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PACK ⬕ NestDrop Goodies Part 2
🕑 Added 2024-11-06 03:51:32 +0000 UTCI love helping develop NestDrop into an expressive and experimental app for VJs. NestDrop is built around presets and so you can never have enough. Below are 2 preset packs for NestDrop!
Isosceles Mashups 2024 - Preset Pack
Any time I'm feeling uninspired but still want to scratch that creative itch, I'll start up Winamp and create some preset mashups. Amazingly it still works perfectly even though it was released 22 years ago!
Golly how fast time flies, it's been 4 years since I originally released the Cream of the Crop & Isosceles Mashups 2020 packs. Last weekend I realized that I had amassed 829 new presets mashups and figured it was time to release them. The other 157 presets are some new favorites that I found over on the Milkdrop forum where there are a very small handful of people still making fresh presets.
To make it easier to quickly browse this collection of presets, I choose to not organize these presets into the typical categories that I utilized for prior releases. So is this a mixed bag? Absolutely. But I live by the motto that one person's trash is another person's treasure. So dive in and pick out the gems that speak to you.
DOWNLOAD: Isosceles Mashups 2024 (986 presets)
Spout Jamming - Preset Pack
Since launching the NestDrop for Resolume tutorial over on Sean Bowes youtube channel, it's been amazing to see the many different ways that VJs have been injecting a Spout video stream into NestDrop. I've seen it utilized to have live video of the DJ in the visuals, involving generative FX in projection mapping whole stages, and adding some extra spice on top of the VJs performance. Also it's been interesting to see VJs figure out some very clever technical setups in Resolume by using the Video Router to refine this technique into an art form. So I've coined a term for this technique: Spout Jamming.
When Spout Jamming, I've found that many of the presets are too intense and wished that I could access just the core shaders. I gave it some thought and realized that I could manually disable the "Waves" and "Shapes" layers of a preset to address this. Then I opened up the preset in a text editor and further realized that I could do a find-and-replace to automatically disable these layers for a whole collection of presets. So I collected all of the presets from the Cream of the Crop, Isosceles Mashups 2020, and Isosceles Mashups 2024 packs into a new collection with these layers disabled.
It's impossible to know how each preset will react to these tweaks since each preset is designed differently. The only way is to experiment and find out. But you'll likely find that some of these presets are trash and some are gems, but it depends on the Spout video stream that you're injecting into NestDrop.
Full transparency, I've been hesitant to release these presets since they only function when injecting a Spout video stream into NestDrop. These presets have been stripped down to their bare essentials and are meant for advanced users that understand how to use Spout Sprites within NestDrop. Hence the following warning, if you use these presets for any other purpose then they will frequently render out pure black visuals.
DOWNLOAD: Spout Jamming (11,912 presets)
Presets for days! Presets forever.
Comments
Jason Fletcher
Yeah def, Patrick and I pay close attention to the NestDrop Reddit community. So if you wanna share your feature request over there then we'll check it out - https://www.reddit.com/r/NestDrop/
Brian
I saw it in the upcoming release notes and was planning to run it when it came out. Is there going to be another wishlist post? I have one for midi mapping the reset buttons for attributes.
Jason Fletcher
Yeah for sure! Someone requested this and it actually prompted us to add a new feature into NestDrop so that the Preview Creation tool cause utilize a Spout Sprite. Coming out soon in NestDrop v2.1.1.1
Jason Fletcher
Yeah I see what you mean. I only meant proprietary in that the engine is closed source.
Brian
Thanks for adding in the previews!
Brian
I don't know if I would call it proprietary. It plays GLSL shaders instead of Milkdrop presets.
Jason Fletcher
Synesthesia is a proprietary render engine and does not support Milkdrop presets. So the NestDrop packs cannot be used in Synesthesia.
Sanjeet
Hey was wondering if Nestdrop packs can be used in Synesthesia.live?
Winslow Bouhier
Awesome drop! I stopped using nestdrop so much this year because i've rinsed my favorite presets at too many shows, finding some great new ones here. Havent messed with spout yet but this drop is a good reason to start playing with that. I was supposed to go to bed 3 hours ago and instead i've been digging through this lol
Jason Fletcher
NestDrop is a VJ tool that I help Patrick (Nest Immersion) to develop. But the core Milkdrop engine was released 22 years ago and so your laptop can definitely handle it.
Fletcher Stevenson
Have never used or heard of Nestdrop! Excited to give it a go! (if my laptop can handle :'(
