The Mapping festival is already in full swing for about a week and we're also flying to Geneva this weekend to do a workshop. We're excited to finally meet the guys from Modul8, they are one of the few VJ software developers we have never met before. If you're in the neighborhood, come see all the performances, join the workshops or participate in the VJ battle!

Very comprehensive German review of Resolume 3 on amazona.de. "Hier zeigt sich deutlich, was man beim Entdecken des Programms immer wieder feststellt: Die meisten Funktionen sind schnell verstanden, bieten aber eine solche Flexibilität, dass man sich tagelang nur damit beschäftigen kann, seine Komposition einzurichten. Diese Freiheit stellt einen Quantensprung in der Entwicklung von Resolume dar und ist allein schon Grund genug, einen sehr genauen Blick auf Avenue zu wagen."

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!