Resolume Arena

What's new in this version:

- AI has changed in the past couple of months. It went from hallucinating "facts" to being genuinely helpful. We have experienced this first-hand with Claude Code. Since Opus 4.5, it's the first AI that, with the right prompt and guidance, is actually helpful at writing, explaining and debugging code. We're not talking about generating AI images or videos here. This is about AI helping do tedious, boring work nobody really enjoys doing. This is about AI helping us understand complicated math, for instance, to help you build a Wire patch that generates visuals.
- This is why we're now releasing MCP servers for Arena/Avenue & Wire. With these local Resolume MCP servers, AI desktop applications like Claude, OpenAI Codex, Google Antigravity, or any other MCP-compatible AI tool, can assist you with building compositions in Arena & Avenue and help build (complicated) patches in Wire.

Avenue & Arena MCP Server:
- With the Arena MCP server you can build and manage your compositions, load files, sources, add and remove effects, layers, columns, groups, etc., etc. Let the AI do the hard yakka for you so you can focus on the fun and creative part of VJ-ing. It's mostly used for building and modifying your composition, not so much during live performances.
- AI is very good at doing repetitive work where you give it one example and it does the rest. For instance, you design one clip of a DJ lineup (the fun part) and then you ask AI to make all the rest by giving it a list of names (the boring part). A DJ lineup is not usually very long, but imagine doing this for a sports event where you need clips for every team member or an award show with many participants.

Here are a few example prompts for Arena & Avenue:
- Summarize the Arena composition with the MCP and find video files that are not encoded with the DXV codec
- Add a hue rotate effect to every layer with the Arena MCP server
- Build a Resolume Arena composition with three layers. The top layer has text: each word as a separate clip, each in a different font. The color scheme should have two main colors: one for the foreground and one for the background. Use a different transition between each word. Below that, two content layers with masking: one complex, fully opaque layer visible through the letter shapes, and the other a slowly evolving atmospheric background. Both layers should have content that progresses across columns. Use this text: "BREAK EVERY RULE TONIGHT". Make it look impactful. The whole thing should work as a looping column autopilot sequence.

Wire MCP Server:
- The Wire MCP server can help you create patches just by describing what you want. The Wire MCP will then create the nodes, wire them up and set the correct inlet values. It will rename and color-code nodes, then add and group parameters on the dashboard. For more complicated stuff it can even write ISF shaders (very well, we should add).
- Node-based patching environments are difficult to learn. There are a lot of nodes, and you need to learn what each of them does. AI can help here. Just ask what you want to know about Wire and it will patiently explain and possibly offer to build an example patch that you can then incorporate into your creative patch.

Here are a few example prompts for Wire:
- Color-code all the nodes in the current patch with the Wire MCP
- Create a slice outline/inline effect with the Wire MCP
- Explain to me what a Fibonacci sequence and phyllotaxis are. Then visualize this using nodes in a patch with the Wire MCP. Add dashboard parameters to control the patch
- Here is a speedrun video of creating a patch with Claude. Checkout the Neon Pills patch! It's nice and feel free to post your remixes in the comments.

Arena & Avenue REST API Updates:
- We have added a lot of new capabilities to the Arena & Avenue REST API. You can now browse, add, remove, and reorder audio effects, just like video effects. A new monitors endpoint lets you grab live snapshots of your outputs as PNG or JPEG. Set parameter animation like Timeline, BPM sync, FFT, etc. We've also added handy new ways to swap, reorder, and merge clips, columns, and layers, making even advanced composition management possible. And behind the scenes, the documentation got a thorough polish with clearer guides and consistent error handling across the board. Checkout all the details in the Swagger API documentation available via the Preferences -> Webserver. Start your agents and start (vibe) coding!

Wire REST API Updates:
- Wire's REST API gets a major upgrade with the introduction of API v2, a completely new interface that lets you create, connect, and manage nodes programmatically. Wire up connections, set inlet values, and even auto-layout your patch. API batch operations let you make multiple changes atomically, so you can build or restructure patches in a single request. Checkout all the details in the Swagger API documentation available via the Preferences -> Webserver. We can't wait to see what you build with this!

Avenue/Arena 7.26.0 Fix List:
- 10734 MIDI Clock jumps to 20 or 500 BPM
- 24811 Forking a Wire Source does not work

Wire 7.26.0 Fix List:
- 18271 Make texture output stretch to fullscreen output
- 24285 Re-run export without re-opening export window
- 24322 Resources from Arena presets not included in compiled patch
- 24629 Box2D overload for Smooth and Cross Fader
- 24810 Write OSC can't be set back to 1 param from 0 params
- 24846 Creating ISF code from clipboard sometimes doesn't work