This update takes the customization of Arena and Wire to a whole new level.
We've got undockable panels, customizable interfaces, color coded nodes and multi-screen support for you.
Besides numerous bug fixes we've added a brand new video exporter to Resolume Wire.



Custom Layouts
We’ve taken the layouts to a whole new level with this update.
Arena, Avenue and Wire now have undockable panels.
This feature lets you create custom multi-screen interfaces with ease.
Wire now has moveable panels, so you can create custom UI’s that fit your needs.



Colored Nodes
To continue this wave of customization, we would like to introduce you to colored nodes.
Color coding nodes helps you to organize your patch.
In addition to this we've given the comment node the option to be hollow.
This helps you to group nodes together, all in the name of beign organized!



Video Exporter
You can now export the video from your patch directly from Wire.
After you’ve made your latest Wire masterpiece you can easily export it to a video file using the brand new Video Exporter. The Video Exporter inherits all it's features from the Arena/Avenue exporter, so expect all your favorite codecs to be included.



Dashboard
Wire has a new tab called the Dashboard.
In the Dashboard you can reorder your input nodes.
The order you make in the Dashboard will be the order that shows up in the Arena/Avenue interface when running your patches.



Wire Fix List
#15722 Crash trying to open patch from Host
#15750 Video Exporter
#15762 String node float precision maxes at 6 decimals
#15778 Pack node upgrade by allowing composited inputs
#15856 Some compiled patches make Arena crash on startup
#15878 Directory watcher doesn't notice patch changes, when using Russian patch names
#15889 Time, SystemTime and Date have no suggestions
#15811 Trigger delay sometimes outputs twice
#15901 Removing Bool in Float path breaks connection
#15932 Average on multichannel texture goes to Alpha gradually
#15949 Crash with midi feedback on IAC driver
#15953 Midi Bank select support
#15962 Crash deleting Onchage in some patches
#15963 Node search result now order from more relevant to less relevant
#15964 Add aspect ratio information to the patch info node
#15999 Print Node now supports OSC messages
#16010 Loading tutorials and examples is now done asynchronous, decreasing boot time
#16013 Midi Write nodes can say unknown or no options on event input out of the range of int 1-16
#16023 Show MIDI messages in the Print node
#16086 Comment Node Outline/Transparent option
#16231 Not Equal node is now correct for float2, float3, float4
#16259 Replace Wire Inspector panel with separate Patch and Node panels
#16331 Wire crashes when enabling vsync after monitor panel drag
#15843 Span with size 1 thinks it is instanced
#15890 Gradient Palette, Linear and Sequence are missing from suggestions
#16055 Wire crashes using text render with lots of installed fonts
#16238 Transform node in texture mode, you need to multiply anchor x by aspect ratio to get expected results
#16292 Resource is not released when loading a different patch
#16321 Wire crashes with long inputs in ISF
#16438 OpenGL Error when unpacking DXV files

Avenue & Arena 7.6.0 Fix List
#14495 Paste audio effects not redone.
#14765 Clip toggle OFF doesn't respect beat snap
#14823 Update NDI to v5
#14979 Duplicating slices when you have already a lot, changes slice's and other slice's look
#15140 BPM synced params with start set to clip trigger, can get out of sync with clip transport set up the same way.
#15888 Option to disable update checks
#15910 Resolume doesn't reconnect to Syphon inputs
#15977 Universes span back to to S0:u0
#15991 High CPU in handling lots of DMX input
#16028 Some Solid color sources load saturation at 0 instead of the default 1
#16037 Rendering image sequence clip, only first frame is included in the render
#16115 Panels can get placed to the wrong place moving them around
#16122 8k options missing for decklink 8k capture card
#16144 Update minimum requirements to macOS 10.12
#16152 Slice outlines and corner handles are not aligned at high zoom
#16250 Sort Advanced Screen Setup presets by name
#16379 Patch installation fails if the shared Patch folder doesn't exist yet
#16409 Effect in panel doesn't resize when loading presets

Avenue & Arena 7.6.1 Fix List
#16449 Crossfader Fade(legacy) stops fading mid progress, after clicking A or B.
#16461 Crash removing all colors from palette

Download Resolume 7.6 now!

DJVB released a pack designed to create complex 3D Projection mapping illusions. BoxMappingToolkitV2.0 is a set of ready-to-go video mapping loops that create the effect of the video mapping on a real box, rendered at 45 degree perspective. The pack contains 38 animations in 4K pixelmap format. Along with the video files you will be able to download a video tutorial and a text file containing the instructions.

