First mcjMidiLoad Beta Available - Midi File loader script for Daz Studio

mCasual

something you inevitably spotted

the first 2 versions of mcjMidiLoad were Applying using the 'Target Property' value
currently selected in the assignment list editor's drop-down list

instead of the item in the assignment list

i just wanted you to know i spotted the faulty line of code

and the next release wont have that problem

mCasual

good news the code for any-and-all material properties seems to be in place
so tomorrow, i'll do DS4.X tests and very possibly but almost certain, i hope so, the new version of mcjMidiLoad will come out

then i'll tend to other end-of-May scripts ... probably in June :) )

Keiron

Hi Casual

Rudolph's nose is looking cool
Red nose day here we come LOL

The Sax is coming along

I've a couple of parts that are foxing me as yet, but i'll leave them seperated at the mo
most of it is now animatable

mCasual

keiron said:

Hi Casual

Rudolph's nose is looking cool
Red nose day here we come LOL

The Sax is coming along

I've a couple of parts that are foxing me as yet, but i'll leave them seperated at the mo
most of it is now animatable

99% sure i'll post the new version today
and it fixes the problem wherein the Target property is taken from the drop-down-list of target properties instead of the item column in the assignment list

shown here, color animations

mCasual

well .... it wont be today i guess
but i did make progress
and the changes were made with the future in mind

Keiron

Hi Casual

That's looking terrific

Thank you for all your hard work

Kindest Wishes

Keiron

mCasual

keiron said:

Hi Casual

That's looking terrific

Thank you for all your hard work

Kindest Wishes

Keiron

doing final tests and fixes in DS 4.7x today ( moving away from the calm DS3 seas )

mCasual

Ambient Color midi-music animation on SkinShin material, in Daz Studio 4.5+

Keiron

Hi Casual

LOL totally brill, luv it

Keep up the great work

looks like her she is pain with her arms?

I've just put all the Sax pieces together . I've got most of the keys etc opening and closing when using xrotate,
some need y rotate and that's causing a bit of a wobbly LOL still working on that bit.

Guidotorius

keiron said:

Hi Casual

well ive got the Wurzell Keyboard to animate to a midi file LOL
just brill well done

I have a couple of questions

I noticed you can add different actions tranlate x, tranlate y etc. How do I delete that action, if I have made a mistake?
I also noticed if I reselect the object in the case of the keyboard say note c and change again it adds this on top of the one i did before

It would be nice to see an editable table of the animations etc so you can check for mistakes and correct them

Now having spent a long time setting up the keyboard to animate with all the notes, is there a way to leave the settings and just change the midi file so it plays a new one with the same settings

I managed to get dragon 3 to move it's face around to music need to play more with that

This is great fun thank you

Hello, mCasual and Keiron. I love the creative vibe between the two of you. Both of you seem to be using the scripts that you, mCasual, made to animate keyboard instruments. I have a question about how this works. Do the scripts animate a keyboard instrument automatically, or do you have to do a lot of "programming" to achieve these results? As a newbie, I'd like to do this, but I don't know how to begin. Is there a step-by-step tutorial to follow on how to animate a keyboard using these scripts? Or even a simple set of directions? On the site where I downloaded the Wurzkeil 88, there was a tutorial on how to animated a cylinder; however, I wasn't sure how to apply this tutorial to animating the keyboard using the scripts. Help!

Keiron

Hi augustchamplin

Casual is writing the scripts, I'm just anoying him LOL

Casual has released MIDIload v3 and is available here

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts5/mcjmidikit

He is currently working on ver 4 which is looking very cool, and I look forward to it's release

You need a keyboard and Casual has very kindly released two versions a 61 key and a 88 key +keyboard +stand

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts5/mcjwurzkeil

You can't save the instrument config with ver 3, but you can save what you have done in a daz scene file

You need mf2t to convert a midi file to text availble here

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mf2t-win32/
Once you have installed the script you need to point it to where you have put the mf2t folder
If this is unsuccessfull Casual has posted a DOS solution for this in the forum

You will need a midi file type1
I created one using a Keyboard and Magix Samplitude Recording Studio, I used channel 1 for the right hand and channel 2 for the left or you could us just channel1 for both left and right hands
I then Exported the MIDI file and the WAVE file, then added the wave file to Daz Studio "EDIT Audio"
The MIDI is converted in the Script or in a DOS script

Each keyboard model can have it's own note naming convention, so you may need a different Instument config for each

Once you have loaded the keyboard model select a key say note 88 then open the script

