Visualizations

All 71 built-in visualizations and every control they have. Full-screen ones fill the picture; shapes & particles are drawn on black, made for layering over something else (try the Over blend). Controls marked quality trade detail for speed and are lowered automatically on slower devices. Every slider can be oscillated () or driven by the music (). See Layers and visualizations for how to use them.

Classics

Spectrum analysers, tunnels, plasma, lasers and more: the original set.

Spectrum Bars

shapes & particles

Classic log-frequency bars with glow, mirrored from the centre.

Control	Range	Default
Bars	8 – 128	64
Gap	0 – 0.8	0.25
Glow	0 – 2	1
Mirror	0 – 1	1
Height	0.2 – 1.5	0.85

Radial Pulse

shapes & particles

A polar spectrum ring that breathes with the bass, with a waveform halo.

Control	Range	Default
Radius	0.1 – 0.5	0.28
Spin	-2 – 2	0.3
Symmetry	1 – 8	2
Waveform halo	0 – 1.5	0.8

Plasma Flow

full-screen

Layered sine plasma whose speed follows energy and whose waves bloom on the bass.

Control	Range	Default
Speed	0 – 3	1
Scale	0.3 – 3	1
Contrast	0.5 – 3	1.2

Beat Tunnel

full-screen

An endless tunnel; rings travel on the beat and stripes follow the spectrum.

Control	Range	Default
Speed	0 – 3	1
Twist	-3 – 3	0.8
Segments	2 – 24	8

Oscilloscope

shapes & particles

A glowing waveform trace over a faint grid.

Control	Range	Default
Amplitude	0.2 – 2	1
Thickness	0.5 – 6	2
Glow	0 – 2	1
Grid	0 – 1	0.6

Laser Haze

full-screen

A fan of laser beams cutting through haze. The fan sweeps and dips with the bar; a bank of thicker haze lights up where the beams pass through it.

Control	Range	Default
Beams	3 – 16	9
Spread	0.2 – 3	1.4
Sweep	0 – 2	0.6
Dip	0 – 1	0.5
Projector height	-0.55 – 0.5	-0.15
Haze	0 – 1.5	0.5
Haze bank	0 – 2	1.5
Bank height	-0.5 – 0.5	0.18

Haze

shapes & particles

Drifting stage haze, lit softly by the music. Put it on top of other layers.

Control	Range	Default
Density	0 – 2	0.8
Height	-0.5 – 0.6	-0.1
Thickness	0.05 – 1.5	0.4
Drift	0 – 2	0.6
Beat glow	0 – 2	0.7

Laser Cone

full-screen

Looking down the barrel of a laser cone: radiating beams and a pulsing light sheet.

Control	Range	Default
Beams	6 – 48	24
Rotation	-2 – 2	0.4
Cone size	0.1 – 0.6	0.32
Haze	0 – 1.5	1
Twist	-2 – 2	0.4

Edge Lasers

shapes & particles

Emitters around the screen edges fire crossing beams; each switches on with its band.

Control	Range	Default
Per edge	1 – 4	2
Sweep	0 – 2	0.7
Beam width	0.5 – 3	1
Haze	0 – 1.5	0.9
Threshold	0 – 0.8	0.2

Kaleido Bloom

full-screen

A kaleidoscopic flower of flowing noise that opens on the bass.

Control	Range	Default
Petals	3 – 16	8
Flow	0 – 2	0.6
Zoom	0.5 – 3	1.2

Spectrogram Waterfall

full-screen

The last second of the spectrum, scrolling like a studio analyser.

Control	Range	Default
Direction	Downward · Sideways	Downward
Contrast	0.5 – 3	1.4

Synth Terrain

full-screen

Retro grid landscape raised by the spectrum history, under a striped sun.

Control	Range	Default
Height	0 – 2	1
Speed	0 – 3	1
Sun	0 – 1	1

Metaballs

full-screen

Liquid blobs orbiting and merging; each is driven by a frequency band.

Control	Range	Default
Size	0.3 – 2	1
Speed	0 – 2	0.6
Edge glow	0 – 1	0.6

Voronoi Pulse

full-screen

Drifting cells; each lights up with its frequency band and the beat.

