SousaFX-rnbo

11 Jul 2025

I’m honored to have received the Jim and Jamie Self Creative Award for my work on SousaFX!

Lately I’ve been porting SousaFX from MaxMSP to RNBO, which accomplishes a few things:

1. Reduces the installation process from 16 steps to just a few steps.
2. Reduces the startup time from minutes to seconds.
3. Allows SousaFX to run on a raspberry pi.

The UI has been rebuilt as a single window, and the controller bindings are set in stone, with only a handful of essential parameters revealed.

SousaFX-rnbo’s first outing was on May 17th at Candia Road Brewing Co., which went well! I’ll be piloting it at a few festivals this summer too, and after that the plan is to write some documentation, record a how-to video, and release SousaFX 1.0 !

The git repo is available here: https://github.com/Sousastep/SousaFX-rnbo