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Makers of VJ software VDMX, and other cool stuff like HAP and ISF. vidvox.net

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VIDVOX @vidvox.bsky.social · Aug 13

Time for another VDMX update! Some extremely useful new features in this release, including pop over previews and the ability to directly capture sound output from any other app without using special virtual audio devices like BlackHole! Read more in the blog post:

VDMX 6.2 Update: Pop over previews, directly capture audio from other apps, and more! — VDMX - MAC VJ SOFTWARE

The VDMX 6.2 update is here! Directly capture audio from other applications, bundled ProjectMilkSyphon, improved fullscreen output panel, pop out previews, and more!

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VIDVOX @vidvox.bsky.social · 1d

Ok the embedded post preview did not get the animated gif of the exploding teapot, which is absolutely crucial information here.

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VIDVOX @vidvox.bsky.social · 1d

Looking for ways to extend the possibilities of VDMX6? Here’s a pack of over a dozen example Vuo compositions to help get you started with making custom generators, effects, and powerful data-source plugins.

Extending VDMX6 Plus with Vuo — VDMX - MAC VJ SOFTWARE

Download the example Vuo compositions for this tutorial Vuo is an incredibly powerful node based editor tool for creating interactive compositions that can be run as standalone applications, or ...

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VIDVOX @vidvox.bsky.social · May 2

Looking at some different techniques for rendering text inside of #GLSL shaders to use for real-time visuals!

Some techniques for drawing text in GLSL — VDMX - MAC VJ SOFTWARE

Download the example ISF compositions from this tutorial.

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VIDVOX @vidvox.bsky.social · 3d

Gotta make this shader.

K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 3d

This is the aesthetic of the future

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someone on the Motorola forums was having the same problem with the camera I've been having, but I just have to share the image they posted to demonstrate the issue.
it's the funniest shit I've ever seen in my life dude

The photo is of an elderly woman in gray clothes that has been so bizarrely processed that it looks both totally over and desaturated

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VIDVOX @vidvox.bsky.social · 8d

New tutorial: Creating a simple audio / video synthesizer using VDMX and Ableton Live

VDMX and Ableton Live: A Beginner's Guide to Animate your Music. — VDMX - MAC VJ SOFTWARE

Learn how to create a powerful audio-visual synthesizer by linking VDMX and Ableton Live. This tutorial shows you how to use MIDI to control your music and then drive stunning, reactive visuals from y...

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VIDVOX @vidvox.bsky.social · 8d

Basically building something like this…

VIDVOX @vidvox.bsky.social · Sep 5

VDMX Control Surface driven by Step Sequencer & LFO -> Ableton Live 505 Synth -> VDMX Audio Analysis and Audio Waveform Shape visualizer. Using the a Flange FX on the 505, with the wet/dry also controlling the amount of feedback on the shape visuals. Major bouba/kiki vibes.

VIDVOX @vidvox.bsky.social · 8d

New tutorial: Creating a simple audio / video synthesizer using VDMX and Ableton Live

VDMX and Ableton Live: A Beginner's Guide to Animate your Music. — VDMX - MAC VJ SOFTWARE

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VIDVOX @vidvox.bsky.social · 13d

Your Sunday reading from the Library of Congress - Follow the Music: Exploring the Multi-Linear Legacies of House Culture

About this Collection | Follow the Music: Exploring Multi-Linear Legacies of House Culture | Digital Collections | Library of Congress

In 2022, Urban Artistry, Inc. received a Community Collections Grant from the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress to launch Follow the Music: Exploring the Multi-Linear Legacies of Hou...

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VIDVOX @vidvox.bsky.social · 16d

This beat was so awesome. Nintendo was like hey it's gonna take a long time to save your art, here's a fun robot animation while you wait.

Mario Paint Robot Save Animation and Music

YouTube video by Rainbow Reflection

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VIDVOX @vidvox.bsky.social · 20d

One of the best visual FX!

Margo Hendricks is Elysabeth Grace @elysabethgrace.bsky.social · 20d

Good morning

a man singing into a microphone with the words " do you remember the 21st night of september " below him

Alt: Earth Wind and Fire Maurice White singing into a microphone with the words " do you remember the 21st night of september " below him

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VIDVOX @vidvox.bsky.social · Aug 28

Upgrading your gear this fall? Here's our 2025 guide to the latest Mac releases and related accessories for building your rig.

Building the Ultimate VDMX Rig: The 2025 Gear Guide Ready to build or upgrade your live visual setup? Our comprehensive new gear guide has you covered. We dive deep into the most important choice ...

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VIDVOX @vidvox.bsky.social · 25d

Thinking about upgrading to macOS 26? Here's our yearly guide for people updating their systems!