Control	Range	Default
Cells	3 – 20	8
Drift	0 – 2	0.5
Borders	0 – 1	0.6

Aurora

full-screen

Northern-lights curtains that brighten and ripple with the music.

Control	Range	Default
Curtains	1 – 5	3
Speed	0 – 2	0.5
Height	0.4 – 2	1

Liquid Chrome

full-screen

Slow, flowing liquid metal reflecting a studio sky in the palette’s colours. The song’s energy stirs it; the beat catches the highlights.

Control	Range	Default
Warp	0 – 2	0.9
Flow	0 – 1.5	0.35
Scale	0.5 – 3	1.2
Shine	0 – 2	1
Palette tint	0 – 1	0.35

Polar Bars

shapes & particles

Spectrum bars arranged around a circle, mirrored for symmetry.

Control	Range	Default
Bars	16 – 180	96
Inner radius	0.05 – 0.4	0.18
Length	0.1 – 0.8	0.35

Particle Swarm

shapes & particles

Hundreds of glowing particles swirling around the centre; bass pushes them out.

Control	Range	Default
Density	4 – 24	12
Spin	-2 – 2	0.6
Size	0.5 – 3	1

Hex Grid

full-screen

A honeycomb of tiles that ripple out from the centre on every beat.

Control	Range	Default
Scale	4 – 30	12
Ripple	0 – 2	1
Gap	0 – 0.4	0.12

Julia Dive

full-screen

A Julia-set fractal whose shape morphs with the bass and mids.

Control	Range	Default
Morph	0 – 1	0.5
Detail quality	32 – 160	96
Zoom	0.5 – 3	1.3

LED Equalizer

shapes & particles

Hardware-style segmented VU columns with peak-hold caps.

Control	Range	Default
Columns	8 – 48	24
Segments	8 – 40	20
Colour mode	Palette by height · Palette by column	Palette by height

Bulb Board

full-screen

A Vegas sign board of round bulbs running chases, ripples and more on the beat.

Control	Range	Default
Pattern	Chase · Marquee · Ripple · Wave · Sparkle · Spectrum · Spiral · Checker flip · Rain	Marquee
Speed	0.25 – 4	1
Colour	Palette across the panel · Warm white bulbs · Palette by pattern	Palette across the panel
Glow	0 – 2	1
Bulbs across	8 – 48	24

Marquee Frames

full-screen

Theatre-marquee frames of bulbs nested inside each other, chasing round the edges.

Control	Range	Default
Pattern	Chase · Marquee · Ripple · Wave · Sparkle · Spectrum · Spiral · Checker flip · Rain	Marquee
Speed	0.25 – 4	1
Colour	Palette across the panel · Warm white bulbs · Palette by pattern	Palette across the panel
Glow	0 – 2	1
Frames	1 – 8	5

Starburst Sign

full-screen

A casino starburst: rays of bulbs fanning out from the centre.

Control	Range	Default
Pattern	Chase · Marquee · Ripple · Wave · Sparkle · Spectrum · Spiral · Checker flip · Rain	Chase
Speed	0.25 – 4	1
Colour	Palette across the panel · Warm white bulbs · Palette by pattern	Palette across the panel
Glow	0 – 2	1
Rays	8 – 48	24

Hex Lights

full-screen

A honeycomb of lit panels, like a club wall, running the light patterns.

Control	Range	Default
Pattern	Chase · Marquee · Ripple · Wave · Sparkle · Spectrum · Spiral · Checker flip · Rain	Ripple
Speed	0.25 – 4	1
Colour	Palette across the panel · Warm white bulbs · Palette by pattern	Palette across the panel
Glow	0 – 2	1
Cells	4 – 24	10

LED Wall

full-screen

A dense wall of square LEDs, like a stadium screen, running the light patterns.

