Practical craft for keeping live visuals in time, on screen and under control — written for the operator in the room.
Useful booth craft for keeping live visuals in time, on screen and under control.
Tempo is only the speed. Ableton Link adds a shared musical grid so visual beats and bar boundaries can land together.
A live visual show needs a recovery plan before the screen goes black, not after.
Guessing the tempo by listening is a hard problem. Here is why it drifts worst exactly when you need it most.
A cut that lands perfectly in the booth can look late forty metres away. It is not your timing: it is physics.
That recurring stutter is usually not your GPU. It is 50 Hz meeting 60 Hz.