Quick Search
This changes the way you add effects & sources to your compositions forever. The same handy quick search menu from Wire is now also available in Avenue & Arena. With this menu you can quickly search for effects & sources and add them to your composition, clips, groups or layers. No need to browse in the lists anymore, this is so much quicker!


Slice Transform Upscaling
Previously, in situations where your content resolution was different than your composition resolution, using the Slice Transform before the default transform could result in unexpected scaling. From 7.19 and onwards, placing a Slice Transform _before_ the default Transform, will scale your content to the composition resolution. This also affects layers and groups when they have a different resolution than the composition.

Text Rotation
We've added text rotation to the Text Block source and Text Block effect in Avenue & Arena. For Wire, we've added text rotation to the Text Render node.

Wire Dashboard Presets
You can now create and manage presets on the Wire Dashboard panel. These presets will show up in Avenue & Arena for quick access during live shows. You can also create Arena presets for Wire patches, compile the Wire patch and they are then bundled with the patch for easy distribution.


Wire Monitor Backgrounds
As requested by the community, we ported over the monitor settings from Arena and Avenue. You can now select whether you want a transparent or black background from the cogwheel menu. Additionally you can snapshot the monitor into an image node or copy the image to the clipboard.


New Wire Nodes
A new release means new nodes for Resolume Wire. In this update we've got the Swap node and Polar nodes. The Swap nodes allows you to swap two items within a collection. The To Polar node allows you to convert cartesian coordinates to polar coordinates. The From Polar node allows you to do the opposite and convert polar coordinates to cartesian.

7.19.2 Fix List
- #20445 Midi shortcuts stop working, if clock input is enabled on the same midi device

7.19.1 Fix List
- #20957 Old presets for Wire patches get lost with 7.19.0 on MacOS
- #20955 Nvidia Broadcast source not working on 7.19.0
- #20959 vMix external source not working on 7.19.0

Avenue & Arena 7.19.0 Fix List
- #12902 Icons for Envelope Curves
- #14746 Elgato Camlink and other capture cards, no worky in Resolume with NV12, YUY2 and I420 formats
- #17650 This column shortcuts can break creating or loading a new composition
- #18144 Layer blend selector menu can show in wrong position/display
- #18721 Additional windows can open at wrong positions with scaled diplays
- #19304 Play once and clear on mask layer can have one black frame at the end
- #20115 Mixer names in list should not get shortened if there is enough space
- #20234 Right click - show in Finder on folder listed in the Fixture editor crashes Arena
- #20319 Text animator source doesn't update text value via curl / Swagger manual
- #20336 Spaces should scale the same amount as letters in text generators
- #20390 Correctly size whitespace of monospaced fonts
- #20407 Undoing clip audio track remove leaves relocate button on clip

Wire 7.19.0 Fix List
- #20320 Sorting options on Wire Dashboard
- #16464 Timeline node which played to the end, changes output value when you change it's duration
- #19696 Timeline can send out values outside of start and end values
- #19989 Juicebar Wire patch watermark is cropped
- #20012 Add exclusion to Video Mixer
- #20019 Values in inspectortje stop updating when hovering over inspectortje
- #20228 Incorrect Element node index ranges
- #20257 Event outlets show wrong value on hover, after hovering another outlet shortly

Alley 7.19.0 Fix List
- #19014 Crash in Alley 7.14 with GraphicsHooks
- #19138 Alley can crash without reports converting lots of files
- #19289 Alley conversion can make video flicker

We're very happy to welcome wazu87 to the label. Their first release Abstract Fractals is a mind twister. OWK Crew is back with a nice set of Mandalas. And VeiledValleys by Artificial Imagination got layers deeper than an onion.

Abstract Fractals by wazu87


Mandalas by OWK Crew


VeiledValleys by Artificial Imagination

Thinking about the Roman Empire is so 2023, but here we are anyway with Formation Effect.

Albertus Luki is back with a pack of classic loops brought to life by Kleur.

Coordinates, passwords, secret formulas? What does it all mean? N3rdiness is mysterious.

Formation Effect by SPYKE.


Kleur by Albertus Luki


N3rdiness by visualprime

Hey there friends, buddies and champions!

We're here with a little something-something for all you effect-lovers out there.
We've taken 7 effects from Wire examples and compiled them for Arena and Avenue.
This means you can install these effects without owning Wire.
Downloads can be found at the bottom of this post.

