RICO

Real-time Integration Control Operations. RICO is a creative engine and signal hub for Windows. Make a whole piece inside it, or let it sit between your controllers, your creative apps and your hardware and make them talk to each other.

Turn a knob on a MIDI controller and move a light in Unreal, a camera in Blender or a parameter in Houdini. Send the visuals you make in RICO to TouchDesigner or to another computer on your network. Plug in a homemade controller and use it everywhere.

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Download

Get the latest installer from Releases

1. Download RICO-Setup-3.0.exe.
2. Run it and follow the steps. It adds a RICO shortcut to your desktop and Start menu.
3. Double-click RICO to start.

Requirements

• Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
• Microsoft WebView2 runtime (already included in Windows 11 and up-to-date Windows 10; download it here if needed)
• A graphics card with DirectX 11 support

An engine and a bridge

• On its own. Make the whole piece inside RICO: motion graphics on a timeline, 3D scenes, sound, lights, projection mapping and LED walls, all running live and rendered from one place.
• As a bridge. Keep the apps you already use and let RICO connect them. A knob, a phone, a microphone or a sensor can drive Unreal, Blender, TouchDesigner, lights and hardware at the same time.
• Both. Build part of the work in RICO and send it on, or bring signals and video in from other apps.

What it speaks

	In	Out
MIDI	Any controller or app	Devices, apps and virtual ports
OSC	Phones, tablets, apps	Many apps at once
Video	Spout, OMT, NDI (plugin), screen capture	Spout, OMT, NDI (plugin)
Audio	What your computer plays	Low, mid, high and beat signals
Lights		DMX over Art-Net
Devices	MQTT (ESP32, Raspberry Pi)	MQTT

Highlights

• Workspaces you build, with panels you split, stack and share

• Routes that send one knob, OSC address or sound to many places at once

• Node networks for numbers, pictures, 3D shapes and text

• A motion graphics timeline with effects, masks, rotoscoping, custom GLSL layers and MP4 rendering

• Color grading with curves, levels and .cube LUTs

• An audio lab and a multitrack sound editor

• Projection mapping with surfaces, masks and lens gobos

  

  A mask cut from a photo, sliced and printed as a gobo, all inside RICO.

Feedback and bugs

Found a problem or have an idea? Open an issue and include your Windows version and what you were doing when it happened.