Quickstart

Install R3NE, build your first graph, and send a live signal out to Syphon. About five minutes end to end.

Requirements

• macOS 14 (Sonoma) or newer.
• Apple Silicon (M1 or later). Intel Macs are not supported.
• A Syphon-aware receiver to verify output (Resolume, MadMapper, Simple Server, OBS with the Syphon plugin, etc).

Install

During the public beta, R3NE ships as a signed .dmg delivered through the waitlist. Once you receive the link, mount it and drag R3NE.app to /Applications.

A Homebrew cask will land alongside 1.0:

brew install --cask r3ne

Your first graph

1. Launch R3NE. You start in an empty composition with one Output node already placed.
2. Press N to open the node picker and add a Camera source.
3. Drag from the camera’s output port into the input port of the Output node.
4. In the inspector on the right, set the output to Syphon and give it a server name.

Open your receiver and pick the new Syphon server, you should be looking at your camera, running on Metal at the composition’s target frame rate.

Add an effect

Insert a node between the camera and the output to feel how the graph recompiles in real time:

1. Press N and add a Bloom effect.
2. Drop it onto the existing connection, R3NE will splice it in.
3. Tweak threshold and intensity in the inspector and watch the receiver update with no recompile pause.

Where to next

• Browse the full node reference.
• Connect a model to your graph, see MCP.
• Write your own node in Metal Shading Language.