Ableton Link enables multi-artist AV jams where several visual and music machines share one clock

Because Link synchronises over wireless or wired networks with any number of participants, several people can join the same session: one musician on Ableton Live, another on Reason, a VJ on VDMX, and a second VJ on CoGe, all locked to a single shared beat and bar position. Two instances of CoGe can even drive separate projectors in sync (CoGe’s licence covers two computers). This enables distributed, improvised AV performances where the music and visual roles can be assigned to different people with different tools, without a single ‘master’ machine or a physical clock cable running between them.

Examples

Setup: musician on Ableton Live, VJ-1 on CoGe (projector A), VJ-2 on VDMX (projector B). All open Link and share one tempo; bar boundaries land at the same physical moment for everyone as they improvise.

Assessment

What does each participant need to do to join a multi-machine Ableton Link AV jam, and what network does it run over? Give an example role split across three machines.