Locked to your decks
Connects to your booth through PRO DJ LINK Bridge or ShowKontrol and follows whichever track is actually driving the room.
Live Autonomous Visual Engine
LAVE: Live visuals that follow your decks, with a co-VJ you direct.
LAVE (it rhymes with rave) plugs into your DJ setup and turns every track into a show: beat-locked scenes, a library of worlds to play in, and a co-VJ to play them with.
Windows · macOS · Beta starts in November
See it move
- 60+Scenes, with regular updates
- Any screenLED, projectors, curved surfaces
- Beat-lockedFollows your decks
- Your AIOptional co-VJ
02 · What it does
Built for the booth
Everything you need to put a serious show behind a set, without a night of setup first.
On the beat, every time
Visuals move with the music, and scene changes wait for the phrase so they land on the drop.
A library of worlds
Cities, oceans, fractals, fireworks and far stranger places, each reacting to the music in its own way. New worlds arrive with regular updates.
Make it yours
Tune any scene live, choose what reacts to what, save your versions and line them up in playlists.
Your name in lights
Fire your logo on the downbeat, and put synced lyrics on the wall, timed to the playhead.
Any screen, any venue
Spread one show across LED walls, pillars, ribbon boards and projectors, flat or curved.
Run the lights too
Send the same show out to pixels and fixtures over Art-Net and sACN.
Drive it from a second screen
Keep the big screen clean while you switch scenes and settings from another display.
No booth? No problem.
A built-in DJ simulator lets you try every feature at home, before you ever plug in.
03 · Scale
Grows with your show
Start with a laptop and one screen. Add screens, LED and lighting as your setup grows. It is the same show all the way up, so nothing you build gets thrown away.
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Solo
One computer, one screen. Pick a scene, tune it to the track and play.
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Club
A main wall plus pillars and ribbon boards, each showing the part of the show meant for it, with lights following along.
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Venue
Many screens, projectors and LED processors working as one picture, blended at the seams, with pixels and fixtures across multiple lighting universes.
- Four decksOne show that follows whichever is driving the room
- Saved venuesMap your space once and reload it any night
- Four quality tiersTrade detail for speed to suit your hardware
Co-VJ · 04
From a prompt to the wall.
LAVE connects to the AI assistant you already use. No extra subscription, no keys to paste. Your co-VJ works the show beside you, and you stay in charge.
Tell the co-VJ the look you want, in plain words. It designs a brand-new visualizer, checks its own work, and brings it to you to approve. Every look it makes is yours to tweak.
How it is made
Describe it
Say what you can see in your head: a mood, a colour, a place, a feeling.
It builds it
The co-VJ designs the visualizer and runs it against a simulated DJ feed to see how it moves.
It checks its work
It looks at the frames it made, fixes what is off, and screens for white-outs and flashes before you see it.
You approve
Preview it, tune it, then accept it into your library. Drafts wait for your say-so.
Tweak everything
Dials for everything
Colour, shape, motion and rendering quality: adjust any look live while it plays.
You pick what reacts
Wire any effect to the beat, the bass, the mids, the highs or a fader.
Keep every version
Save your tweaks as a new version, keep the original, and export a look to share.
Try saying
- “Build me something slow and golden for the warm-up.”
- “Make it feel like rain on neon glass.”
- “Same look, but twice as fast and a lot less pink.”
Beyond building looks, the co-VJ can play the show beside you. It knows who is on the decks, follows what they play, and cues the room on the beat. You hold the controls the whole time.
Knows every DJ
Keeps a profile for each DJ: what they love and what to avoid. It asks when it does not know, goes over the set with you afterwards, and keeps the profiles on your computer.
Tracks every deck
Follows every deck and the mixer: what is playing, how hard it hits, where the phrase ends. It sticks with whichever track is driving the room, or locks to a deck you choose.
Plays with you
Cues scenes, logos and lights so changes land on the beat, the bar or the phrase. Tell it what you want in plain words and it keeps up.
You are always in control
Your controls always override the co-VJ’s.
- A clear Armed badge shows whenever it can touch the show.
- Hide a logo it fired, or cancel its cues, with one tap.
- Blackout is yours: it stays dark until you release it, and the co-VJ cannot release it.
You set the level of control
- Off Connected, but hands off.
- Build only Designs and tests new looks. The show stays yours.
- Full showArmed Cues scenes, logos and lights live, on the beat.
Try saying
- “Take it up for the drop.”
- “Put our logo up on the next phrase.”
- “Keep it calm until the breakdown ends.”
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Your AI, your computer
It runs on the assistant and subscription you already have. LAVE holds no keys, and the connection stays on your machine.
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Optional, always
Everything in LAVE works without it. Bring it in when you want a second pair of hands, or leave it off.