Please have a play and see how you get on

Casual has posted answers to a number of questions in this forum post

Kindest wishes

Keiron

Guidotorius

keiron said:

Hi augustchamplin

Casual is writing the scripts, I'm just anoying him LOL

Casual has released MIDIload v3 and is available here

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts5/mcjmidikit

He is currently working on ver 4 which is looking very cool, and I look forward to it's release

You need a keyboard and Casual has very kindly released two versions a 61 key and a 88 key +keyboard +stand

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts5/mcjwurzkeil

You can't save the instrument config with ver 3, but you can save what you have done in a daz scene file

You need mf2t to convert a midi file to text availble here

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mf2t-win32/
Once you have installed the script you need to point it to where you have put the mf2t folder
If this is unsuccessfull Casual has posted a DOS solution for this in the forum

You will need a midi file type1
I created one using a Keyboard and Magix Samplitude Recording Studio, I used channel 1 for the right hand and channel 2 for the left or you could us just channel1 for both left and right hands
I then Exported the MIDI file and the WAVE file, then added the wave file to Daz Studio "EDIT Audio"
The MIDI is converted in the Script or in a DOS script

Each keyboard model can have it's own note naming convention, so you may need a different Instument config for each

Once you have loaded the keyboard model select a key say note 88 then open the script

Please have a play and see how you get on

Casual has posted answers to a number of questions in this forum post

Kindest wishes

Keiron

Thanks, Keiron! That's helpful. I'll try to give it a try.

Best wishes,

August

mCasual

its a well kept secret but theres another version on my site
and it's not working with morphs anymore

i do get the error message about the propIsMorph variable not being present

so lets find the bug ...

i forgot to write it !, it's a function that answers the question

" If i show you a property named "morph | note69", is that a morph, a material name or a node property? )

....

and since in this new version the morphs are known internally as "morph | somename"

it's an easy question to answer

so the missing ingredient was

function propIsMorphProp( propName )
{ 
 return( propName.indexOf( morphPrefix ) == 0 )
}

since the script was crashing at that point, it never got to the point where the normal node properties like XRotate get applied
so even if you were not targeting a morph, the script didnt work

to make it work for morphs the line

  var modifier = obj.findModifier( propName );

also needed to be replaced with

  var modifier = obj.findModifier( propName.replace( morphPrefix, "" ) );

now i'll test the XRotate animations ...

works ... not !, the keyboard rotates instead of the one key

correcting ...

ok the problem is in the function that identifies the target node, based on its "long name"

the "long name" for children of the keyboard (the keys!) is something like "mcjWurzkweil88 | note69"

ah HA! i found it

when the script starts, it inspects what you selected, if it's something like the mcjWurzkweil88
which owns child nodes, the script adds them to your list of potential targets
and it memorizes their phone numbers
but instead of storing the child's phone number i was storing the parent's phone number !

fixing this ...

line 1152 which did read

selectednodes.push( [ longNodeName,  node ] ); 

becomes

selectednodes.push( [ longNodeName, cnodes[j] ] ); 

Fig 1 . - TaDa! note 069 gets midi channel 69's notes
( which musically speaking, is possibly not correct since the leftmost key of the mcjWurzkeil88 is not 0 )

uploading ... now

the name will be

mcjMidiLoad - SuperSecretBetaJune0500h11.dsa

mCasual

direct link to the super secret very still beta version

SuperSecretBetaJune0500h11

http://tinyurl.com/pqndoey

---------

we're close to the release of a mildly final ( :) ) version

other than making sure everything works : Morphs / Materials / Node animations
i want to add a way to apply any complex animation imaginable for each noteOn-Note-Off event

- complex as in ...

- drummer-arm animation
- color-fade-in/fade-out ramps
- pianist wrist positioning
- pianist fingers pianotting
- fireworks
- balls being catapulted

those complex animations will in fact be short scripts or pose-animations
which will be supplied by the user, or created using, something resembling
when you do a File / Save As / Deprecated / Pose Preset

the difference is that my Pose-animations will be able to start before the NoteOn events

that's how Amy had time to lift and bring down the drum stick before hitting the drums

Keiron

Hi Casual

Cool it's loaded the Piano config and applied assignments OK
With Expand set to false, I get the piano keys going down different levels
and with Expand set to True works great, keys fully down, well done

First observations

1. Notes at begining of sequence

2. Some of the channel timeline keys don't match the keyboard

3. I created 16 configs with the same info but with the channel changed. added second keyboard, loaded config for channel 15
This time it placed the config onto the first keyboard not the one selected. I had selected note 87 from the drop down list before applying assignments

