“BEAM: Interactive Music Effects Playground” by Montell and Kolb
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- BEAM: Interactive Music Effects Playground
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BEAM brings 3D graphics and interactivity to the world of music-making. BEAM is a real-time audio effects plugin made by Lunacy Inc, which runs inside any digital audio workstation, like Ableton, Logic, and Pro Tools. It lets music producers craft complex chains of audio effects by manipulating a rich, audio-reactive scene of 3D objects. Users feed a sound source into BEAM, which is visualized as an audio-reactive beam of light. Audio effects can be dragged onto the beam to alter the sound, and each effect is visualized with an object that procedurally changes its appearance based on the effect parameters. The audio signal can be split into multiple parallel paths to allow flexible routing and control.
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