Control	Range	Default
Pattern	Chase · Marquee · Ripple · Wave · Sparkle · Spectrum · Spiral · Checker flip · Rain	Spectrum
Speed	0.25 – 4	1
Colour	Palette across the panel · Warm white bulbs · Palette by pattern	Palette across the panel
Glow	0 – 2	1
LEDs across	24 – 128	64

Disco Floor

full-screen

A lit dance floor stretching away into the dark, running the light patterns.

Control	Range	Default
Pattern	Chase · Marquee · Ripple · Wave · Sparkle · Spectrum · Spiral · Checker flip · Rain	Checker flip
Speed	0.25 – 4	1
Colour	Palette across the panel · Warm white bulbs · Palette by pattern	Palette across the panel
Glow	0 – 2	1
Tiles across	4 – 16	8

Laser Show

full-screen

A rig of laser projectors along the stage, each throwing a dense fan of hair-thin beams through haze. The fans cross into a glowing lattice and move with the music.

Control	Range	Default
Projectors	1 – 7	5
Beams each	4 – 32	18
Pattern	Fan sweep · Crossfire · Tunnel · Wave · Chase · Shutter	Crossfire
Fan width	0.2 – 2.5	1.3
Speed	0 – 2	0.6
Colour	One colour · Colour per projector · Rainbow beams	One colour
Haze	0 – 1.5	0.7
Beam width	0.5 – 3	1

Liquid Sky

full-screen

A laser sheet scanned flat across the room, seen from below: the haze turns it into a churning, glowing ceiling with bright edges. The bass stirs the smoke.

Control	Range	Default
Sheet height	0.3 – 2	1
Smoke flow	0 – 2	0.6
Smoke detail	0.3 – 2	1
Sheet width	0.5 – 3	2.2
Wave	0 – 1	0.3
Colour	Palette · Classic cyan & green	Palette
Edge beams	0 – 1	0.7

Crowd

shapes & particles

A crowd in silhouette along the bottom of the screen, heads bobbing and hands going up on the beat. Put it on top of lasers or anything else (it uses the Multiply blend).

Control	Range	Default
Height	0.1 – 0.5	0.22
People	10 – 60	32
Hands up	0 – 1	0.35
Bounce	0 – 2	1

Fractals and infinite zooms

Self-similar designs that dive forever.

Mandelbrot Dive

full-screen

A continuous journey through the Mandelbrot set: dive deep into a landmark, surface, glide to the next and dive again. The seed picks the route.

Control	Range	Default
Journey speed	0.1 – 3	1
Seed	0 – 99	7
Depth	3 – 9	8
Detail quality	64 – 256	128
Colour bands	0.2 – 4	1.2
Spin	-1 – 1	0.1

Kali Zoom

full-screen

An infinite zoom through a folding Kaliset fractal; the bass reshapes it.

Control	Range	Default
Zoom speed	0 – 3	1
Shape	0.3 – 0.9	0.55
Glow	0.2 – 2	1
Spin	-1 – 1	0.2

Droste Spiral

full-screen

A picture-in-picture spiral that zooms forever; its arms are spectrum bars.

Control	Range	Default
Zoom speed	-2 – 2	0.6
Arms	3 – 24	8
Twist	-2 – 2	0.5

Droste Frames

full-screen

Picture frames inside picture frames, zooming forever, each turned a little. Every frame’s edges are cut into frequency segments.

Control	Range	Default
Zoom speed	-2 – 2	0.5
Segments per side	2 – 16	6
Twist per frame	-0.5 – 0.5	0.12
Frame width	0.1 – 0.6	0.3

Spiral Arms

full-screen

Logarithmic spiral arms, like a galaxy, made of cells that each light with a frequency, flowing endlessly inward.

Control	Range	Default
Arms	2 – 12	5
Wind	0.2 – 2	0.8
Flow	-2 – 2	0.6
Cells per turn	4 – 24	12

Nested Polygons

shapes & particles

Endless polygons flying outward, twisting; each lights with its frequency band.

Control	Range	Default
Speed	-2 – 2	0.7
Sides	3 – 8	4
Twist	-1 – 1	0.25
Line width	0.3 – 3	1

Beat Rings

shapes & particles

A ring is born on every beat and ripples outward; the bass thickens it.

