I’m a designer/developer and for the past 2 months I’ve been working on something exciting. With 2 friends I made an app for generating laser abstracts, with new ideas for visual synthesis.
Some background: I've been discovering laser abstracts for quite some time. Always liked the idea of visual laser synthesis, but the way software did this felt too limiting. At the time I was also discovering sound with modular synthesizers in eurorack. I found out it was possible to use this modular synth for ILDA projectors as well (using LZX Cyclops). I got really excited by the endless possibilities of modular laser synthesis using hardware. HOWEVER. This was unusable for performances. I couldn’t save patches, let alone transitioning between them. Also, it was crazy expensive hahaha...
Modulaser
That’s when the idea of Modulaser was born: a modular approach to digital laser synthesis. We used inspiration from various great apps to shape our own ideas into something useful. Some of the features we love are:
- Modularity: modulators like LFO's and audio can modulate pretty much anything
- Ableton Link (syncs bpm with other audio/visual software in the same network)
- Layering (and easily transitioning between them)
- MIDI support (for knobs, triggering clips or just syncing BPM)
- Audio input
- 6 Waveforms (sine, square, sawtooth, triangle, line and noise) with slope control
- ILDA file record
- DAC output (currently EtherDream, LaserDock and Helios, Pangolin Beyond coming soon)
- Perspective mapping
- Mac and Windows
Download
There's a free trial that you can download right away:
https://modulaser.app
P.S. because it's still a somewhat early stage, feedback is super important to us! If you have any requests or questions, don't hesitate to let me know