# A Forest of Actors (PraxisLIVE)

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/a-forest-of-actors-praxislive/2298>\
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**Created:** [August 2, 2018, 9:39am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/a-forest-of-actors-praxislive/2298 "2018-08-02T09:39:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![neilcsmith](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/neilcsmith/32/144_2.png) [@neilcsmith](https://discourse.processing.org/u/neilcsmith)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 9:39am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/a-forest-of-actors-praxislive/2298/1 "2018-08-02T09:39:42Z")

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I’m working on migrating and updating various old blog posts about PraxisLIVE, and thought this might interest or be useful to a few people on here. While you might have come across PraxisLIVE as an alternative IDE and runtime for working with Processing, one of the original things it was written to do was handle cross-threaded messaging and distribution right for real-time audio/video projects (otherwise known as `synchronized` is evil! 😉)

> **[A Forest of Actors](https://www.praxislive.org/blog/a-forest-of-actors/)**
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> The recent release of PraxisLIVE v4 saw a focus on relicensing the PraxisCORE runtime, and promoting its standalone usage as a platform for media processing,...