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Mixtikl 5 User Guide

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Visualizer Screen

Visualizer
Visualizer Screen (Figure 1)


Visualizer Text Display
Visualizer Text Display (Figure 2)


Visualizer Tap Play
Visualizer Tap Play (Figure 3)


Mixer UI or Menu > Left button 4 coloured circles

Music sensitive visualizer

Mixtikl includes a music sensitive visualizer (Figure 1). It can be driven by any music that Mixtikl creates or plays, e.g. generative music as well as audio or MIDI loop beats and samples! It can also driven by the notes generated by tap-play.

If you don't hear any notes being played when you tap the screen it is either because no tap-part has been included, or the tap-part is not configured correctly.

The Message & Visualizer Display Settings screen is where the visualiser type is selected, amongst other things.

    Visualiser Buttons
  • Top left corner (4 dots):
    • Tap: Menu
    • Tap/hold: New random mix (if running Mixtikl on a mobile device, also shake the device for the same)
  • Top right corner (abc):
  • Middle area
    • Tap: play a note, where up/down is pitch axis; left/right is pan
    • Tap/hold: Sometimes it can change the pitch of a note by a semitone or 2

Text Display

A mixtikl can include up to 140 characters of text. This could be a haiku, a short poem, or even a message or greeting. Included text can be displayed in a number of ways including as a message (with "karaoke" style highlighting), in random order, revealing words one at a time, as random words chosen from an included word bank, with floating words and even as a jumbled up message (Figure 2).

The Message & Visualizer Display Settings screen is where the text display settings are configured.

Tap Play

One of the really fun things about the visualizer is also its ability to play Tap-parts (Figure 3). A mix can have a number of these, and tap parts can even be different sounds on different tracks to create a multi-layering effect. Tap parts can be customised in many ways in Mixtikl (Full), such as by changing the sound, the FX, the generative rules, the pitch and pitch range, the harmonisation etc.

In the Message & Visualizer Display Settings screen it is also possible to set a tap-part to auto play.