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Kinematic / Perform / Lighting

Control stage lighting.

Patch a rig, program a play, strobe a club, follow a dancer. 1,500+ fixtures ready to go.

Download for macOS 0.5.0Back to Perform
Things to make
a dancer drawn on 2,560 pixels of a DMX pixel grid
01

Patch a small rig

Pick your fixtures and give them addresses.

  1. Pick each fixture from the library.
  2. Give it an address.
  3. Send it out over Art-Net or sACN.
DmxPatch→DmxFixtureMap→ArtNetSendInterface
the patch table
the patch table
02

Program the cues for a play

Looks with fades, fired one after another.

  1. Build a look in the programmer.
  2. Record it as a cue with a fade.
  3. Press GO through the show.
DmxProgrammer→DmxCueStack→SAcnSendInterface
pick fixtures, dial, record a cue
pick fixtures, dial, record a cue
03

Make the strobes hit on the kick

The strobe fires on every kick drum, live.

  1. Feed the music in.
  2. Find each kick.
  3. Flash the strobe channel on every hit.
AudioCaptureInterface→AudioOnsetDetect→ChannelDataToDmx→ArtNetSendInterface
white strobes hit on every beat over sweeping color beams, in the 3D preview
04

Play video across an LED wall

Every pixel of the video becomes a light.

  1. Load the video.
  2. Map it onto the pixels of the wall.
  3. Send it out.
InputVideoFile→ImageToDmx→ArtNetSendInterface
a dancer clip driving a 64 by 40 pixel grid, 40 universes, with the clip in the corner
05

Follow a dancer with a moving head

The light finds them and stays on them.

  1. Point a camera at the stage.
  2. Track the dancer's body.
  3. A moving head follows them.
VideoCaptureInterface→LocalAIImageToBodyPose→DmxFollowSpotEngine→ArtNetSendInterface
three moving heads follow a dancer across the stage, in the 3D preview
06

Fire cues on the lighting desk

Cue an Eos, a grandMA3 or a Hog 4 from anything.

  1. Connect it to the desk.
  2. Map a pad, a gesture or a beat to a cue.
  3. Fire it from anywhere.
MidiNoteIn→DmxMa3OscClient
drum hits in a song firing Go on a grandMA3 executor while an LFO rides a fader, each command listed in the OSC Monitor as it goes out
drum hits in a song firing Go on a grandMA3 executor while an LFO rides a fader, each command listed in the OSC Monitor as it goes out
Take it further

It all connects.

Every part of Kinematic works with the others. Wire one into the next.

Simulate

Light it with a sim

Make a fire, then send its picture to the lights like any video.

3DGeoFluidRender→ImageToDmx
Show me →Perform

Cue with a gesture

Thumbs up fires the next cue.

LocalAIImageToHandGestures→DmxCueStack
Show me →
Create

Bring in the plot

Import an MVR file and see the rig in 3D.

DmxMvrImport→3DGeoSceneRenderToImage
Keep going
← PreviousProjectionProjection map anything.
Tutorial: Flash a light on every beat→Browse the Perform demos→Coming from TouchDesigner?→

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