Lucinate

A creative environment for generative art, live visuals, and video synthesis.

Blend layers, modulate any parameter with audio, MIDI, and LFOs, sync to the beat, and code your own shaders in the built-in MSL editor. Perform live or record to video. One purchase, no subscription.

Use it for shader art, beat-synced visuals, audio/MIDI-reactive VJ sets, image processing, or exploring the aesthetics of algorithms.

METAL SHADER ENGINE

• Universal app built on Metal for Mac, iPad and iPhone
• 16-bit color HDR rendering pipeline
• MSL shader editor to learn, tweak, or code your own shaders using the bundled Metal Shading Language library
• Includes parametric shaders for image adjustments, effects, patterns, gradients, texture utilities, coordinate space transforms, shader art examples, and more

MODULAR ARCHITECTURE

• Any number of Tracks, Layers, and Modulators
• Advanced layer blending and masking
• Deep modulation with MIDI, CV, LFOs, audio reactivity, and more
• Route modulation and image signals between Tracks
• Use live camera, imported video clips, and image assets as visual input

CONNECTIVITY & OUTPUT

• Syphon and NDI® real-time video output (Mac only)
• Beat-synchronization via Ableton Link or MIDI clock
• Receive audio from other apps via Ableton Link Audio
• Record your results to video or export still images
• Supports external displays and projectors

BUY ONCE, OWN FOREVER

• No subscriptions, in-app purchases, or ads
• One purchase covers Mac, iPad and iPhone

NOTE: On Mac, this app requires Apple Silicon or Intel with integrated GPU.

NDI® is a registered trademark of Vizrt NDI AB.