software

resolume arena 7.24.0 ships mcp servers, letting ai assistants like claude build compositions and wire patches directly inside the vj software. it is the first mainstream vj platform to make the show file itself something an ai can operate on, and it lands while crews like aural eye are already performing ai-generated visuals on psy stages.

the touchdesigner 2025 release introduces gpu point operators, a new operator family that pushes millions of particles and point-cloud points in real time, with support for the latest rtx hardware. for stage visuals it means point-cloud and particle looks at densities that previously required pre-rendering.

notch 2026.2 can run onnx ai models natively inside a live show file — segmentation, depth estimation and upscaling among them — alongside new real-world 3d capture workflows in the gaussian-splat direction. ai inference is becoming a render node in the visual chain rather than an offline step.

streamdiffusion runs at around 90 frames per second on an rtx 4090 and is being played inside touchdesigner with midi-controlled prompts, while hosted services now offer the same pipeline to machines without the gpu. real-time diffusion visuals, prompt-ridden like an instrument, are the newest tool in the vj booth.

madmapper 6 adds a timeline with clips and montage tracks, audio features and a reworked interface, moving the mapping tool toward full show playback while still driving led, dmx and lasers from the same file. for small crews it narrows the gap between a mapping utility and a media server.