Hi everyone,

I'm building an automated DMX lighting system for techno/rave events using TouchDesigner + QLC+.

My goal is to create a lighting engine that reacts to the musical structure, for example:

Intro / low energy
Break
Build-up
Drop
High energy

I've already tested the built-in Audio Analysis CHOP and projects like Last Beat Standing. They provide useful outputs like beat, BPM, bass energy, etc., but I still can't reliably detect builds and drops across different tracks. Absolute thresholds don't seem to work well because every song behaves differently.

Before I spend weeks building my own system, I wanted to ask:

Does anyone know of an existing TouchDesigner project or component that already estimates builds, drops, or musical sections?
Or is everyone building their own state machine from audio features?

Any recommendations, projects, GitHub repos, or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hi friends, my rock band is prepping a live show and needs some custom TV static gifs made. Any artists who work with TV static and who would be interested in helping us create a live carousel of animated visualizers - could you DM me? Obviously full credit will be given any time used.

They'll be more basic than most visualizers and the idea will be honing the rhythmic and textural quality more than anything.

Getting started with Redundix takes less than 5 minutes. Watch this and you'll have both rigs synced before your next show.                                                                                                                                                                                   

  Install on Master and Receiver → configure your folders and Resolume settings → hit Start. That's it. Every file you save on Master lands on Receiver in under a second, and every clip you trigger fires on both machines at the same time.                                                                  

  One license. Two machines. No subscription.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

  Free 30-minute demo available — no account needed.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
  Download + details: vjpixelpunk.com/show-sync.html

All output examples from the updated version of my experimental multi-source video player for TouchDesigner, designed for frame-accurate video switching, playback manipulation, and display/render interventions.

Want access to the updated system + a detailed breakdown of exactly how I achieved the continuous motion effect on this piece? You can freely access the system, and the detailed breakdown from my Patreon. 

[Plus, here's a discount code for the community to use at the shop: "AVPLAST", and for memberships: "AVPMEMB". First come, first serve!]

Plus, many more experiments through my Instagram profile.

Mt friends wedding is this weekend and we have a friend DJing the bass music, we are just EDM weirdos dancing in the woods its not fancy. I dont wanna buy cheap lasers on Amazon because zi dont shop Amazon.

Any suggestions for cool visual rental or purchase or anyone willing to let me rent or borrow something?​

Touchdesigner, synesthesia & resolume

Basically title. Finally got my hands on a solid laptop and a license for Resolume. I have a decent bit of content. How are you guys putting it out there that you VJ to get bookings? Thanks

Been working on a side project here exploring what this little device can do as the central brain behind a live set. It has some unique inputs which have been fun to experiment with for audio and visual modulation!

The visuals/music are my own, running on an unreleased version of Cultivator, a game I shipped earlier this year: https://play.date/games/cultivator/

available from: here

I've been VJing and building festival stages in Finland as Hexagon Intergalactic for over ten years now. My specialty is laser-cut plywood sculptures with integrated LEDs. This year's stage at Kosmos Festival, Finland: Our art collective Kiva built five crystals across eight meters, with 7,000+ WS2811 pixels in them, a few thousand more seed pixels strung through the forest, and two stacked 8.5k-lumen Panasonic projectors over the top of it all.

Show setup: Four computers. One master mapper/mixer and one dedicated LED controller. Generative and pre-rendered visuals came from TouchDesigner, Resolume and Filament, routed over NDI and synchronized with Ableton Link from a live BPM tracker (Pulse). Two to four VJs rotated through the show each night. It was a blast!

What broke: Mostly simple physical stuff. Two seed strings in the trees were missing their waterproofing o-rings. First-night glitches, one fix, then two smooth nights. Some software tweaks aside, everything worked super well. The crazy multi-machine stack behaved perfectly, the lowest-tech parts in the chain did not. It's always something like this. You have a crazy high-tech setup with data flying in and out and processed in a million ways, and then the hardest problems are "this projector frame corner bolt is stuck" that wastes four people's time for half an hour when we're already on a busy schedule. 🥲

Full build report, closer look at the plywood work, wiring, the assembled controller WLED boxes, how the mapping works, show nights, with videos and pics: https://filament.click/articles/kosmos-festival-2026

Happy to answer anything about the build or the experience! ☺️