Musical synthesizers create and combine a variety
of sounds, letting an accomplished musician play the sounds
together, to make an enthralling sonic experience.Like a synthesizer
for laser shows, Pangolin's new LivePRO creates and combines beams,
graphics and abstracts, allowing accomplished laserists to play all
of these together, to make an enthralling visual experience.
LivePRO goes far beyond previous live-performance
laser software. You can layer up to four beam and graphic cues at
once. It's like going from playing one note at a time, to three
notes of a chord plus a melody. For example, beam effects can be
playing on tracks 1 and 2, while mirror ball effects are playing on
track 3 and graphic animations are playing on track 4. Or, have four
separate graphic tracks fade in and out, layering and interacting at
the same time on a single screen.
Just
as a musical synthesizer has hundreds of preset sounds, LivePRO
gives you the tremendous variety of over 1700 preset cues at a time.
Each cue can contain an image, two separate effects, a colour
sequence, and a beam sequence -- or any combination. And just like a
musical synthesizer allows you to change the sound while you're
playing, LivePRO allows you to modify a cue's size, position,
rotation, scan rate, colour, and other parameters live while you are
playing the show. When it's time to switch from one cue to another,
you don't have to jump-cut. Smooth transitions include morphing,
fading, zooming, etc. You can even create your own transition
effects.
In addition to the four tracks, LivePRO also has
two independent chasers. The Beam Chaser can target up to 64
different mirrors. The TTL Chaser is designed for optical tables
with actuators and it can also control external effects such as
rotating mirrors and fog machines. Both chasers let you control the
speed, direction, pattern and other chase parameters.
In
live music, the beat is the key. You can listen to the beat and play
LivePRO manually using the computer keyboard or one of the
controllers shown here. Or you can allow LivePRO to run itself. Each
group of 12 cues can have its own beat pattern. LivePRO can then
detect the musical beats and automatically trigger cues according to
the patterns that you define. LivePRO can also change the size,
position, colour and other parameters based on the amplitude and
frequency content within the music. While these automatic functions
are running, you can change additional parameters manually -- or
just sit back and enjoy the show.
LivePRO is available free for LD2000 Professional
users. If you have the Basic or Intro versions, you can still get
LivePRO