Dumb Robot is back with BioBotica, a pack of 37 bio bots loops moving mechanically on 120BPM tempo.

The last one from this series, Videologies4 by Dan Chelger is a set of visuals created based on video synthesis made with old analog bent equipment and other devices put together by the artist himself.


BoxMappingToolKitv2.0 by DJVB


BioBotica by Dumb Robot


Videologies4 by Dan Chelger

Carolina S. Otero released her second pack UrbanRhythms, a collection of buildings and communication towers with red and black (or red and white :?: ) graphic elements.

We welcome to the label UON Visuals, the self-taught animator from Canada named Mike Voskakis. HyperHilbertSpaces is a pack of visuals based on the Hilbert L-system Curve and Dmt "hyperspace".

VJ Picles keeps rolling pack after pack. This time, Data Flow shows us the invisible world of computer data.


UrbanRhythms by Carolina S. Otero


HyperHilbertSpaces by UON Visuals


Data Flow by VJ Picles

Arena DMX Spanning
When working with LED strips or a lot of fixtures you had to manually manage multiple DMX universes in the Advanced output of Arena. But not anymore! with version 7.5 Arena will automatically create as many universes as you like. This is huge time-saver when working with many DMX universes.


Wire
This version of Wire comes with several cool new features, such as auto-repeat for instance counts, interpolated Read, multi-pass ISF, MIDI Program Change nodes and a Trim node. All MIDI and OSC nodes are now instanceable and with more alignment tools you can easily make your patches more organized and readable.

Arena & Avenue Fix List
#16043 Crash setting FFGL source FFT input to local
#15902 Crash handling Directshow capture sometimes
#15019 Crash waking machine from sleep with Lumiverse output
#15300 Crash trying to register on old drivers or unsupported GPU
#15895 Preview stops playing when moving the previewed clip
#15917 This column shortcuts are lost from earlier versions
#15766 Keyboard navigation no worky in Avenue Effects, and Sources panels
#15749 Flashing noise at the end of very short clips
#13006 "This column" target option missing for group columns
#14041 Moving a colour of a palette and then clicking on it shows the wrong colour
#14399 Clicking red in the default palette the first time, loads black instead
#14772 Undoing clip move to create new column, keeps columns if you switch to a different decks and start to undo there
#14796 Clip preview midi shortcut triggers preview also on note off
#15065 Playhead position of incoming and outgoing OSC-messages different
#15113 Scrubbing playhead in transport control range limited when in-/out-points are changed
#15184 Pasting ASS Output mask no worky
#15230 Restart Param set to Clip trigger, on BPM synced clip when hitting resync
#15248 Reverse Advanced output mouse selection order
#15270 Make Clip speed slider dingetje arrows adjust in finer steps
#15275 /composition/layers/*/clips/*/transport/position/behaviour/duration/multiply can make Resolume freeze if it sets play speed very fast
#15289 Clip Preview gets disconnected when clearing layer or on Piano trigger clip disconnect
#15290 Can't animate Wire layer choice mixer params sometimes
#15764 List / insert Fixtures in alphabetical order
#15804 Metaballs grid in should be an integer
#16031 New composition with Persistent source in column 1, deck 2, and 3 only have 1 column
#16103 Keystone effects show grid at wrong position

Alley Fix List
#16102 Alley's factory DXV presets all use Normal Quality with Alpha format

Wire Fix List
#15657 Add 1/2 Patch Size and 1/4 Patch Size resolution options
#15658 Connect actions that cause loss of input constant values are not undone.
#15671 Store output routing selection in patch and enable output if possible on patch load
#15681 Slice Render should scale according to its resolution attribute
#15682 Getting instanced, inlets should inherit original inlet value
#15685 Dragging a .isf resource to the patch create a new ressoure even if it already exist
#15691 Saving patch with ISF the shader resets values if it has defaults in the code
#15703 Inlet/Outlet inspectortje should also show multiline text, now it's all in one line
#15752 ISF multipass implementation
#15757 Give Toggle two trigger inlets to force the state
#15786 Patch with Russian and weird characters in file name doesn't load on windows
#15793 All inlets of Switch want to disconnect trying to instancing network with a trigger
#15798 Screen Shake should rotate around center
#15809 Add Max attribute on Linear node (to make loopable lists)
#15882 Crash consolidating patch with missing resource
#15891 Double clicking .cwired with Resolume not running, and choosing cancel in the installation prompt makes Resolume freeze on startup
#15898 Crash loading patch which has syphon output enabled, after a patch which had syphon output enabled
#15976 Read OSC loses 'Address'-input when changing type
#16004 Converge: Node that goes from event instances to single stream
#16005 Crash connecting float to 1st inlet of greater after texture to 2nd inlet

Download
Select "Check for Updates.." in the Avenue or Arena menu and it will self-update, including Wire. Or checkout the downloads page.

