New in Videosync 2

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Gradient

Create monochromatic and duochromatic gradients. Use Feather to go from a smooth gradient to two solid colors, while Spacing sets the distance between the two color planes.

Color Mixer

Manipulate the color and brightness components of an image. Select an optional sidechain source to blend the color and brightness of another track into the texture of the Color Mixer's host track.

Arrangement View

Use Live’s musical timeline to craft audiovisual compositions. Blend audiovisual tracks, program visual instruments on the note grid and script video effects with automation.

Session View

All the tricks in Live’s Session View now apply to video as well, enabling flexibility while performing live, including Follow Actions, Group Tracks, Routings, and more.

Instruments

Videosync’s instruments generate content intended as a source for mixing, blending, keying or displacement. Simpler rhythmically triggers your video content, and the External In instrument fetches input from Syphon or any external video source.

Effects

With an ever-growing selection of visual effects, Videosync enables full control over your performance. Mapping and automating combinations of effects leads to surprisingly complex patterns and shapes, providing the visual freedom of expression you need to match all creative facets of your audio.

ISF Shader

Effortlessly browse ISF shaders to generate or manipulate visuals. Comes with a curated library of over 200 shaders, as well the ability to open any shader in an external text editor. Saving changes in the text editor are immediately reflected in Videosync.

Multiple outputs

‍Use Live’s Return & Master channels as Spout or Syphon outputs, allowing up to 13 channels of video output into other applications.

Networked Mode

‍Increase redundancy and spread workload in your live shows by running Videosync on a separate computer.

Format support

Support for all standard video formats, as well as HAP*.

* The HAP codec is supported on macOS only.

New in Videosync 2

Windows support

Videosync 2 marks the first release for the Windows platform, offering a fully-featured application identical to its macOS counterpart.

Videosync 2 on Windows is officially supported for use with Ableton Live 12 or newer.

New user interface

Videosync 2 introduces a new, streamlined user interface for both Windows and macOS. This elegantly designed interface brings together all essential settings into one convenient window.

Lava by Tarik Barri

Akin to Voronoi, Lava is a hybrid between a generator and an effect. Its pattern creation and image manipulation algorithms draw inspiration from Brownian Noise, emulating the variability found in many natural systems, giving an organic quality to the plugin’s output.

Fully revised device suite

Every device in the suite has undergone extensive reevaluation and updates, with a focus on refining shader code to enhance both efficiency and the quality of visual output. Devices have been thoughtfully consolidated or separated based on their functionality, providing a streamlined and more user-friendly experience.

Improved blending and alpha handling

All blending modes have been enhanced, and alpha handling has been refined for increased flexibility and precision in compositing.
Detailed insights and applications will be explored in an upcoming blog post.

Oklab blending method

Most devices that deal with color now include a toggle to switch to the Oklab blending method. Regular RGB mixes colors with linear interpolation over the RGB channels. Oklab mixes the colors according to the Oklab color space, which generally produces more uniform looking transitions in terms of perceived brightness and color.

Full Release Notes ›

"12 high resolution screens controlled by one Live set, running for a month without a problem. I would call that robust."

Jaap Drupsteen, The Rhythm Painter

"I've always wanted to see an intuitive tool that enables artists to relate to electronic visuals the same way that they can relate to electronic music. This means full live control with super precise musical timing that exists on the same timeline as the music does: terms like bpm, counterpoint and syncopation should apply to visuals just as much as they apply to sound. Visuals themselves can be a type of music if approached like this, and Videosync is finally enabling people to make this wonderful ideal a reality."