Let's finally explore how to visualize our analyzed data. We're going to choose TouchDesigner (TD) as a tool for this task. This chapter should give us both an overview of the software and introduce some practical techniques that will help us to work with TouchDesigner. It seems to be a really easy and intuitive piece of software at first, and well it is, but it also is very deep. There are lots of little hidden gems, some of which will be revealed here to give us a jump start. In this chapter, whenever you feel comfortable with the interface, you can probably take a break and try to set up a UDP connection between Max and TD to motivate yourself, and start visualizing sound analysis data. Remember that the OSC in CHOP will come in handy, but we will soon see what this means. In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
The need for TouchDesigner
Getting help
TD basics and its user interface
The components and structuring a project