Beam | Controlling Lights with Ableton Live
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
- From the creators of Videosync now comes Beam, an extension for Ableton Live that enables a great new way to control lighting fixtures for live shows. In this video I'll show you how to get started with Beam, and how you could use its instruments and effects.
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Versions in this video:
Ableton Live Suite 10.1.6
Beam 1.0
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:50 Quick rundown on used fixtures and DMX addresses
01:33 Patching the LED Pars in Beam
02:45 Using the Par instrument in Live
04:11 How Beam is integrated in Live
04:45 Patching the Martin Atomic 3000
05:08 Using the Strobe instrument in Live
05:45 Using Drum Rack for different results with the same fixture
06:56 Patching the Showtec Kanjo Spot 10's
07:20 Using the MovingHead instrument in Live
07:38 Using the Scale effect to access the color wheel
08:40 Using Beam's LFO effect
10:00 Combining the lights into a basic light show
10:28 Outro
SoundSuite is run by Jean-Paul Grobben, Ableton Certified Trainer from Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
INTRODUCTION
0:50 - Quick rundown on used fixtures and DMX addresses
TUTORIAL
1:33 - Patching the LED Pars in Beam
2:45 - Using the Par instrument in Live
4:11 - How Beam is integrated in Live
4:45 - Patching the Martin Atomic 3000
5:08 - Using the Strobe instrument in Live
5:45 - Using Drum Rack for different results with the same fixture
6:56 - Patching the Showtec Kanjo Spot 10's
7:20 - Using the MovingHead instrument in Live
7:38 - Using the Scale effect to access the color wheel
8:40 - Using Beam's LFO effect
10:00 - Combining the lights into a basic light show
10:28 - Outro
Cool concept. Would love to see some videos of proper shows controlled by Live and Beam
I love the idea, but the price is insane!
Fire🔥🔥🔥
woooooow this is siick thanks for doing the tutorial
fascinating !!!!
nice cosmos
I'm looking for a way to get Ableton to take the pitch and dynamic data from my guitar to control, respectively the color and intensity of a 6-light set up. At this point it's all hypothetical but I'd like to do it for solo shows in the near future if possible.
First of all: This is a very very good Tutorial! Props to your presentation! This Software opens up a whole new world for my music project! Fantastic stuff right there! I have one question: You talked about the visualiser. So if I produce a light show, is it possible to link into lets say a locations house lighting and translate my light show to the setup? Thank you!
Thanks! The only thing that would change when you go to a different venue, is the patch list in Beam. That's where you enter the venue's fixtures and their corresponding DMX addresses. It's also where you decide to which tag group(s) those fixtures are mapped. Using this workflow, everything in your Ableton Live project stays the same, no matter the venue.
What brand of DMX cables would you recommend for someone who is new to this? Also fantastic video thank you!
What DMX-USB interface are you using? I've bought an Enttec DMX USB Pro and I can't get it to work... Should it be an Enttec Open DMX USB Interface?
In this video we used the Enttec Open DMX USB, but the Enttec DMX USB Pro should work as expected now as well with Beam 1.3.
Hey ! I don’t understand how you change de color if One midi note is assign to Green (for example) what if I wanna make three hits with green and one hit with red on the same fixture?
In that case, you could use the same tag, but use different instruments to trigger different colors. For customer support, please get in touch with Showsync!
Worked with the Enttec USB Pro once, and now all it says is disconnected.. what am I missing?!
Hey what DMX interface do you use in this video?
For this video we used the Enttec Open DMX USB.
Do you need a DMX dimmer too for this setup?
Only if you're intending to dim conventional lightbulbs. All of the fixtures used in this video have a direct DMX input/output, so no dimmers were used.
No Mac only Warning. As usual. Is there a product that supports Windows? Seems to be a high demand for Max Live DMX with no Apple ties.
Hey there! Showsync has since released Beam for Max, which is already available for Windows. Beam for Live for Windows is currently in alpha. Please get in touch with Showsync support if you’re interested!
Does this work on Windows?
Did you ever figure out if Beam works with Ableton on Windows?
The price is way too much for non-professional users unfortunately 🙁
me watching this with no actual lighting rig🤔