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Full control of lighting, without sacrificing creativity. Beam gives you lighting composition directly from the musical timeline. Turn Ableton Live into the perfect lighting controller.

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Lights for Live, and Live for lights

Use Live's automation, MIDI and signal flow features to control your lights. If you don't want to stop there, create your own Max for Live lighting devices using the Beam SDK.

Control complex lighting patches

Control lights from various manufacturers with a single instrument. Perform on a new lighting rig without making changes to your Live set, your set is decoupled from the lighting patch for maximum flexibility.

A direct connection

Connect Beam directly to your lighting setup, without the need of a lighting desk. Send out unlimited universes over Art-Net, or connect with a range of supported USB-DMX devices.

Fixture profiles
In case you are missing one or more fixture profile(s) in Beam, you can create your own fixture profiles with the included Fixture Editor, or file a request using this form.

Updates
New features are being added to Beam regularly. Read more about the latest additions in the Release Notes.

Learn

Curious how Beam works? Watch SoundSuite's Getting started tutorial to help you take your first steps. And if you don't have any lights lying around you can test Beam out with a visualizer.

Instruments and effects

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.

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.

"Beam is a game changer when it comes to musical lighting control. Designing a unique lighting counterpart for every note in every clip of the Feed Me show might sound daunting, but with Beam it was truly fun and the synergy with Videosync is unparalleled."

Michel Suk

Senior lighting engineer and show designer at Ampco-Flashlight
"Beam is a game changer when it comes to musical lighting control. Designing a unique lighting counterpart for every note in every clip of the Feed Me show might sound daunting, but with Beam it was truly fun and the synergy with Videosync is unparalleled."

Michel Suk

Senior lighting engineer and show designer at Ampco-Flashlight
"Beam is a game changer when it comes to musical lighting control. Designing a unique lighting counterpart for every note in every clip of the Feed Me show might sound daunting, but with Beam it was truly fun and the synergy with Videosync is unparalleled."

Michel Suk

Senior lighting engineer and show designer at Ampco-Flashlight
"Beam is a game changer when it comes to musical lighting control. Designing a unique lighting counterpart for every note in every clip of the Feed Me show might sound daunting, but with Beam it was truly fun and the synergy with Videosync is unparalleled."

Michel Suk

Senior lighting engineer and show designer at Ampco-Flashlight
"Beam is a game changer when it comes to musical lighting control. Designing a unique lighting counterpart for every note in every clip of the Feed Me show might sound daunting, but with Beam it was truly fun and the synergy with Videosync is unparalleled."

Michel Suk

Senior lighting engineer and show designer at Ampco-Flashlight
"Beam is a game changer when it comes to musical lighting control. Designing a unique lighting counterpart for every note in every clip of the Feed Me show might sound daunting, but with Beam it was truly fun and the synergy with Videosync is unparalleled."

Michel Suk

Senior lighting engineer and show designer at Ampco-Flashlight
"Beam is a game changer when it comes to musical lighting control. Designing a unique lighting counterpart for every note in every clip of the Feed Me show might sound daunting, but with Beam it was truly fun and the synergy with Videosync is unparalleled."

Michel Suk

Senior lighting engineer and show designer at Ampco-Flashlight
"Beam is a game changer when it comes to musical lighting control. Designing a unique lighting counterpart for every note in every clip of the Feed Me show might sound daunting, but with Beam it was truly fun and the synergy with Videosync is unparalleled."

Michel Suk

Senior lighting engineer and show designer at Ampco-Flashlight
"Beam is a game changer when it comes to musical lighting control. Designing a unique lighting counterpart for every note in every clip of the Feed Me show might sound daunting, but with Beam it was truly fun and the synergy with Videosync is unparalleled."

Michel Suk

Senior lighting engineer and show designer at Ampco-Flashlight
"Beam is a game changer when it comes to musical lighting control. Designing a unique lighting counterpart for every note in every clip of the Feed Me show might sound daunting, but with Beam it was truly fun and the synergy with Videosync is unparalleled."

Michel Suk

Senior lighting engineer and show designer at Ampco-Flashlight

And more

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

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


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ISF shaders
Support for Interactive Shader Format, and ships with a plugin SDK to easily develop your own video plugins.


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Native video playback
Uses macOS high-performance video playback frameworks, to render video at the highest resolutions and frame rates that your system supports.

Format support
Support for all standard video formats, as well as HAP.

Native Apple Silicon support
Videosync ships as a universal binary for Intel and Apple Silicon.

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  • Session View
  • Arrangement View
  • Master Syphon Out
  • Return Track Syphon Out
  • 7 Lighting plugins
  • Plugin SDK
  • Merge Modes
  • Networked playback
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