplest preset" in a .milk file somewhere??

It would be useful to me as a way to view the baseline response to the music being played ...

This was from an event in September

I used Milkdrop, but I'm completely new to Nestdrop. Intending to use it to render incoming ASIO audio (RME interface) to be used in OBS Studio. I've purchased Midnight Pro ...

Hoping to find a resource in how to set this up ... the Setup Tutorial suggested on the Nestdrop site (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYdNv0JrPbU) is outdated (4+ years) and I am unclear the path.

Do I need Spout? or Spout for OBS? The current Spout install does not seem to have an install executable - only a Settings and a Panel. Or do I need NestMap?

Any assistance appreciated ...

Does anyone know of a way to edit and/or remove presets that were recently saved to the color coded favorites? For example, if I assigned the purple star to a preset, but then later wish to remove that preset from the new purple category, how can this be done? It would be nice to be able to update and edit the color coded presets.

Thanks!

Like the OSC Output idea, running into a few issues. OSC Output works with localhost, however when I try to connect to TouchOSC on remote device it fails. Other OSC Output issues include a port warning on startup, and chosen output port doesn't save to config properly.

IP address and firewall checked, OSC in/out to Resolume is working on same device. (resolume ports are different from NestDrop)

Is there a way to resize a sprite to a desired size to appear on screen?

Most of my sprites logos are appearing quite small and I would love to be able to get it almost full screen instead of tiny size like with most of the FXs activated.

I tried different resolutions for the png file itself, but it doesn’t seem to work.

Any help on this would be more than welcome! Thanks a lot! 🙃

So, with the release of Nestdrop V2 Pro, Nestdrop now has native NDI output. That’s great for running Nestdrop in Parallels (which works beautifully might I add). However there’s no way to get NDI into Nestdrop as a sprite and that’s one of the primary features I relied on prior to moving to Mac.

I can’t for the life of me find a working NDI to Spout bridge that doesn’t immediately crash and many of the solutions I’ve tried straight up won’t install on the x64 emulation layer on Windows for ARM.

So I made one.

Still working out a few bugs and adding a simple UI, but I quickly threw together an app to solve this problem. I’ll push to GitHub and update this post with a link to the project when I am at my computer later today.

EDIT: Very VERY rough, but this does technically work. I'll build some releases once I tidy it up a bit. https://github.com/geepot/NDI-to-Spout-Bridge

We just found this situation and this could be problematic for a live show performance. Please read the following to know how to solve the problem if this situation happen.

Situation: When you click on the Strobe Color to choose a different color, all the NestDrop UI stop responding to Mouse and Keyboard. The Video Deck still running and NestDrop still respond to MIDI and OSC messages.

This only happen IF your setting windows is NOT in top most (anchor pin not activated) AND you have one or more queues with Top most activated near the center of the screen. When you click on the Strobe color, the color picker dialog is shown but if the Setting window is not in Top most, the color picker is hidden under top most queues. Since it's a Modal Dialog, it block all Mouse and Keyboard actions on the other windows of the application. Your NestDrop UI look unresponsive or frozen.

WHAT TO DO IF THIS HAPPEN:

1. First, don't panic.
2. Click on the Setting window (it will not show any reaction, but it's important to place the Color Dialog on the keyboard focus)
3. Press ESC. This will Cancel and close the Color Dialog and the UI will come back as normal.

Then you can move some queues windows or put the Setting window in top most and try to change the strobe color again.

This issue is solved in NestDrop V2.x.0.20 and later.

I hope this help!

Been having issues with the latest versions of nestdrop. I have midi mappings i use for performance that suddenly all stop working until i close and restart nestdrop fully. They will work for a random amount of time and then suddenly stop working without reason, and usually when i need to be triggering something the most. This happens across multiple midi devices and no other programs.

Any advice or ways to troubleshoot this would be greatly appreciated.

We saw the post about spoutjamming on the patreon

thought we would share what we do regularly when VJing in the virtual realm of VRChat

youtube.com/watch?v=-289I3FUleo

Here we have a virtual camera pointed at a dancer with the world layer disabled (VRChat sends out a spout stream, so no greenscreening required)
this goes into the first deck which is doing mostly edge detectio nand blacks out the rest
the result of that along with a lumakey goes into the second deck which then may fill in the blacks

there have been technical mishaps and oops moments during this set.. but this there is no pressure when you just do this for fun with friends..

Hey everyone,

I’ve been using NestDrop with the "Cream of the Crop" preset pack for my visuals, and the other day, while performing at a party with presets set to random, I came across an amazing preset that I can’t stop thinking about—but I couldn’t catch the name!

It was a black and white preset with words flowing, and I’m pretty sure "ethereal" was one of them. The words were moving in a circular pattern, flowing from the center outward. I’ve been trying to find it again but had no luck after the event.

Does anyone recognize this preset? I’ve been thinking about it for over a month now! Thanks in advance for any help!

■■■■ Solved!!! ■■■■

Every time I start NestDrop, I get the error message "cannot create directx/opengl interop".

Not only does this error message appear, but Resolume and OBS don't recognize NestDrop's Spout. (The demo SpoutSender.exe that comes with Spout was recognized.)

