Lumiric Stage

Lumiric Stage turns MIDI files and live performances into real-time visual content. You can use it to create piano videos, tutorials, livestreams, educational material and cinematic performances, combining MIDI with a camera, notation, visual effects and recording tools.

Create performance content

The Content Creation panel brings camera setup, Magic Piano and recording controls into one workspace. Combine live MIDI or MIDI files with camera footage, Falling Notes Video Sync, Floating Labels, real-time notation, visual effects and recording tools. Save a complete visual setup as a preset and return to it later.

Magic Piano and labels

Magic Piano aligns visual notes with a real piano in the camera view. Place three calibration handles on the lowest note, middle C (C4) and highest note; Lumiric Stage uses them to align the visuals across different piano sizes and camera angles. The alignment works with overhead, side-on, close-up or tilted camera views. You can then adjust piano size, perspective, keybed alignment, inclination, crop, opacity, rotation, scale, aspect guides, blend controls and an optional FX mask. Effects such as Fog and Saber Energy can follow the calibrated piano line.

With Falling Notes Video Sync, notes can travel toward the piano and arrive as the video shows you pressing the key. Floating Labels place notation on visual notes. Choose International notation, Solfege or Nashville numbers, then adjust label size, position, text, background, opacity, colors, timing, fade and execution animation. Colors can be fixed or generated using Follow Note, Follow Piano, Complementary or Analogous modes.

Learn and practise

Music Learning combines Theory, Reading and Practice. In Theory, choose a key, scale and notation system, then use scale-aware visualization, degree-based coloring, chord recognition, chord functions and out-of-scale feedback to explore musical structure as you play.

Reading brings Key Labels, Floating Labels, chords and a scrolling Staff into the performance. The Staff displays MIDI files and live input using treble and bass clefs, notes, rests, accidentals, barlines and rhythmic values. You can view upcoming passages, select MIDI channels, adjust colors, show or hide rests and choose how many measures appear. Its notation is generated in real time for visual learning, entertainment and study; it may not match a carefully prepared score and is not a precise transcription or a substitute for professional notation software.

Practice has two interactive modes for a connected MIDI keyboard. In Wait for note, MIDI playback pauses at each target note and continues when you play it. Challenge gives hit and miss feedback based on your timing. You can adjust the approach and timing window for each session.

Shape the music visuals

Note Coloring applies colors across a performance by MIDI channel, individual note, velocity, pitch gradient or degree within a selected key and scale. Each mode has an editable palette. Degree coloring shows the musical role of each note in the scale, and notes outside the selected scale can be distinguished visually.

The Note Behaviour controls set how notes move through a scene. Choose Incoming (Falling Notes) for tutorials and learning, or Outcoming Notes to send notes away from the instrument. Path Angle rotates the note path through 360 degrees, while Travel Time, Note Size and playback Speed control the journey and appearance. Slowing MIDI playback can help you study difficult passages while Floating Labels show note names.

Build particle effects

Create note-reactive particle effects in Lumiric Stage and share them as portable .mvfx files. Start with an Official effect or make your own; name or duplicate it, adjust it during playback, test changes immediately, undo them or use Randomize to generate effect ideas such as bursts, fountains, auras, smoke, rainfall and swirling motion.

The editor controls spawn position, anchors, triggers, playback, amount, burst count, lifetime, speed, size, shape, spread, thickness, angle, length, offset, rotation and world scale. You can also adjust motion, orbit, rise, radial force, turbulence, gravity, ground collision, bounce, trails, stretch rendering, particle limits and animated flipbooks. Life Color supports start, middle and end color stops with fade behavior; pitch influence lets high and low notes affect particle size and speed. Custom PNG and JPG textures can be browsed, previewed and switched during use.

Official effects and My Effects are stored separately. Saving an effect creates one .mvfx file in the Effects folder of the Lumiric Stage Home Folder, which is Documents/Lumiric Stage by default. Importing a file restores its settings and installs its custom particle texture if it includes one.

Play MIDI files

Lumiric Stage also plays MIDI files with SoundFont (.sf2) files, turning each performance into a real-time visual scene. Each MIDI channel can use an instrument available in the loaded SoundFont. You can assign different voices to channels or leave a channel on Auto so it follows the MIDI file or controller. Channel choices remain with the session; loading another SoundFont returns every channel to Auto.

Connect a MIDI controller for live playing, choose an input device or route MIDI output to compatible external hardware. Velocity normalization can preserve a performance's natural response, compress its dynamic range or set minimum and maximum velocity values for more consistent sound and visuals. A gamepad can also control pitch bend, modulation, expression, pan, brightness, sustain and octave shifting. Configure channels, pitch-bend ranges and stick deadzones, with optional output to a connected physical MIDI instrument.

Save songs and presets

Add songs to Favorites to preserve their MIDI file, SoundFont, Stage, visual preset, instruments, shapes, skins, particle effects and channel configuration. Each favorite can recall its associated performance setup from the Playlist. Named visual presets save a complete look; the active preset updates automatically as you work. You can keep separate setups for teaching, livestreaming and cinematic performances.

Choose a Stage

Stages provide the visual environment for a performance. Void is a minimal setting for learning, streaming, Magic Piano, Floating Labels and the Staff. Singularity features a black-hole-inspired core, a spherical star field and an animated Lumiric Cosmo billboard. Cinema places a large screen at the center of the Stage, where you can show an image, animated GIF or video.

Cinema's screen controls let you import media, adjust opacity and framing, set its direction toward the camera and control looping. Video also has restart and timeline controls. On Stages that support multiple Players, you can add instruments, route MIDI channels and give each Player separate shapes, skins, paths and particle effects. Stage elements can be shown or hidden.

Record and export

Record MIDI, video or both, with an optional separate WAV audio file. Choose 720p, 1080p, 1440p or 4K; 24, 30 or 60 FPS; a 16:9, 9:16, 4:5 or 1:1 output; and a High, Balanced or Compact quality tier. Output Framing lets you zoom and reposition the recorded frame without changing the camera or disturbing the on-screen composition.

Delivery presets configure output for Instagram Reels (9:16), Instagram Feed (4:5), Instagram Square (1:1), YouTube (16:9) or Master for editing. You can change any value a preset sets. Advanced Encoding offers H.264 or H.265 (HEVC) in MP4, MOV or MKV, with constant quality, VBR or CBR, bitrate and quality controls. Choose an encoder speed from Fastest to Slowest and hardware acceleration, software encoding or Auto; adjust keyframe interval, B-frames and limited or full color range. Audio options include bitrates up to 320 kb/s and loudness normalization at -14, -16 or -18 LUFS. The loudness is measured before normalization so the music keeps its dynamics. You can also set A/V offset and automatic sync correction, and view an estimate of resolution, frame rate and file size per minute.

Audio and video share a clock. The real sample rate of the audio device is measured during recording and corrected when the file is assembled, and color is converted on the GPU in BT.709. Camera framing, delayed video, crop, opacity, rotation, scale, aspect guides and blend controls help prepare a source for recording or streaming. Camera lock and view controls protect a composition, while refresh, restart and optional auto-recovery tools support long sessions. Captures go to the Captures folder of the configurable Lumiric Stage Home Folder, which is Documents/Lumiric Stage by default.

Add visual treatments

Post-processing effects include Vignette, Chromatic Aberration, Bloom, Lens Distortion, Panini Projection, Post Exposure flashes, Film Grain and Saturation. Many can respond to performance intensity, with controls for idle values, peaks, thresholds, decay and smoothing. These controls let you shape the image from subtle changes during quiet passages to stronger effects as the music builds.