We must admit, we were quite nervous when we released Wire last week. After secretly working on Wire for so long it’s a bit scary to finally let it loose into the wild and see if it can stand on its own legs. But we are very happy that Wire is so well received!

We really enjoyed reading all your nice comments, like this one from @mongo_zen:
"Dear @Resolume wire, im climbing inside your patch cables and never leaving. I live here now."

Anton Marini, the creator of Syphon, better known as @_vade in the VJ community writes:
"Wow, gotta hand it to @Resolume - Wire looks fantastic. I feel like it's something I would want to work with. Well done. Plus the ability to compile out closed source patches seems awesome."

Thank you to everyone for giving Wire such a warm welcome!



Help!?
But of course, as with any new product you also have a lot of questions. Our video course should be your starting point, followed up by our articles. The video course is expanding daily so keep an eye out on our YouTube channel. Want to go more in-depth into animation or instancing? Just grab the tutorial series built into Wire. Note that you can always right click a node and open the example patch for that specific node.

Join us on Slack
You can always head over to our Slack community to talk directly to other users, our customer support team and the developers themselves.

Live Stream on Thursdays
We enjoyed our live stream last week so much that we are making it a weekly thing! Join us this week Thursday for the latest on Wire, Arena, Avenue, Juicebar and Alley.



Show and Tell
And please, pretty please, show us some of your work! We are curious to see what you guys and gals are cooking up!

VibesVJ is our latest addition to our portfolio of footage artists. He is working from a desk in France and his loops remind us of those times when a beamer behind the DJ was enough to create a killer atmosphere. Check out his first release called ScifiVisual.

Further, OnBeat by VJ Picles is a high quality rhythmical content and PsychedelicTravels by Lior Sadeh Studio is a pack that mixes itself.


Scifi by VibesVJ


OnBeat by VJ Picles


PsychedelicTravels by Lior Sadeh Studio

We’re so excited to finally introduce you to our new addition to the Resolume family, say hello to Wire!

Wire is a modular node-based patching environment to create effects, mixers and video generators for Arena & Avenue.



Why?
Does the world really need another patching environment? Yes, we think it does. There are some truly great patching environments available; Max, Notch, TouchDesigner, vvvv, Vuo, to name just a few. All of these have been around for decades and all have their own purpose, strengths and weaknesses. However none of them tick all our boxes. We want something lightweight, embeddable, cross-platform and most of all, easy to use and learn. That patching environment did not exist yet, and since the days of Quartz Composer we have been frustrated and dreaming about a patching environment that would compliment Arena and Avenue.

Of course Wire can not be compared to patching environments that have been around for decades but it does already prove itself very useful in expanding the capabilities of Arena & Avenue. In fact, you might have already been using Wire effects and generators without even noticing. Remember the Abstract Field source and Acuarela & Tilt Shift effects we added to Arena and Avenue a few versions back? Those are made in Wire! And the best thing is; you can now edit them and make your own variations. Or learn how they were made and create something entirely new.

The Future?
We think we have laid the foundation for a very friendly and capable environment that will only get better over time. We look forward to expanding into new territories in the future like audio playback, synthesis and effects. 3D rendering. More IO protocols. Online content. To name just a few. There is so much fun stuff that can be added to Wire it’s hard to decide what to do first. Help us prioritize what to do next, by telling us what you would like to be added in the future.

Help!
Wire includes a lot of example patches that get you going very quickly. The welcome screen will help you to get started right away. For every node there is a documentation patch that explains exactly what it does. Check out the in-depth support articles that explain the concepts behind Wire. Of course you are free to ask any question on our forum but also join our growing Slack community where you can get very quick feedback via chat. We look forward to you feedback on Wire!

Pricing
Resolume Wire for 1 computer is €399 Euro. Licenses are available in the shop.

Download
A free trial is available now on our downloads page so you can try Wire for as long as you like.

Fix List
Arena & Avenue 7.4.0 of course contain the full Wire integration but also fixes the following bugs and crashes.
- #15260 Presets for Mixers/Blend Modes
- #14859 Support dragging .avc file onto resolume
- #14729 Accept comma as decimal separator
- #15266 Crash on exit with output/preview set to picture in picture, and previewing clip
- #15048 Crash undoing clip paste in another deck
- #14991 Crash trying to drop VST effect onto layer clip thumbnail
- #14906 Crash after disconnecting midi device which popped 'already in use'
- #11625 Crash with waking machine from sleep with DMA on
- #13716 Mapped Layer blend shortcuts change on adding other blend modes
- #14816 SDI and NDI capture textures can flash into eachother
- #14951 /composition/layers/1/clips/*/transport/ position/behaviour/duration/divide no worky
- #14999 Column sometimes doesn't get highlighted on trigger, next column index is wrong
- #15092 Selecting another MIDI shortcut preset stops OSC output
- #15224 Low and Upper case blends names are ordered separately, lower case end up at the end of the list, this can get confusing
- #15231 Loading layout preset can make Shortcuts panel show up
- #15190 Loading a file in full screen Alley, makes the file list show up, you can't hide it

We welcome to the label Riotstarter, a Ukrainian self-taught motion designer based in Kyiv. His main focus is to scare the sh*t out of you and leave you hopeless. Check out his first release NoHopeJustFear. Ghosteam is back with an all symbolic pack called Trinity. And if you feel like an artsy type of person, then Blendwash by Muzencab is for you.

NoHopeJustFear by Riotstarter


Trinity by Ghosteam


Blendwash by Muzencab

Here's another maintenance release to prepare Avenue & Arena for a major new addition to the Resolume family ... have no fear, shiny new toys coming soon.



