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Two engines, one canvas.
Video and image engines wired into the same Metal render path. Swap the engine without breaking the take.
An immersive ground for sound and vision.
Sound goes in. Vision comes out. Bring audio from your mic, a file, or a MIDI controller, and let it move the visuals you perform, record, and project. On iPhone, iPad and Mac.
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Sound in
Your mic, an audio file or a MIDI controller. Every signal lands on the same bus: bass, mids and highs, notes, knobs and pads.
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Map any signal to anything
Bass to kaleidoscope, mids to pixelate, a knob to rotate. Set the curve, the range and the smoothing, or move a control and MIDI learn maps it.
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Vision out
Video and image engines render in real time. Perform it live, record it, or send it to a projector over HDMI or AirPlay.
Visuals that move with
your mic, songs and MIDI
bass, mids and highs
every kick, not just the volume
Inside the app
One workspace for sound and vision
The live preview on top, the engine and its knobs, the pads, and the mappings that tie the music and your MIDI controller to every effect. Shown here with the demo projects that ship inside the app.
Mic, file, or MIDI.
Audio from your microphone or a file becomes a signal. So does every CC, note, and pad strike from your MIDI controller. One bus, any source.
Map any signal to any parameter.
Connect any input to any engine destination through a hand-built editor. Curves, ranges, smoothing. No menus, no MIDI hell.
Switch the room in a beat.
Snapshot every parameter into a pad scene and recall instantly. Build sets, perform live, morph between looks with a single strike.
Capture sound and vision.
Every session records the event timeline and a real-time MP4 of the output. Re-render the same session later at any resolution.
Local, projected, or rendered.
Drive an external HDMI display or AirPlay for live performance. Or render a saved session offline to studio-quality MP4.
Free VJ loops
Loops cut to the beat
41 loops made with the app’s effects and our own scenes, 32 beats at 120 BPM, in 4K and 1080p. Free to use anywhere under CC0, no email and no account.
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Thermal VJ loops
Heat-camera palettes on liquid metal, a tunnel, orbs, waveforms and a grid, pulsing on every beat.
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ASCII and glitch VJ loops
Character grids, currency signs, RGB split, datamosh slices and pixel bursts, all landing on the beat.
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Dither and halftone VJ loops
Ordered dither, one-bit noise, halftone ink, contour lines and braille dots, pulsing on the beat.
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Living matter VJ loops
Coral, mazes, spots and splitting cells, grown by a chemical simulation that pulses on the beat.
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Ink and smoke VJ loops
Ink dropped into water, smoke stacks, molten gold and colliding jets, from a fluid simulation that moves on the beat.
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