Avenue puts all your media and effects right at your fingertips!

Resolume Avenue for Mac

Resolume Avenue for Mac

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  • Latest Version

    Resolume Avenue 7.26.0 rev 6593 LATEST

  • Review by

    Sophia Jones

  • Operating System

    macOS 10.12 Sierra or later

  • User Rating

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  • Author / Product

    Resolume / External Link

  • Filename

    Resolume_Avenue_7_26_0_rev_6593_Installer.dmg

Resolume Avenue for Mac is an instrument for VJs, AV performers, and video artists. It puts all your media and effects right at your fingertips so you can quickly improvise your live visuals.

Resolume is created by Edwin de Koning & Bart van der Ploeg together with Tim Walther, Joris de Jong, Menno Vink, Danny Van Swieten, Sander Cox, Andreas Lo-A-Njoe, Zoltán Pálffy, and a team of specialized freelancers.

"Resolume was born because we wanted to VJ. But we wanted to do it better. Back in 1998, VJ-ing was done with VHS tapes and an mx50 video mixer so it was hard to quickly improvise video to music because tempo could not be adjusted, or even reversed.

Effects were limited to what the mx50 had to offer. We thought the software would allow us to improvise more and be a better VJ."

Features and Highlights
  • Accepts movies, flash, pictures, and live camera input
  • Full 18 band fft audio analyzer to link effects to music
  • Audio driven flash animations
  • Stream video over a network
  • Multiple screen output
  • Live harddisk recording (sampling)
  • 60+ built-in effects including ascii art, zoom, solarize, invert
  • 150+ effects available through free frame plug-ins
  • Automated effect parameters
  • Up to six simultaneous effects
  • Mix up to three layers using 18 different overlay modes
  • User-definable transitions and masks
  • Control resolume with any midi or dmx controller
  • Send dmx signals from flash movies
  • Scratch video
  • Synchronize clips to the tempo of the music with a bpm clock
  • Various play modes: loop, bounce, etc.
  • Control playback speed and direction
  • Change in- and out points of clips
  • Easy access to 160 clips in an interface
  • File browser with clip information and preview
  • Chaos autopilot mode
  • Custom configurable keyboard shortcuts
  • Dvdmax support for matrox videocards
  • Theater mode support for ati videocards
  • Y2k compliant
  • Superstar veejay status guaranteed
How to Use

Import video, audio, or image files into the media library

Drag clips onto the layers in the composition panel

Use the mixer to adjust opacity, blend modes, and effects

Trigger clips live with keyboard or MIDI controller

Apply real-time visual effects from the Effects panel

Set BPM for audio-visual synchronization

Map output to multiple screens or projection setups

Record your performance or stream it live

System Requirements

macOS 10.13 High Sierra or later

64-bit Intel or Apple Silicon processor

2 GB GPU (AMD, NVIDIA, or Apple Metal supported)

8 GB RAM minimum (16 GB recommended)

SSD recommended for media playback

OpenGL 4.1 compatible graphics card

PROS
  • Flexible real-time VJing and AV mixing
  • Supports advanced MIDI and OSC control
  • Wide range of real-time video effects
  • Multi-display and projection mapping tools
  • Stable performance with high-res content
CONS
  • High system resource demands
  • No built-in media content library
  • License is relatively expensive
  • Lacks detailed audio editing tools
Note: Watermark on output video in demo version. You can hear a robot voice in the audio.

Also Available: Download Resolume Avenue for Windows

Why is this app published on FileHorse? (More info)

What's new in this version:

- AI has changed in the past couple of months. It went from hallucinating "facts" to being genuinely helpful. We have experienced this first-hand with Claude Code. Since Opus 4.5, it's the first AI that, with the right prompt and guidance, is actually helpful at writing, explaining and debugging code. We're not talking about generating AI images or videos here. This is about AI helping do tedious, boring work nobody really enjoys doing. This is about AI helping us understand complicated math, for instance, to help you build a Wire patch that generates visuals.
- This is why we're now releasing MCP servers for Arena/Avenue & Wire. With these local Resolume MCP servers, AI desktop applications like Claude, OpenAI Codex, Google Antigravity, or any other MCP-compatible AI tool, can assist you with building compositions in Arena & Avenue and help build (complicated) patches in Wire.

