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Videosync 2

2.1.11​

May 18, 2026

Fixes​

  • Fixed a bug on Windows that caused visual tearing at smaller Main Out window sizes.
  • Fixed a bug on Windows, where ISF Shaders with an IMPORTED image would fail to load that image if it didn't contain an alpha channel (e.g. JPEGs or opaque PNGs).
  • Fixed a bug in External In, Properties and Video Simpler, where vertically oriented videos/images would scale incorrectly while rotated.
  • Fixed a bug in Properties, where the state of the stored "Rotate Input" value would not be reflected in Videosync after loading a Live Set.
  • Fixed a regression in Color Swap, Colorize, Gradient, Keyer and Tabula, where using (automated) Rack Macros and Snapshots to control HSL colors would result in incorrect colors.

2.1.10​

April 5, 2026

Improvements​

  • Videosync now uses hardware-accelerated video decoding on Windows where supported, so video clips on Audio Tracks appear more quickly and CPU usage is reduced.

Fixes​

  • Fixed a freeze that could occur on macOS when using videos that could not be decoded.
  • Fixed a freeze that could occur on macOS when using videos from a folder for which Videosync did not have read permission.
  • On macOS, when a video in Video Simpler could not be decoded, Videosync now reports this as an error in the Console instead of as a warning.
  • Fixed a bug in Colorize on Windows, where if Colorize would receive white and the intended output color was also white, it would output black instead when Luminosity was at a value higher than 0.8.

2.1.9​

March 1, 2026

Improvements​

  • Color Boxes in Color Swap, Colorize, Gradient, Keyer and Tabula now display consistent grayscale colors while the devices are disabled.

Fixes​

  • Fixed a regression that caused video clip playback on Audio Tracks to stutter on some Windows machines.

2.1.8​

February 16, 2026
  • Fixed a bug in Video Simpler, where values close to 0% for "Classic - Loop Length" would return empty frames if the End Time/Frame did not match the full length of a loaded video.

2.1.7​

February 9, 2026

Improvements​

  • Improved Max for Live device performance, increasing overall stability in Ableton Live.
  • Colorize: The Alpha Thru toggle now displays the text "Mix" while disabled. Mix is now the default setting.
  • Colorize: The colored Mid Point bar now accurately represents colors while in Blending is set to Oklab.
  • Colorize: Updated info text for the Luminosity Retainment parameter.
  • Squares now has a larger graphical user interface.
  • Squares has a new Note Wrap parameter. Its default value is Wrap. When set to values other than None, wrapped notes will be displayed in the GUI as yellow squares.
  • Tabula: The Note Wrap parameter's default is now set to Wrap instead of None.
  • Tabula: Updated the Note Wrap info text.

Fixes​

  • Fixed a crash when loading an ISF shader of which a LONG type input has an empty VALUES array.
  • Fixed a bug in Tabula, where the Note Wrap's Clamp mode would give the same results as the None mode.

2.1.6​

January 11, 2026
  • Video Recorder: Recording is now disabled while Live's audio engine is set to sample rates higher than 48kHz.

2.1.5​

December 18, 2025

Improvements​

  • ISF Shader: When using the Browse button, it is now impossible to select files with a file extension other than .fs.

Fixes​

  • Fixed a bug where under some circumstances, Videosync would no longer pick up changes made in the Live Set while a Push 2 or Push 3 was connected.

2.1.4​

December 5, 2025

New features and improvements​

  • Color Swap: 'Alpha Thru' is now set to 'Mix' by default.
  • Video Recorder: After setting a File Name, hovering over it now reveals the full file path instead of only the full file name.

Fixes​

  • Fixed a bug in Gradient's GUI depiction of curves in Linear Mode.
  • Fixed a bug in Gradient, Video Monitor and Video Recorder that could lead to Ableton Live crashing under various circumstances.
  • Fixed a bug in Color Swap that prevented it from working as expected on Windows.

2.1.3​

November 1, 2025

Fixes​

  • Fixed a regression that prevented Videosync from launching on older versions of macOS.

2.1.2​

October 29, 2025

Fixes​

  • Mirror and Video Monitor: The Videosync Intro overlay appears as expected again while such a license is active.
  • Video Recorder:
    • While a recording is in progress, all video related parameters other than the Record toggle are now disabled.
    • If either the “While Playing” or “Punch-In/Out” mode was selected and the Record toggle was Armed, switching to the “Any Time” mode will no longer trigger recording.
    • If the device is deactivated while the Record toggle is Armed, it now reverts to the Arm state.
    • If the device is deactivated while recording, the “File Saved” or “Saving Failed” messages now continue to appear and report the correct status.
    • If the device is deactivated while recording, the Record toggle text now reverts to its previous state instead of showing “time”.
    • The border color of the Arm/Record toggle is now always correct when the device is deactivated.

2.1.1​

October 27, 2025

New features and improvements​

  • Optimized performance for devices containing graphical user interfaces, like Crop Map, Feedback, Gradient, and Transform, resulting in less network traffic.
  • Video Recorder: On Windows, the 'Save As...' dialog now lists only .mov as an available file extension.
  • On Windows, the following items were added to the Help menu:
    • "Check for Updates..."
    • "Read the Manual..."
    • "Get Support...."

