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Lucinate video synth animates and live-codes visuals on Mac and iOS
From the makers of the utterly indispensable iPad app AUM (among other things), Lucinate is a real-time visual environment for macOS and iOS, based on Apple’s Metal technology. You can approach this as a ready-to-play, Ableton Link and Link Audio-enabled video synth. And when you want to hack or make your own shaders, you can live-code those, too.
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This free tool lets you create interactive, live graphic scores in Ableton Live
It might blur the line between VJ/animation tool and score generator. But SIGN/e lets you produce graphical scores that live inside an Ableton Live session, as abstract shapes appear and shift in time with the electronic music. And with the right players, it looks like a godsend — free, provided you can run Max for Live.
Jam, color, and geometry — discover Perplex On’s AV synesthesia bliss
Dive deep into these explosions of sound, light, and shape from Munich-based Perplex On, as the musical act pairs compact instruments with visuals made in Lottie and Imaginando’s VS – Visual Synthesizer. Dazzle at these eye-popping, brain-tickling audiovisual explorations. Warning: contains flashing lights and rapidly changing patterns. As perfectly structured as these are, they also […]
Peter Kirn - February 13, 2026
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Make doodles in Ableton Live, then animate them, with Klottra
Peter Kirn - November 21, 2025
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A poetic, open-source video made on 1979’s Apple II+ and BASIC
Peter Kirn - September 16, 2025
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