The Eyebeam Roadshow is what you get when you mix a rock & roll tour with the talented fellows and resident artists of Eyebeam. It is an event organized by the artists as a way to bring their work to places where it would not otherwise be seen. The Roadshow consists of talks and workshops that are designed specifically to blow minds. So far, the Roadshow has traveled to over 20 locations in the U.S. and UK, spreading open source art and technology wherever it goes. The Roadshow has been invited to 01SJ as part of the Out of the Garage program – a week+ program where independent artists, designers, architects, engineers, programmers, and corporate and academic research programs will work in San Jose’s 80,000 square foot South Hall to create projects for exhibition, performance, provocation, and interaction. More info here: http://01sj.org/2010/exhibitions/out-of-the-garage/ + http://bit.ly/roadshow_01SJ

San Jose program highlights include:
- a workshop for collaboratively making a Rube Goldberg installation that will be featured at 01SJ in the Roadshow space,
- a stand-up comedy meets nerdy code workshop,
- making DIY personal power generators, and
- a walking tour of the Alviso salt flats harvesting pharmaceutical overflow.
- learning to make your own firefox plugins

We would love for the Livid Community to join us in this makefest! More info here: http://bit.ly/roadshow_01SJ

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Union was our first product, and launched our way of thinking about media and media control, and came from our exact performance needs for live video. We were one of the early entrants to the live video software market, and it’s what defined us for many years. We took musical ideas, and appropriated them for controlling pixels, but this move has proven more circular than progressive, as the broader thinking about media control has infected the audio world.

As our focus and efforts have moved to making hardware that speaks more to music, we’re dedicating more of our time and energy to that world. Given the crossover between Union and DNA, and that DNA occupies a more distinct niche in the live visuals world, it made cruel sense for Union to get the “deprecated” label.
We’re pretty excited, though. We can focus on making simpler software and better hardware that can be tied together in creative ways. With less proprietary software to maintain, we can open up more code so people can learn and expand for their own unique expressions. And because DNA is pretty easy to extend, we can also port over some of the cool features that Union has, like sound trigger, recording, automator, and waveform modules.

For current Union users, we are offering a $25 crossgrade to DNA. For Union purchases over the last six months, it’s free. We’ll still support existing users of Union for some time, too.

Looking forward to 2010.

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Durnit! Seems that v3 had a couple bugs with the new scales system. I also fixed some bugs that produced incorrect scales. So let’s try that again:
Max/MSP source – http://lividserver.com/dl/ohm/OhmSoundSource.zip
Mac – http://lividserver.com/dl/ohm/OhmSound_v004-OSX.zip
Win – http://lividserver.com/dl/ohm/OhmSound_v004-XP.zip

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Of course, after a first release, there has to be an update.
This fixes bugs with changing presets, allows naming of presets, and saves the state of all changes to scales and chords on each row.
Additionally, this version does not reprogram the Ohm64 with new button assignments, but, rather, handles the transposition on the host computer. This way, the LEDs will not get mixed up in the event that multiple buttons are assigned the same note number.

Max/MSP source – http://lividserver.com/dl/ohm/OhmSoundSource.zip
Mac – http://lividserver.com/dl/ohm/OhmSound_v003-OSX.zip
Win – http://lividserver.com/dl/ohm/OhmSound_v003-XP.zip

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In between launching the Ohm64, making the editor, examples, and working on instruments for it, I’ve been gradually updating and fixing up Union as requests come in from users. We can now announce version 2.55! This fixes some bugs related to the Clip Bank, recording when in fullscreen, LFO sync, Freeframe effects layering, MoreKnobs module, BPM sync, captions, palindrome loop mode works when recording, and probably a couple other little things.
There’s some minor new features, too. Keying can be toggled on/off with MIDI (found in the MIDI setup panel in the Functions), and the Sync menus in the Movie panels can be controlled with MIDI, too.
In Video In, there’s a new feature that will records a measure (BPM dependent) of your video input to a specified clip bank slot. This provides a simple way to remix live events as they occur.
There’s also a new Control Element “LoopCueKeys” that re-assigns keyboard presses to control loop selections and cues.
If you own Union, you can use the link you received in your email to re-download the update, or send and email with your email receipt and/or serial number to contact@lividinstruments.com.
Enjoy!

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