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An Audiolux One stompbox beside a length of LED pixel strip looped across a reclaimed-wood bench, its pixels lit in a running rainbow

06, Audiolux Devices

Audiolux One

Company
Audiolux Devices
Medium
Sound-reactive stompbox
Founded
2015
License
Open source
Role
Founder and CEO, 2015 to 2019

A stompbox that turns sound into light.

I built Audiolux One to analyze audio in real time and generate visualizations for smart LED pixels. It is plug and play: feed it audio, connect a strip of pixels, and what is playing becomes light.

I had been making sound visualizations with digital addressable LEDs for my own work, and kept being asked where to buy the hardware. So in 2015 I founded Audiolux Devices to produce a version the public could buy. More at www.audioluxdevices.com

Audiolux One gives a straightforward interface to anyone who wants sound visualization in gear they already own. It is open source, so it can be fully reprogrammed.

An electric guitar laid on its back with an LED pixel strip following the curve of its body, glowing white, orange and blue
A snare drum ringed underneath with LED pixels glowing blue and white as a hand brings a drumstick down onto the head
A guitar pedalboard edged with a strip of colored LED pixels casting light across the carpet, a flight case standing behind it
The Audiolux One stompbox mounted on a wooden wall alongside a stereo reverb pedal and a Deluxe Memory Man delay
A four-piece band performing on stage among LED pixel panels, an LED-wrapped microphone stand and light-ringed speaker cabinets
Next project Virtual Worlds Beyond Sound
A person in a VR headset reaching both hands forward in a studio, above the virtual room they see: two avatars talking in captioned speech bubbles