On a different note when you observe the data in the Keymate timeline, you don't see the MIDI side of things this however can be fixed
there is a dropdown box with three options TRSV,TRS AND TR just change it to TRSV and all is displayed

Keiron

Below image 1 Notes at start of sequence
image 2,3,4 showing although kyb 2 is selected data is placed on kyb1
Keyboard Config

I made a keyboard config file using just from 96 to 96, I had selected note 87 from the model, 96 is top note of keyboard C
using notepad I added all the other notes and saved the file being carefull to check that the tabs were still there "Expand" was not selected

Using notepad I did a replaced channel01 to channel02. I also changed the Expand funcion from false to true
I saved this new config and did the same for the remaining channels

Why did I do this you ask?
I have made a 16 channel MIDI file type 1 type 0 puts all channels on the same track so it's impossible to seperate out
Channel 1 and 2 are the 88 key Keyboard left and right
3,4,6,7,8 and 16 not used yet
Channel 5 is a SAX
Channel 9 and 10 are drums
Channel 11 is Bass
Channel 12,13,14 are Pads
Channel 15 is a second Keyboard

Off to see if I can make a config for the Sax LOL

mCasual

keiron said:

1, 2, 3

1. The keyboard notes are playing at the beginning of timeline, not where MIDI song starts

some midi-to-wav converters, for example "Timidity" remove the silence at the beginning of the midi files
so i often had to add the silence in the wav file, using Audacity
( kind of odd that the freeware/shareware names are related )
or specifying in Daz that the Wav file should be inserted at, frame 100 for example ... if the first note to move is at frame 100

2. I can see a number of notes on the time line very close to the start, is that a note reset?

yes there's a zero-key at the beginning and for a good reason
in non-layered mode, there's 1 keyframe for the noteOn and 1 keyframe for the Note-Off
the interpolation mode is "Constant", meaning the key stays at the level it's at until a new keyframe is encountered
The other modes Linear/Splined would have the keyframe values ramp/spline between notes.
if i did not insert a NoteOff Keyframe at frame 0, then, the minute i keyframe a NoteOn 100% at frame 100, all the values from frame 0 to frame 100 would shift to NoteOn100%

3. Some of the channel timeline keys don’t match the keyboard

maybe it's related to the Quantizing checkbox

Keiron

Hi Casual

Programs removing silence from midi file, That explaines it i'll watch out for that next time, I was going to remove the silence from the wave file.

I'm pleased to see they are resets that's great

LOL just noticed Quantatize is on by Default, ill try it without, I realise it's needed for drums. here a screen shot with Quantize off

Did you see the problem about using two piano's where it's placing the data on the first one? I'll try it again today.

PS Just loaded the same config ie channel1 into the 2nd piano and it's not going to the time line it looks like its going to the 1st piano time line.

Just tried to do the same with the sax loaded it won't place anything on the time line is it not seeing the Instrument name?

LOL just renamed Saxophone to mcjWurzwell88 and it works OK

Like the load bar on loading the MIDI text file cool

Keiron

Hi Casual

I've added a couple of extra screen shots re two pianos

I selected piano1 and loaded it into the selected timeline np
it doesn't matter if the second is renamed this time, you can only see this if you choose another channel with different notes
if you put the same channel no down as the first piano it all looks OK
if you put channel 15 down it overlays channel 15 onto channel1 on the ist piano's timeline

mCasual

keiron said:

... two pianos ...

i'll see if the script can differenciate the pianos
normally mcjMidiLoader looks for objects based on their label ( as seen in the Scene" panel )
and not on the name which is known only to Daz Studio

so you need to manually re-label each piano with a different label if Daz studio didnt do it for you

but maybe mcjMidiLoader mistakenly bases the assignment target on the internal prop name
and if Daz Studio didnt ( as it should ) rename the second piano with a different internal name
then there may be a mixup

Limun

what a great script ...
thanks Casual

Keiron

Hi Casual

Hope you had a great weekend
Apologies for bringing you hassle

re
"i’ll see if the script can differenciate the pianos
normally mcjMidiLoader looks for objects based on their label ( as seen in the Scene” panel )
and not on the name which is known only to Daz Studio

so you need to manually re-label each piano with a different label if Daz studio didnt do it for you

but maybe mcjMidiLoader mistakenly bases the assignment target on the internal prop name
and if Daz Studio didnt ( as it should ) rename the second piano with a different internal name
then there may be a mixup"

