Here you can download V-Module latest version. Please read the included readme file ("How to Install V-Module.txt") first, have a look to the demonstration Live sets in the Live Pack and to the video tutorials available om my vimeo and youtube pages. This way you should be able to install and to quickly use the environment.

Note: if you are planning to watch the tutorials please be aware that some devices may have been modified and/or renamed through the various versions of V-Module (sorry about that, but at the end that's the nature of experimental work!). Also refer to the PDF documentation if you need more information on the devices.

What can you do with V-Module?

I love improvisation and, at the same time electronic / computer-based music. Many Ableton Live users will recognize this duality as their own. On the other side I am a visual person, and I always see (seek) a connection between music, shapes color and movement. This personal view and the technical possibility for very thight A/V synchronization are the reasons for V-Module existence.

As a M4L toolset, V-Module brings things together:
- Jitter's advanced real-time video manipulation
- Jitter's interface to 3D creation (OpenGL, shaders)
- Live automation (clip envelopes, synchronization)
- Parameter automation recording
- Control surface mapping

It is also open and extensible (i.e. it interfaces natively with another great M4L tool for video handling, VIZZable, and through the included documentation it allows you to write your own devices and integrate them in its workflow).

Modularity

V-Module is composed by a set of modules: devices are relatively compact and perform as atomic building blocks in a flexible chain. The point is: devices can be combined in chains (within Live) without needing to create a new patcher or modify the existing ones in order to interconnect them. Chains can be modified easily, at any time and in real-time. This offers an improvisation environment, where you can play with things in creative ways, without bothering any more (at least ideally) about any programming layer underneath.

A community full of ideas

A small, growing and passionate community has gathered around the same idea (a modular environment for real-time A/V creation and manipulation within Ableton Live). Both V-Module and Zeal's VIZZable projects are part of this initiative. If you are interested you can follow our activities at the JitterinMax4Live Google group. Some of the video material we produced can be viewed at the JitterinMax4Live Vimeo page. You can also find V-Module on GitHub here.

V-Module use and Intellectual Property

V-Module is freely distributed under the Creative Common “No Derivative Works” licence. It is a genuine, self-developed tool, with no particular strings attached: you are completely free to use and modify it as a tool for personal use (media production or performance), even for your professional activities. You are NOT allowed, though, to take any part of it (concepts, algorithms, devices or code) and offer it / commercialize it as an “original” product of your own.