DOWNLOAD 2025 Official TouchDesigner is here and we can’t wait to share it with you! This year’s release is quite special with the introduction of a completely new family of operators called Point Operators (POPs) bringing you a new high-performance approach to working with 3D in TouchDesigner.
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Download We are happy to announce the release of 2022 Official which marks the start of a new era for TouchDesigner. This year’s release orbits around a new core in TouchDesigner, a completely new graphics engine bringing us into the next chapter of TouchDesigner’s journey.
2022 Official Update
DOWNLOAD We are very pleased to announce TouchDesigner's 2021 Official Update and tell you about all the exciting features of this release. This year's update touches (pun intended) so many parts of TouchDesigner.
2021 Official Update
DOWNLOAD We are delighted to kick off this new year (and a new decade!) with an Official update that is the culmination of our development over the past 6 months. There are dozens of new features and hundreds of improvements, we are sure there is something for everyone to get excited about!
2020 Official Update
It's not every day we introduce a new operator family for TouchDesigner.
POPs-A new Operator Family for TouchDesigner

Control Room 42 (CR42) a project from RTBF, public broadcaster for the French speaking part of Belgium, gives broadcasting's traditionally hardware-based control room a radical makeover enabled by TouchDesigner in ways its designer Hugo Ortiz thought impossible a few years ago.
Control Room 42 Ushers in the Future of Broadcasting

INFRATONAL is the audiovisual project of Parisian multidisciplinary artist Louk Amidou who uses hand gesture to perform both music and visuals in the most mesmerizing compositions while exploring the links between the human and the algorithms.
Exploring Humanized Algorithmic Art with INFRATONAL

Have you ever wished for a weather forecast app that combines precision with aesthetic appeal, making even the dreariest conditions a pleasure to interpret?
Painting the Weather: Aaron Alden’s Creative Take on Climate Data

After 4 years of research and development and on the Full Moon of August, Rui Gato released his passion project GeoMusica, an incredible tool that enables one to make music with geometry.
Creating Music from Geometry with GeoMusica

Greetings all and first a HUGE thanks from the Derivative team for all the amazing assets, tutorials and countless incentives to learn more TD you have been seeding into the community.
TouchDesigner Online Events While Flattening the Curve = Win/Win

In 2023, Emmanuel Lugo was an assistant to an intensive TouchDesigner course with Matthew Ragan and Zoe Sandoval of SudoMagic at Carnegie Mellon University, deepening his expertise with the platform.
TouchDesigner at CMU: Student Work and Insights from the Official Curriculum

Think and Sense produced a remarkable large-scale point cloud-based exhibit and media control system for an LED wall at the entrance of the new Tokorozawa campus of the media company Kadokawa Corporation near Tokyo.
Point Cloud Mastery from Think and Sense

Josef Pelz, a generative artist and creative coder with a background in mathematical visualization and computer science, has created T3D, a groundbreaking toolkit for the TouchDesigner community.
From GLSL to T3D: How Josef Pelz Simplified 3D Textures for All

We’re excited to announce the launch of a new educational portal: the TouchDesigner Curriculum at learn.derivative.ca made in collaboration with SudoMagic. This resource was built to help educators and learners get started with TouchDesigner.
Introducing the TouchDesigner Curriculum

We are continually impressed by how many of you have created your own applications in TouchDesigner to operate and perform live shows - Large and small, these represent a tremendous assortment of personalized tools made with TouchDesigner.
TouchDesigner Performance Interfaces

Moscow-based Studio SETUP design and build stages, installations and multimedia works of massive architectural proportions that seem to exist in some futuristic time/space.
With Studio SETUP it's Not Just About the Light

Meet Collectif Scale, a Paris-based group of artists and creatives from various callings who joined forces in 2010 with a shared passion for creating state-of-the-art installations and performances that have been quite aptly described as the ‘ballets of robots’.
Collectif Scale's Astounding "Ballet of Robots"

It is with great pleasure that we bring you our interview with the very talented Austrian artist MONOCOLOR (Marian Essl) whose sublime audio-visual performance Latent Space impressed us to no end in Montreal, reframing and invigorating our ideas of what could be realized in the fulldome environment
MONOCOLOR, Latent Space and the Fulldome Environment

