Design live visuals responsive to music, connect with Max, Live and more, and leverage the fastest real-time performance available for visual arts.
Get started learning Touch Designer for free every month with a series of 4 live workshops. Learn from experts and with people from all over the world online! Browse the upcoming events below to register.
TouchDesigner courses
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Intro to Visualizing Sound with TouchDesigner...
Intro to Visualizing Sound with TouchDesigner
Single live workshop
Taught by: Kyle Duffield
- Session 1: Getting familiar with the TouchDesigner Interface and node based programming
- Session 1: Understanding Operator types (TOPS and CHOPS)
- Session 1: Creating simple UI controls for visuals
- Session 1: Tools and techniques for basic audio analysis for mapping to effects
- Session 2: TouchDesigner Palette
- Session 2: Refined methods of Audio Analysis
- Session 2: Basic Introduction 3D (SOPS and MATS)
- Session 2: Mixing 3D with 2D Visual effects
FREE
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Meetup - Virtual Reality and Interactivity in...
Meetup - Virtual Reality and Interactivity in TouchDesigner / Jan 22nd
Meetup
Hosted by: Bileam Tschepe
FREE
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Getting Started with TouchDesigner...
Getting Started with TouchDesigner
Single live workshop
Taught by: Masha Rozhnova
- Becoming familiar with the User Interface
- Exploring TouchDesigner’s building blocks
- Constructing dynamic visual effects
FREE
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TouchDesigner meetup - Working with 3D...
TouchDesigner meetup - Working with 3D
Meetup
Hosted by: Bileam Tschepe
FREE
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TouchDesigner meetup - Exploring New Media Pr...
TouchDesigner meetup - Exploring New Media Projects / June 30th
Meetup
Hosted by: Bileam Tschepe
FREE
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TouchDesigner meetup / Music Visualisation - ...
TouchDesigner meetup / Music Visualisation - July 30th
Meetup
Hosted by: Bileam Tschepe
FREE
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TouchDesigner meetup December - NFTs...
TouchDesigner meetup December - NFTs
Meetup
Hosted by: Bileam Tschepe
FREE
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TouchDesigner meetup - AI Art / September 3rd...
TouchDesigner meetup - AI Art / September 3rd
Meetup
Hosted by: Bileam Tschepe
FREE
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TouchDesigner meetup - Web Installations via ...
TouchDesigner meetup - Web Installations via Twitch and TouchDesigner / 27th Feb
Meetup
Hosted by: Bileam Tschepe
FREE
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TouchDesigner meetup - AI & Machine Learn...
TouchDesigner meetup - AI & Machine Learning
Meetup
Hosted by: Bileam Tschepe
FREE
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Generative Art with Feedback Systems in Touch...
Generative Art with Feedback Systems in TouchDesigner
On-demand workshop
Taught by: Bileam Tschepe
- Build a variety of generative artworks based on feedback systems
- Create organic digital structures
- Use TouchDesigner for animated visuals
- Explore feedback systems further in personal study
£ 29.9
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TouchDesigner meetup - TDAbleton...
TouchDesigner meetup - TDAbleton
Meetup
Hosted by: Bileam Tschepe
- 47 VIZN will be showcasing their setup and how they use TDAbleton for their live performances in TouchDesigner. Spherical Aberration will walk us through how she sends audio via OSC from Ableton to TouchDesigner for live AV shows. It will be a look into her latest live set. Ivan DelSol will answer questions about all things TDAbleton and some things TouchDesigner
FREE
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Getting Started with TouchDesigner - October ...
Getting Started with TouchDesigner - October Series
Meetup
Hosted by: Bileam Tschepe
FREE
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TouchDesigner meetup / 31st July...
TouchDesigner meetup / 31st July
Meetup
Hosted by: Bileam Tschepe
- This session focuses on The Future of TouchDesigner and New Media Art and will feature presentations from expert practitioners.
FREE
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TouchDesigner meetup...
TouchDesigner meetup
Meetup
Hosted by: Bileam Tschepe
- This session focuses on Typography and Graphic Design
FREE
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Introduction to beat detection and audio-reac...
