What MAINFRAME-B Is Not

MAINFRAME-B is purpose-built visual instrument best suited for certain users and workflows. It is not intended to be a universal lighting product, but instead designed to address a gap in the current suite of lighting and audio-visual solutions.

Do you seek complete control?

MAINFRAME-B’s engine has been modelled as an interactive “color synth”, crafted to produce an hypnotic experience carefully designed to sit in the middle of being automated and fully controllable. Therefore, do not purchase MAINFRAME-B if you are an artist seeking complete and uncompromised control of each and every LED.

MAINFRAME-B is ideal those who prefer to avoid or are unwilling to deal with typical lighting system complexity.

MIDI as input

MAINFRAME-B listens and responds to MIDI messages. MIDI, being a very popular and widespread protocol, makes MAINFRAME-B ideal for DAW and DAW-less users, liveset performers and audio-visual artists using tools like Touchdesigner & Puredata.

If you seek an audio visualizer which takes in a raw audio feed or you can stream music to it via bluetooth, MAINFRAME-B is not for you.

However, there are remarkable ways to visualize audio feeds via Ableton, FL studio, AUM/iOS and more.

For experimentalists

MAINFRAME-B is a complete, finished and polished product. However, given that the “visual instrument” is a new product category, MAINFRAME-B is a single step along a very long-path. This is not the final destination, but an exploration. In our time developing

Specialty LEDs

Lastly, MAINFRAME-B does not drive non-addressable, “dumb” LEDs.

MAINFRAME-B talks only with WS2812b (and WS2815) digital individually addressable LEDs, enabling interesting patterns and animations.