Less than 5 months before the premiere of his new Cube V3 show Canadian electronic music producer and DJ deadmau5 aka Joel Zimmerman paid a visit at the Derivative office in Toronto with the plan to build the entire show from scratch in a real time environment, specifically with TouchDesigner.
Made with Love in TouchDesigner V99 C:\Users\deadmau5>

Petko Tanchev is a media artist and creative technologist with an expansive and influential career as stage designer for theatre and opera.
The Mastery of Digital Scenography with Petko Tanchev

There's something enormously compelling about following an artist's Instagram dailies - watching the progression, anticipating what they'll come up with next, wondering how they can maintain such a rigorous creative schedule...
Daily Drawings, Always Real-time with @smooth_isfast

the.collapse is a live performance created by the prolific multi-disciplinary artist Julien Bayle in early 2021 based on his eponymous album released on ETER Lab in 2020 during the pandemic crisis.
Julien Bayle's the.collapse

Earlier this year Woodbury’s Applied Computer Science - Media Arts program was invited by the Getty Museum to design an installation and exhibition for their College Night event.
A Night at the Getty: What I See Is What You Get

We recently caught up with Dublin-based creative developer and sound and media artist Pauric Freeman who first came to our attention via his very compelling series of live a/v Instagram posts made with TouchDesigner and an Eurorack.
Pauric Freeman On Working with Sound, Image, Input Devices and Human Perception

TouchDesigner Event Tokyo 2025 | Nov 22–23 at Hikarie HALL B, Shibuya
TouchDesigner Event Tokyo 2025

UPDATE June 2024: Video recordings of the entire program from both days of presentations at HOLON are available on YouTube DAY 1: https://www.youtube.com/live/aGxNG_91a9U?si=X0KNjfSDctg7YqUm SIMON ALEXANDER ADAMS, USA | THE ART OF TOUCHDESIGNER GAMES (40 MIN)STANISLAV GLAZOV, DE | PURISTIC STABLE
TouchDesigner Event Berlin 2024

Bileam Tschepe aka elekktronaut is a Berlin-based artist and educator who creates audio-reactive, interactive and organic digital artworks, systems and installations in TouchDesigner, collaborating with and teaching people worldwide.
Bileam Tschepe on Teaching and Learning TouchDesigner

With the release of the TouchEngine API this week we are very pleased to concurrently feature the first large-scale integration of TouchEngine by Front Pictures with their powerful universal show production tool Screenberry, an advanced media hub with rich automation and media management capabiliti
Introducing TouchEngine and Front Pictures' Screenberry Integration

With the release of their twelfth studio album Unlimited Love, iconic American rock band the Red Hot Chili Peppers launched their Unlimited Love World Tour 2022 with 46 sold-out stadium-capacity shows (thus far).
How SETUP Did a World Tour For the Red Hot Chili Peppers


The year is 2021, a pandemic rages across the lands and things are weird and limited. It’s also 3021 and things are even weirder and more limited on the DandiDoesIt LPVG (Live Performance Video Game), a self-described "anti-capitalist satire" streaming on Twitch.
Dandi Does It! Again and Again... and Again...

We’ve seen nodes and networks used in many logical, sometimes strange and even beautiful ways, to accomplish a wide array of tasks. However, what you will see as the results from Soyun Park’s students for their assignment “The Beauty of Nodes” is something we guarantee you have not seen before!
The Beauty of Nodes: Investigating TouchDesigner with Soyun Park and her Students

Salvador Dalí once wrote, "If someday I may die, though it is unlikely, I hope the people in the cafes will say, ‘Dalí has died, but not entirely." Now 30 years after his alleged death, in a precedent-setting exhibition where a museum has used artificial intelligence-based techniques and TouchDesig
Deepfake Salvador Dalí Interacts with Museum Visitors, Takes Selfies!

Designed exclusively for TouchDesigner and tailored especially to suit the requirements of VJs, audio-visual performers, and installation managers, this latest release of Zerror represents a notable progression in multimedia artistry.
404.zero Release Zerror V5 and it is Mighty

Bitwig Studio is a powerful DAW (digital audio workstation), live music performance tool and show controller.