VDMX and macOS 26! — VDMX - MAC VJ SOFTWARE

Hi everyone! As usual we have a yearly update guide for people using VDMX who are looking to install the latest version of macOS on their computers.

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NPR @npr.org · 25d

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

On 9/16/25, celebrate a date of mathematical beauty

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

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Xor @xordev.com · 26d

And never forget hue! Uniform hues are boring.
Even a simple linear gradient can add a lot of character to a simple scene:

light_color = mix(light_color1, light_color2, uv.y);

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VIDVOX @vidvox.bsky.social · Sep 7

Lazy Sunday? Need something interesting to read online? Here ya go!

VIDVOX @vidvox.bsky.social · Aug 27

Let’s talk about color spaces, compression quality metrics, and how the human eye perceives color.

Color Spaces, Compression Quality Metrics, and the Human Eye — VDMX - MAC VJ SOFTWARE

In a recent blog post we dove into the results from various quality metrics comparing HAP alongside other video codecs . While we ran all of our tests using PSNR (Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio), SSIM (S...

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VIDVOX @vidvox.bsky.social · 28d

Videos shot with the MIT trillion frame per second camera are absolutely unbelievable.

Visualizing video at the speed of light — one trillion frames per second

YouTube video by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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patricio gonzalez vivo @patricio.io · 28d

Fantastic results and interesting interface for relighting www.youtube.com/watch?v=B00w...
paper: nadmag.github.io/LightLab/

LightLab: Controlling Light Sources in Images with Diffusion Models

YouTube video by Nadav Magar

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VIDVOX @vidvox.bsky.social · 29d

VDMX6 has now been in the wild for a full year! We’ve had a lot of great updates since then, including this one.

VIDVOX @vidvox.bsky.social · Feb 27

Aaaaaaand here’s a tutorial showing off the new Blur Faces and related FX 😶‍🌫️🫥

Exploring the new Blur Faces and Face Overlay FX in VDMX — VDMX - MAC VJ SOFTWARE

Welcome to this tutorial, where we dive into face-specific effects in VDMX powered by Apple’s Vision SDK and CoreML. We’ll explore how to blur faces, create face overlays, and experiment with pixelati...

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VIDVOX @vidvox.bsky.social · Sep 10

Missed that these legends are on Bluesky now too!

projectM Music Visualizer @projectm-visualizer.org · Jun 16

projectM is now also on Bluesky!

projectM is a cross-platform reimplementation of the renowned Milkdrop Visualizer, using OpenGL for rendering.

Follow us to get updates on new releases of the projectM library and associated applications and integrations.

VIDVOX @vidvox.bsky.social · Sep 10

Wow, what an amazing deep dive into how blur filters work - anyone doing work with GLSL will want to give this article a read.

Brandon Jones @toji.dev · Sep 10

Fantastic, interactive article about realtime blur algorithms by FrostKiwi! blog.frost.kiwi/dual-kawase/

Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works)

How to build realtime blurs on the GPU and how the best blur algorithm works - "Dual Kawase"

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VIDVOX @vidvox.bsky.social · Sep 10

Just going to leave this link to stuff that entered the public domain in 2025 right here for no particular reason…

VIDVOX @vidvox.bsky.social · Sep 9

What an amazing write up from @stewartsmith.bsky.social on one of the coolest music videos from the early 2000s, a great example of code generated art from that era. Definitely worth a read for anyone working with visuals!

Jed’s Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) music video · Stewart Smith

Music video for “Jed’s Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)”—a song by indie rockers Grandaddy, from their sophomore record The Sophtware Slump. Programmed in Applesoft BASIC on a vintage 1979 Apple ]⁠[⁠+ co...

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Peter Kirn @pkirn.bsky.social · Sep 9

It's finally happened, for better or for worse: AlphaTheta has their first internet-connected deck.

But even for the USB stick crowd, this offers some welcome improvements over the original 3000.

CDJ-3000X: first CDJ to go online; expanded usability, sound quality - CDM Create Digital Music

AlphaTheta, the company that DJs will probably never stop calling "Pioneer," has a major update for their flagship deck. It starts to make the CDJ-3000 seem more like a foundation for this: expanded m...

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VIDVOX @vidvox.bsky.social · Sep 9

Just getting into live visuals? Don’t forget to ask about our hobbyist rate! Just send us a short email to request a discount on VDMX6 / VDMX6 Plus.

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VIDVOX @vidvox.bsky.social · Mar 24

New artist interview on the VDMX blog! Another one of those “wow, what a rig” moments for your brain.

Who is SONICRIDER - Jurgen Winkel? — VDMX - MAC VJ SOFTWARE

Jurgen Winkel Artist – Producer – Musician – Performer (SONICrider, BLIND, LSDice, The Phonons, …) Who are you, and what do you do? I’m Jurgen and in love with sound and vision as long as I can ...

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