We welcome to the label two new footage artists: Laba and Carolina S. Otero.

Laba is a visual artist based in Poland and his first release is rather awesome. LightsPatterns is a wall of controlled lights made in Resolume, audio reactive and BPM synced. It requires no additional effects or plugins. Along with the 80 clips already rendered, you will get the Resolume composition together with the instructions to make your own clips, any size you want.

Coming from Madrid, Carolina S. Otero released her first pack DarkAttraction, a collection of classical sculptures wireframed and glitching.

DJVB is back with VirtualStageFX, a pack designed to be used as a virtual stand-in for those occurrences when using pyrotechnics and other effects isn't possible.


LightsPatterns by Laba


DarkAttraction by Carolina S. Otero


VirtualStageFX by DJVB

This first update after the Wire introduction fixes a few crashes and bugs reported after our initial release. And you know what? We threw in a couple of new nodes too! Check out the release video below.



Wire Fix List
#15688 Multi-line support for String In, String, Concatenate and Substring
#15694 Wire doesn't boot for user names with non-ascii characters in their name (like ñ and ö)
#15698 Added Polygon and Distance Lines shape nodes. Negate now also works on shapes, and added Move for cheaper shape translations
#15706 Crash when adjusting or requesting the datatype or flow in input nodes (resulting in some crashes in other nodes too)
#15714 Default ISF shader comes with some documentation
#15724 Wire crashes when Resolume shuts down its Syphon/Spout output
#15725 MIDI input device disappears when trying to enable
#15727 Added new examples: Screen Shake, Loops, Moving Bars and Gamma Correction
#15733 Added Count Lines, Count Words, Read Line and Read Word nodes, for all your lyric handling needs
#15734 Clamp doesn't support multi instance with float2, 3 and 4
#15751 Crash setting Expand to event flow
#15754 Renamed Toggle's input to Flip
#15755 Transport Play sends out Is Playing
#15758 Equal and Not Equal now work on strings too

Avenue & Arena Fix List
#15300 Crash trying to register on some old drivers or some unsupported GPU
#15294 Having more then one instance of a Wire source loaded in Arena and saving it in the editor causes a crash
#15736 Dropping sources to the clip grid not working in Avenue 7.4
#15738 Transition set to Random is not really random, picks one blend, then uses that for every transition

Hot Fix Tue 29 June
In 7.4.1 we added the ability for FFGL plugin developers to change the values of a drop down parameter while the plugin is running, but we inadvertently made the options disappear all-together ;-(
This hot fix resolves that and 2 more regression issues.
#15808 FFGL choice params not showing up
#15812 Column colors are not being loaded
#15814 Random freezes loading decks

Download
Select "Check for Updates.." in the Avenue or Arena menu and it will self-update, including Wire. Or checkout the downloads page.

We must admit, we were quite nervous when we released Wire last week. After secretly working on Wire for so long it’s a bit scary to finally let it loose into the wild and see if it can stand on its own legs. But we are very happy that Wire is so well received!

We really enjoyed reading all your nice comments, like this one from @mongo_zen:
"Dear @Resolume wire, im climbing inside your patch cables and never leaving. I live here now."

Anton Marini, the creator of Syphon, better known as @_vade in the VJ community writes:
"Wow, gotta hand it to @Resolume - Wire looks fantastic. I feel like it's something I would want to work with. Well done. Plus the ability to compile out closed source patches seems awesome."

Thank you to everyone for giving Wire such a warm welcome!



Help!?
But of course, as with any new product you also have a lot of questions. Our video course should be your starting point, followed up by our articles. The video course is expanding daily so keep an eye out on our YouTube channel. Want to go more in-depth into animation or instancing? Just grab the tutorial series built into Wire. Note that you can always right click a node and open the example patch for that specific node.

Join us on Slack
You can always head over to our Slack community to talk directly to other users, our customer support team and the developers themselves.

