Visibox 6 changes how a show runs. Clips can play together, Songs can run themselves, and the show can reach multiple screens, a lighting desk, and a phone in the back of the room. This video covers every major new feature in about three minutes.
Multiple Clips at once
Visibox can now play multiple Clips at the same time. Each Song picks a Poly Mode that decides how they share the screen: blend them together, split the screen into a mosaic or stripes, or stack one on top of another. Every Clip also has a launch mode. Trigger plays it with one press, Gate plays it only while the pad is held, and Toggle starts it with one press and stops it with the next.
Sound gets its own pad
Audio Clips sit next to video, image, camera, and visualizer Clips, so a sound effect or a stinger fires from its own pad like anything else. On Windows, ASIO opens up every output on your audio interface.
Clips that know how to end
Image, camera, and visualizer Clips can now have a duration, so they can be retriggered and have End Actions of their own. When a Clip ends, it can loop, bounce, freeze, stop, or start the next Clip, and the new End Actions pick a random Clip, a random Clip from any Song, or a random Song. A video Clip can also play just part of its file and loop cleanly inside it.
Songs that run themselves
The Song Timeline lets the music run the visuals. Place Clips on the bars of a Song and they change on the downbeat, so nobody has to press a thing. It can send MIDI to your other gear, too. Lyrics and chord diagrams follow along with the Song, on a teleprompter at the front of the stage or on a tablet with Visibox Remote. Both are in Beta, so turn on Settings > General > Enable Beta Features first.
Control from anywhere in the room
Visibox Remote turns a phone or tablet into a controller: fire Clips, adjust the output, and follow the lyrics from the sound desk or the side of the stage. It’s out now on the App Store and Google Play. Real-Time Control lets you change visualizer and effect settings while they play, from a MIDI knob, a fader, or a Stream Deck dial.
Multiple screens and new outputs
A show can now spread across multiple screens, of any size, in any arrangement. Send it over the network with NDI, out of a DeckLink card, or straight into OBS, Resolume, or TouchDesigner with Syphon and Spout, and record the Output to a video file. A logo or a lower third can sit on top of everything the Output shows.
Lighting consoles, Song notes, and Setlists
If a lighting designer runs the show, they can run Visibox too. Patch it as a fixture on any lighting console that speaks sACN or Art-Net and cue Songs and Clips from the desk. OSC, Companion, and Node-RED can run it as well. Each Song can carry a note, like a capo position or a cue for the band, with its first line right under the title. And a Project can now hold multiple Setlists, each with its own running order and set length.
Three minutes is the short version. To see every one of these features in the app, the Visibox 6 Full Tour walks through each window and setting using the free demo Project. Grab your own copy from Help > Download/Open Demo Project… and follow along.
Coming from Visibox 5? Start with Upgrading from Visibox 5 in the manual, and see the Visibox 6.0 release notes for the full list of changes. Visibox comes with a free 14-day Pro trial.
