Yeah, I have been looking at VDMX5, but man!.. Those GUI’s all look like they were developed in 1999. So much clutter, menu’s, options and screens that I clicked it away in two minutes. 
I am really ready to invest some time, but I need a bit of an uncluttered, straightforward interface. A surrounding where you can get creative right away early on in the learning curve.
Again: all the feedback/tips much appreciated!
I follow the VDMX tutorials on Vimeo on ipad and the software on the MBP and I also was not really fond of the UI. After a few days I got used to it and now it’s not that complicated anymore!
update Lumen looks slick but is not as powerful (yet)
I use KodeLife: https://hexler.net/products/kodelife
Live GLSL coding that can react to Audio / MIDI, and you can easily port things from ShaderToy
I’ve used lumen for a while. Cool if you want old school stuff. I also like recording the feed from it when designing flyers. Or using photoshop as a camera with a syphon program that lets you share part of your window as a feed. Actually my pfp is made with that technique. Streaming my iphone cam
if you own Ableton and Max I suggest the Vj Modules by Fabrizio Poce, you’re going to get a modular videosynth for free.
Otherwise I used the software Magic Music Visual, same modular architecture with several connection possibilities for 40$ if I recall correctly
Like 6000 miles out of my comfort zone…
Yea Syphon is really everywhere on Mac and … there are so much tools out there,… . . Difficult to focus when starting out, but I made it easy for myself by just picking something to get started and got some great help from @clrcdd to get going with VDMX5. Happy for now with this, also diving into cinematography it feels good to have a break from music making and gear pron. 
I think that one is discontinued. All links are 
There’s also an excellent series of max objects that ties most ableton parameters to potential visual cross-use. Super powerful. it’s called TD ableton. Here’s the teaching:
yeah it seems so, thats a pity
look interesting.
you can do all that in touchdesigner as well with glsl nodes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDtf0hN66CY
btw. i did a complete midi mapping for DT an DN in touch.
link
if your interested, drop me a pm;
Thanks for this. I am going to spend some time with Lumen this weekend and make some minimal videos for my dubby tunes.
Have been noodling with K-Machine a bit (using an old track of mine as a guinea pig)
Hardware demo I believe but the synthesis is the same on soft I reckon.
Signal Culture Maelstrom and ReScan I think are pretty cool, basic but only like $20 a pop. They have other apps too. I used them to make this:
Still searching
Loved Ebosuite, but it’s too intense for my cpu/gpu
Now I stumbled over this one. Rokvid for Ableton (19€):
I finally spent the time to get to know touch designer a bit… really really cool software. Basically feels like it does everything I wished aftereffects did. Still need to work on dividing up the audio range into useful animation parameters. Here’s a link to a little demo of what I have got so far after about 5 hours of tutorial watching.
https://www.instagram.com/p/COCLrQYhMOg/?igshid=128xw5poc8q1f
hmm… Instagram has put a fence around your art. Can’t see it… 
Huh that’s annoying… but typical uploaded it on YouTube for better sharing.
Free for non commercial use but limited to 1280x1280. On the other VVVV is free without limitations for non commercial use 