Arkestra: Real-Time Visuals and Motion Graphics Creation Tool

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The versatile toolbox for real time visual creativity. Arkestra is a highly curated macOS software for creating and performing visual art.

Arkestra composes real time rendering using tracks, chains and effects/layers. This makes it easy to have an overview of your project, and opens for a lot of creativity for your ideas.

Tracks

Each track includes a fader, three mod sources, blend and feedback settings, and a chain.

Chains

A chain consists of multiple effects or layers. Chains can be saved and toggled as presets.

Effects / Layers

Each effect or layer has blend modes, time source, mappable parameters

  • Motion Graphics

    Build your next installation

  • Live Performance

    Multi screen output

  • Sequencers

    BPM and Ableton Link sync

  • Craft your effects

    Connect, modulate and create your style

  • Audio Reactivity

    Put the Auv3 plugin Arkestra Echo on any channel and send audio to Arkestra

  • AuV3 Plugin

    Use it for your next Ableton Live set

Longer and shorter tutorials to get in to the flow of Arkestra.

Getting Started

Start your first project in Arkestra

In Depth

Check all the latest features on Arkestra 2.0

Ableton Link

Learn about sequencers, LFOs and Ableton Link in this shorter tutorial.

Collaboration is at the heart of Arkestra. Share your chains with other users effortlessly and explore what the community is creating.

Looking to connect further? Join our Discord group—a space to discuss all things Arkestra, Visuals, and beyond!

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Arkestra is an indie development, crafted and developed by Isak Burström, also running the company Rhythmic Visions, owning the rights to Arkestra.

Therefore - all support means a lot 🙏

The free version of Arkestra has everything you need to play around and when you finally want to perform with it, or expose the output the cost is just $59 – no subscription, it's yours. Enjoy.

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