05 · The look
A few of the worlds inside
Frames from the built-in library
06 · Lighting
Lights that know the track.
Your co-VJ reads the track and the fixtures you have patched, then designs the light show to fit: a slow wash for the verse, a hit of colour on the drop, near darkness for the breakdown. Changes are cued ahead of time, so they land on the beat.
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Reads the track
It sees the energy of the track and what is coming, so builds, drops and breakdowns are never a surprise.
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Knows your rig
Patch your fixtures once. It sees what is on your truss, how it is grouped and what each light can do.
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Cues the show
Looks are timed to the beat, bar or phrase, with smooth fades between them. The same signal drives real fixtures over Art-Net and sACN.
One track, ten looks
Each part of the song gets its own look, bigger and brighter as the energy rises.
- You press goLighting output only starts when you start it.
- Blackout is yoursYour co-VJ can go dark in a pinch. Only you can bring the lights back.
- Full show onlyIt touches the lights only when you give it Full show.
Unreal Engine is a trademark of Epic Games, Inc. LAVE is not affiliated with or endorsed by Epic Games.
07 · Virtual venue Prototype
The whole room, virtual or real.
LAVE can send its picture and its lighting into a virtual venue built in Unreal Engine. The screens show your visuals, the rig plays your light show and a crowd dances to the track. Rehearse a set, plan a stage or show a client the night before it happens. You can even build a virtual concert venue that is always ready to go live.
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One picture, every screen
Map your screens once. LAVE can run one visual across the wall, the pillars and the front of the booth, or give each screen its own look, and switch between the two on the beat.
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The same lights as the real thing
The lighting show plays on a virtual rig with moving beams, haze, lasers, pyro and fireworks, using the same signal that drives real fixtures.
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A DJ and a crowd on the beat
The DJ plays in time with the track. The crowd sways, nods and throws its hands up as the energy builds, and settles when it drops away. LAVE’s data can drive procedural animation systems.
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Your co-VJ runs the night
Your co-VJ changes the visuals, the lights, the effects and the camera together, with every change cued to land on the beat or the bar.
- 200 dancersA crowd that follows the energy of the set
- 4 screensOne canvas across the wall, pillars and booth
- 10 camera shotsCut on the bar line
- 60 fpsAll played in real time, nothing pre-rendered
The virtual venue is a prototype. Unreal Engine is a trademark of Epic Games, Inc. LAVE is not affiliated with or endorsed by Epic Games.
08 · Compatibility
What you need to connect
LAVE reads your decks through PRO DJ LINK Bridge or ShowKontrol. You need one of the two running on your DJ network, and LAVE works with the hardware each of them supports.
Option 1
ShowKontrol
From TC Supply · Windows and macOS
Players
- CDJ-3000X
- CDJ-3000
- CDJ-1500X
- CDJ-2000NXS2
- CDJ-TOUR1
- XDJ-1000MK2
Mixers
- DJM-A9
- DJM-V10
- DJM-900NXS2
- DJM-TOUR1
Option 2
PRO DJ LINK Bridge
From AlphaTheta · Windows and macOS
Players
- CDJ-3000X
- CDJ-3000
- CDJ-1500X
- CDJ-2000NXS2
- CDJ-TOUR1
Mixers
- DJM-A9
- DJM-V10
- DJM-V10-LF
- DJM-900NXS2
- DJM-TOUR1
On Windows? Use ShowKontrol R27 or later. Earlier releases run on macOS only.
Keep your players on their latest firmware. Lists are as published by AlphaTheta and TC Supply and can change, so check their sites for the latest. Away from the booth? The built-in simulator lets you try LAVE without any hardware. All product names belong to their respective owners. LAVE is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
09 · Questions
Good to know
What DJ gear does it work with?
LAVE reads your decks through PRO DJ LINK Bridge or ShowKontrol, so it works with the players and mixers they support. The full list is in Compatibility. We are working to support more hardware and software. If you are not near a booth, the built-in simulator lets you try everything.
Do I need an AI subscription?
No. The co-VJ is optional. To use it, connect the AI assistant you already have. LAVE does not ask for, or store, any API keys.
What computer do I need?
A Windows or macOS computer with a capable graphics card. Full requirements will come with the test build.
How do you say LAVE?
It rhymes with rave.
Who makes LAVE?
LAVE is made by Synaesthesia LLC.
10 · Testing
Help us test LAVE
We are opening LAVE to a small group of DJs, VJs and venues before release. The beta starts in November. Tell us a little about your setup and we will be in touch as test spots open.
- Test builds for Windows and macOS
- DJs, VJs, venues and production crews all welcome
- We will only contact you about LAVE
You are on the list
Thanks. We will be in touch as test spots open.