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Yes. Every new activation starts with a 14-day Pro trial: the full app, every Pro feature. The only difference from a licensed copy is a watermark on the Output window.

One plan activates on up to two computers at once. To use a third, deactivate one, or buy an additional plan under the same email address.

Anytime, and you keep access. In Visibox, open Registration (the Visibox menu on Mac, the File menu on Windows) and click “Manage Subscription.” You can also sign in to your account at spaceage.tv/account, or email [email protected]. Canceling drops you to the Free Plan rather than locking you out, so your projects stay usable.

Monthly subscriptions check in once every 30 days; annual subscriptions only every 6 months. Visibox warns you in advance, and keeps working for a few days past the deadline if you can't connect right away. Built for gigging rigs that aren't always online.

Subscribe-to-Own is a Visibox Pro subscription, billed monthly at $18.99. You get full Pro access from day one, the same as any subscription. Stay subscribed for 18 months and Visibox becomes yours to keep: a perpetual license, plus 6 months of free updates. Once that update window closes you keep every version you already have; only future releases require a current plan.

Yes, pause it for up to 60 days from your account at spaceage.tv/account. You aren't charged while paused, and Visibox won't run, but your progress is safe: resume before the 60 days are up and you pick up exactly where you left off. Pausing is available only on Subscribe-to-Own, and only from the cancel screen. Choose it there instead of ending your plan.

That counts as an interruption too: a shorter one, since we don't know you're coming back. You get 30 days to return, plus 2 more for every month you've already subscribed, up to a maximum of 60 days. Come back within that window and every month still counts toward your 18. Miss it, and the plan ends. Those months don't carry forward, and starting again means a new plan from month one. Pauses and missed payments/cancellations share one allowance of 3 interruptions over the life of the plan; a fourth ends it. Pausing is the safer choice: it keeps your card on file and resumes automatically, instead of needing to sign up again. A refunded month doesn't count toward your 18, either.

Yes. Trigger clips, advance songs, and control most functions from any controller that sends MIDI notes. Use the default note map or “learn” a custom mapping.

Yes, and it's a great way to play it. Any MIDI drum pad that sends notes works: Roland SPD-SX/Octapad/V-Drums, Alesis SamplePad/Strike, KAT, Yamaha DTX, and others.

Both, actually. You trigger clips in real time (keyboard, mouse, MIDI, or Stream Deck), so the show stays played, not automatic. But Visibox also has audio-reactive Visualizers and Effects that respond to the music on their own. By default they react to Visibox's own audio, or to any sound on your computer when you turn on System Audio Input. Retriggering options like restart, stutter, and scratch let you lock clips to the beat too, and you can drive it all from a MIDI sequencer like Ableton Live.

Yes. Set a transition in and out for each clip: Fade, or Wipe and Push in any of four directions, with your own duration. Loop Crossfade blends the end of a looping clip back into its start so the loop doesn't read as a cut.

Yes. Visibox has a native Elgato Stream Deck plugin. Buttons show your clip thumbnails, so you can trigger clips, move between songs, and control playback at a glance. Install it from Settings > Devices and use any number of Stream Deck devices. Coming from Visibox 5? The built-in Stream Deck mode is gone, so install the plugin, keep Elgato's Stream Deck software running, and rebuild your buttons, since the old layout doesn't carry over. On a Stream Deck+, the dials control master volume (press to mute).

Yes. Visibox Remote is a free app for iPhone, iPad, and Android. Fire clips, step through the setlist, and set the volume from anywhere in the room, so the sound engineer at front of house can run the visuals too. You'll need Visibox 6 on a Pro plan, with the phone and computer on the same Wi-Fi. The phone controls the show; the video still plays on the computer.

Yes. Patch Visibox as one fixture on grandMA, Eos, ChamSys, Hog, Avolites, or QLC+, over sACN or Art-Net. Download the GDTF profile from Settings and import it; most desks read GDTF or have a converter for it. Cues pick songs and clips, run transport, and ride intensity, volume, and hue, so one person can run lights and video from the same desk while the show itself stays built in Visibox.

Yes, with a Pro plan. Set a song's Poly Mode to anything but Mono, and a second pad layers a second clip instead of cutting off the first. Poly Mode decides how the clips share the screen: blended together, tiled side by side, stacked, or split into stripes or spots. Each clip's Launch Mode decides what a press does: start it, play it only while you hold the pad, or switch it on and off. Songs start in Mono, which plays one clip at a time like Visibox 5.

Yes. Visibox takes OSC from TouchOSC, QLab, Resolume, Max/MSP, and anything else that speaks it, and sends feedback so your controller can show what Visibox is doing. The Bitfocus Companion module runs Visibox from a Stream Deck, X-keys, or any panel Companion supports, and the Node-RED nodes wire it into your automation flows. Companion and Node-RED connect through the Visibox Remote Control API, which needs a Pro plan.