I'm not sure what's changed it worked OK in ver. 3 Daz Studio has just added a (2) onto the name for the second piano, as the main name is the same ie mcjWurzkwell88, mcjWurzkwell88 (2)

There seems to be two issues

1. I couldn't get the model named "Sax" to post data to the timeline, until I renamed it mcjWurzkwell88

2. The script looks like its posting the second piano data to the 1st piano timeline

I have Expand as true and Effect as none

I have just tried renaming mcjWurzkwell88 to mcjWurzkwell88 (2) and it won't post to the timeline

I haven't successfully got the "Effect to" work as yet

On an important note I'm using the new release Daz Studio 4.8, shall I deinstall and try 4.7?

update 08062015 13:17

With one keyboard loaded all OK and if i rename it it's OK

with two pianos loaded
If I select mcjWurzkwell88 it posts to timeline mcjWurzkwell88
if I select mcjWurzkwell88 (2) it posts to mcjWurzkwell88

update 08062015 13:38
With a Sax model loaded Expand=true, key selected notes 60- 61 applied with out Effect applied it sends data to the timeline
With Effect applied it send's data to the time line and an error comes up only when you select the item in the dropdown list
see attached jpeg
It looks like there is data on every keyframe this time

Thank you for you help

Keiron

Hi Casual

Thought i was going nuts as one minute it would post and another not

Problems found are as follows

One keyboard loaded all is well you can also renane OK

1. When two piano's are loaded and you save config and reload, set channel 1 for first piano, piano 1 is OK
now load config for second piano set for same channel 1 but it's on piano1 timeline so you don't see it
now load config for second piano set for channel 15 ie has different notes it adds to piano 1 time line

2 Script error when selecting something from the drop down list only when "Effect" is applied

3. Data not displaying in time line? somehow this time only data loaded upto the pointer? there is a script error so that might give you an indication to whats happening

Keiron

Hi

New Beta version Testing

Here is the 88 key mcjWurkweil88 with the Expand function set

The Keyboard keys are now fully traveling down

Works great, well done Casual

http://youtu.be/9Uhx_FEokXs

Keiron

Hi

As my Nan used to say, where there's a will ther's a way

This is the Beta Version of MIDIload ver 4 made by Casual showing the new Keyboard Config setting "Expand" this allows the keyboard keys to go fully down regardless of velocity setting. This time I have used two pianos on different MIDI channels, note:- the Pianos were renamed. In Daz Studio. I have also deleted all lights and default camera's and just made a single camera and light. I have used Merge to Import the two different piano scenes works great

https://youtu.be/kviE5Aut9D8

mCasual

keiron said:

Hi

New Beta version Testing

Here is the 88 key mcjWurkweil88 with the Expand function set

The Keyboard keys are now fully traveling down

Works great, well done Casual

http://youtu.be/9Uhx_FEokXs

thanks, dont worry i'll get back to it ! :)

and it will be improved

been doing other things, like google-streetview-skyspheres

and very soon i'll complete this bass guitar prop

Keiron

Hi Casual

Nice looking bass love the shape and colours

Best wishes

Keiron

Keiron

Hi Everyone

Grand Piano from Truform at Renderosity is now working OK

https://youtu.be/7Y1MCSjfEz0

Keiron

Hi Casual

It's in Sync even at 5 min +

BoogieStride by Keiron Westguard

Hi I was playing some Boogie, so I have recorded nine tracks using Magix Samplitude tracks 1 and 5 are me playing two off the cuff versions, then the whole is exported as a 16 track MIDI sequence and a single Wave File
Using Daz Studio 4.8, I have loaded Casual's totally brill 88 Key Keyboard. I have then loaded the Wave file and using his MIDIload script. I have created an Initial piano config, I then added all the Keyboard keys using notepad. Again using Notepad I have created 16 configs each has it's own channel from 1 to 16. Importing the MIDIfile I have then used config channel 1 with the first Keyboard and saved this as a scene. using the same method I have saved a second piano scene .I have then used Merge to combine scene 1 and 2. I have then rendered 8400 images to a folder at a resolution of 1980 x 1080 images. I then used Virtual Dub 64 bit to created an AVI Yes this was huge 4.89 Gig. from here I used Magix Movie Edit Pro 2015 to sync the AVI to the Wave file

https://youtu.be/CD9eKW2cc-g

Best at 1080

Keiron

Hi Casual

i thought i'd try to get a bit of Brass and Grand piano's Playing some Boogie LOL

https://youtu.be/nVFIT5LQBBY