Fixes​

  • Fixed a crash that could occur when selecting different hardware devices in 'External In', or while loading Live Sets containing 'External In' devices.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented Properties' Rotate Input parameter from working as expected.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented Video Recorder from recording frames while the device was out of view—for example, while another track was selected in Live's user interface.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented Video Recorder from saving on any hard drives other than the primary hard drive.

2.1.0​

October 14, 2025

New features and improvements​

Video Recorder​

The Video Recorder device lets you capture video with audio from any track or chain.

Key Features:

  • Record video from inside any track or chain, or place it on the Main Track to record the entire session.
  • When Videosync is running, Input is set automatically to Chain so the device receives video output of any devices preceding it in the chain. Alternatively, you can select any Spout or Syphon source as input, even without Videosync running.
  • Record audio simultaneously with video. By default, the device records the output of any audio devices preceding it in the chain, but you can also select any other track or external input as audio source.

Video Monitor​

The Video Monitor device allows you to view and monitor video signals inside any track or chain.

Color Swap​

Color Swap lets you replace colors with other colors or live video sources. Transform any color into video sources, create smooth color remapping across entire images, or perform precise selective color replacement. Suitable for traditional green screen work, subtle color correction, or wild artistic transformations.

Key Features:

  • 4 Independent Channels - Process up to 4 colors simultaneously, each with independent brightness/color mixing and gain.
  • Dual Mapping Modes:
    • Absolute: Traditional keying - replace specific colors within set thresholds.
    • Relative: Every pixel gets distributed between your chosen colors, creating smooth and continuous color-space remapping across the entire image.
  • Video Sidechain Integration - Replace colors with video feeds from other tracks.
  • Advanced Color Matching - Choose between Chroma, Oklab, and YUV color spaces.
  • Per-channel edge control: Independent blur, contour, and softness controls to shape color mapping boundaries and transitions.

Gradient​

Gradient now has three modes: Linear, Conical and Radial. The Linear gradient has a new Curve parameter. Each gradient pattern can now be repeated using the Repeat parameter. This greatly improves the creative possibilities with the Gradient device.

Other improvements​

  • Color Mixer: Improved color mixing.
  • Color Mixer: Added an Alpha Thru toggle.
  • Color Mixer: Increased the height of the Color Offset bar.
  • Colorize: Increased the height of the horizontal Mid Point bars.
  • Colorize: The Color Format toggle was moved to the sidebar.
  • Color Utility: Alpha processing (consolidation and multiplication) now occurs before brightness/contrast adjustments, allowing these color operations to work on already-processed alpha, effectively expanding the range of processing possibilities.
  • External In: Devices are now displayed in the dropdown menu with unique ID’s, so that when multiple devices of the same type are detected, they can be selected.
  • Keyer: Added a new keying method: YUV.
  • Mirror and Pixelate: Increase the width of the device to accommodate the title and all title bar buttons of Live 12.2.
  • Properties: Added a "Rotate" parameter and button to rotate video clips on Audio Tracks in steps of 90 degrees.
  • Video Simpler: Added a "Rotate" parameter and button to rotate a loaded video or image in steps of 90 degrees.
  • Various toggles with custom user interfaces (for example: all "Invert" toggles, or the "Mute" toggles in Properties) now show their automation indicators correctly.
  • Various toggles with custom user interfaces (for example: the "Level of Detail" toggle in Wavvy) now have visible focus borders while selected.
  • When hovering over dropdown menus that are populated dynamically, a hint/tooltip will now appear to reveal the full text of the selected item.
  • Text across all of Videosync's application windows now uses the Ableton Sans font.
  • Text fields and the Resolution dropdown menu in the Settings window now have a squared design.
  • The names of all Spout/Syphon channels created by Videosync now start with "Videosync:".
  • Plugin SDK: Increased the width of some Examples to accommodate the device titles next to all title bar buttons.
  • Plugin SDK: Added a new setHint.maxpat dependency responsible for dynamically adding hints to sidechain menus, revealing the full text of a selected item when hovering over the respective menu.

Fixes​

  • Fixed a bug that prevented applications like TouchDesigner or Isadora from receiving Videosync’s Syphon outputs on macOS.
  • Fixed a bug in Blur's Bokeh mode, where the Blur Gain was causing output to become darker than intended.
  • Fixed a bug for Feedback's feedback ratio, which caused the actual ratio to be lower than the parameter indicated.
  • Fixed a bug for External In on Windows, where a selected Spout input texture would not appear at all while Videosync’s own Main Spout output was enabled.
  • Fixed a bug in External In which would cause menu items to multiply unintentionally.
  • Fixed a bug in Gradient, where Feather was incorrectly represented in the GUI display, as half the size that it was in Videosync’s output.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause Gradient's GUI to deteriorate Live's responsiveness under some circumstances.
  • Fixed a bug for Status, where the "Device initialized" log message would not always have a correct timestamp.
  • Fixed an issue where loading a corrupt image into Video Simpler would cause a crash.
  • Fixed an issue for Video Simpler where setting “Playback” to “Thru” while having the Start Time set to values higher than 0ms would not trigger the correct region.
  • Fixed an issue for Video Simpler on Windows, where for users who had installed the VIDDLL package but had not yet selected it as Max's video engine, Video Simpler's display would still display "Unable to show preview". Instead, it now keeps prompting to configure VIDDLL.