Load your loops onto a grid and play them on the beat. When a clip is missing, build it here and play it live in its cell. Free, even for commercial use.
On the grid, a press lands on the beat. Underneath, the set is nodes on a canvas, and you can open and change any part of it.
Tracks are the rows, front on top, and columns run across. Press a cell and it starts on the next beat. Press a column's head and every row with a cell there changes at once. Decks are named sets of columns, so the warm-up and the peak each get a page.
Pick when a press lands: right away, the next beat, the next bar, the next 2, 4 or 8 bars, or the next marker. A cell or a column can set its own. The tempo comes from a tap, MIDI clock, the beat a microphone hears, or the song itself.
Stack effects on a track, on the master or on one clip. Hold a switched-off effect to hit the picture with it for as long as you hold, and save a chain you like as one effect.
The signals component turns a sound into bass, mid, high, level, hits and where the bar is. Drag a lane onto any knob and set its range, or animate a knob with the beat: sine, saw, square, random steps.
Press Map, click a target, then move a control on your controller. Pads light in the colors of their cells, and faders pick up where they should be. The whole show answers OSC too.
Add blended projectors splits the picture across 2 to 16 projectors with soft overlaps, and gives each one its own warp and display window. Corner pin, a grid warp and the projection mapper fit the picture to any surface.
Add LED pixels sends the picture to a strip, a grid or patched positions over Art-Net or sACN, 170 pixels a universe. BLACK takes those pixels dark at the wire and leaves your lighting universes alone.
A cell can play a small graph instead of a file, like a plasma, a title or a camera cut out from its background. Each graph clip runs on its own, so a heavy one slows only itself.
The launcher, its tracks and its effects are all nodes on the canvas, so the whole set is open. Turn selected nodes into a graph clip, or drop your own WGSL or ISF shader file on a chain.
Drop a run of loops on a track and the launcher fills the row, adding the columns it needs. Press a cell and it starts on the beat. Ride a change in on the crossfader, or hold a column for the drop and let go to come back. For theater, GO mode runs the columns as numbered cues.
Slice the show across blended projectors and warp each slice onto its surface. The same picture can light an LED strip, pixel by pixel. BLACK reaches every display, NDI and Syphon output and LED pixel, even when a clip is stuck. The Stage view shows the room in 3D before you reach the venue.
Your clips do not have to come from somewhere else. Write a shader or pour a liquid, and play it live in a cell. Two cells of the same clip with different knobs morph into each other instead of cutting. When a clip gets heavy, render it to a looping file in one press.
A song map finds the parts of a song, like the build and the drop, and columns launch on them. A raised hand or a clap in the room can fire a column. A cue row fires the lighting cue on the same downbeat as the picture.
Your clips and your controller come with you, and Resolume can keep running beside it. Here is what to expect in the first hour.
Resolume compositions don't open here, so you rebuild the set. Import folder brings a whole folder of videos and pictures in at once, and the cards show their codecs. HAP, HAP Q, HAP R and hardware ProRes launch fast. Make fast-launch copies turns the rest into HAP in the background and leaves your originals alone.
Nobody has to move a whole show at once. Build the new part here and pass it across.
Pick your controller in Launcher settings and its pads light in the colors of their cells. Map fills in its own layout in one step: pads, scene buttons, track stops, faders and knobs. Any other MIDI controller maps by hand, a control at a time.
A Stream Deck key can launch a cell and show its picture. A phone or tablet on the same network can play the show too, behind a PIN.
The keys you will use in the first hour. Ctrl on Windows and Linux is Cmd on a Mac, except pause, which is Control there too.
Take the app tour →Resolume is a fine instrument, and plenty of VJs will keep it. Here is where it still leads, and what Kinematic does not do yet.
Running both is fine. NDI moves video between them on one machine or across the network, Syphon does it on a Mac, and OSC carries cues into Resolume.
Kinematic costs nothing, even for commercial use, with no account and no license key. Install it on all the machines in the booth. The Resolume side comes from its maker's own pages.
Checked October 2026. Resolume prices in euros, as its shop lists them.
They all come with the app. Take one apart and keep the looks you like.
GPUThe OpeningA one-minute set on the Clip Launcher: a dancer's silhouette opens onto a storm, a wall of fire and a calm sea, and the columns launch on the song's markers.In the Demos browser
Projection mapper freeformFreeform shapes routed through the projection mapper. Press E and drag the corners.In the Demos browser
Swirls on a projectorThree patterns through the mapper, to a preview and a full-screen projector at once.In the Demos browser
Audio reactive particlesA song steering a particle system: loudness, hits, tempo and key.In the Demos browser
GPUTrail painterDots leaving fading trails through a feedback loop.In the Demos browser
GPU, Audio deviceShader volume bloomA shader that blooms with the level of the room.In the Demos browser
Audio deviceDJ performance controllerAn XY pad, trigger pads, a step row, dials and a crossfader, all nodes.In the Demos browser
GPUOil slick in GLSLAn oil-slick pattern written in GLSL. Change a value while it runs.In the Demos browserNo. You rebuild the set instead: Import folder brings your clips in, and dropping a run of them on a track fills the row and adds the columns. Your media, shaders and LUTs open as they are.
HAP, HAP Q, HAP R and hardware ProRes launch fast, and the cards in the Media tab name their codecs. Make fast-launch copies writes HAP or HAP Q copies of the slower ones in the background, next to the project, and never touches the originals.
The APC40 mkII, APC40, APC mini mk2, Launchpad, Launchpad Mini mk3, Launchpad X, Push 2, Maschine MK3 and MIDI Fighter Twister are built in, with pads that light. Any other MIDI controller maps by hand in Map. A Stream Deck and a phone page work too.
Yes. Send video either way over NDI, or over Syphon on a Mac, and send OSC to Resolume to fire its clips from the graph.
NDI works today on every platform, and Syphon on a Mac. Spout on Windows is on the roadmap.
Yes. No license for commercial work, no watermark and no seat count.
Free, with no account and no license key, on macOS, Windows, Linux and Raspberry Pi. Bring the loops you play now.