Because the love is strong today, there are two brand new effects in here as well that were requested on the Slack Channel. Note that these effects will eventually make it to JuiceBar (for free).

Requirements & Installation

• Requires Resolume 7.18.2 or higher.
• Download the effects and execute the files one at a time.
• Arena/Avenue will open up asking you if you would like to install the effect.
• Now you'll find the effect in the effect panel.

Smooth Transform
The Smooth Transform effect functions like the regular transform, except there is a transition between the values. This allows for buttery smooth scaling and translation. The best thing is that you can set the amount of smoothing.

Screen Shake
Let's go boom-boom on the beat and shake your entire output.
This effect will allow you to temporarily distort the heck out of your content.
That trigger button really loves some BPM-syncing!

FeedbackPro
This effect is your one-stop-shop for all feedback related wizardry.
After luma-keying the footage you can move, scale and hue-shift the feedback for some seriously trippy results.

SlitScanner
The Slit Scanner is another feedback-based effect that allows you to sample a single slit of your content and repeat that infinitely towards the end of the screen. It's like putting your hand under a scanner and moving it while the machine scans.

Shifty
This effect is directly taken from the Wire tutorial on creating distortion.
At first glance this effect lets you distort your content on the horizontal or vertical axis, but as soon as you apply some smoothing and rotation a whole world of distortion effects will open for you.

Space Warper
We are not 100% sure Hawkings would approve of this effect as it WILL bend space and time! use at your own discretion.

Reducto
This effect allows you to reduce the color and image quality to get some lo-fi looks.

VHSifyer
This is a customized version of the VHS example in Wire.
This effect gives footage a VHS look by adding scanlines, slight distortion and some chromatic aberration. Works nicely with the Vignette effect too!

Total Visual Annihilation
This effect will wreak absolute havoc on your content.
TVA is here to murder your pixels, eat your colors, crush your animations and spit out filthy grimey glitches until your eyes bleed.

And that's it for now!
Stay tuned, as I'll be porting over some Wire sources soon.

We welcome to the label FTVision with their first release Black Techno, a collection of readymades to mix and match. Termed 'readymades' because part of the pack contains pre-mixed loops, allowing you to maybe turn on auto-pilot?!
Also joining the label is Corteks with Space Racing, a space odyssey with no end.
Impressonist Flow, the second release by visualprime, pays homage to the impressionist movement, capturing effects of light, color, and atmosphere.
With Ancient Mexico we hope we don't appropriate or disrespect any culture.
Scratchbox is a series of drawings turned into VJ loops and Laak introduces a new pack called VJSKEcho.


Black Techno by FTVision


Impressionist Flow by visualprime


Ancient Mexico by VJ Galaxy


Space Racing by Corteks


Scratchbox by Primal Eyes


VJSK Echo by Laak

Resolume 7.18 introduces a deck menu that should help with managing big compositions and busking setups. We've expanded the functionality on the OSC and MIDI monitors, added sorting and saving to the composition panel and gave other panel a lick of paint. Vertical Text Alignment is now a thing in the Text Animator, Text Block and Text Render.

But there is more! How about the new Vibrance effect for both Arena, Avenue and Wire? There are new shapes in Wire too as well as instantiated rendering and TextureChannel effects. So much stuff! Don't even get me started on the API, which got a whole plethora of new put's and post's and get's and whatnot's!



Decks Menu
When you're working with a lot of clips in your composition you can organise those in decks to keep a good overview and to make sure not all clips are loaded into memory. But when you had so many decks that it did not fit into the interface anymore scrolling from the first to the last deck was not very convenient and slow. Now when your decks do not fit into the interface anymore a decks menu shows up what pops down and you can always quickly open any deck you like without any scrolling. And you can even re-arrange your decks in this menu to stay organised.


MIDI & OSC Output Monitor
The MIDI and OSC monitor in the preferences now not only shows incoming, but also outgoing MIDI and OSC! This is very handy for debugging and figuring out why your controller might not be working as expected. It also shows what MIDI shortcuts are being triggered or what Wire patch is generating MIDI or OSC data. You'll find this enhanced monitor in the Preferences -> MIDI OR OSC -> Monitor button in the top right-hand corner.


