Nottawa

Live video for everyone

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Dance
Dance
Feedback
Feedback
Clouds
Clouds
Mirror
Mirror
Blend
Blend
Color Step
Color Step
Swirl
Swirl
Dance
Dance
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Feedback
Swirl
Swirl

Create audioreactive live visuals on your Mac


100% free forever

Nottawa Interface
Nottawa Features

Blend videos, webcams, community shaders and more


Ready for IRL performance

Source -> Effect(s)

Start with a [source]. Connect to an [effect]. It's that simple.

Now add another. Now combine them.

Go crazy.

Options

Powered by parameters

Every source and effect comes with options.

Drive effects on the fly with MIDI, oscillators, and live audio.

Audio Reactive

Watch the sound

Use a microphone or system audio to power any source or effect

State of the art beat detection powered by BTrack

Ableton Link connectivity built in for easy integration with Pulse

Power Tools

It gets better

One-click feedback effect up to 60 frames with 10 mix modes

Mask on Color and Luminosity

Batteries included Text Source

MIDI & Oscillation

Let's Groove

Parameters can be driven live with six different oscillator types.

Connect a MIDI controller to learn + drive in one click.

Warp time with live offet and speed multiplier.

Free Content Library

Lots to Get You Started

Access a library of 300+ royalty-free videos to use in your project.

More videos being added all the time.

Contact Joe if you'd like your own videos included!

About

Nottawa was made for you by an artist & engineer named Joe Crozier.

Much of software today is designed to take your money, data, and attention.

I don't want any of that.

I want you to make something cool.

Enjoy.

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Nottawa About

Acknowledgements

We're standing on the shoulders of giants with this project. There are a handful of people who need thanks, without them, Nottawa would not exist.

Shadertoy Authors

Shadertoy authors are the source of many of Nottawa's coolest effects. We've got an ℹ in app noting the coder themself. Here are their profiles. If your name should be on this list and is not, please reach out!

Andrei Jay

Andrei Jay and their work on Video Waaaves. Nottawa began as a reskin of Video Waaaves before quickly growing into its own product.

IQ

IQ and his career spent making shader art accessible to the world.

OpenFrameworks

Zachary Lieberman, Theo Watson, and Arturo Castro for their work on OpenFrameworks, the C++ runtime which Nottawa was built off of.

ImGui

Omar for building the wonderful graphics library, ImGui, which powers Nottawa's frontend.