Tutorial: Intro to Audio-Reactive Visuals
Added 2025-04-29 15:22:12 +0000 UTCAnd now for something completely different!
This video provides insight into how we create visual accompaniments to our music; consolidating various approaches and techniques to help you get started creating your own audio-reactive visuals. We hope you enjoy!
00:00 - Intro & Examples
01:31 - Basic TouchDesigner setup
03:06 - Working with audio
04:45 - Connecting sound to visual
05:46 - Refining audio data
08:15 - Adding Noise
11:35 - Working with MIDI
13:17 - Basic particle system
17:01 - Refining MIDI data
20:31 - Working with automation/OSC
25:02 - Working with multiple audio channels
28:56 - Feedback
31:45 - Geometry instancing with feedback textures
37:15 - Using audio spectrum
40:04 - Glyph visualizer walkthrough
Project Files
Download TouchDesigner
TDAbleton Setup:
TDAbleton - TouchDesigner x Ableton Installation Guide
Basic Setup – TouchDesigner + Ableton Tutorial 1
LBAL Live Performance Setup
Comments
Absolutely! Here's a couple of tutorials to get you started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ9gBmenn28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruHVM5KZjB8
KOAN Sound
2025-05-12 15:06:50 +0000 UTCThat's super cool! Really interested in trying touch designer. Appreciate the tutorial, please do more! Is there a way to add in custom 3D models (like from blender) and manipulate the vertices using audio signal?
Jersh
2025-05-09 20:36:11 +0000 UTCYeyyy Wow, that was a really nice tutorial.. tried a couple of times to do an audio reactive video with audio coming from Ableton , but I always had lagging problems. I’m so happy to have seen this and that I can send audio directly from Ableton through the loopback function of the audio card to touch designer. Geniuuuusss ☺️👌😊Thanks a lot for this tutorial…. really really interesting and inspiring… Woow 🤟🔊
Mario
2025-04-30 14:31:25 +0000 UTCtdAbleton comes packaged with TouchDesigner. If you download the latest version of TD it will include v2.5.2.
KOAN Sound
2025-04-29 21:04:59 +0000 UTCDoes anybody knows where to get the TBA 2.5.2? cause thats the vertion I have on my TD, and the one from the Link on de description is 2.5.1, and aparently that just cant comunicate well enough =( I cant find the 2.5.2 anywhere, not even on the TD official site, so I´m a bit concerned! (btw, great video! I´ve been obsessed lately learning TD, so this felt very synchronized to me)
Amotken Music
2025-04-29 20:45:21 +0000 UTC