New REST-API Capabilities
The REST-API is now more capable as it can now access groups, columns and move effects. You'll find all the new entry points in the REST-API documentation. Preferences -> Webserver.

Improved Compositions Panel
We gave the good old compositions list panel some love and attention. It can now sort your compositions alphabetically or by date. It remembers the fold/unfold state of the decks and with SHIFT + click you can fold/unfold all compositions in one go.

Refreshed Group, Layer & Clip Panels
The headers of the Group, Layer & Clip panels got a lick of paint to freshen them up and they can now show the color you might have assigned to them to more easily distinguish them from each other.


Even More Improved Text Rendering
The past releases have seen a lot of text rendering improvements but we're not done yet. There were still some bitmap fonts that could cause crashes but those are now solved. Text can now be aligned vertically to Top, Center and Bottom. Last but not least, your dreams have come true, finally you can start decorating your VJ sets with ornaments from the Wingdings and Webdings fonts!

Vibrance Saturation Effect
The Vibrance effect allows you to increase and decrease the amount of "vibrance" in your image. The effect amplifies less saturated colors while maintaining saturated colors. In contrast to the Saturation effect, the Vibrance effect will be less destructive to skin tones and is therefore frequently used in TV and photography production.

Wire Text Render & Shape Render Improvements
The Text Render node and Shape Render node now have options to have them output instances as 1 single texture or render to multiple textures.

More Wire Shapes
There are 4 new shapes in Wire; Parallelogram, Moon, Heart and Vesica. The Vesica Piscis is often used in Christian art as a symbol for the fish or the Ichthys, which is an acronym formed from the Greek words that mean Jesus Christ, Son of God, Our Savior. So if God is a DJ then surely a VJ is our savior and the Vesica is the universal symbol of all VJs. :-)

Reduced Memory Usage
We have greatly reduced the memory usage of Wire patches running in Arena so they may run faster or you can now use more of them without setting your laptop on fire.

Texture2D Channel Effects
We've added the option to accept the Texture2D channel type to the UV-offset, Flip, Mirror, Mirror-Quad, InvertRGB and Tile effects. This means that the effects can be applied to individual texture channels. Unleash your inner video synth freak with these new tools.

7.18.2 Hot Fix List
#20445 Midi shortcuts stop working, if clock input is enabled on the same midi device
#20406 Crashes in handling fonts on UTF8 user names since 7.18

7.18.1 Hot Fix List
#20371 Multi select in slices panel no worky any more
#20374 Clip blend selector no worky on windows 11
#20380 Crash with video sampler when resource in not available
#20381 Composition panel search doesn't filter out non matching decks any more

Fix List
- #13979 Remember Volume level in Alley
- #14450 Add Star shape to Shaper Effect/Source
- #19125 Memory leak with some USB capture cards on Windows 11
- #20160 Layer clear shortcut not working correctly with shortcuts created in previous versions
- #19908 Entering Wire license in Arena / Avenue shows wrong error message
- #18905 Trying to register an Arena Serial in Wire or vice versa to a dongle, you should get an error message about incompatible serial
- #19646 Factorial node
- #19809 Metronome Enabled inlet disappeared
- #19916 Adobe Color Wheel hex code no worky in Wire
- #18473 Accumulate node Send on Reset option
- #18635 Render sharp 1px lines with Grid node

We are very happy to welcome Motus Lumina to the label. Their first pack Genera XYZ is completely made in Vuo and comes with compositions and FFGL plugins (MacOS only).
Versa Tale keeps us informed about non-Western cultures, and Visual Lab dropped a banger.

Genera XYZ by Motus Lumina


OmGaneshaGanapati by VersaTale


Derelict by Visual Lab

We welcome to the label La Manchega, with her debut release, Abstract Lights.

IntoTheGlow2 is not about being fast and furious; it's about being swift and intense.

And Macro captures the abstract essence of the microscopic world, yet we can still feel a sense of nostalgia through the lens.


Abstract Lights by La Manchega


IntoTheGlow2 by MIKVIZ


Macro by FixPix

Recording Improvements
This is huge! Recording now has it's own dedicated panel where you can set a lot of new options and where your recorded files will show up. Besides ProRes and DXV you can now also record in h264. This is hardware accelerated and produces small files so you can now record basically as long as you want to. Before you could only record the composition but you can now optionally specify what layer, group or even screen from the advanced output that you want to record. You can specify the length of the recording in seconds or beats, this means you do not have to trim your recordings anymore but you get perfectly looping files. The recording can also be automatically stopped when all playing clips have ended. You can start the recording when the next bar starts or when a clip is triggered. Combine this automatic starting and stopping with the layer auto-pilot and you can do basic video editing in Arena & Avenue! Recorded files are not automatically added to the composition anymore by default but they are added to the recording panel where you can double click them to preview, open in Explorer/Finder or drag them to a clip in your composition.