Live Stream on Thursdays
We enjoyed our live stream last week so much that we are making it a weekly thing! Join us this week Thursday for the latest on Wire, Arena, Avenue, Juicebar and Alley.



Show and Tell
And please, pretty please, show us some of your work! We are curious to see what you guys and gals are cooking up!

VibesVJ is our latest addition to our portfolio of footage artists. He is working from a desk in France and his loops remind us of those times when a beamer behind the DJ was enough to create a killer atmosphere. Check out his first release called ScifiVisual.

Further, OnBeat by VJ Picles is a high quality rhythmical content and PsychedelicTravels by Lior Sadeh Studio is a pack that mixes itself.


Scifi by VibesVJ


OnBeat by VJ Picles


PsychedelicTravels by Lior Sadeh Studio

We’re so excited to finally introduce you to our new addition to the Resolume family, say hello to Wire!

Wire is a modular node-based patching environment to create effects, mixers and video generators for Arena & Avenue.



Why?
Does the world really need another patching environment? Yes, we think it does. There are some truly great patching environments available; Max, Notch, TouchDesigner, vvvv, Vuo, to name just a few. All of these have been around for decades and all have their own purpose, strengths and weaknesses. However none of them tick all our boxes. We want something lightweight, embeddable, cross-platform and most of all, easy to use and learn. That patching environment did not exist yet, and since the days of Quartz Composer we have been frustrated and dreaming about a patching environment that would compliment Arena and Avenue.

Of course Wire can not be compared to patching environments that have been around for decades but it does already prove itself very useful in expanding the capabilities of Arena & Avenue. In fact, you might have already been using Wire effects and generators without even noticing. Remember the Abstract Field source and Acuarela & Tilt Shift effects we added to Arena and Avenue a few versions back? Those are made in Wire! And the best thing is; you can now edit them and make your own variations. Or learn how they were made and create something entirely new.

The Future?
We think we have laid the foundation for a very friendly and capable environment that will only get better over time. We look forward to expanding into new territories in the future like audio playback, synthesis and effects. 3D rendering. More IO protocols. Online content. To name just a few. There is so much fun stuff that can be added to Wire it’s hard to decide what to do first. Help us prioritize what to do next, by telling us what you would like to be added in the future.

Help!
Wire includes a lot of example patches that get you going very quickly. The welcome screen will help you to get started right away. For every node there is a documentation patch that explains exactly what it does. Check out the in-depth support articles that explain the concepts behind Wire. Of course you are free to ask any question on our forum but also join our growing Slack community where you can get very quick feedback via chat. We look forward to you feedback on Wire!

Pricing
Resolume Wire for 1 computer is €399 Euro. Licenses are available in the shop.

Download
A free trial is available now on our downloads page so you can try Wire for as long as you like.

Fix List
Arena & Avenue 7.4.0 of course contain the full Wire integration but also fixes the following bugs and crashes.
- #15260 Presets for Mixers/Blend Modes
- #14859 Support dragging .avc file onto resolume
- #14729 Accept comma as decimal separator
- #15266 Crash on exit with output/preview set to picture in picture, and previewing clip
- #15048 Crash undoing clip paste in another deck
- #14991 Crash trying to drop VST effect onto layer clip thumbnail
- #14906 Crash after disconnecting midi device which popped 'already in use'
- #11625 Crash with waking machine from sleep with DMA on
- #13716 Mapped Layer blend shortcuts change on adding other blend modes
- #14816 SDI and NDI capture textures can flash into eachother
- #14951 /composition/layers/1/clips/*/transport/ position/behaviour/duration/divide no worky
- #14999 Column sometimes doesn't get highlighted on trigger, next column index is wrong
- #15092 Selecting another MIDI shortcut preset stops OSC output
- #15224 Low and Upper case blends names are ordered separately, lower case end up at the end of the list, this can get confusing
- #15231 Loading layout preset can make Shortcuts panel show up
- #15190 Loading a file in full screen Alley, makes the file list show up, you can't hide it

We welcome to the label Riotstarter, a Ukrainian self-taught motion designer based in Kyiv. His main focus is to scare the sh*t out of you and leave you hopeless. Check out his first release NoHopeJustFear. Ghosteam is back with an all symbolic pack called Trinity. And if you feel like an artsy type of person, then Blendwash by Muzencab is for you.

NoHopeJustFear by Riotstarter


Trinity by Ghosteam


Blendwash by Muzencab