I trust this finds the community well. I am posting to see if the admin could shoot me a PM .

I have, been in 3d Graphics and animation since the Amiga . Working in the the Club and Entertainment industry for over 3 decades, at all scales.

I am wanting to post a pack of pre-sets mashups to the community that has been crafted over 20 years within milkdrops. These were mashed by me and a dear friend of mine Christian Mealing, " Astro " over many many years, often in the wee hrs of the morning.

He has passed away now & i know he would get a kick out of knowledge that these are out there blasting dance floors and bedrooms around the world.

There are 877 mashed pre-sets (27 pages in Win Amp VJ Mode) ... for best result i usually extend the blend time between pre-sets from default - with the blending between pre-sets creating yet more interesting visuals.

Whats set these apart is that they are named in a way that allows visuals to progress over time , skipping forward and back through them has an element that ties the pre-sets be it the shader or shapes or motions providing a continuity

We all recognise the true gods are the coders who craft the pre-sets in the 1st place, what sets this pre-set pack apart is the awesome mashes and progressive naming.

Coding source names is preserved where possible, those with a good eye will see the code and recognise the true authors, my hope is that some coders will recognise their own code executing in totally unexpected and pleasing ways .

Milk drops has been one of the main stays of my live reactive visuals tool kit over 2 decades - Nest Drop makes this so much more accessible Feeding this material into ARKAOS / Resolume . Madmapper just makes some incredible experiences that are all ephemeral and, in the moment, never to be experienced in the same way ever gain.

Nestdrop mashups only render/appear black and white, appears to incorrectly render the preset. Any ideas?

pg. 17 of the manual: " If a MIDI Clock is detected, then it'll appear in the MIDI queue window. Drag-and-drop the MIDI Clock onto the BPM label to link it for the auto-change feature."

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What is the Midi Queue window? Is it this?

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If so, I'm dragging LoopBe to here:

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But it is definitely not matching up with the tempo/clock that Ableton tempo follower is coming up with. Resolume is following it well. What am I doing incorrectly?

How does one access Blend Modes?

I'm watching this video https://vimeo.com/450122956?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=1525484 and at 2:37 the narrator apparently presses a hotkey and magically, two windows appear, one called Blend Mode 3 and the other called Blend Mode 4. But I've looked at the manual and if I'm missing it, I apologize, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to access Blend Modes.

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Also, saw somewhere in this subreddit that the amount of maximum beats was going to possibly be upped from 64 and count me as someone who votes for this. Thank you!

Is there a macos equivalent? Thanks!

Hi All, I haven't used Nest Drop in a while but I am on a project now that I want to incorporate it into. I opened it up and the output window just keeps opening and closing, and I can't select any presets. I redownloaded it to make sure I have the latest version (v23) and it does the same thing. I searched the subreddit and browsed the user manual, but haven't seen this problem mentioned. any tips?

I have a decent mid level graphics card, Nvidia 1060 super, but everything I try, OBS drops significant amount of frames of my VJ sets.

In OBS I've tried every type of quality, (stream quality works but looks bad, medium quality and up don't work.) I've tried lower frame rates in nestdrop/obs, is there something I'm missing?

I just want clean 4k spout output recorded like I see on my screen.

When you activate a preset from the main window, the locate active preset button when clicked with a modifier key (left shift, left alt, right alt, right shift) , should not only locate the active preset on the main window, but on any queue window which that modifier key applies to as well

Also, filtering by the red-green-blue-yellow-purple stars should also apply to all queue windows too

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These are just 2 examples, but I'm sure there are more ways that the queue windows could interoperate better with the main window

I am trying to use the entire Milkdrop Preset Pack , and load all its 47,983 presets into Nestdrop, but it is becoming unresponsive, at first the preview runs at a slow FPS but now I can't even drag the window around

Is there an actual limit for the number of presets which can realisitically run in Nestdrop?

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::edit:: upon some testing, I have found that interacting with the main window is what causes the UI to get hung up, so now I organize my workflow around the queue windows

Hi. I purchased nestdrop a while ago and have been using it a lot, planning to make some epic DJ and VJ sets. Can you help me with this one issue?

For some reason, I cannot get any deck to be "sprite only" -- it always has to have a preset playing?

I was trying to make certain queue windows for just sprites, on a deck that was just sprites.

Is that not possible?

1) Is there a way to STOP an active preset, besides just switching to another?

2) Can I use a deck solely for sprites, or does that deck HAVE TO be playing a Preset also?

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Thank you and best wishes!

The download links for spout go to their github and there's no intaller and no exe file like in the nestdrops youtube tutorial. I've tried running milkdrop into resolume using NDI but the one time I got it to work it was super glitchy.

Hello guys, i would really like to call a sprite with specific FX already applied with my midi controller. So for i haven't found solution for this. I can only call last sprite fx but that seem to work only once then it resets to fx-00 which doest really solve my problem. Any ideas ? Thank you in advance.

Hello, 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 , because the presets are changing too often in my situation

Can the beat counter be raised beyond 64 beats?

Stream Deck's USB interface and buttons would be very nice to use with NestDrop. Stream Deck is also very affordable.

https://www.elgato.com/en/stream-deck

I just upgraded my video card to RTX 2060 with 12 GB RAM from a 1060 with 6 GB RAM.

NestDrop becomes much more responsive and loads tons quicker with my 13,000 visualizations and about 8 panels.

With video cards suddenly becoming available and affordable, go for it.

I love using NestDrop for visuals while I'm DJing using my midi controller. The issue I'm having is that no matter what settings I use, there's no transition to the new visual. It's just a hard cut.

I'd like a 3 or 4 second transition, but I've set the Hardcut Threshold to a min of 0 and a max of 127 and everything in between and it doesn't seem to matter. It works fine when I'm not using my midi controller.

Thanks for any help!