Control	Range	Default
Spacing	0.05 – 0.4	0.16
Decay	0.2 – 2	0.7
Width	0.3 – 3	1

Waveform Ribbon

shapes & particles

Several glowing strands of the live waveform, braided across the screen.

Control	Range	Default
Height	0.1 – 1.5	0.7
Spread	0 – 1	0.35
Strands	1 – 6	4

Sparkles

shapes & particles

Twinkling star flares; each listens to its own frequency and flashes on hits.

Control	Range	Default
Density	8 – 60	24
Amount	0.1 – 1	0.5
Flare	0 – 2	1

Space and clouds

Ray-traced and procedural space scenes, and cloud simulations.

Black Hole

full-screen

A black hole traced with the exact Schwarzschild light-bending equation: the far side of the disk arcs over the top and under the bottom, the shadow has its true size, and the disk shows Doppler beaming and gravitational redshift. The bass heats the disk.

Control	Range	Default
Distance	10 – 40	20
Tilt	0.02 – 0.8	0.12
Detail quality	80 – 220	170
Disk spin	0 – 3	1
Doppler beaming	0 – 1	0.8
Palette colour	0 – 1	0.25
Camera orbit	-1 – 1	0.15

Solar Eclipse

full-screen

Totality: the corona streams out around the moon, each angle following a frequency band. Beads of sunlight and the diamond ring flash on the big hits.

Control	Range	Default
Moon size	0.5 – 1.6	1
Corona reach	0 – 2	1
Palette colour	0 – 1	0.3
Diamond ring	0 – 2	1

Saturn

full-screen

Saturn and its rings, lit by the Sun, with real shadows. Each ringlet is a frequency band, so the rings work as a spectrum analyser; spokes flicker on the beat.

Control	Range	Default
Tilt	0.05 – 0.9	0.3
Zoom	0.6 – 2	1
Ring response	0 – 2	1
Palette colour	0 – 1	0.35
Camera orbit	-1 – 1	0.2

Planetarium

full-screen

A little solar system: planets on Kepler orbits around a glowing star, each one swelling with its own frequency band. A gas giant has moons and bands.

Control	Range	Default
Orbit speed	0 – 3	1
Tilt	0.15 – 1	0.45
Swell	0 – 2	1
Orbit lines	0 – 1	0.5

Nebula

full-screen

Flying through glowing interstellar gas lit by newborn stars; the gas thickens with the bass.

Control	Range	Default
Speed	0 – 3	1
Density	0.2 – 2	1
Detail quality	12 – 64	28
Glow	0.2 – 2	1

Cloud Sea

full-screen

Flying low over a sea of billowing clouds at sunset. The sun swells with the bass; the clouds heave with the song’s energy.

Control	Range	Default
Speed	0 – 3	1
Billow	0.2 – 2	1
Detail quality	24 – 96	64
Sun height	-0.05 – 0.4	0.08

Thunderhead

full-screen

Dark storm clouds churning overhead. Lightning flickers inside them on the hits, now and then with a bolt.

Control	Range	Default
Churn	0 – 2	0.7
Lightning	0 – 2	1
Bolts	0 – 1	0.5

Physics

Simulations and physical phenomena driven by the music.

Cymatics

full-screen

Sand on a vibrating plate settles on the nodal lines of the plate’s modes. Each frequency band drives one mode, so the pattern is shaped by the sound itself.

Control	Range	Default
Plate	Square · Round	Square
Sharpness	4 – 40	16
Complexity	0.5 – 2	1
Palette colour	0 – 1	0.5

Field Lines

shapes & particles

Magnetic field lines between drifting poles; each pole glows with its frequency band.

Control	Range	Default
Lines	4 – 40	16
Pole pairs	1 – 4	2
Drift	0 – 2	1
Line width	0.5 – 3	1.2

Gravity Orbits

shapes & particles

Bodies on Kepler orbits around an unseen mass, trailing light. They speed up at the close approach, just as real orbits do; each one shines with its band.

