Download Touch synths from the growing online collection of artworks by the Touch community. Playing Touch synths is easy.

Rich 2D-3D Visuals - Synths are realtime 2D and 3D animations with lighting, multi-layer textures and movies, transparency, fog and more. Touch is designed for the spectrum of imaging from realistic to non-photoreal and abstract - smears, ghosting, time-trails, soft surfaces and hard-edge 3D.

Fluid Movement - Touch generates fluid 3D movement through filtering, delays, triggers, time stretching, random distortion, multi-move blending with the most complete set of manipulation tools.

Electronic Music Roots - Touch is a visual synthesizer. Its architecture follows the paradigms of old-school analog music synthesizers and their digital offspring, where you patch modules together in any combination.

Compact Encoding - Touch Synths contain all the textures and instructions TouchPlayer needs to render your visuals. It's all encoded with Derivative's Academy Award-winning procedural node-network technology, the most light-weight form of packaging visuals.

Perform visuals using on-screen control panels, keyboard and mouse hotkeys.

You can tap in the beat to sync up, or use an external MIDI clock. Play Touch synths with built-in MP3 tracks or perform visuals on top of your own music tracks.

Recording and playing segments and presets in Touch is a powerful way to navigate and play a synth.

Customize your set by creating your own presets of sweet-spots you discover, and have those presets ready at your fingertips the next time you start TouchMixer.

Edit all your recorded segments on a timeline and watch your full edit as a live playback.

Post your edit as a Touch Track on the internet or send it to others.They can in turn replay the edit of your performances in TouchPlayer or TouchMixer. Download Goddess synth for examples.

Record your synth edit into Quicktime movie files or snapshot TIFF and JPEG stills. A wide variety of formats are available.

Send your image to the right monitor - control its placement, crop and resolution - suitable for video-res and high-res projections.

Customize Touch synths by substituting their textures, movies and video loops with your images. Touch plays multiple QuickTime movies on 3D surfaces faster by streaming video from disk to graphics memory.

Short movie loops play even faster by using a 128-image cache on the graphics card and system RAM. See the Mordka synths.

TouchDesigner is a full 3D animation tool designed for realtime performance. It gives you access to all the features you need to make rich visuals for TouchPlayer and TouchMixer.

TouchDesigner's Modeler lets you combine 60 building blocks (sweep, join, extrude, trim, etc.) into infinite forms with fully-animatable parameters. Work with polygons, meshes, NURBS and Beziers.

Touch's CHOPs lets you read input devices, MIDI and on-screen gadgets, then modify/combine the controls using 90 powerful "channel operators" in a visual network editor. It's the most powerful and elegant signal manipulation toolkit.

3D Picking Actions - Click/drag in 3D views to activate comprehesive set of actions

Build your synth's on-screen control panels interactively.

Build and animate particle systems driven by forces, resistance, attractors, bounce surfaces and more.

Apply textures and materials with separate alpha movies to your models. Touch fully supports movies and images with 24-bit color and alpha.

Off-Screen Rendering Effects - Touch can OpenGL render to images that are off-screen, which can be used as textures for other images. This opens Touch to a great range of new effects. Here's an example.

Multiple Time-Offsets on Movies - Polygons in one object can play different parts of a movie at one time. The W-texture coordinate is a movie time-offset.

Time-Distortion and Image Feedback - Images rendered offscreen can be cached in the graphics card's texture memory, giving you access to a multi-frame time-history of images, suitable for image feedback effects.

Combine Touch's twenty COPs (Composite Operators) to prepare images as texture maps and loops.

Stream video into a Touch texture and play it on a 3D surface. Use Firewire and other cameras, and from any QuickTime movie. You can hook up a FireWire camera through DirectX. Some analog composite or S-video cameras will work, as may some USB webcams.

Touch is both a standalone player and a PC plug-in for Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator, versions 4 and above. See samples here. Touch synth files are optimally compact.

RenderMan RIB files generated by other 3D packages can be translated to Touch objects and hierarchies. Polygons, meshes, NURBS and Bezier patches and more surface types are imported.

Touch users rarely need to script, but you can modify surfaces, images and motion with Touch's scripting language and math expression language.

Analyze your Synth - The Performance Monitor gives a better analysis of what Touch is doing. It now gives a graphical picture of the cooking and drawing history of each frame drawn.

Move Your Touch Licenses with Ease - Derivative customers can move Touch licenses between computers independently via a web-based de-install / re-install. Derivative customers can log in to view their PROFILE and manage their Touch licenses.

Upload Your Synths to the Derivative Catalog - Derivative customers can establish an ARTWORKS Label, and then upload and manage their synths in 100 meg of free catalog space.

My Favorites - Members who simply register with Derivative and log in have a list of My Favorites synths they can build and use as a synth playlist.