We're looking forward to participate at the L.E.V. festival on saturday the 2nd of May. The Resolume workshop starts at 18:00 and after this we'll be drinking Spa rood while enjoying performances by Aphex Twin, Isolée, Alva Noto, Byetone, AGF, our dutch pride Kettel and many more. We hope to see you there!

All those social networks might prove to be a huge waste of time in future but we're having a lot of fun with them right now, especially Twitter. So follow us on Twitter, become a fan on Facebook, see our pictures on Flickr, videos on YouTube and Vimeo or become a friend on MySpace and comment us with your spam. Thanks for the Add!

SAE Institute is introducing a new part time course that will teach you the principles and the art of VJ'ing. During this 6 month course you will learn to work with VJ hardware and software and the opportunity to show your skills during a real club event. Every student will receive an official license of Resolume Avenue. Checkout all the details here: http://www.sae.nl/vj_course/

Celluloid Remix: dé online remix contest waarbij je van uniek Nederlands filmmateriaal iets totaal nieuws kunt maken. Remix de Nederlandse filmgeschiedenis en maak kans op prachtige prijzen. De winnende inzendingen worden tijdens het Nederlands Film Festival bekend gemaakt en vertoond.

Het Filmmuseum stelt 21 unieke stille filmfragmenten (uit de periode 1917-1932) ter beschikking. De filmfragmenten geven een beeld van de snelle veranderingen op industrieel en maatschappelijk gebied in de jaren na de Eerste Wereldoorlog.

Geef jouw visie op de snelle veranderingen in de wereld van vandaag, morgen en overmorgen. Remix de fragmenten met eigen materiaal en soundtrack tot je eigen korte film over vooruitgang, in letterlijke, figuurlijke, technische, maatschappelijke of andere zin.

Lees alle details op http://www.celluloidremix.nl en download de films en bekijk de eerste remix van Eboman op http://celluloidremix.blip.tv

We did a Resolume presentation at the official Ableton Live 8 launch in Amsterdam last weekend. While preparing for this presentation we have written a tutorial on how to control Avenue with Live. It covers MIDI sequencing, triggering clips & columns, linking parameters and MIDI clock. We get many questions about synchronizing Live and Avenue so we hope this is useful for many of you. Leave a reply if you have any more questions!

We will do a Resolume demo at the official Ableton Live 8 launch party in Amsterdam on Saturday 11th of April. We'll show how Live 8 and Resolume 3 can work together to create a fully integrated AV show using Live for audio and midi sequencing and Resolume for video. We hope to see you there!

On Saturday, April 11, Ableton, 365Mag, SAE and Media Satellite will present the official Benelux launch of Ableton Live 8 and Live 8 Suite at the Sugar Factory Club in Amsterdam. Expect a full-featured Live 8 and Live 8 Suite workshop, special guests, free goodies - and an exciting after party with internationally known UK DJ Lee Burridge!

It’s an event not to be missed if you want to stay up to date on the hottest product in music production and technology. The new Ableton Live 8 and Live 8 Suite incorporate a plethora of new features and great new virtual instruments. Product specialist Dankmar Klein (Ableton, Berlin) will host an exclusive, in-depth Live 8 and Live 8 Suite workshop and give a performance during which he will showcase the many jaw-dropping features of this innovative software. In addition to the official Ableton Live 8 kick off and workshop, the evening features an exclusive short introduction to the new Resolume Avenue 3 VJ software, a tool that works great with Ableton Live.

Each attendee will receive a free UDG bag with freebies and is invited to stay for the afterparty with Lee Burridge. Capacity is limited to only 250 guests, so get your tickets soon!

When:
Saturday, April 11, 19:00 - 23.00
Afterparty, 23:00.

Where:
Sugar Factory
Lijnbaansgracht 238
Amsterdam

Cost:
Door: 12 EUR
Advance: 10 EUR
For tickets and more information, visit
http://www.beatfreax.com/index.php?s=tickets&tid=24461

We have just released Resolume 3.0.1. This micro update fixes bugs, improves stability and handles corrupt video files better. Recording is fixed once and for all and it now records both audio and video! In the preferences you can enable and disable audio and video recording. We've had a lot of fun creating AV samples with the new recording and we hope you'll enjoy it too.

This is a free update as usual so go ahead and download Resolume 3.0.1.

Unfortunately we learned the hard way that Mac PowerPC support is not possible for Avenue so if you bought a license with the intent to use it on a G4 or G5 and you have no chance to run it on an Intel Mac then please contact us on mail@resolume.com.