Control	Range	Default
Bodies	3 – 24	14
Speed	0 – 3	1
Trail length	0.2 – 4	1.5
Eccentricity	0 – 0.9	0.55

Plasma Ball

shapes & particles

A Tesla plasma globe: arcs crackle from the electrode to the glass, more of them as the music gets louder, flaring on every hit.

Control	Range	Default
Size	0.5 – 1.5	1
Arcs	2 – 12	7
Crackle	0 – 2	1
Glass	0 – 1	0.5

Vegas lights

Light panels that all share the same beat-stepped lighting patterns.

Art-inspired

Escher-style tilings and storybook landscapes.

Circle Limit

full-screen

A hyperbolic tiling of the Poincaré disk, after Escher’s Circle Limit prints: endless tiles shrinking towards the rim, swimming through the disk. Each ring of tiles follows a frequency band.

Control	Range	Default
Tile sides	5 (pentagons) · 7 (heptagons) · 8 (octagons) · 6 (hexagons)	7 (heptagons)
Swim	0 – 1	0.5
Spin	-1 – 1	0.15
Two-tone	0 – 1	0.6

Tumbling Blocks

full-screen

The cube illusion: a floor of rhombi that reads as stacked cubes, then flips to read the other way on the beat.

Control	Range	Default
Size	3 – 20	8
Flip on beat	on / off	on
Drift	0 – 1	0.3

Metamorphosis

full-screen

A two-tone tessellation whose tiles slowly transform across the screen (square, circle, diamond, star and back), each shape and its background swapping light and dark, after Escher’s Metamorphosis.

Control	Range	Default
Tile size	3 – 16	7
Flow	0 – 2	0.5
Outline	0 – 1	0.5
Beat breathe	0 – 1	0.4

Truffula Grove

full-screen

Whimsical candy-striped trees with fluffy tufts, swaying over rolling hills; each tuft bounces with its own frequency.

Control	Range	Default
Trees	3 – 12	7
Sway	0 – 2	1
Bounce	0 – 2	1

Whimsy Towers

full-screen

Wobbly, striped storybook towers topped with curly spirals, bouncing and leaning with the beat.

Control	Range	Default
Towers	2 – 9	5
Wobble	0 – 2	1
Bounce	0 – 2	1

Icons and nostalgia

Screensaver classics and rave culture.

Bouncing Logo

shapes & particles

The screensaver classic: a logo drifting corner to corner, changing colour every time it hits a wall. A corner hit sets off a celebration.

Control	Range	Default
Speed	0.1 – 2	0.6
Size	0.5 – 2.5	1
Beat pulse	0 – 1	0.3

Morphing Solid

shapes & particles

A chrome shape bouncing around the screen, melting from sphere to cube to torus to octahedron every bar, like the old 3D screensavers.

Control	Range	Default
Bounce speed	0 – 2	0.5
Bars per shape	0.5 – 8	1
Size	0.5 – 2	1
Chrome	0 – 1	0.7

Trippy Maze

full-screen

Walking an endless maze, like the old 3D screensaver, but the walls breathe colour, ripple with the spectrum and the corridor wobbles on the beat.

Control	Range	Default
Walk speed	0 – 3	1
Trippiness	0 – 1	0.6
Wall density	0.2 – 0.9	0.6
Field of view	0.5 – 1.6	1

Melting Smiley

shapes & particles

The acid-house smiley, melting and dripping over each phrase, wobbling on the bass, then pulling itself back together.

Control	Range	Default
Melt	0 – 1.5	0.8
Size	0.5 – 2	1
Palette colour	0 – 1	0
Trippy rings	0 – 1	0

Mystify

shapes & particles

Two bouncing polygons trailing echoes of themselves, after the classic screensaver; they flare on the beat.

Control	Range	Default
Speed	0.1 – 3	1
Echoes	1 – 10	6
Echo spacing	0.02 – 0.3	0.1

Digital Rain

shapes & particles

Columns of glowing glyphs pouring down the screen; the heads flare with the bass and the glyphs flicker with the treble.

Control	Range	Default
Columns	20 – 120	60
Speed	0.2 – 3	1
Palette colour	0 – 1	0
Trail length	0.1 – 1	0.45

Concert lasers

Laser rigs, haze and a crowd to put in front.

