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With Beam for Max, designing your own lighting instruments is a reality
Light, sound, and visuals finally come together in Max as people imagined. Beam for Max from Showsync is now in the Max Package Manager. And it fully integrates lighting instruments in your Max patches.
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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.
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.
Dart, a line of open source MIDI and DMX controllers, in wonderfully wacky variations
Peter Kirn - April 6, 2022
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Laurie Anderson, in video, on the stories behind her custom-built instruments
Peter Kirn - September 27, 2021
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Behind the scenes of a sci-fi 3D music video, as Defasten takes us deep into Notch
Peter Kirn - February 22, 2021
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