How did you do the Hydra?
If we look at the hydra code from this YT Evening walk part 2 + hydra video visuals
Play a video of something you have recorded with your phone with vlc player on the computer.
Open Chrome on https://hydra.ojack.xyz/
s0.initScreen() // run this line 1 time to select video input from vlc
src(s0).out()
Run CTRL+ENTER or CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER
uncomment first line
//s0.initScreen(1) // run this line 1 time to select video input from vlc
src(s0).out() // this line shows the video from vlc in Chrome
Run CTRL+ENTER
Fullscreen vlc and Chrome. Then you have a video background for Sonic Pi.
You can hide/show Hydra code with CTRL+SHIFT+h
Be creative in hydra.
A hydra code could look like this
//s0.initScreen(1) // run this line 1 time to select video input from vlc
//src(s0).pixelate(100,50).thresh(0.5).out()
src(s0).pixelate(450,150).thresh(0.2).color(1,0.5,0).out(o0)
//src(s0).pixelate(50,300).thresh(0.2).out(o0)
src(s0).thresh(0.09).out(o1)
src(s0).thresh(0.03).colorama(1,0,0).luma(0.2).out(o1)
src(o0).blend(src(o1),1).add(src(o3),0.1).out(o2)
src(s0).thresh(0.01).colorama(0,0.15,1).diff(src(o0),0.5).luma(0.5).out(o3)
render(o1)
You select what to show with render()
render() // shows all 4 outputs
render(o0) // show output 1
render(o1) // show output 2
render(o2) // show output 3
render(o3) // show output 4
You can chose which output with “.out(o0)”
src(s0).out(o0) // this line shows the video in Chrome in output o0
In my Sonic Pi code I usually add the hydra code. Looks like this
# Hydra code
# https://hydra.ojack.xyz/?code=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
I like the Sonic Pi editor so this time I used Hydra in Chrome browser.
You could also use Atom with the Sonic Pi plugin. Then you can make a setup like this which is really nice visually and you dont have to ALT+TAB. Here you have Sonic Pi open in the background and send Sonic pi code from Atom with ALT+r like you usually would. Remember to choose “Sonic Pi” as language in Atom, so you get the Sonic Pi code snippets like ll+TAB for live_loop
I have tried to gather what I know of hydra in some Google Docs, which you can find here @relaxnow | Linktree