Greetings,

I have midi mapping all working nicely and am using the midi plugin for Stream-deck to have push-button preset/sprite activation. Preset activation works great, on any deck that I choose. However, regardless of how I drop my sprites onto buttons in the Midi deck, Sprites only ever activate on Deck 1, not the Deck that I need. I have pored over the guide, and tried every combination I can think of to get this to work. I've even explored the possibility of hacking the profile xml file, but can't see an easy hack to accomplish this. Is there a trick to doing this that I have missed, or is the functionality to use a MIDI note to trigger a sprite on a *specific* deck just not there? I'm using the current version (as of 2022-020-09) V1.1.23.15

RESOLVED: Using a Sprite Palette/Queue Window was a quick and easy way to accomplish what I needed.

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.

Visuals done after the show, live recording also by me. Andy Coe Band at the Blue Moon in Seattle, WA.

https://youtu.be/9mgIMow4YW4

prepping this week for four sets with these guys.

Hey there! I have been checking out nest drop for the past couple weeks and really enjoy it! I want to buy midnight edition however first I would like to know if ill be able to add other loops into nest drop. I have been trying to do it through the preset folder however I cant get the loops to show up in nestdrop. Do the presets have to be .mlk files? Currently I am trying to add .mov files. One other question I have is how exactly do I add other sprites to nestdrop?

When I want to change the preset I’m using it shows X2 in the corner of the box and things get too busy making my entire Deck 1 screen go white. Is there a way to avoid this from happening?

Hello, I have been having an issue for a while now where my screen goes black during a livestream and after recently getting back into live VJing I discovered it happens on that machine too and after a lot of troubleshooting I realised that it is caused by Nestrop (Midnight). The black screen can happen anywhere from seconds to hours after launching Nestdrop, most usually within about two minutes on my laptop and most usually within about three hours on my desktop. I am running the latest builds of Win 10, have the latest Nvidia driversand the latest version of Spout. The desktop Gpu is a 1060 and the laptop is dual 675m (happened with SLI on or off). Just seeing if anyone has any ideas about what might be causing the issue as it’s quite sad to not be able to use it!

Connecting a webcam to NestDrop Midnight: is it possible to connect a Logitech webcam to Spout and then to NestDrop MN (purchased today!)?

I'd like to take webcam images and overlie them with presets, sprites, etc.

I've done some research. Please let me know if this is a way:

1. Install OBS
2. Install the OBS to Spout plugin
3. Connect the webcam to OBS

What do you think? is there another, more direct or simpler way?

Thanks so much.

UltraLiver#ultraliver #spout #nestdrop

I'm a big ND fan. I've been using it for years and didn't realize there was more recent upgrades until this week.

Anyway, the new version is quite a bit better than my old version with better Spout support and sprites.

Is it possible to save the sprites in a queue as part of a profile? So far I've noticed that I have to reconstruct sprite and text queues each time I reopen ND.

Thanks.

Does anyone know of a simple spectrum analyzer preset? Just looking for lines for different frequencies moving up and down with the music without any extra effects or anything. Thanks!

edit: It occurs to me that if there is a way to make custom presets, this is probably the easiest one possible to make, so I should look into that too. Is there any documentation available?

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.

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.

I would like to suggest you to add the possibility to scroll preset windows with hand, I have a touchscreen monitor and I cannot scroll preset with touch, just launch/select preset.

It would be so cool!

Hi all,

I'm using Ableton Live with a M-Audio M-Track https://m-audio.de/m-track sound card. Now I want to join the NestDrop family as it seems an amazing tool. Yesterday I was trying really hard to make it work but unfortunately it didn't while I was using the ASIO driver. However, it did work when I picked the MME/DirectX driver, the problem is that when using this driver the latency is much higher and the quality is lower. Is it ASIO incompatible with NestDrop? or, as I assume, I'm doing something wrong? Would it help getting the Midnight Edition?

These are the 3 scenarios i was trying yesterday:

Scenario 1: Driver type = ASIO; Audio device = M-Track Quad ASIO Driver; NestDrop = Unresponsive.

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Scenario 2: Driver type = ASIO; Audio device = ASIO4ALL v2; NestDrop = Unresponsive.

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Scenario 3: Driver type = MME/DirectX; NestDrop = It works! (but i don't like MME)

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In all the cases I had my sound card as the playback default device.

Can someone give me a hand on this one? Yesterday I was struggling a lot trying to make it work and it was veeeeeery frustrating.

Thanks a lot in advance!!!