Avenue & Arena MCP Server:
- With the Arena MCP server you can build and manage your compositions, load files, sources, add and remove effects, layers, columns, groups, etc., etc. Let the AI do the hard yakka for you so you can focus on the fun and creative part of VJ-ing. It's mostly used for building and modifying your composition, not so much during live performances.
- AI is very good at doing repetitive work where you give it one example and it does the rest. For instance, you design one clip of a DJ lineup (the fun part) and then you ask AI to make all the rest by giving it a list of names (the boring part). A DJ lineup is not usually very long, but imagine doing this for a sports event where you need clips for every team member or an award show with many participants.

Here are a few example prompts for Arena & Avenue:
- Summarize the Arena composition with the MCP and find video files that are not encoded with the DXV codec
- Add a hue rotate effect to every layer with the Arena MCP server
- Build a Resolume Arena composition with three layers. The top layer has text: each word as a separate clip, each in a different font. The color scheme should have two main colors: one for the foreground and one for the background. Use a different transition between each word. Below that, two content layers with masking: one complex, fully opaque layer visible through the letter shapes, and the other a slowly evolving atmospheric background. Both layers should have content that progresses across columns. Use this text: "BREAK EVERY RULE TONIGHT". Make it look impactful. The whole thing should work as a looping column autopilot sequence.

Wire MCP Server:
- The Wire MCP server can help you create patches just by describing what you want. The Wire MCP will then create the nodes, wire them up and set the correct inlet values. It will rename and color-code nodes, then add and group parameters on the dashboard. For more complicated stuff it can even write ISF shaders (very well, we should add).
- Node-based patching environments are difficult to learn. There are a lot of nodes, and you need to learn what each of them does. AI can help here. Just ask what you want to know about Wire and it will patiently explain and possibly offer to build an example patch that you can then incorporate into your creative patch.

Here are a few example prompts for Wire:
- Color-code all the nodes in the current patch with the Wire MCP
- Create a slice outline/inline effect with the Wire MCP
- Explain to me what a Fibonacci sequence and phyllotaxis are. Then visualize this using nodes in a patch with the Wire MCP. Add dashboard parameters to control the patch
- Here is a speedrun video of creating a patch with Claude. Checkout the Neon Pills patch! It's nice and feel free to post your remixes in the comments.

Arena & Avenue REST API Updates:
- We have added a lot of new capabilities to the Arena & Avenue REST API. You can now browse, add, remove, and reorder audio effects, just like video effects. A new monitors endpoint lets you grab live snapshots of your outputs as PNG or JPEG. Set parameter animation like Timeline, BPM sync, FFT, etc. We've also added handy new ways to swap, reorder, and merge clips, columns, and layers, making even advanced composition management possible. And behind the scenes, the documentation got a thorough polish with clearer guides and consistent error handling across the board. Checkout all the details in the Swagger API documentation available via the Preferences -> Webserver. Start your agents and start (vibe) coding!

Wire REST API Updates:
- Wire's REST API gets a major upgrade with the introduction of API v2, a completely new interface that lets you create, connect, and manage nodes programmatically. Wire up connections, set inlet values, and even auto-layout your patch. API batch operations let you make multiple changes atomically, so you can build or restructure patches in a single request. Checkout all the details in the Swagger API documentation available via the Preferences -> Webserver. We can't wait to see what you build with this!

Avenue/Arena 7.26.0 Fix List:
- 10734 MIDI Clock jumps to 20 or 500 BPM
- 24811 Forking a Wire Source does not work

Wire 7.26.0 Fix List:
- 18271 Make texture output stretch to fullscreen output
- 24285 Re-run export without re-opening export window
- 24322 Resources from Arena presets not included in compiled patch
- 24629 Box2D overload for Smooth and Cross Fader
- 24810 Write OSC can't be set back to 1 param from 0 params
- 24846 Creating ISF code from clipboard sometimes doesn't work