Now you can sync up live visuals with Ableton Link

Ableton Link has already proven itself as a way of syncing up Ableton Live, mobile apps (iOS), and various desktop apps (Reason, Traktor, Maschine, and more), in various combinations. Now, we’re seeing support for live visuals and VJing, too. Three major Mac apps have added native Ableton Link support for jamming in the last couple […]

Five Musical Tech April Fools’ Jokes We Almost Wish Were Real

Like the proverbial Punxsutawney Phil on Groundhog Day, it seems that music tech writers this year saw their shadow and decided to stay in their hole rather than deal with the yearly deluge of fake news that arrives on April Fools’. That’s a shame. Because this year, a few ideas are preposterous enough that we […]

- April 1, 2014

2 V-P Makes Performing Live with Quartz Composer Effortless, Powerful

Apple’s Quartz Composer has long enabled beautiful, intricate generative and responsive visuals, often even with simple patches. But assembling its compositions into something with which you can perform is more of a chore. 2 V-P isn’t the first attempt to wrap Quartz’s interactive visualizations into a performance tool. But it might be the most practical. […]

Peter Kirn - December 23, 2013

Motion Improv: How Visuals for Audego Album Were Made with Quartz Composer

Peter Kirn - November 25, 2013

1024 Architecture Tesseract is a Dazzling Hypercube of Light; Gallery, Behind the Scenes

Peter Kirn - November 21, 2013

Vuo in Beta: A New Hope for Visual Development? [Resources]

Peter Kirn - November 6, 2013

Vuo, Multi-Platform, Open Visual Programming, in Beginner Tutorial and Opinion

Peter Kirn - September 3, 2013

Automated Time: Vezer Meets CoGe in Dynamic Visual Composition [Reader Video Demo]

Peter Kirn - August 8, 2013

VJ App VDMX Adds Automatic BPM Detection, Lovely Effect, Controller Features

Peter Kirn - July 17, 2013

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