Play a set of clips on the beat

Steps

1. On the start screen, click New Project. The viewport shows a card: click Start a VJ set. A small window, Start a VJ set, asks for a song: click Use a default song. The set opens, and the Clip Launcher window opens beside the main window.

2. The Clip Launcher is a grid. Each track is a line of cells across it: T1 Overlay on top and T2 Visuals under it. The columns go from 1 Lava to 6 Warp, and each cell holds a moving look. If the button at the top left reads Play, press it. While the set runs it reads Playing, and the dots beside it count the beats of each bar.

   

3. While the song plays, a song map listens to it. After a few seconds a panel, Make the set from the song, offers two new columns, Intro and High, filled with looks picked for those parts of the song. Click Make the set. Each new column follows the song and launches by itself when the song reaches its part, so 7 Intro starts at once.

   

4. Look at the tempo box in the header. It shows the tempo the song map heard, about 150 BPM, and it follows the song as it plays. Every launch lands on that beat, so the pictures change in time with the music.

5. Choose when a press lands. In the header, open Launch on, which reads Next bar, and pick Next beat. Now a cell you press starts on the very next beat.

   

6. Launch a cell. On the Visuals track, press the left edge of Swirl, the strip with the triangle, under 3 Swirl. The cell turns orange and waits, with a ring that counts down to the beat, then Swirl takes over the track.

   

7. Launch a whole column. Set Launch on back to Next bar, then press the triangle at the left of the 5 Embers head. Both tracks get ready and change together on the next bar: Rings on Overlay and Embers on Visuals. The head turns orange and reads LIVE.

   

8. Add a clip of your own. At the top of the library on the left, click Graph clips. Drag Tunnel onto the empty Overlay cell under 2 Grid, then press the triangle on the 2 Grid head to play Tunnel over Grid.

   

9. Fade a track. Drag the Overlay fader, the slider in the track's header, down to about 0.3. The number beside it follows, and less of Overlay shows over Visuals.

   

10. Record a take. Press Record Take 1 at the top right. It turns red and counts the time, and an orange line under the header says SHOW ON and A take is recording. Press a few column heads, then press the red button again. The take is kept: the button now reads Record Take 2, and the time bar at the bottom of the main window has a new Launcher take: Take 1 line.