decorative spectrum analyzer (analyzer hue)

[sta]

On "analyzer hue" within decorative specturm analyzer you can control the colour..also the 3 knobs below that i think have something to do with it

but i can't get the colour i want

can i set the right colour i want within the code? where exactly can i do that and how?

thanks

[papagirafe]

Originally Posted by sta

On "analyzer hue" within decorative specturm analyzer you can control the colour..also the 3 knobs below that i think have something to do with it

but i can't get the colour i want

can i set the right colour i want within the code? where exactly can i do that and how?

thanks

There is a function called "set_hsv()" that that translate it back into "set(r,g,b)". I guess you could tweak it but it's not trivial.

update: you can add a color adjustment filter afterward

[sta]

Originally Posted by papagirafe

update: you can add a color adjustment filter afterward

Do you mean FX: colorize? this would work for me if it didn't affect the other tracks as well...i don't know how to keep the tracks as they are and FX colorize that track only without affecting the others

[papagirafe]

Originally Posted by sta

Do you mean FX: colorize? this would work for me if it didn't affect the other tracks as well...i don't know how to keep the tracks as they are and FX colorize that track only without affecting the others

Oh! I've forgotten about that one! I ran into this type of problem all the time until I wrote my own permanent fix in GiraFX lib. With stock presets you need to put your fx chain for this source on the item itself (shift-e on selected item) and then add the "image overlay" at the very end of the fx chain. That should isolate the effect.

[sta]

Originally Posted by papagirafe

Oh! I've forgotten about that one! I ran into this type of problem all the time until I wrote my own permanent fix in GiraFX lib. With stock presets you need to put your fx chain for this source on the item itself (shift-e on selected item) and then add the "image overlay" at the very end of the fx chain. That should isolate the effect.

i guess that would work but I don't have items on the track that produce the effect, they are empty and the track below it is the background i want to stay unaltered

i mananged to put the item on the track but its audio? not sure if that will do

[papagirafe]

Originally Posted by sta

i guess that would work but I don't have items on the track that produce the effect, they are empty and the track below it is the background i want to stay unaltered

Track level video fxs are almost always a problem. The trick is to insert a lenghty empty midi item on that track and move the video fx chain to this item. That should work as espected (with the fix of course)

Do you have a short sample of your project that you could share? I am not sure I fully understand the problem.

[Trishtrashtrush]

Originally Posted by sta

On "analyzer hue" within decorative specturm analyzer you can control the colour..also the 3 knobs below that i think have something to do with it

but i can't get the colour i want

can i set the right colour i want within the code? where exactly can i do that and how?

thanks

What color do you want to change? The spectrogram only or the analyzer only? And do you want a simple color or a gradient?

Because there are the first 2 buttons that control the color of the analyzer (the starting point and the size of the color gradient), and the next 2 buttons control the color of the spectrogram in the same way.
Knowing that you only control the starting Hue, if you want a more specific color, you need to add an effect that controls the saturation and value.
You can therefore add the Brightness/Contrast preset and play with the 1st and last buttons, to have the equivalent of an HSV control.

If you don't understand anything at all from my explanations, I'll let you google "explain rgb and hsv color model" and everything will be clearer.

(and if you only want to use the analyzer, try my preset "Ashcat_lt's "Decorative Oscilloscope with Connected Dots" improvement" present in the first post, you will be able to choose your color more easily and many other options: https:// forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=286779)

[papagirafe]

Originally Posted by Trishtrashtrush

What color do you want to change? The spectrogram only or the analyzer only? And do you want a simple color or a gradient?

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From what I understood, the color blending with the background image lead to unsatisfactory results and from my tests I can imagine why. The preset I supplied works very differently and it look very good in my tests. Here is a sample image using this chain:

js video sampler - decorative osc - "gradual transparency" - blur rightward - video to circle - image overlay

[Trishtrashtrush]

When I do tests, I seem to see almost the same thing in terms of colors with "gradual transparency" set to 0.6 and "image overlay; opacity=1" as with only the "image overlay; opacity=0.5" preset.
The only visible difference is for the black areas, where it looks nicer with your preset.

I think I didn't understand everything about this discussion.

[papagirafe]

I increased the FFT size to 13. Just to be sure are you using the version with a logarithmic function?

[Trishtrashtrush]

Originally Posted by papagirafe

I increased the FFT size to 13. Just to be sure are you using the version with a logarithmic function?

Yes, I took the last version. ( I played with the FFT too, but it just changes the precision, not the colors of the spectrogram ).