How many folk here play live sets with (mainly) live drum/synth synthysis

[dirty_bass]

Archoas is essentially the visual equivalent of loop triggering though.
I`d like something more reactive.
Or has it got better?

[tocsin]

Archoas is essentially the visual equivalent of loop triggering though.
I`d like something more reactive.
Or has it got better?

Kinda. It can be used that way on a very basic level. But, there's more ways to manipulate what you work with now. Essentially, it's a multi-layered VJ interface that is controllable with a MIDI keyboard. You can assign movies, still images, flash files, live input from a camera, numerous built in FX, and add-on "freeframe" plugins to the keys of a MIDI keyboard. For something you want to loop repeatedly, or for an effect you just want to stay on, you can set a key to "latch" so whatever is assigned to it continues running until you hit it again. Otherwise, it only runs for as long as you hold the key.

It's fairly different from a number of VJ apps out there and, given I use a MIDI keyboard for just about everything, was the most intuitive for me. Plus, the way in which you can build effects and imagery on top of each other is very cool. The biggest power in it, in my opinion, is the ability to set just about every possible variable in the thing, on the base level and the effects level, to a knob or slider.