Yes, for building and arranging projects. For performance you'll want two screens: the Controller (which you see) and the Output (which the audience sees). Most performers just connect a laptop to a projector.

Almost any. Visibox flips, rotates, and crops the output every which way: rear projection, ceiling-mounted upside-down, even sideways for vertical content. The trickier part is the cable: HDMI is easiest, and inexpensive adapters cover older projectors (VGA, DVI, mini-HDMI, USB-C, etc.).

Yep. Grab an HDMI adapter if needed and connect to any TV made in the last 20 years.

Yes. Many users connect to LED walls, usually via HDMI into a wall controller, or SDI with a DeckLink card (Beta). Visibox can compensate per screen so a hardware wall controller shows the picture in the right shape. Whether it's your own rig or a venue's, their AV tech can help you find the best connection.

On a Mac with an Apple TV you can use AirPlay as a second monitor over wifi. Great for testing and rehearsal, but we don't recommend it live, since it adds latency and is less reliable than a wired link. To send video to another computer over your network, use NDI output (Beta).

Yes, with a Pro plan. In Settings > Canvas, give each projector or display its own slice of one shared picture and lay out the rig by dragging. Each screen gets its own position, rotation, and compensation for a hardware wall controller, and any screen can mirror the whole canvas instead. Every screen shows a piece of the same picture, so you can't put a different clip on each one, and there's no projection mapping or edge blending.

Yes, with a Pro plan. Syphon on Mac and Spout on Windows send the live output straight into OBS, Resolume, VDMX, MadMapper, or TouchDesigner, with no cable or capture card. NDI sends it to any receiver on your network, and a Blackmagic DeckLink card sends it out over SDI, both with audio. All four outputs are in Beta. Hit Record to save what the audience sees, with audio, as a video file at anything from 720p to 8K, or a custom size.

Barely at all. That's the point. Build a whole song from a few short looping clips; Visibox resizes and crops to fit the screen, and offers several loop and play-once modes.

No limit on size or length. You're only bounded by your computer's storage.

Not really. It's built to play video; video runs ~30fps, so audio loop points land on 1/30s boundaries, too coarse for seamless audio loops (audio files use ~48,000 samples/sec). Use it for visuals, not as an audio looper.

Natively: video (MP4/MPEG4, QuickTime .mov, MKV, Ogg, WebM; h.264, VP8/9, AV1, Theora); images (JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF auto-converted to video, BMP, SVG); audio (MP3, AAC, M4A, MKA, WAV, FLAC, Ogg, OPUS). Other formats are auto-converted by the built-in conversion system (which can be slow).

Yes. Visualizers are a clip type that generates live visuals that react to the music: pulsing, morphing, and moving with the sound. Visibox ships with a curated preset library and imports community-built MilkDrop (.milk) and ISF shader (.isf) presets, so there's a deep well of looks to draw from. The built-in Visualizers Editor lets you browse, tweak, and build your own with live preview.

Yes, for the band. Paste in a chord sheet (ChordPro, OnSong, Nashville numbers, or plain chords over words) and Visibox shows the lyrics and chords on a screen that faces the stage, scrolling with the song. Tap along to time the lines. Lyrics are a Pro feature, in Beta. They're built for the musicians, not the audience: for congregation or sing-along lyrics, use ProPresenter or FreeShow alongside Visibox.

Yes. Connect any number of webcams, capture cards, or NDI sources (Beta) and switch between them and your clips at any time. Drum solo? Drummer cam. Kazoo solo? Kazoo cam. You get the idea.

Any standard USB webcam (Visibox uses the OS's native support). For higher quality, connect pro cameras through an HDMI capture card like the Elgato Cam Link. Visibox can also play NDI sources from your network (an NDI camera, another computer, or an app broadcasting NDI) as camera clips, in Beta.

Yes. Virtual cameras present themselves as hardware webcams: OBS for compositing, Snap to modify your feed, or EpocCam to use your phone as a camera (phone and computer on the same network).

macOS 13 (Ventura) or later on Mac; Windows 10 or later on PC. No specific hardware requirements, though higher-resolution content and complex projects benefit from a faster drive and CPU/GPU.

Yes. Visibox is a universal app that runs natively on both Intel Macs and Apple Silicon (M1 through M5) Macs.

Both. Subscribe to the Spaceage YouTube channel for tutorials and ideas, and read the online manual at manual.spaceage.tv (also built into Visibox's Help menu).

The installer is a standard .exe, but launching it more than once can cause errors. Close every instance first (restart, or end the task in Task Manager via Ctrl+Shift+Esc), then re-launch by right-clicking and choosing Open so it only runs once.