Melody

Visualizations that follow the pitch of the tune.

Melody Ribbon

shapes & particles

The melody drawn as it happens: the last few seconds scroll past, higher notes higher, each note in its own colour. The line thickens when the pitch is clear.

Control	Range	Default
Colours	Rainbow by note · Palette by note	Rainbow by note
Lowest note	40 – 72	52
Octaves shown	1 – 5	3
Line width	0.3 – 3	1
Note lines	0 – 1	0.5

Note Rings

full-screen

Every note of the melody becomes a ring of its colour, rippling outward, so the screen fills with the colours of the tune.

Control	Range	Default
Colours	Rainbow by note · Palette by note	Rainbow by note
Spread	0.3 – 2	1
Glow	0.2 – 2	1
Chord wash	0 – 1	0.35

Chroma Wheel

shapes & particles

The 12 notes around a circle, each segment growing with how much of that note is sounding, with a needle on the melody note. Can be laid out as the circle of fifths.

Control	Range	Default
Colours	Rainbow by note · Palette by note	Rainbow by note
Order	Chromatic (C C♯ D …) · Circle of fifths (C G D …)	Chromatic (C C♯ D …)
Size	0.5 – 1.6	1
Spin	-1 – 1	0

Chord Colours

full-screen

A drifting wash that takes on the colours of the notes being played: every chord has its own blend, and the melody note shines through.

Control	Range	Default
Colours	Rainbow by note · Palette by note	Rainbow by note
Flow	0 – 2	0.6
Melody glow	0 – 2	1

Shader simulations (ISF)

Built-in shaders in the ISF format — several run real simulations that keep their state from frame to frame.

double-pendulum

shapes & particles ISF shader

A double pendulum, integrated in real time: chaotic, never repeating, drawing a glowing trail. The bass pumps energy in.

Control	Range	Default
Speed	0.2 – 2	1
Bass drive	0 – 3	1
Trail length	0.8 – 0.995	0.97
Show arms	on / off	on

fft-rings

shapes & particles ISF shader

Concentric rings whose radii follow the audio spectrum (ISF, audioFFT input).

Control	Range	Default
Rings	4 – 48	18
Spin	-2 – 2	0.3
Tint R	0 – 1	1
Tint G	0 – 1	0.85
Tint B	0 – 1	0.6

fluid-smoke

full-screen ISF shader

Real fluid dynamics: jets driven by the bass swirl coloured smoke through an incompressible flow (advection plus a pressure solve). The smoke lingers for about a minute.

Control	Range	Default
Jet force	0 – 3	1
Jets	1 · 2 · 3 · 4	3
Smoke fade	0 – 1	0.15
Swirl	0 – 2	1

ink-feedback

full-screen ISF shader

Swirling ink: brushes paint into a persistent feedback buffer that slowly swirls and fades. Each brush follows its own frequency band.

Control	Range	Default
Decay	0.8 – 0.995	0.96
Swirl	0 – 0.05	0.012
Brushes	1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6	3
Brush shape	Dot · Ring · Star · Streak · Splatter · Square	Dot
Brush size	0.2 – 3	1
Sharpness	0 – 1	0.3
Centre x	0 – 1	0.5
Centre y	0 – 1	0.5

ripple-tank

full-screen ISF shader

A ripple tank: the wave equation on a grid. Choose a classic experiment: the double slit, coherent sources, a ring, a single source, or rain on the beat.

Control	Range	Default
Setup	Double slit · Two sources · Ring of sources · Single source · Rain	Double slit
Frequency	0.5 – 6	2.5
Spacing	0.05 – 0.6	0.18
Damping	0 – 0.03	0.004
Beat drops	0 – 2	0
Contrast	0.3 – 3	1

starfield

shapes & particles ISF shader

Hyperspace starfield at a steady speed. Every star listens to its own frequency: it brightens and swells with that band.

Control	Range	Default
Speed	0 – 4	1
Density	2 – 12	6
Frequency response	0 – 3	1.5
Star size	0.3 – 3	1
Streaks	on / off	on