Motion Software Tech
Captivate is a free, open source visual synth and DMX lighting tool
This live visual newcomer is off to a promising start: live DMX lighting, generative visuals (with video and photos), MIDI control, Ableton Link – and it’s free and open source. It’s coded in TypeScript, with downloads for macOS and Windows; Linux promised soon.
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Watch Videosync visuals in Ableton Live, plus Beam for lighting, Max
If you missed it earlier this fall, Tarik Barri has a great walkthrough of Videosync, the live visual software integrated with Ableton Live on the Mac. Bonus – from the same dev, Beam lets you perform live with lighting, and we can see that in action, too – plus there’s an early-bird edition just for Max.
MadMapper 5.2 is here, with more lasers! (and DMX CSV, Xbox controllers, and Kinect)
The best-known projection mapping tool now lets you do more with lasers. Oh, and if you’re not qualified to mess with those, there’s a bunch of other stuff, too.
Dart, a line of open source MIDI and DMX controllers, in wonderfully wacky variations
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Color and Light: Vezer Timeline Software Gets Savvy with Lighting
Peter Kirn - May 12, 2014
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