Sonic Weaver help
Build, save, publish, and export
Documentation follows the same engine definitions and composition contracts as the editors, so controls and launch modes stay coherent.
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Thumbnails and watermarks
Make a thumbnail from your visualizer or a video, design your own watermark, and choose what goes into your files.
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Create your first visualizer
Choose an engine, attach audio, tune a mode, and export from Classic or Studio.
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Classic and Studio
Understand the two editors and move between them without serialization loss.
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Smart audio binding and LFOs
Apply local audio-driven control bindings and generated LFO motion in Classic or Studio, review what changed, and revert it.
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Build a background-led visualizer
Animate a photo with editable image and drawing layers, V3 engines, local audio analysis, and export shapes.
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Account security and recovery
Username/password accounts, passkeys, recovery codes, and active sessions without email.
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Saving projects and assets
Autosave settings, overwrite prompts, revisions, local import, and where imported files are kept.
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Find and use every asset library
Search Sonic Weaver's music, loops, sound effects, backgrounds, photos, overlays, transitions, intros and outros, layers, and thumbnails.
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Publishing and community
Private-by-default projects, immutable posts, remix attribution, reports, and moderation.
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Badges and levels
How badges and levels are earned from what you make, export and share, and where they show.
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Sonic Weaver Live
The 24/7 station: our free songs playing back to back over our visualizers and assets, the same moment for every viewer.
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Preview and browser export
Deterministic local export, formats, audio, captions, alpha, and device capability limits.
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SW Agent (beta)
Ask in plain words: it chooses one of our tools, or a chain of them, runs it in your browser, and answers questions from our docs.
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Put Sonic Weaver on your website
Play any visualizer look on your own site, as a box in a page, behind a section, behind the whole page or over a picture, with your own settings and without changing your theme.
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Shape and symmetry: mirror, kaleidoscope, tiles and warps
Reshape any look with the same controls: mirror it, fold it into a kaleidoscope that turns with the music, tile it, or bend it with a twist, bulge, waves, ripples, a polar unroll or a fisheye.
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Check your writing
Grammar, spelling, punctuation and clarity suggestions for your titles, captions, lyrics and descriptions, with a score and the corrected text.
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The calculator and formulas
Turn bars and beats into seconds at a tempo and seconds into frames, do sums in exact fractions with the working shown, and get a checked formula for a control from your words.
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SW Agent's history, memory and styles
Reopen past chats and jobs, tell SW Agent your frame, artist name, platform and brand colours, and choose the looks, fonts, palettes, motion and caption styles new work starts in.
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Creator workflows
Releases, Shorts, thumbnails, live streams, captions, press kits and more: how to do each creative job with Sonic Weaver's tools and SW Agent's chains.
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Learn to script
The ideas behind formulas and small programs, from our own JavaScript course: values, conditions, functions, loops, lists, text, errors and testing. Ask SW Agent and it quotes the lessons.
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Method library
How to do 216 jobs well, from video, sound and 3D to launches, research and running a small business: what each is for, what to have first, the routes and steps, and the checks it is done by. Ask SW Agent for any of them.
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Career guides
What 565 jobs involve, in 20 families: the work, a typical day, the ways in, training and licensing, and the official pages to read. Our own writing; ask SW Agent about any of them.
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Skill lessons
35 lessons on the reasoning skills aptitude tests measure, from numerical and verbal reasoning to spatial and mechanical, with worked examples and practice tips. Our own writing.
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The external Free Library: public-domain and openly licensed media
Find external Free Library pictures, paintings, video, sound, books and definitions from Art Institute of Chicago, OpenStax, Project Gutenberg, Wikimedia Commons, Internet Archive, Wiktionary, The Cleveland Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Poly Haven, Kenney, OpenGameArt.org, Openverse and NASA Image and Video Library, each with its licence checked and its credit, and use them in your projects.
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SW Agent's canvas
See what SW Agent makes, live, beside the chat: a look, a project's first seconds, your pictures or a chain's steps, then change it in place or in your next message.
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Change anything in your project by asking SW Agent
In Classic or Studio, tell SW Agent what to change in plain words: any control of the look or a layer, the layers themselves, the frame rate, quality and file, the song's time and trim, undo and redo. It does it and says what it changed.
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Export a video from SW Agent's chat
Ask SW Agent in Classic to export your project: it says how long it will take on your device first, shows its progress and hands you the same file Classic's Export makes.
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SW Agent's worker jobs
Run a chain or an export as a job: it works in a queue on your device while you keep chatting, shows its progress, can be cancelled and keeps what it made.
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How SW Agent's worker runs a job
Each job runs its steps in a fixed order with a checkpoint before every step: Pause and Stop wait for the next checkpoint, a job asks before it changes your open project, and its ledger records every step and answer.
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Creator apps: hashtags, YouTube tags, hooks, storyboards and text sizes
Small tools on the canvas for posting your music: hashtags, tags and a title check, hooks and headlines, a storyboard cut on your song's bars, text sizes, colours, frame sizes and caption lengths.
