Aestesis

Live visual performance Application (Mac OS)

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🎬 About

Aestesis is a professional desktop application designed for VJing and live visual performance. Built with Flutter, it serves as the user interface and orchestration layer for building real-time visual compositions.

Aestesis is still in its early development stages.

Aestesis allows artists to:

• 🎥 Manage video and audio assets
• ✨ Apply real-time effects via modular nodes
• 🎛️ Map UI controls to MIDI hardware
• 🌈 Create audio-reactive visuals
• 💾 Save and load custom compositions (.aes format)

🎨 Features

Core Capabilities

• ✅ Modular Architecture - Add/remove modules at runtime
• ✅ MIDI Integration - Map hardware controllers (knobs, buttons, faders)
• ✅ Asset Management - Drag & drop video files (.mp4, .mov, .mv4, etc.)
• ✅ Real-time Effects - Shaders, LUTs, video filters
• ✅ Multi-module Pipeline - Chain multiple modules in a composition
• ✅ Composition System - Save/load custom setups (.sis)
• ✅ Theme Support - Light/dark mode switching
• ✅ Platform Support - macOS
• ✅ Audio Visualization - Real-time audio effects
• ✅ Camera Routing - Virtual/external camera support

Visual Modules

Module	Description
Player	MV4/MP4/MOV/3GP media playback with controls
FX	Video filters and visual effects
LUT	Color grading with LUT support
Shader	Real-time Metal Shader execution
Analog	Analog-inspired Mixer
Syn	Audio-reactive synthesizer visuals
Camera	Virtual/external camera input routing

🎼 MIDI Integration

Aestesis supports MIDI controller mapping for live performance:

• Hardware Mapping - Connect knobs, buttons, and faders
• Channel Filtering - Filter MIDI channels per device
• Multi-device - Support for multiple MIDI sources

📖 Usage

Creating a Composition

1. Open the app
2. Add modules (right click > Add Module menu)
3. Load assets (drag & drop video files or use File > Add Assets)
4. Configure modules (select assets, set controls)
5. Map MIDI (connect your controller and map controls)
6. Save your composition (File > Save)

📄 License

This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.

📞 Support

Made with ❤️ by the Aestesis team