Captivate
Visual & Lighting Synth
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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Community
Join us on Discord or on the Github Discussion Board!
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
git lfs pull <-- Download large files
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