Hiya, I’m just digging in to using Beam. I want to use it to create an Audio reactive light show fed by my Ableton Audio tracks.
I’m now wondering if its possible to use video files as a source for lights controlled by Beam? Kind of like I’ve seen people use Madmapper where each light behaves as a pixel?
Also for people using Beam in a live context, do you have any realtime control over the show or is it all preset, perhaps using different ableton scenes to launch different controller / plugin settings?
For example, I would like the lighting operator of my show to be able to control the intensity of the reactiveness to audio mappings using midi controllers. Each show venue will vary slightly and fixtures may vary so I feel it is important the lighting operator has hands on adjustment of things like beam width, shutter speed, brightness mid show.
I’m also wondering if anyone is using M4L plugins to feed parameters to beam. For example I would like to use harmonic data to affect things like colour and movement. I would like to map for example a 3 colour gradient (from an audio analyser readout eg spectrogram) spread across 20 or so lights.
In other words…Please come at me with your crazy ways to control lights using Beam reacting to audio in real time!!
Thanks!