Introduction to beat detection and audio-reactive visuals in TouchDesigner
On-demand workshop
Taught by: Bileam Tschepe
- Input audio into TouchDesigner
- Extract relevant data from input sources
- Use data to manipulate graphics
- Create simple generative visuals
- Navigate the TouchDesigner network
£ 9.9
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Getting Confident with CHOPs in TouchDesigner...
Getting Confident with CHOPs in TouchDesigner
Single live workshop
Taught by: Function Store
- Workshop 1: Overview of the CHOP family
- Workshop 1: Building blocks of a CHOP
- Workshop 1: Interfacing a CHOP to other operators
- Workshop 1: Explore practical examples using CHOPs
- Workshop 2: Learn the Time Slicing concept
- Workshop 2: Learn the most useful and underrated CHOPs
- Workshop 2: Learn handling MIDI, sensor, and audio data
- Workshop 2: Explore practical examples using CHOPs
FREE
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Getting Started with TouchDesigner - Septembe...
Getting Started with TouchDesigner - September series
Live workshop series
Taught by: Bileam Tschepe
- Session 1: Navigate the TouchDesigner User Interface and utilise mouse and shortcuts controls, Become familiar with operator families and their structure, Construct basic networks via TOPs and Export CHOPs to create dynamic networks
- Session 2: Build rendering networks via SOPs and MATs, Utilise and apply data via DAT operators, Construct custom networks via COMPs and Locate examples and info from resources such as the Palette
- Session 3: Utilise audio CHOPs within a network, Apply audio CHOPs as modulation sources, Build basic Instancing networks and Begin to construct a bespoke self directed project
- Session 4: Work independently, with support, within the TD environment, Apply various techniques from the workshop series to construct dynamic networks, Continue to construct a bespoke self directed project and Share their work with peers and provide feedback to peers
FREE
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TouchDesigner meetup / Audio visualisation...
TouchDesigner meetup / Audio visualisation
Meetup
Hosted by: Bileam Tschepe
- This session focuses on audio visualization.
FREE
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TouchDesigner meetup - TouchDesigner and Unre...
TouchDesigner meetup - TouchDesigner and Unreal
Meetup
Hosted by: Bileam Tschepe
FREE
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Max meetup...
Max meetup
Meetup
Hosted by: Massimiliano Cerioni
FREE
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Getting Started with TouchDesigner / November...
Getting Started with TouchDesigner / November Series
Meetup
Hosted by: Masha Rozhnova
FREE
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TouchDesigner meetup - August 28th...
TouchDesigner meetup - August 28th
Meetup
Hosted by: Bileam Tschepe
- This session focuses on The Future of TouchDesigner and New Media Art and will feature presentations from expert practitioners.
FREE
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An Introduction to Visual Sensors...
An Introduction to Visual Sensors
On-demand workshop
Taught by: Masha Rozhnova
- Operate Kinect Studio software
- Explore data types provided by visual sensors
- Understand how to use Player index, Skeleton and Point Cloud data
- Create interactive visuals driven by sensors
£ 9.9
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TouchDesigner meetup / Lasers...
TouchDesigner meetup / Lasers
Meetup
Hosted by: Bileam Tschepe
FREE
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TouchDesigner meetup...
TouchDesigner meetup
Meetup
Hosted by: Bileam Tschepe
- This session focuses on The Future of TouchDesigner and New Media Art and will feature presentations from expert practitioners.
FREE
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Create Music Visuals with TouchDesigner / Fun...
Create Music Visuals with TouchDesigner / Fundamentals
On-demand workshop
Taught by: Masha Rozhnova
- Discuss some names in the history of audio-visual art and ideas that inspired the field
- Understand fundamentals of 3D rendering in TD
- Create basic geometric shapes, light and texture them
- Create audio-reactive visual progression that switches between camera views
£ 9.9
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Simple Systems for Live Performance: A TouchD...
Simple Systems for Live Performance: A TouchDesigner Primer
On-demand workshop
Taught by: Ben Benjamin
- Design and implement generative visual effects which evolve over time
- Map out a show control system with high-level hooks for updating state in production
- Create simple audio +/ MIDI signal workflows
- Persisting/loading custom presets with Python + JSON
- Map a visualization onto any performance environment, whether physical or digital
£ 19.9
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Switches and Sensors with Arduino and TouchDe...