Hot Fix May 26
#15264 #3838 Prevent possible crashes in infuser assembly

Fix List May 11
#14074 Doing a clean install on Windows, Example.avc is not copied and loaded on startup
#14781 Crash switching decks
#14813 Playing this mp4 with wrong AAC-audio PTS values crashes Alley on windows
#14817 Capture color conversions are inaccurate
#14881 Undo-redo column insertion breaks with groups sometimes
#14935 Midi (by position) shortcut no worky after undoing group column insert
#14956 Text Animation doesn't leave a valid context
#14987 L fixtures send different value than expected
#15005 Video mixer gets garbage texture from somewhere
#15023 Media Manager freezes trying to reconnect a file with a different name
#15143 Capture input starts to trail in feedback

Download
Select "Check for Updates.." in the Avenue or Arena menu and it will self-update. Or checkout the downloads page.

Keep 'em videologies coming! On this beautiful day Dan Chelger drops the third chapter of his made with love analog loops.
FixPix thinks of our wishes and brings us a pack of loops designed for transparent screens. We can see it in the title: HoloVol1 😉 is just the beginning.
We like all sorts of vibes but OrganikVibes we like the most. madvisuals_vj invites us to vibe inside the microcosmos or vibe outside the macrocosmos.


Videologies3 by Dan Chelger


HoloVol1 by FixPix


OrganikVibes by madvisuals_vj

With NFT’s being all the [s]rave[/s] rage these days we had to get in on the gold rush and also start offering NFT’s. But not just any NFT of course, in our first ever NFT offering we decided to go big, not one silly loop but our entire catalog of 12.317 individual loops! Spread out over 361 different footage packs it includes the very finest 4K 3D animated tunnels like IntoTheGlow. Analog goodies like the Videologies series. Timeless classics like VJSurvivalKit 1 to 5 but also golden oldies like LineDancers and DiscoFever.

This is a total of 6.8 TB of data so downloading it all will take 33 years, 5 months, 27 days, 5 hours, 27 minutes and 6 seconds on a 56k modem. But it will be so worth the wait. Just imagine the amount of time you’ll spend staring at your modem’s flickering LED lights. It will be pure bliss, nothing is more calming and satisfying than staring at LED’s and watching the bits and bobs flood your hard-drives.

Get your ultimate VJ bragging rights and buy the entire Resolume Footage Catalog!
Bidding starts at 250K ETH.

We welcome to the label Maverixs Visuals. Their first release Cyborg Space features a steel warrior sent to save us from the plague. Unit44 is back with Woods2, while VJ Galaxy confronts us with the story of a Normal Guy.
Tomika drops Object, a pack of 27 out of this world loops, VJ Picles takes us on a quarantine free travel through the Space Universe and we love ourselves some analog Videologies2 from Dan Chelger.

Enjoy!

Cyborg Space by Maverixs Visuals


Woods2 by Unit44


Normal Guy by VJ Galaxy


Object by Tomika


Space Universe by VJ Picles


Videologies2 by Dan Chelger

No snazzy new features (yet) but bug fixes as far as my eyes can see.

Fix List
#10410 Crash renaming slice or lumiverse in Advanced output
#14401 Crash trying to draw new font
#14768 Crash trying to convert with start marker moved from 0
#14782 Crash showing file in explorer from other deck
#14788 Crash clicking on register offline with language set to Chinese
#14801 Crash loading GB18030 bitmap font in text animator
#14802 Crash playing AV file with wrong duration set in AVPacket
#14835 App fullscreen resize freezes Arena on Big Sur
#14750 BMD ATEM mini not working on OSX Big Sur
#14687 Transparency lost from camera capture, like Nvidia broadcast
#14793 OBS camera clip doesn't update texture
#14819 NDI clips don't get a server selected dropping them to your composition
#14823 Update NDI libs in installers
#10289 Audio Cracks when Starting and Stopping an Audio File
#11536 Some gifs don't play till the end
#13574 Identify display shows a different number than the output menu and ASS
#14445 Notify user when saving composition fails - Windows Controlled folder access
#14625 Play next clip breaks on clips which need to be relocated
#14652 Moving decks the deck list flashes positions
#14664 Setting Shortcut to Toggle, max value is kept from Value mode, slider shows wrong position
#14668 "No output device" selection resets to first in the list when audio device is added or removed
#14744 AV renders with files with different length audio and video streams get aborted
#14761 This composition has font-baseline wrong with 'Character'-animation
#14917 Text block line width is not breaking lines any more
#14767 Redo duplicate layer group column seems to break with two groups
#14825 Re-doing group column duplicate breaks if you undo too far
#14838 Relative play mode jumps to wrong position
#14843 Opening pre 7.3 compositions from the Composition panel, effects are not loaded
#14846 Recording with no empty column in layer 1 causes crash
#14857 AV recording only gets a 35 minutes long audio track
#14931 Prores 4444 XQ with alpha plays incorrect
#14374 Prores renders and recordings are not recognized properly by Adobe

Download
Select "Check for Updates.." in the Avenue or Arena menu and it will self-update. Or checkout the downloads page.

Dan Chelger is back with Videologies2, a pack that includes a series of experiments made with a new analog equipment based on "The Wobbulator", a device built in 1968 by Nam June Paik. If you want to build your own, head over to Dan Chelger's blog for more information.

VJ Galaxy brings us InternationalPatterns, a pack of animated native, aboriginal and ancient patterns. All patterns come with alpha channel included.

Albertus Luki built us a bpm synced Barricade and we are loving it!

Videologies2 by Dan Chelger


International Patterns by VJ Galaxy


Barricade by Albertus Luki