The Aquarium
Front-arena flying trusses, volumetric beams crossing through haze.
Free open beta, coming soon · built by a phan
Bring the lights home.
Runs on your Mac. Turns whatever you're playing into a light show, the kind you'd actually want filling the room. The free beta's coming soon.
From me, to you
Hey, it's Jody.
For decades I've been geeking out over how astoundingly beautiful concert lighting can be, and I've always wanted to "drive" these incredible pieces of art. But aside from ditching my career and hitting the road as a lighting designer... that wasn't really an option.
So I started building one. A light rig that lives on your Mac and runs off whatever you've got playing. Took me quite a while to get this far, and after posting some clips online it turns out a few of you want to drive these rigs too.
The full-featured beta (coming soon) will be totally free, and while it's running, a lifetime Performer license is pay whatever you want. You can grab a lifetime Pro license too, just check the details below.
I appreciate your support, and can't wait to hear your feedback while we build this thing.
Jody
The rigs & looks
Six rigs, hundreds of looks.
All hand-tuned, with more landing every build. Each one meant to look finished the moment you land on it.
LaserLaserLaser
EDM aerial-beam lasers with the deepest catalog and its own show director.
The Room
A receding corridor of trusses and glowing panels. Perspective you can feel.
The Cube
An open 12-edge truss cube spinning and breathing as one body.
The Sphere
Flying battens through a fisheye dome, high-contrast beams on deep black. The one that stops the room.
See it move
What it looks like to just let it run.
Stills only get you so far. Hit play and watch a real stretch of it, nothing edited but the start and the end.
What it does
From watching to playing along.
Reacts to whatever's playing
System audio in. Any source works, no files to import. Hit play and the rig comes alive.
Locked to the beat
It locks onto the beat and follows the song, so the big moments land where they should.
It can run the show for you
Flip on the Audio Director and Telaray watches the music and runs the rig itself, matching the energy and changing in time. Jump in whenever you want.
Made to be played
A launch board, trigger pads, faders, cue lists, and beat-matched Drop FX. Stuff you grab and play.
Party mode
Hit the button, Go Hang Out
Throwing something? Party Mode fills the screen, hides every control, and runs the whole show off whatever's playing. It builds, eases back, and slams the drops on its own. Flick the mouse and a little bar slides up to change the vibe. That's the whole interface.
Chill Groove Pulse Rave Laser
Take the controls
Or grab it and drive it yourself.
Party Mode runs the show for you. When you want more, Performer hands you the whole instrument. Reshape any look until it's yours, then play the rig live.
The Designer
Make any look your own.
Pull a look apart and rebuild it. Swap the palette, reshape the geometry, change how it moves, set how thick the haze hangs. Land on something you love and save it. Now it's yours.
Palettes Shape Motion Haze Save your own
The live board
Play it like an instrument.
Every look on a pad, grouped from intro to drop, with ride faders, cue lists, and beat-matched Drop FX. Lay your set out ahead of time, then ride it live while the track plays. Build it, hold it, slam the drop on your cue.
Launch board Trigger pads Ride faders Cue lists Drop FX
All of this is the Performer tier.
Getting in
Free during the beta. Back it if you want to.
When the beta opens, the whole thing's unlocked. Free, every feature, for everyone.
When it ships there's still a free version, always. Performer and Pro become paid then. Found a tier and you keep it when that day comes, at the lowest price it'll ever be.
Founder
Name your price
pay what you can
Mostly, this is you backing the build. Name what it's worth to help get Telaray to 1.0.
- The Performer tier, locked at the price you name
- Yours forever. It never expires
Lifetime Pro
$99 and up
pledge more if you want
- Everything in Performer
- Pro: projector output and iPad control
- Lifetime updates. You never pay again
Get on the list
Founding opens with the beta and closes at 1.0. Get on the list and you'll be first to know.
Founding is pre-buying a license for what already works. Your update window starts at launch, not during the beta. If the paid version never ships, you get a refund. The full terms.
The tiers
Start free. Grow into the full instrument.
Free to play, always. Step up when you want to perform it, and again when you want to take it off the laptop and onto a wall.
Free
Play the light.
Free always
- All six rigs, every look (~215) and palette (53)
- Reacts to whatever's playing on your Mac
- Full-screen on any display
- The whole passive show, start to finish
Performer
The main eventPerform and shape the show.
Pricing at launch
Everything in Free, plus:
- The Audio Director: auto-pilot that runs the show to the music
- Party Mode: arm the Director, hit one button, walk away
- Live play surfaces: launch board, trigger pads, ride faders, cue lists
- Beat-quantized Drop FX
- Design surfaces: shape looks, palettes, and motion to taste
Pro
Take it off the laptop.
Pricing at launch
Everything in Performer, plus:
- Projector or second-display output, clean and chrome-free (⌘O)
- Run the whole rig from an iPad over TouchOSC, both directions
Bigger Pro features (Syphon/NDI video-out, physical-rig sync) are on the roadmap, built if enough people vote them up. Never a promise.
Get on the listOnce the beta opens it's all unlocked and free, every tier. These are how it works at 1.0. Found Performer or Pro and you keep it at the lowest price it'll ever be. Final pricing lands at launch.
The Discord
Come build it with the rest of us.
Most of this is happening out in the open. New builds land in the Discord first, and it's where bugs get sorted and where you say what should get made next. If you saw the clips on r/phish, this is where the rest of it lives.
If you want to push it further
Hook it up to a projector or an iPad.
For when you want it bigger than your laptop screen, at a party or a small venue. Here's what works today, and a couple of things that might happen if enough people want them.
Projector / second-display output
shippedKeep the controls on your Mac and send a clean, chrome-free feed to a projector or a second screen (⌘O).
Run it from an iPad
shippedTelaray builds a TouchOSC layout from its own catalog and drives every cue, fader, and Drop FX over the network, both directions.
Photosensitivity-safe flash limiting
shippedA global Safe Flash gate trims strobe and white-out intensity across every fixture. On by default.
Video-out to Resolume and OBS
exploring · voteSyphon and NDI straight into a VJ rig, no capture card. It's hard to build, so it only happens if enough people want it.
Physical-rig sync
exploring · voteA reactive mode that leans the show toward a real rig's color and energy. Same deal. Vote for it.
Votes decide what's next.
Tell me what to build nextSystem requirements
Made for modern Macs.
A native Metal renderer that auto-detects your Mac and tunes quality to stay smooth, from an entry M1 on up. You never touch a setting. Audio is analyzed locally and never recorded or transmitted.
Heads up: this is pre-release beta software.
- Platform
- macOS 26.3 or later
- Hardware
- Apple-silicon Mac (M1 or newer)
- Audio
- Captures system audio: asks permission on first run
- Optional
- External display / projector (⌘O) · iPad running TouchOSC
Be there when the lights come up.
It's free, the beta's almost here, and the community's already gathering. Drop your email to be first in line when it opens, or come straight into the Discord.