BEAT SYNDROME
SYNC ENGINE · v3.2
Beat Syndrome replaces the cable salad of Ableton, DMX dongles, and Resolume workarounds with a single timeline that locks audio, lights, and video to one BPM — measured at 0.8 ms drift across a four-hour set.
DJ Mag Best Live Performance Tool 2024 · Trusted by 11,400+ performers in 47 countries
A sample-accurate sync engine is not a marketing phrase — it’s four engineering decisions, each measurable, each replaceable if they fail. Here’s what ships in Beat Syndrome out of the box.
All audio, MIDI, lighting, and video events share a single internal clock with a 96 kHz timebase. There is no MIDI loopback, no second audio engine, and no “best effort” re-trigger — every lane is the same source of truth.
Ableton, TouchDesigner, Resolume, and grandMA2 connect over native bridges — no IAC buses, no Bome MIDI Translator workarounds, no USB MIDI jitter from dongle stacks. Controllers show up as named devices the moment you plug them in.
We do not claim zero latency. We publish the figure we measured: 0.8 ms of cumulative drift across a 4-hour live set, verified independently by Sound Check Lab in their 2024 touring-rig report. The whole report is linked from your dashboard.
If a USB controller drops mid-set, the engine re-routes to the next available device and pre-warms a tertiary path — your show keeps firing while you glance at the rig screen. No show has ever stopped because of a single failed cable.
No rewiring, no adapter shopping, no 3am forum thread. Native bridges to the four pieces of software most touring rigs already run — plus 84 controllers and 22 lighting consoles out of the box.
Your existing set, scenes, and warp markers become the master timeline. Beat Syndrome reads Live’s transport, follows tempo changes, and triggers lights and video from clip launchers without IAC buses.
OSC and CHOP channels route directly into your existing TD networks. Parameter locks, scene cuts, and audio-reactive graphs all sync to the master BPM.
Columns, clips, and effects triggers fire from the Beat Syndrome timeline. Your existing Arena / Avenue comps stay untouched; we just hand them the BPM and the cues.
Cue lists and executors receive beat-locked triggers with millisecond timing. The console’s existing programmer stays intact for busking overrides.
Pioneer, Allen & Heath, Native Instruments, Novation, Akai, Behringer, M-Audio, Arturia, Elgato, Loupedeck, Sensel, Novation, Icon, Korg, Roland, Heritage, Sequential, Teenage Engineering, Studiologic, and 65 more — all on the supported list the day you install.
Festival cuesheets can run to 1,400 events. Hit one wrong button and the next four bars fall apart. Show Mode compresses a full cue stack into a busking console — three big buttons, three coloured macros, the rest happens automatically.
Map your full 90-minute set into Show Mode. Each section becomes a macro: verse, drop, breakdown, outro.
Three buttons: UP, DOWN, RESET. Tap once to advance, hold to drop back, double-tap to jump to a marker.
Skip a section, extend a drop, hold a breakdown — lights and video follow your call. The engine keeps the master BPM untouched.
In a 2023 user survey of 1,180 touring DJs, producers, and live acts, the average setup time for a full touring rig — audio interface, MIDI controllers, lighting desk, video server — dropped from 6 hours 12 minutes to 41 minutes. That’s five hours and thirty-one minutes of crew time recovered per show day.
Source: Beat Syndrome 2023 user survey, n = 1,180 touring acts across 47 countries. Methodology available on request.
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