spensbot / captivate

Captivate Lighting & Visual Synth

Captivate

Visual & Lighting Synth

CaptivateSynth.com

Captivate generates live visuals and dmx lighting. All synchronized to music.

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Captivate is groundbreaking software that revolutionizes stage lighting and visuals. Music is intuitive, dynamic, and fun. Thanks to captivate, creating a visual experience feels just as good.

Concert quality visuals and lighting that is easy, fun, and dynamic. Captivate is designed to run autonomously, or you can take as much control as you'd like.

Captivate's design was inspired by synthesisers, so you'll find familiar tools like LFO's, midi integration, pads, and randomizers.

Add Dimension To Your DMX Universe

Configure your dmx universe in minutes.

Tell Captivate which fixtures you have, and where they are located in space.

Add fixtures seamlessly, without the need to update scenes.

Breathtaking Lighting

With captivate, hundreds of DMX channels boil down to a handful of intuitive parameters

Take control of these parameters live, or automate them with Captivate's familiar, synth-like modulation tools.

Light groups allow you to add complexity as needed

Stunning Visuals

Combine visualizers and effects in any way to perfect your visual experience

Add your own videos and photos to create something truly unique

Visualizers and effects listen to the parameters from the active light scene so lighing and visuals are automatically synchronized.

Streamlined Complexity

With Captivate, you'll forget there are 512 DMX channels running behind then scenes

Always Synchronized

With integrated Ableton Link technology, captivate can synchronize bpm and phase with hundreds of music apps across devices.

Create once, Perform anywhere

Since all dmx channels boil down to the same parameters, captivate scenes can play on any lighting setup. Add and remove fixtures, or change venues with ease.

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Developers

Prereqs: Node, NPM, Python, and XCode Command Line Tools (for Mac) or Visual Studio C++ Build Environment (for Windows).

git clone https://github.com/spensbot/captivate.git <-- download the repo locally

git submodule update --init --recursive <-- download submodules

npm install <-- install node dependencies

npm start <-- run the app in development mode with hot-reloading

Thanks to electron-react-boilerplate for the app boilerplate

MIT License