Fixed Bugs
#540 [fixed] Record 0 bytes
#537 [fixed] Some audio files are distorted when playing backwards
#560 [fixed] Decks in wrong order
#566 [fixed] Crash when switching decks on heavy load
#551 [fixed] PC: Keystone and AddSubtract missing
#578 [fixed] HardLight mixer does not work
#543 [fixed] Wipe Down does not wipe all the way
#580 [fixed] OSX: Live input does not always work
#559 [fixed] Compositions list does not show the last item
#561 [fixed] Continue playback is not working with Audio clips
#557 [fixed] White txt on layer blend mode buttons
#562 [fixed] Audio Input channels are not saved correctly
#534 [fixed] BPM 120.50 not possible
#550 [fixed] Some Application Key Map "Deck" Keystrokes not working
#542 [fixed] Beatloopr doesn't work until switched to bpm or beats mode (aarrghh)
#545 [fixed] Speed of videoclip isn't saved
#581 [fixed] Can't change directory for ffgl & vst directories

Peter Kirn published an interesting article about our new DXV Codec on Create Digital Motion. Check it out for some great background info and discussion in the comments. We have been working on the DXV Codec for a long time so we are super happy that so many of you like it as much as we do!

Resolume Avenue 3 is out of beta and available now! Download here, manual there and checkout the release notes below. In short, it's good, we like it, we're happy ;-) Make sure you do not miss our new DXV Codec, it's much faster than any other codec.

Stability Stability Stability
If you tried the beta you probably experienced a few crashes. ;-) That's fixed. Resolume 3.0.0 is totally stable and if you do experience a crash, we want to know about it: mail@resolume.com
Stability has been our main concern with this release so we have put a lot of time and effort into making Avenue as reliable as possible. Because we put so much time into this we had to push Flash playback and audio recording to a later release. So next on our todo is Flash playback and we will make this available as a free update.

DXV Codec
Our new DXV QuickTime video codec is the fastest codec available for Resolume. It let's you work effortlessly with a lot of layers and high resolution video. Because it does all the playback on the videocard's GPU it's faster than any other codec. Checkout all the details:
http://www.resolume.com/avenue/dxv.php

Audio Analysis
Resolume 3 can now do audio FFT analysis to make any parameter bounce to the music. Animate the size, rotation or position of a clip or make effects dance to the beat.

More effects
Thanks to Dan Kent from Syzygy Resolume 3 now includes a lot more effects: Fragment, Goo, Iterate, Kaleidoscope, Point grid, Recolour, RadialBlur, Ripples, Stripper, Tunnel (YEAH!), VideoWall & Vignette.

Transport controls on the layers
The Forward, Backward, Pause and Random buttons are back where they belong! Due to popular demand we added transport controls to the layers so it works more like Resolume 2. By default they are hidden so before you panic you should just make them visible by choosing "Show Layer Transport Controls" in the View menu.

MIDI & Keyboard Mapping Changed
The Contextual and Direct MIDI and Keyboard mapping was confusing so we changed it to Application and Composition mapping. Also, If you want your midi and keyboard shortcuts working the Resolume 2 way then go for Application mapping and select the focus to Deck in the mapping panel.

Localized Interface
The Resolume 3 interface is now localized to English, Dutch and German. More languages coming.

Other small improvements
#226 Keyboard and MIDI shortcuts for In and Out points
#501 Corresponding clip is now shown in the clip panel when a layer is selected
#503 Speed sliders more sensitive at low values
#422 Only highlight non empty clips in Composition mapping
#463 Enable Beat-snap for all clips (not only the ones in bpm-sync mode)
#456 Swap clips instead of replace when moving in the deck
#407 Shortcuts on transport controls should work on Timeline and BPM mode
#428 Keyboard mapping, check for reserved shortcuts like ctrl + s
#416 Add global VU meter
#228 Show FFGL plugin description and about info
#414 Insert recordings into first empty clip
#405 Shortcut for MIDI (ctrl + shift + m) and Keyboard mapping (ctrl + shift + k)
#404 Shortcut for Composition Settings (ctrl + shift + c)
#388 Tap Resync Pause in Application Key/MIDI Mapping

