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This artist is connecting Unreal, Ableton Live for production-grade visualizers
For all the ubiquity of Unreal Engine, a small handful of people are pushing the envelope of what Unreal can do as an audiovisual tool. With years of effects and animation production work under his belt, Zack Berwick is uniquely creative and inventive with the combo – and he’s sharing his approach, using Ableton Live, Max for Live, MIDI, OSC, and UE.
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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.
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.
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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