Liberation User Manual
  • ✅Important! Read this first
  • ✅Installation / licensing
    • ✅Install for Mac
    • ✅Install for Windows
    • ✅How licensing works
    • ✅Authorising and de-authorising
    • ✅Upgrade / downgrade your license
    • ✅Cancel your subscription
  • ✅FAQ
  • ✅Quick start guide
  • ✅Hardware
    • ✅Compatible lasers and controllers (DACs)
    • ✅Emergency stop / interlocks
    • ✅LaserCube
  • ✅Setting up
    • ✅Laser set up process overview
    • ✅Setting up your project
    • ✅Adding / removing lasers
    • ✅Controller assignment
    • ✅3D Visualiser
    • ✅Laser output settings window
    • ✅Copy settings between lasers
    • ✅Latency setting
  • 🟦Output view / Zones
    • ✅Overview
    • 🟦Zones
    • 🟦Copy zones between lasers
    • 🟦Re-ordering beam zones
    • 🟦Masks
    • 🟦Test patterns
    • 🟦Alt zone system
  • 🟦Clips & Clip deck
    • 🟦Overview
    • ✅Starting / stopping clips
    • ✅Assigning clips to laser zones
    • ✅What are the small icons on the clip buttons?
    • ✅Clip settings
    • 🟦Zone delay / chase
    • 🟦Clip groups
    • ◼️Global settings
    • 🟦Organising your clip deck
  • ◼️Effects
    • ◼️Applying effects
    • ◼️Editing effects
    • ◼️Effect settings
  • 🟧The Clip Editor
    • ◼️Introduction to the Clip Editor
    • 🟦Fundamentals
      • 🟦Co-ordinate system
      • 🟦Colour settings and HSB
      • 🟦Render profile
      • 🟦Resolution
      • 🟦Fills, masks and depth sorting
    • 🟦Creators
    • 🟧Oscillators
      • ✅Wave oscillators
      • ✅Sound input oscillator
      • ✅Parameter Control
    • 🟦Transformations
    • ◼️Modifiers
      • ◼️MIDI notes
  • ◼️Tempo / synchronisation
  • 🟧Live control
    • ◼️Live control example
  • ◼️Timeline
    • ◼️MIDI record/playback system
    • ◼️Timeline (experimental)
      • ◼️Overview
      • ◼️Adding an audio file
      • ◼️Recording a show
      • ◼️Adding clips manually
      • ◼️Fine tuning clips
  • ◼️DMX control
    • ◼️DMX zones
    • ◼️Connecting to an Artnet node
    • ◼️Creating DMX zones
      • ◼️Examples
  • 🟦Graphics and the Canvas system
    • 🟦Introduction
    • 🟦Canvas overview
    • 🟦Canvas view
    • 🟦Canvas settings
    • 🟦Canvas zones
    • 🟦Canvas target areas
  • 🟦MIDI control
    • 🟦MIDI control overview
    • 🟦Live control with the APC40
    • 🟦MIDI Send/Receive
  • ◼️Loading and saving
  • ◼️Tips for loading SVG files
  • ◼️Advanced
    • ◼️How Liberation generates laser content
    • ◼️Scanner presets & render profiles
    • ◼️Advanced laser settings
    • ◼️Render profiles
    • ◼️Colour calibration
  • ◼️Synchronisation
  • ◼️Network advice
  • 🟧Troubleshooting
    • ✅Intermittent / flashing output
    • ✅Live control
  • ✅Reference
    • ✅Keyboard shortcuts
    • ✅APC40 reference
    • ✅MIDI send/receive default mapping
    • ◼️Glossary / jargon
  • ✅Credits
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Liberation is designed and programmed by .

Help with the Windows version from Dan Moore.

It uses the following open source projects :

openFrameworks

Full list of openFrameworks contributors

openFrameworks uses a combination of the following libraries, depending on your platform:

OpenGL, GLEW, GLUT, libtess2, cairo, rtAudio, PortAudio, FMOD, Kiss FFT, FreeType, FreeImage, Quicktime, Unicap, GStreamer, videoInput, Poco

openFrameworks addons

  • ofxAbletonLink by Akihiro Komori

  • ofxArtnet by Hiroyuki Hori

  • ofxLTC by 2bit (Uses libltc)

  • ofxMidi by Dan Wilcox (Uses RTMIDI by Gary Scavone)

  • ofxNative by Hansi Raber

  • ofxSVG (uses libsvgtiny)

Dear ImGui

The UI is built in part using Dear ImGui, developed by Omar Cornut and every direct or indirect contributors to the GitHub.

Liberation founding testers

With heartfelt thanks to the core group of testers most of whom have been with me since the very beginning:

  • Abby Shum

  • Andy Stentiford

  • Danny Mason

  • Dustin Derry

  • Flora Litchfield

  • Simon Edge

  • Rob Stanley

Founding Sponsors

Thanks to all of the early access users and thanks to X-Laser who have been sponsoring the development of Liberation since 2023.

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Seb Lee-Delisle