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Open the .dmg.
Drag Patchframe.app to /Applications. This demo does not include Cable receiver or Cable AU/VST plugins.
Open a patch and go live.
Start from a preset, sync to Link, send fullscreen to your second display. You're performing.
Know before you patch.
A working instrument, not a preview.
Wire modules, save your patch, reopen it next rehearsal. Audio and MIDI come in live – sync to Ableton Link, route beats to modulators, send the canvas fullscreen to your second display. This is not a sandbox or a tutorial mode. It is a real instrument you can take to a stage. The module set is curated by design: tight enough that the signal flow makes sense on day one, broad enough to build something you'd actually perform. Start from a preset or wire it from scratch. Either way, you're performing by the end of the hour.
Startup guide (PDF) ↓Sources, FX & modulation
On the source side: solid color, shape, lines, image and video file playback, cellular automata, starfield, mirror and kaleido. Run those through glitch, chromatic trails, color adjust, crop, multiply, and transform – then blend up to four signals in the mixer. On the modulation side: LFO, step sequencer, random walk, audio follow, stereo XY pad, and oscilloscope. The output canvas runs at 1280×720 with recording enabled. Warp is off in this build. That is the complete graph – no hidden modules, no paywalled previews. What you see is what you get.
The full library ships with 1.0.
A lot is coming in the full release and none of it is in this build by design – keeping the demo focused means you learn the core signal flow without noise. LiveCode (the live Metal shader editor), ISF import, the Cable receiver plugin, NDI and Syphon output, camera input, OSC, DMX, Warp, and group modules are all commercial-release features. Everything lands with 1.0 in early 2027 – in three tiers: Player, Lite, and Full.