Fixed Bugs
#486 [fixed] Sometimes decks aren't loaded
#369 [fixed] Decks are often in wrong order when loaded
#303 [fixed] Order of deck tabs is different from order in composition list
#368 [fixed] Avenue crashes when changing decks
#418 [fixed] 0 byte record bug
#500 [fixed] Thumbnails aren't always shown
#513 [fixed] Windows:In and out points disappear when creating a really small loop
#494 [fixed] Previewing a playing clip does not always work
#492 [fixed] Bottom layer visible even when opacity is 0
#496 [fixed] crash when loading clips with opendml codec
#478 [fixed] Memory leak when triggering audio clips
#425 [fixed] MIDI devices cannot be turned off
#415 [fixed] Clips stopping on bottom layer when not registered
#335 [fixed] When triggering audio clips very fast avenue crashes
#458 [fixed] Non power of two videos are distorted
#457 [fixed] Layer MIDI Composition mapping are not stored
#455 [fixed] Editing Video or Audio effects directories doesn't always work
#450 [fixed] Quicklook window can't be dismissed
#299 [fixed] Crossfader position not saved correctly in composition
#305 [fixed] Previewing a clip that is already playing causes a glitch
#417 [fixed] Show/Hide Help is not stored
#296 [fixed] BPM should start counting at 1 not 0
#329 [fixed] Selecting a clip doesn't allways update the clip property panel correctly.
#297 [fixed] BPM Pause stops video clips in BPM sync mode but not audio clips
#412 [fixed] loading pictures as maks often crashes when linestride is bigger then width*3 or width*4
#381 [fixed] Mask are mirrored
#410 [fixed] Memory leak in file browser when set to thumbnail mode
#398 [fixed] Browsers overlap the panels when the help component is not visible
#135 [fixed] OSX: Old frame of a clip is shown when a clip is triggered
#372 [fixed] In and Out points of sliders are sometimes impossible to move
#325 [fixed] Pictures leave trails when zooming or rotating
#271 [fixed] Advanced screen setup, dragging screen can crash Avenue
#320 [fixed] SoundCard doesn't list all outputs
#366 [fixed] Bug in selecting display area in advanced screensetup when using normal power of two textures
#364 [fixed] Parameter linked to bpm does not remember amount of beats
#348 [fixed] Windows: ASIO devices don't always work
#326 [fixed] OSX: OSC doesn't always work
#338 [fixed] OSX: Clip thumbnail not taken at 5%
#346 [fixed] OSX: DV codec in quicktime movie is not displayed correctly
#327 [fixed] Pixels in Space does not work on clip or layer
#309 [fixed] Effect presets with timeline do not animate when loaded

+ loads more small bug fixes that made our life miserable.

Come join us for a Resolume workshop/presentation at the Music ALIVE event on Sunday February 15th in Rotterdam. We'll show the latest Resolume beta and together with DJ Lamont and Senses Overloaded you'll see and learn how to sync Avenue and Ableton Live for a full on audio visual show.

Admission is free but registration is required: http://www.music-alive.nl

Music ALIVE is the event for all enthusiastic music soft and hardware users and the ideal way to learn the newest products, technologies and to meet and talk to other musicians and producers.

Sunday February 15 the complete Seminar floor and all Seminar Rooms are available of the Novotel Rotterdam (Brainpark) with a load of exciting product and musician workshops both for starters and professionals. The participating brands and workshop program for this year …

Ableton Live and Ableton Virtual Instruments / Propellerhead REASON 4 and REFILLS / Jazzmutant LEMUR / Resolume AVENUE 3 VJ software/ Earproof consult sessions / PRODAW audio computers / Blue Sky audio
monitors / Røde microfoons / Event audio monitors / CME Keyboards!

Dankmar Klein (product specialist Ableton) with a very special surprise presentation around Ableton Live, Coen Molenaar (keyboards) and Remco van der Sluis, (drums) from the Jan Akkerman Band and Chris Hinze with a
workshop Ableton Live on the Open Labs NEKO / Arne van Petegem (Styrofoam) workshop Reason 4 and Reason 4 Combinator / Luke Mourinet and Jean Marie Moens (aka Ruff & Jam) workshop Ableton Live and Reason
4 / Bart van der Ploeg en Edwin de Koning (Resolume) together with DJ Lamont and Senses Overloaded workshop Ableton Live and Resolume Avenue 3 / Friedemann Tischmeyer pro recording workshop Internal
Mixing and more surprise interviews and artist performances …

Supporting Companies:
Ableton / Propellerhead / Resolume / Blue Sky / Jazzmutant / PRODAW computers / Røde / Event / CME / Use Audio / Tischmeyer Publications / Earproof / Interface Magazine / 365 Media