Switches and Sensors with Arduino and TouchDesigner
Single live workshop
Taught by: Kyle Duffield
- Create Arduino based electronic prototypes
- Become familiar with electronic components and design considerations
- Control video in TouchDesigner with buttons and sensors
- Apply interaction design concepts for developing installations and brand activations
£ 19
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Getting Confident with SOPs in TouchDesigner...
Getting Confident with SOPs in TouchDesigner
Single live workshop
Taught by: Masha Rozhnova
- Workshop 1: Appraise the SOP family
- Workshop 1: Utilize the SOPs in various ways
- Workshop 1: Manipulate and render SOP content
- Workshop 1: Explore practical examples using SOPs
- Workshop 2: Explore the most useful and underrated SOPs
- Workshop 2: Work and manipulate point data
- Workshop 2: Utilise SOP operators to manipulate geometric data
- Workshop 2: Explore practical examples using SOPs
FREE
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Instancing for Generative Art in TouchDesigne...
Instancing for Generative Art in TouchDesigner
On-demand workshop
Taught by: Bileam Tschepe
- Fully understand the concept and the possibilities of Instancing
- Use different data formats as a base for instancing
- Create generative 2D and 3D textures in TouchDesigner
- Include audio in the Instancing network
£ 49.9
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Audio visual creation & performance with ...
Audio visual creation & performance with TDAbleton
On-demand workshop
Taught by: Nilly Brook
- Understand the TDAbleton tool
- Link a number of audio elements in Ableton to drive visual content in TouchDesigner
- Begin to build their own audio visual set for live performance
- Consider different approaches to audio visual performance and creation
£ 17.9
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Create Music Visuals with TouchDesigner / Goi...
Create Music Visuals with TouchDesigner / Going Further
Live workshop series
Taught by: Masha Rozhnova
- Session 1: SOP generators and filters, Operators that use CPU and GPU, Geometry Instancing and Connecting Trigger CHOP to different frequencies of an audio-spectrum
- Session 2: FBX and OBJ formats, Polyreduce and Subdivide SOPs, Delete SOP, Transform SOP, The theory of Physically-Based Rendering and Shading, PBR maps and PBR setup in Touch Designer
- Session 3: Particle SOP inputs (emitter, attractor, force), Particle SOP parameters, Differences between CPU and GPU particle systems and Navigating TouchDesigner Resources
£ 24.9
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Audio Reactive Shaders with Shader Park + To...
Audio Reactive Shaders with Shader Park + TouchDesigner
On-demand workshop
Taught by: Torin Blankensmith
- Create raymarched 3D shaders with Shader Park
- Intro to TouchDesigner + Shader Park plugin
- Overview of audio analysis
- Create your own audio reactive music visualizer
£ 9.9
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Interaction with Arduino & TouchDesigner...
Interaction with Arduino & TouchDesigner
Live workshop series
Taught by: Kyle Duffield
- Create Arduino based electronic prototypes
- Control video in TouchDesigner with sensors and your own custom hardware interfaces
- Utilize TouchDesigner to map software interactions to physical electronic systems
- Apply interaction design concepts for developing installations and brand activations
£ 89
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Introduction to Interface Design in TouchDesi...
Introduction to Interface Design in TouchDesigner
Single live workshop
Taught by: Bileam Tschepe
- Build a user interface in TouchDesigner
- Connect the UI to the backend and make it interactive
- Have a deeper understanding of Components and Widgets
- Create simple tools for installations or performances
£ 30
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Introduction To Interactive Audio In Max...
Introduction To Interactive Audio In Max
Single live workshop
Taught by: Kyle Duffield
- Explore MSP objects in interactive patches
- Build an interactive audio recorder
- Use audio to manipulate video effects
- Further explore interactive patches in a creative way
£ 30
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Getting Started With Python in TouchDesigner...
Getting Started With Python in TouchDesigner
Single live workshop
Taught by: Function Store & Acrylicode
- Workshop 1: Appraise why Python is used in TD
- Workshop 1: Identify the use of Python in expression in references
- Workshop 1: Use Python to access parameters and attributes in TD
- Workshop 1: Explore practical examples of using Python in TD
- Workshop 2: Build Python scripts
- Workshop 2: Use logic and conditional based programming in TD
- Workshop 2: Use Python within CHOP Execute OPS
- Workshop 2: Identify resources for further study
£ 40