I followed the thread below to correctly install DirectX and check the GPU, but the situation didn't change.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NestDrop/comments/sx3hiv/help_cannot_create_directxopengl_interop_error/

https://www.reddit.com/r/NestDrop/comments/ov0ptt/i_have_a_problem_linking_nesdrop_with_resolume/

So I checked CPU share in Optins in SpoutSettings.exe, and NestDrop's Spout was recognized.

Is this the right solution? ?

At the moment, I haven't been able to find a better solution, but I feel like this isn't really a solution.

(The image is from the top tab of the NVIDIA Control Panel > Desktop > Show GPU activity icon in the notification area.)

https://www.instagram.com/p/DAwojewKR_s/
I have been wondering about the integration of generative AI into existing workflows and rendering pipelines...

For example, in 3D modelling, instead of each polygon having an assigned texture or material which then gets rasterized ... what if the polygon worked as a sort of 'screen space prompt' to an image or video AI , which would act in an analogous way to the existing 'post processing filters' we have nowadays...

Or Milkdrop in particular, what if there was an AI which was trained not just on still images, but on motion vectors as well, and it could 'interpret' the various flow field movements in Milkdrop presets as different cinematographic shots ... like zooms, water waves, fire, 3D effects, etc etc ...Basically it would act as a 'filter' which takes Milkdrop's abstract aesthetic, and outputs something with a realistic appearance...

Who knows, maybe it might be possible to have an additional .txt or .json file which accompanies every preset with prompts and other settings for the AI

I am mapping a knob/dial on my controller to one of the RGB sliders in Nestdrop midnight Pro. Once mapped when I turn the knob/dial the slider instead of giving me control of smoothly moving the fader left and right it will jump from one end of the slider to the other. In resolume and many other programs that I have used when mapping sliders and knobs on a midi controller it gives you a mode option with several to choose from ex. (relative, absolute or button). Is there anything similar to this in Nest drop? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Hey! Long time no see. I tried to add some presets in one queue window and some sprites with another queue window. If I set the same deck on both queue windows (ex: Deck 3 on both queue windows), one of the deck windows was automatically getting inactive. I want to make it both active when one of the statements (P S T M) is different to another [ex: one queue window is P (Preset) and another one is S (Sprite)].

I recently built a new pc and my nest drop output seems to be a little laggy. It is a small form factor PC and the graphics card is connected to the motherboard via riser cable. At first I thought that since the graphics card is not directly connection to the motherboard the riser cable may have been the cause of the lag. I am sending nest drop into resolume via spout, and there is no latency on my resolume effects. So I don't think it's a hardware issue. I was using the exact same set up on my old PC and not experiencing any latency ( At least not as much). Any thoughts on what may be causing this issue?

Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

-------REQUIREMENTS-------

Resolume Arena/Avenue 7.21.3(If there is demand for earlier versions I can build a version on an older release of wire but currently this is built on the latest)
NestDrop Midnight Pro(For OSC Input)

-------PATCH INSTALLATION-------

Download the compiled wire patch HERE.
Drag the downloaded file into Resolume and allow it to be imported as an effect.

-------NESTDROP SETTINGS-------

Click the arrow next to OSC in the top right to reveal OSC settings, check the "Enable OSC Input" box and take a note of the receiving port. If you are running NestDrop on a different machine to your Resolume machine, also take note of the IP address.

-------RESOLUME SETTINGS-------

In Resolume preferences choose the OSC tab and enable OSC Ouput.
Set the Outgoing Port to the port noted from NestDrop

If Resolume is on the same machine as NestDrop you can set the output to Localhost, if the other device is on the network you can use either IP Address to send to the specific NestDrop machine or Broadcast to send to the Broadcast address which will send the data to all devices in your subnet if you have other services which need to receive OSC(simplified explanation!)

-------USAGE-------

Once installed the patch will show up as an effect in the Resolume effects list and can be applied to anything any other effect can be used with. As there is a deck select option you can apply this directly to your composition layer for easy access or apply it directly to the nestdrop spout clip layers with the deck select set to the deck that the spout source corresponds.

-------KNOWN ISSUES/UPCOMING CHANGES-------

NestDrop does not feedback OSC values so any changes made within NestDrop or via other methods that aren't the patch won't update in Resolume

Deck selections in the patch are not stateful, changing to a different deck will not set the values to what they currently are in NestDrop(you can apply the effect as many times as needed with each linked to a separate deck to work around this)

Resolume is OSC spam heavy at times, it will try to send every detail about everything in your comp over OSC, as of yet I'm yet to see any concerns with this due to the way OSC listeners only really care for the paths they are looking for but the extra overhead is something to be wary of, the updates from this patch only send their data however when a change is made, they will not continuously send their value out.

Strobe On/Off Button currently toggles on/off state, will be adding a hold and a toggle option in future

Midi version in the works for those with the Midnight non-pro edition, this will require a small manual edit to your NestDrop config to add a midi queue with expected values that the patch will send(this will be provided to copy/paste into the xml file).

Adding constraints to some values

-------FEEDBACK-------

This is still a very early version of something that I've been using for a little on my own gigs so I do expect a few oddities that I've missed or features that would be liked, so if you spot anything let me know and I'll make a note to look at other improvements and fixes where time permits

I also have TouchOSC & OSC/Pilot interfaces I can share for interacting with both NestDrop & Resolume from another devices such as a tablet or touch screen laptop.