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VDMX 6.3 adds expressions, plugin templates to beloved Mac visual tool
Here’s another live visual icon with some welcome updates. Vidvox promised lots of quality-of-life refinements with VDMX6 as a platform, and VDMX6.3 adds just that. So it’s a good excuse to mention VDMX again, in case you’d tuned out for a bit.
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TouchDesigner POPs course gets your brain around geometry for visuals
In a world that’s definitely trying to make us dumber and more depressed, let’s grow our brains instead. Our friends over at Derivative have a free course that finally makes it easy to start working with POPs — the Point OPerators that enable all that wild 3D geometry you see in live shows and installations.
Link Audio, now in Max, Pd, VCV Rack, TouchDesigner, oF, and plug-ins, free
Ableton Live 12.4 is inbound, with Link Audio support coming to Live, Move, Note, and Push. But Live Audio can also be about routing audio over a network to other hosts, too. Julien Bayle (VOID) has an early, open-source implementation. If you’re ready to start experimenting even while this API is still in alpha, you’ve got a wide variety of sound and visual tools to try, all for free.
Peter Kirn - May 3, 2026
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Visuals in Ableton Live: Unreal-powered SenSei update, EboSuite sale on now
Peter Kirn - March 23, 2026
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Pi Day: Hear and see approximations for Pi — and learn about shaders, too
Peter Kirn - March 14, 2026
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