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Animals: choose one, direct it and make your own
Put any of our 134 animals in a visualizer, in its own habitat or over your picture, tell it what to do and when on the song, and design your own animal from one of ours.
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Sports: games played to your song
The Sports visualizer plays 6 sports in real 3D, each on its own field, with two teams in your colours, a crowd that moves with the music and broadcast camera shots.
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Mythological Creatures: legends brought to life by your song
The Mythological Creatures visualizer draws 27 creatures of myth, grouped by the myths they come from, each in its own realm, with wings, heads, tails and snake hair that move to the music and a power that answers its own part of the song.
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VJ Deck: a live VJ deck that plays your song
A live VJ deck in six looks: a neon tunnel, an LED wall, isometric blocks, a chromatic wireframe, a particle plexus and glitch circuitry. Each stacks up to four looping layers with their own blend and opacity, the bass, mids and highs driving them, a master effect (mirror, kaleidoscope, RGB split or feedback trails) over the top, new clips launching every few bars or on the song's phrases, and a beat strobe that stays within the flash safety limit. The first visualizer of our v6.0 generation, made for DJ sets, club and festival screens, streams and music videos.
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Zodiac & Horoscopes: your star sign or Chinese zodiac animal, alive to your song
The Zodiac & Horoscopes visualizer draws all 24 signs of the Western and the Chinese zodiac in its own celestial line art: the 12 star signs from Aries to Pisces and the 12 animals of the Chinese years from the Rat to the Pig, with a horoscope card for fun.
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Constellations: the night sky to your song
The Constellations visualizer draws any of the 88 constellations or 20 famous star patterns from real star charts: its stars twinkle with the part of the song their colour answers and its lines draw themselves on the beat.
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Optical Illusions played by your song
The Optical Illusions visualizer draws any of 6 classic optical illusions from the principle behind it, in six moments with the music, and keeps every one within broadcast limits for flashes and patterns.
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Casino: a casino-themed visualizer, roulette first
The Casino visualizer draws a casino room with code and plays it with your song: roulette first, on a lit table, with the ball landing on the drop, and more table games joining the same look. A visual theme only: the number that comes up is a light, nothing more.
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Tree of Faces: a tree that holds faces, moved by your song
An old tree that holds faces, grown in code and moved by your song: profiles hidden in the gaps of its crown against a glowing sky, a lobe of its leaves that looks out, a face that wakes in its bark. The wind in its crown is the bass and the groove, light runs along its branches on the bar, and the faces come forward through a build and are fully seen on the drop. A moonlit hill, the four seasons, a whispering grove, a portrait in the bark, a sunset silhouette and a tree beside a lake. Calm and mysterious, for ambient, folk, cinematic and lo-fi songs, lyric videos and covers.
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Railway Vision: railways that run to your song
Railways that run to your song on a real signalling system: a signal box panel whose track circuits light in each train's colour as it runs the loop, a night line of lit trains, an invented city's network map, a busy junction, a cab ride and a model railway. Trains depart on the beat, routes set on the bar, signals clear on the downbeat, the build brings more trains out and the drop lights every route at once. Every look is drawn from one railway that really works: trains that keep their distance, signals that protect them and routes set ahead of them.
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Circus: the big top, the trapeze, the juggler and the high wire, in time with your song
The Circus visualizer draws a circus with code and has every act keep time with your song: 6 looks, from the big top at night to a grand finale, each act moving by the real mechanics behind it.
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Rollercoaster: a real ride that runs on your song
The Rollercoaster visualizer draws a steel coaster with code and runs it on real physics: the train climbs the lift hill through your song's build, tips over the crest on the drop and races round the circuit. 6 ways to watch it, from the lift hill at dusk to the front seat.
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Satellite: real orbits that keep time with your song
The Satellite visualizer draws satellites on real orbits round an Earth drawn with code, every orbit timed in whole bars of your song so passes land on the beat and every link lights on the drop. 6 ways to watch them, from the Earth from space to a night sky.
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Masks: masks of the carnival and the stage
The Masks visualizer draws 21 masks from the theatre and festival traditions with code and plays them with your song: the colombina first, waltzing at a masquerade ball, swapping in a game, turning from comedy to tragedy on a stage and lifting away on the drop.
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Haunted House Walk: a looping walk through a house after the circus
The Haunted House Walk visualizer walks you through an old house on the hill, a step a beat, after the Circus visualizer's show: the clowns lead you in, spring out on the drop and take their bow at the door. 6 rooms of one walk that loops.
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Colour that follows the music
Make the colours of any visualizer follow your song: the bass, the beat, the highs, the song's sections or its energy. Sweep between colours, turn the hue or flash a colour on the beat, on the whole look or on one part of it, such as the snow or the lights.
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Lighting your scenes and assets
Light a whole scene with a ready-made light such as golden hour, moonlight or a spotlight, give each Timeline part its own light, and give any picture, logo, shape or line of words its own light, rim, shadow and glow, in Classic, Studio and the Video Studio.
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Your channel, verification and account standing
Set up your creator channel and who can see it, run a private channel with requests and invite links, get the verified badge, and understand strikes, the community limit and appeals.
