Create real-time 3D visuals
with Ableton Live
powered by Unreal Engine
With SenSei, you create immersive 3D visuals directly from Ableton Live, powered by Unreal Engine. SenSei is both an application and a suite of plug-ins that integrate seamlessly into your creative workflow. Experience the creative power of Unreal Engine, made effortlessly accessible, no programming required.
Designed for audiovisual designers, performers, and music producers, SenSei offers an unparalleled way to combine music and visuals in live shows, productions, and original content.
Push the boundaries of visual music, on Mac or Windows.
Easy and flexible
When creativity strikes, you want your tools to keep up. Drop the SenSei plug-ins into your Live set and start building 3D scenes instantly. Each plug-in offers a wide range of parameters, letting you create visuals, mix video, and push the boundaries of audiovisual performance… all in real time.
Add cameras, sculpt lights, particle systems, add 3D models, 3D text, and 3D video effects to bring your ideas to life and design entire scenes with musical precision.
Mix video and use 3D Video FX
Add as many video planes to your scene as you like and stream video onto them directly from EboSuite or any other app that supports Syphon or Spout (e.g., Resolume, VDMX, TouchDesigner).
Nearly every SenSei plug-in supports video input, creating new and exciting ways to mix and manipulate video. And for even more depth SenSei includes a suite of dedicated 3D FX tools. SenSei integrates seamlessly with EboSuite, for advanced video sampling, live camera input and ISF shaders.
Create advanced 3D scenes
Every plug-in acts as a building block in your scene. Combine them and tweak their parameters to create your own unique compositions.
Use any mesh
Use the Mesh Loader plug-in to import any mesh into your scene, complete with materials and animations. Grab meshes from sites like sketchfab.com, free3D.com, turbosquid.com, or use your own creations (for example, made in Blender) and drop them into the plug-in to have them appear in your scene instantly.
Visualize your sounds
Automate and sequence the SenSei plug-ins and combine them with Live’s audio plug-ins to shape music and visuals as one. Build evolving compositions that react to your sound in real time, or design precise audio-visual arrangements. With SenSei, experimentation in the world of visual music becomes a natural part of your creative flow.
Use 3D text
Use SenSei’s 3D Text plug-in to seamlessly integrate text into your compositions and presentations. The plug-in includes a range of 3D FX options for added creative expression.
Use many cameras and lights
Add as many virtual cameras to your scene as you like and switch between them on the fly to create dynamic, cinematic compositions. Light up your scene with as many lights as you want. Experiment, go wild, and shape the mood in endless creative ways.
Control everything live
SenSei plug-ins work entirely in real time. All parameters are fully mappable, controllable live, and automatable for maximum creative flexibility and control.
Add Post-Processing effects
Apply Post-processing effects for data moshing, feedback, analogue film looks, and more.
Seamlessly drag and drop scenes into your Live set
Use the MacroMapper plug-in to add grouped plug-ins, entire scenes, seamlessly to your set, controlling them instantly with a MIDI controller, Envelope Follower, automation, and more. Just drop a group into your set, including cameras, lights, and effects, and bring it straight into your live performance, ready to play. VJ-ing with 3D scenes.
… And much more
- Use the Overview Map to keep track of everything in your scene.
- Access over 60 2D FX to manipulate incoming video sources.
- Create immersive 360º backgrounds with the Sky Sphere.
- 24 vertex shader effects to create 3D video effects.
- Lights and camera LookAt point visualizers for precise control.
- Audio amplitude visualizers
- SenSei is under constant development. New features and plug-ins are continuously on the way.
Minimal/Recommended Hardware
Operating System: macOS Sonoma 14
Processor: Apple Silicon M3
Minimum Processor: M1 or M2 depending on rendering features
Memory: 32 GB or more
Minimum Memory: 16 GB
Video Card: Metal 1.2 Compatible Graphics Card
Minimal Ableton Live: Version 11 with Max for Live
Operating System: Windows 10 64-bit version 1909 revision .1350 or higher, or versions 2004 and 20H2 revision .789 or higher.
Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD, 2.5 GHz or faster
Memory: 32 GB RAM
Graphics RAM: 8 GB or more
Graphics Card: DirectX 11 or 12 compatible graphics card with the latest drivers.
Minimal Ableton Live: Version 11 with Max for Live
