Sound2Light

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This tutorial covers the basics of using Sound2Light to drive Live Effect parameters with audio coming through your computer's microphone (or another external input device). See this tutorial on using Vezer for more information on using Live Effects in Lightform Creator and how the OSC protocol can be used to control Live Effects once published.

How it works

Step 1: Download Sound2Light

Sound2Light is open-source software that runs on both Windows and macOS. The latest releases can be found here (scroll down for downloads for both Windows and macOS).

Step 2: Add Live Effects

  1. Select an effect in the Layers Panel, or add an effect to a surface
  2. Enable Labs by going to Help > Enable Labs
  3. Go to Effect Options in the Properties Panel
  4. Press Live

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Note: Because of playback settings on Lightform devices, you can only have 1 Live effect per slide.

Step 3: Locate OSC Mappings

After you publish a project with a Live Effect to the Lightform device, you'll see Live Effect Parameters on the right side of the Control Page. Click the OSC Mappings button to see the global OSC mappings for the project and the local OSC mappings for each live effect per slide.

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