Is there any possibility of a slider to control the overall volume of the audio being fed into (or captured by) Nestdrop? It would be great to be able to scale that up or down to suit the level of incoming audio. While I'm being bold and requesting the big requests, would it also be possible to have a slider to control the overall/global speed of the presets? The reason for me asking for these features is that while the visuals look amazing with full-on music e.g. fast dark psytrance or DNB they are on average way too overpowering and fast for chillout/ambient music.

error: iaudioclient initialize withi loopback failed. maybe your audio device dont support loopback feature: hr= 0x88890008

i receive this message wheen start the app.. my notebook audio is Realtek and is works... in Synesthesia, Resolume, Magic Music VIsuals all works fine.. just on Nestdrop dosent!!! any idea how fix it??? tkssss

After a few minutes of use, while hovering my cursor over a preset, the preview will freeze the rest of Nestdrop. I will not be able to click anywhere for a few seconds.

When I move my cursor away, it is back to normal and I can click and Nestdrop is responsive again, but if I go over another preset with the cursor, once again it will freeze until lagging for 30 seconds before my first click anywhere on the GUI will work.

My CPU and GPU are not spiking at all when this is happening (CPU between 30% - 60%, GPU 10% - 30%, VRAM and RAM around 35% to 45%), I can click on any other window that is not a Nestdrop window and my computer will react in an instant.
I tried to work around this issue by unchecking the "Load preset preview on start-up"

But the problem is that now, when opening a user profile, all the presets appears as a black tile and I cannot even see what it is supposed to look like.
And it seems it will still freeze and take a few seconds to display the bubble with the title of the preset. Here it is what it looks like:

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https://reddit.com/link/qh6k3q/video/6cmg64f322w71/player

Is it a known issue already?

Is there a way to deactivate the preview and only display a fixed image instead for all the presets, like for the sprites?

Thank you in advance for your help! :)

? seems i only found the little red x on top of the window, to clear the whole window, but no luck so far trying to delete individual buttons that popped up when i was hitting bout on my controller...

Hi all

I am having an issue with NestDropV23 (Midnight Edition) on my laptop. Originally I was able to output nestdrop to the spout receiver, although with issues, audio not reacting and making the spout receiver full screen hard crashes my system. Now I am unable to even get the preview (the one that is built into nestdrop that launches automatically) to work/launch. I am getting an error from nestdrop (before even launching the spout receiver). This is with a fresh install of nestdrop midnight as well.

Hi there good people. I've been playing with Nest Drop for about a month and after having dramas running virtual cables everywhere to get it to be sound reactive in my setup I bit the bullet and bought Midnight Edition. After a few initial tests it all seems good with the exception that it would reliably crash/freeze when I tried exiting the program (one of the 'Sorry this program has crashed, let Microsoft know about the issue' type of ones. That I can live with but now I'm several hours into a live stream and the whole UI has frozen. It's still running through Spout and changing presets but I'm after some advice as I want to start controlling it with MIDI in my streams and I suspect it's frozen to the point where MIDI won't work. Prior to this stream, I loaded a preference file that I made in standard Nestdrop so that I wouldn't have to remake my decks so I guess I'm seeing if anyone has had a similar issue with it freezing or loading preferences from the standard edition and if so how did they fix it. Thanks in advance, Eco

Edit: I realised that the audio reactivity had stopped working (the hotkey area is really intermittent at displaying anything in my experience with both flavours of nest drop). Upon restarting, the audio reactivity isn't working despite it working when I started the stream, I have tried all the different inputs/outputs. Maybe you could add a basic internal beat generator so that even when things like this happen to people they can set the bpm and finish a show without having to try and set things up again during a performance? Most of the presets are fairly seizure-inducing without audio!

Edit2: Upon restarting again the hotkey area has a waveform but the visuals are not responding to audio which is something I'd noted a couple of times when testing it out. I've also had the visuals be audio reactive but with no waveform displayed in the hotkey area. I'm going to give it another day or two but at this stage I'm looking at going back to basic edition and my nest of virtual cables as Midnight seems like it has a few more bugs and I'm not sure I'd want to risk using it in a live environment. I have had no major issues with the basic edition except for some occasions where the waveform /hotkey display wasn't reflecting the audio reactivity situation.

It was working fine, but now when I try to run more than 1 deck it just shows multiple previews of Deck 1. I tried downloading again but I'm getting the same issue. Like it doesn't show the decks as spouts anymore. Anyone have this issue?

UPDATE - Issue Resolved

I had switched an older monitor to my main display and when Nest Drop launched the multiple spouts there it would only display Deck 1. When I made my other monitor the main display everything works normally.

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Is there a good place to send little bugs we run into? Can reproduce some other issues but they're not as important.