In the summer of 2020, ArKaos announced a strategic collaboration with leading LED display control solutions provider NovaStar. Combining their expertise, the two teams developed software compatibility to allow easy import of NovaStar configuration files directly into the newly released ArKaos MediaMaster 6.

Even if we ignore endless possibilities to express creativity and that inevitably cool factor, we cannot dispute VJing as a pure art form of the 21st century. VJ and live visual scenes are constantly evolving and influencing each other. VJs are as important to the scene as visual artists, the same way as DJs and musicians. Place of VJ performance is to be in front of the stage, their masterpiece, mixing visuals showing on the large screen behind a DJ or performer, to the beat of the music. You express your emotions not only through the screen but also with your own performance and attitude, and the audience feels that. As DJ mixes the audio, VJ mixes visuals and deeply connected with the music. In the end, the important is to create a unique visual experience for the audience.

One of the new exciting features of GrandVJ 2.6 is TrackDJ. ShowKontrol integrates with the Pioneer ProLink ecosystem and allows Rekordbox track data to be sent directly from the DJ booth, over ProLink, to VJs, lighting directors, and show technicians. ShowKontrol can send the TrackDJ timecode message to GrandVJ. In this blog post, we describe a basic setup with one Pioneer CDJ-2000NXS2. Of course, a typical DJ setup will feature at least two CDJ-2000NXS2 and a Pioneer mixer. This is the minimal setup we are using here: You must do the network setup in ShowKontrol to start sending the TrackDJ timecode message to GrandVJ. You must enable TrackDJ from the Art-Net tab / “Art Timecode”:

Ableton Link™ is a technology, mainly used in music, to synchronize multiple software to a same tempo and to align Beats of every performance. https://www.ableton.com/en/link/     Beat Synchronization and Autoplay Playback of visuals, generators and Autoplay feature can all be synchronized on the beat of a music. This Beat Synchronization can be performed using different techniques. It requires two components: the Tempo or BPM (Beats per Minutes) and a Start Time so that visuals and music all play aligned on the beat. The different sources to define the BPM are: Audio Beat Detection to deduce BPM from an audio source.