Build audioreactive visuals on your Mac with a drag & drop node editor.
Chain together videos, webcams, shaders and more.
Free and open source. Forever.
Pick a source. Add an effect. Then another.
Layer, blend, chain — in real time.
It's the simplest building block in Nottawa — and the foundation of everything else.
Every source and effect comes with options.
Drive effects on the fly with MIDI, oscillators, and live audio.
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
Feed the output back into the input — up to 60 frames deep.
10 mix modes for blending the echo.
One click to add. Add it again. Add it everywhere.
Text sources with a library of fonts
Bounce, stretch, transform, slide, crop, and stage.
Mask on color and luminosity.
Parameters can be driven live with six different oscillator types.
Connect a MIDI controller to learn + drive in one click.
Warp time with live offset and speed multiplier.
Strands are shareable node configurations that you can open directly in Nottawa. Browse creations from other users, get inspired, and share your own.
My name is Joe Crozier and I built Nottawa for you.
Software today is designed to take your money, data, and attention. I don't want any of that.
Nottawa's goal is to let earnest hosts, creatives, musicians, and dreamers use their human vision to make something they think is worth looking at.
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 are the source of many of Nottawa's coolest effects. We've got an info icon 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 and their work on Video Waaaves. Nottawa began as a reskin of Video Waaaves before quickly growing into its own product.
IQ and his career spent making shader art accessible to the world.
Zachary Lieberman, Theo Watson, and Arturo Castro for their work on OpenFrameworks, the C++ runtime which Nottawa was built off of.
