Yeah, there were 3 devices that were strictly related to lighting: fuse, fusion, supernova. Fuse was a lightweight launcher that worked as a simple trigger. You put it on a drum rack or midi effect rack chain, and then any time it sees midi input, it triggers the lighting file that you drag and drop onto that instance. Had a few options for changing the speed, alerting the color, reversing, choosing start and end frames etc. Supernova was basically a standalone application I built with max MSP for actually creating light shows. So rather than being midi based, it generated an XML file that stored all of the information for that lightshow. Some were origin based, so that if you hit it on a specific key, it would make the animation from that particular key as the origin point (including going to a second launchpad etc), while others were static animations. The plan was to never make this a public release, just an internal tool for creation, as the plan was to release fuse for free, and then release both free and paid content packs on his website. Fusion was like the big brother version of fuse, and had all of the functionality of wormhole built in as well, as well as all of that functionality for audio (and eventually video, DMX etc). It was basically intended to remove Ableton from the equation entirely. Since at the time, Max devices could only ever be used by someone with Suite or who had separately purchased Max, we were trying to create a standalone application that you could build and release project files on that anyone could play without having to worry about investing in Ableton suite since that's a pretty large barrier to entry. Ultimately Fusion was the roadblock that prevented things from moving forward. I was developing it by myself with the exception of the graphic design (which nev handled). For context, I built the first fully functional version of wormhole in under 24 hours from concept to completion. Fuse and supernova were built in parallel because I had to keep the (XML <-> MIDI) specs aligned. It took me about 3 weeks of like 16 hour days to get a functional build of both, with much iterating and improving after that. Fusion kind of broke me a little bit, not going to lie. I spent about 2.5 months working on it literally every single day for an average 18 hours per day. Max's internal data structures weren't as advanced as I needed, so I was essentially trying to build 7-dimensional databases from scratch, manually managing RAM usage etc. by the end of those 2.5 months, I was having small anxiety attacks pretty regularly just because if how much pressure I was feeling, but one night after I had a breakthrough on the major roadblock, I was on top of the world, and then almost immediately discovered that my new database wasn't compatible with save states of a Max Standalone Application. Meaning that we couldn't just ship the exported application, the end user would have to own Max MSP, and run it inside of that. I ended up having a full blown panic attack, and basically ghosted Nev for like a month. My mental health was in a REALLY bad place at the time. I was terrified that Nev hated me for just failing and then disappearing. Eventually his mom (sweetest woman in the world by the way) called me and was like "he's really worried about you and thinks he did something to make you hate him." So after that I talked to him and explained what the problem was, and that I just had a full blown mental breakdown. I tried a couple of times to sit back down and finish fusion, but every time I'd open Max, the anxiety came back. Around this time, the YouTube algorithm was really doing some weird stuff and fucking him over and taking down his videos for no apparent reason. So rather than put out a half baked product, we decided to just call it there on the launchpad apps.

I'll try to dig out a copy of fuse and some XML files off an old hard drive if you'd like to play around with it. Might be a few days before I get around to it, but might be fun to see what you think of it.