Copy & Paste Effects
Now you can copy & paste effects not just on clips but also on layers, groups and the composition. This is a huge time saver! You'll find the copy & paste effects options in the clip, layer, group and composition menu.

Copy & Paste Images
In 7.16 we added copying & pasting images to Wire and now it's also available in Arena & Avenue. To copy an image open the radar menu at the bottom of a monitor. Paste an image via the clip menu.

Akai APC Mini MK2 Increased Brightness
The Akai APC Mini MK2 is quickly becoming the new favorite controller for Avenue & Arena but by default the buttons are not very bright. You always had to set it to drum mode to get the maximum brightness from the buttons. We have now fixed this in 7.17, the buttons are always max brightness, no need to set it to a different mode, just plug and play.

Wire
Wire got a few new nodes; Distance Node and Replace NaN Node. You can now position the text in the Text Render node. Quickly create a comment shortcut ⌘/CTRL + M. When you have nodes selected this will create the comment around the nodes, if you have no nodes selected it just creates a comment and you can start jotting away. The Insert Pack shortcut (⌘/CTRL + P) can be used to quickly combine two, three or four nodes that output the Float type into a Float2, Float3 or Float4 type. We added an option to select unused nodes so you can quickly clean up your patch. And of course there are various other small improvements and bug fixes.

Download
As always, downloads available here. Or click on Check for updates... in the Arena/Avenue menu and it will self update.

7.17.3 Hot Fix Tue 12 Sept
- #20050 Arena/Avenue crash on start when no audio device available
- #20051 Setting Read Node to attribute crashes on windows
- #20052 PolaGlow JuiceBar Wire effect crashes in 16 bit composition

7.17.2 Hot Fix Fri 8 Sept
- #19029 Select default audio device on clean install
- #19981 Cannot type values or click +/- icons in Wire color picker
- #20014 Resolume appears frozen on clean install on windows
- #20018 MIDI input can be very laggy on 7.17.0
- #20024 Midi feedback only is sent when the value changes

7.17.1 Hot Fix Tue 5 Sept
- #19964 Arena/Avenue does not always connect to audio devices on startup

Arena/Avenue 7.17.0 Fix List
- #6945 Add Fit-Fill-Stretch options to Mask
- #19274 Start shortcut editing with no item selected
- #17731 Pioneer player info doesn't appear in Resolume when using Bridge app to bridge to another network
- #18282 Duplicating top layer in group places new layer outside group
- #19109 Shortcut to trigger and Solo at the same time not always executed correctly
- #19344 Magewell capture card only shows 15FPS options on mac
- #19445 Layer clear mapped to CC or DMX clears layer on any value change
- #19469 Layer Clear button doesn't always flash (when triggering with shortcut)
- #16883 Layer clear triggers on any change in Midi/DMX input
- #19346 Clip params can flash old value with animated to clip position and envelope applied

Wire 7.17.0 Fix List
- #19295 Distance Node
- #19423 "Replace NaN" node
- #19547 Add option to Select Unused nodes
- #19754 Create Comment Shortcut: ⌘/CTRL + M
- #19671 Pack Shortcut ⌘/CTRL+P
- #19010 Make sure a newly refilled Bag doesn't end with the same number it last ended
- #19374 Exposing inputs, should also auto number input nodes
- #19540 Add Randomize for Bool, Trigger and Color
- #19606 Wire Text Rendering Position
- #19851 Text line jumps with unsupported chars
- #19626 Reloading patch from recents no worky
- #19292 Compile on UTF8 windows user no worky

Unit44 and Reach Visuals joined forces for an experimental ride in Hybrid MashUp. Abstract Landscapes are not so abstract anymore; they are climate disasters. And in the darkness, always look for the FlickIt2.

Hybrid MashUp by Unit44 & Reach Visuals


Abstract Landscape by Catmac


FlickIt2 by Albertus Luki