Magic Music Visuals

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Magic Music Visuals
Developer(s) Color & Music, LLC
Operating system Windows, macOS
Type Music visualizer, VJing
License Proprietary
Website magicmusicvisuals.com

Magic Music Visuals is a music visualizer and VJ software application for Windows and macOS.

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Features

Magic can be used to create live visuals for music performances, or to create music videos for recorded songs. [1]

It has a modular interface which allows for the manipulation of many different types of media, such as images, 3D models, video files, live video capture, GLSL shaders, and generative geometric graphics. Nearly all editable parameters can be driven by multi-channel audio or MIDI input. [2]

History

Magic is developed by Color & Music, LLC. The company was established in 2012, and is located in Los Angeles, California. [3]

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References

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