Thoughts of people who have worked with Resolume and VDMX

I've been working with VDMX for over a decade, since this day I still admire this piece of software and continue to find new uses for it.

I'm currently writing this post on the second day of a four day big festival where I manage a team of VJs for the two main stages. One of them uses Resolume Arena, the other one VDMX + madmapper.

I've always felt strongly that Resolume (even though it's the current standard) is much more limited compared to VDMX. But, I also always felt that I didn't know enough about Resolume to have a funded opinion about it.

Now that I had to learn up on Resolume in order to support my crew, I became even more convinced. It's so much more limited by design. Also, arena is not comparable imo to madmapper, and neither is wire to touchdesigner. There's some features I really like though; column select is beautiful, and allows you to think in two dimensional storylines, arena has better numerical inputs , and wire is beautifully part of the eco system.

I would like to know more opinions from people who have experience working with both, because maybe I'm missing some fundamental design insights.

(And yes, I'm aware that VDMX is OSX only, including the limitations that come with the OS/hardware.)