{"id":1348,"date":"2017-08-10T14:46:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T14:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.org\/blog\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2017-08-10T14:46:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T14:46:09","slug":"gametrak-video-synthesizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mosher.art\/blog\/art\/gametrak-video-synthesizer\/","title":{"rendered":"Gametrak video synthesizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the summer I took the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kadenze.com\/courses\/machine-learning-for-musicians-and-artists\/info\">Kadenze Machine Learning for Artists and Musicians<\/a> online course. \u00a0It was very informative and then often used these weird Gametrak golf game controllers. \u00a0While it looks like there are just two joysticks on the device, there is also a neat z axis wire that you can pull out of the joystick. \u00a0So there are really 3 axises of control, one of which has a bit of tangible resistance response built in. \u00a0I was able to pick up a used one on the cheap and hacked it into this weird audio visual machine. \u00a0It uses a web camera and overlays a series of effects while playing a scrumbly FM synth. \u00a0I actually found it easier to map this without using machine learning :-\/.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Secrets of the Dark demo video\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AOn5ot5wz6s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the summer I took the Kadenze Machine Learning for Artists and Musicians online course. \u00a0It was very informative and then often used these weird Gametrak golf game&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[61,59,62,60],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-fm-synth","tag-gametrak","tag-synthesizer","tag-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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