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May 29 2009

Mash-Up Video Inside Ableton with a MIDI-Controlled Plug-in

Live-triggered video inside your music host is about to get a lot more popular. Daniel “Herb” Herbert writes to let us know that his Mabuse Software, an “experimental audiovisual software company,” has developed a new AV plug-in for mashing up video. It’s a VST plug-in based on the now-defunct Pluggo, with a Max for Live port coming later this year as that is released. Of course, that does reveal some of the trouble with Cycling ’74’s decision to dump Pluggo. You’ll be limited to running this kind of cool software in Live, and from what they’ve said so far, you’ll also have to pay for Max for Live to do it – no free run-time is planned. But I can tell you that all of Jitter’s video and 3D output capabilities work from inside Max, including in full-screen mode, so there’s no question you’ll get some power out of the combination. I just hope people find some creative stuff to do and not just more of the same YouTube mash-ups.

Herb describes the software and promises more AV tools to come:

The beta version won’t save, but is otherwise fully functional.
A full screen add-on will be available soon, as well as a number of other plugins to expand the Mabuse AV range.
Features include:
Run video within a VST plugin
Automatic Tempo matching
MIDI controllable video fx
Easy to use browser
Record to Quicktime Movie

A PC version will be available if there’s enough interest through the forum and you could be in with a chance of winning a copy by joining the mailing list before the full version is released.

Short 1 min demo video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9TGDrkJh6A

5 min tutorial video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ_xDptp-ws

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17 Comments

phil

seems really cool. but its a shame pluggo
is being ditched. Anyone know if they’re going to sell this?

May 29, 2009 @ 5:50 am

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May 29, 2009 @ 6:31 am

baby

ahh! just what i’ve been looking for!

May 29, 2009 @ 6:35 am

J. Phoenix

Sweet.

May 29, 2009 @ 8:34 am

Steve

Dog n bass?

May 29, 2009 @ 9:57 am

Mythmonkey

It’s incredible the thing you can do with modern software.

May 29, 2009 @ 1:20 pm

Birds Use Stars

I for one welcome the domination of Dog-Wave in the current scene

May 29, 2009 @ 10:45 pm

Robotkid

Anybody get this to work with Live 8? Crashes Live for me…

May 30, 2009 @ 2:39 am

Keats Handwriting

Too bad its for mac only. Sad face.

It’s lonely out here for us PC users.

May 30, 2009 @ 6:49 am

Mudo

…
Future is now!

PDforLive… ;)

…

May 30, 2009 @ 8:18 am

baby

@Robotkid,
I got it to work with live8, but just as well as with live7, which meant not playing any video.

May 30, 2009 @ 8:48 am

Phillip Washington

So far it just crashes live 7

May 30, 2009 @ 10:23 am

DJ Pippins

I do not understand, the reason, or use of this. If the video needs to be downgraded to such and extent, it can’t be used for good VJ display, even at full screen. Why can this not use normal HS.264 or a normal video file?

May 31, 2009 @ 12:46 am

Sambo56

Cool Plugin.

May 31, 2009 @ 5:26 am

Birds Use Stars

@dj pippins I think this is more just a rough proof of concept, not a complete functional plugin. Also the idea seems to be less focused on vj performance, and more on YouTube mashup/remix kinds of stuff.