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Notifications and your inbox
What arrives in your inbox, which notifications you can switch off, how often the bell checks, and why there is no email to manage.
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Connect Claude or another AI assistant (MCP)
Add Sonic Weaver's MCP server to Claude or any assistant that speaks the Model Context Protocol: the address, what the assistant can find and open for you, and what it cannot do.
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Make, choose and generate with SW Agent
SW Agent answers with choices it can act on, shows every visualizer to choose from, makes versions of a look from its own settings, distinguishes Sonic Weaver's built-in assets from the external Free Library and editable Layer Assets, writes documents from every source, draws charts and suggests what to do next.
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The kind of agent: Agent, Runner or Planner
Choose how SW Agent works for you: an Agent that chooses, acts and answers, a Runner that only runs programs and commands, or a Planner that shows its steps before it does anything.
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Journal articles, sources that agree, and finding someone from a description
SW Agent reads open-access journal articles for its documents, merges what its sources agree on, ranks its sources by how well they answer you, and suggests who you mean when you describe someone.
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Ads on Sonic Weaver
Where ads show and where they never do, the one sponsored spot in the editors, the sponsor tab when you export, and how to turn ads off.
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Files from and for other programs
Open .cube, .srt, .vtt and .lrc files made in other programs in Classic, and export .cube, .edl, .fcpxml, .jsx, .srt, .vtt and .lrc files for them, read and written on your device.
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Change any setting by asking SW Agent, or with a command
Ask SW Agent to change any setting of any workspace or of your open project, such as the tempo, a loudness target or a transition's length, and it does it for you. Or type the exact command.
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Blog posts, titles, social text and logos with SW Agent
Ask SW Agent for a blog post and choose its structure and style: it pieces the post together from its sources, or reads two studies side by side, every sentence numbered to the source it came from. It also writes titles, social posts and bios, names and slogans, and draws logos with code.
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Expressions and scripts
Drive any setting with a formula that moves to your song, and automate the workspaces with scripts: built-in ones, ones SW Agent writes from your words, and your own.
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SW Agent's workspace: every asset, workspace and editor in one place
Preview anything SW Agent makes or you attach with the full controls of its kind, and open any workspace, or Classic and Studio, beside the conversation.
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Getting started with SW Agent, everywhere on the site
One conversation on SW Agent's page, in the editors and on every tool page: how to start, what to ask, your own things, tips along the way, and SW Agent in search and help.
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Ask SW Agent instead of clicking
Ask in plain words and SW Agent runs the tool behind it and answers in the chat: conversions, percentages, dates, colours, lyrics, chords, captions from your own song, a 3D title, a PDF, a mastered song or a converted file. The tool opens beside the chat with the result, every setting there to change.
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Share a chat with SW Agent
Make a link to a whole chat or to one answer, with its own preview card, copy it or share it, and turn it off any time. Only the words and links you choose are shared.
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SW Agent, step by step
How to use every part of SW Agent in a few plain steps: the chat, files, the canvas, each workspace's tools, Auto and Manual, long requests and chains, carrying on in Classic, jobs, approvals, scripts, sharing, typed commands, memory, research, free media, and what to do when something gets stuck.
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How SW Agent answers: the kind of ask first, the answer first, every source
SW Agent reads what kind of ask your message is, answers with the answer first and then what it means, checks its own answer before showing it, tries another way when it is stuck, reads every source it has, draws charts from your numbers, writes a new take each time, and checks in on long jobs.
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SW Agent's agents: choose one, or let SW Agent choose
10 agents, each with its own tools, and Auto: SW Agent answers itself, hands a job to the agent whose tools fit, or splits a long request among several and reports what each did.
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SW Agent's human thinking mode
In preview: turn on human thinking and SW Agent plans an explanation, a how-to, a plan, research or a blog post from a model answer, reads every source it has for each part, and checks every sentence against its source before you see it.
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Build a playlist visualizer
Arrange songs, choose looks for each track or one look for the whole set, save a look package, then edit and export the shared Timeline project.
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Make beats and songs in the Music studio
Start from a starter beat, tap drums on the step sequencer, add a melody in the piano roll, set the tempo and key, turn the loop into a song and arrange it, then save it, export a WAV or a MIDI file, or send it on to Mastering, as stems or into a music video.
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Your custom visualizer
A visualizer made for you alone: where to find it, how to use it in every editor and SW Agent, and why nobody else can open it.
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Message us
Ask a question, report a bug or share an idea with the person who makes Sonic Weaver while signed in: where to write, what a bug report carries, and where our answer arrives.
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Support links on your profile
Add your own PayPal.me, Stripe Payment Link, Ko-fi, Buy Me a Coffee or Patreon link so people can support you directly. No money passes through Sonic Weaver.
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SW Agent runs models on your device
Ask SW Agent to write a song's lyrics, split its stems, translate lyrics, take a picture's background out or find its depth: it asks before a model downloads, runs it on your device and hands back the files.
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After Effects and Premiere Pro
Turn a Sonic Weaver export and its song into an After Effects composition with a marker on every beat, phrase and section, or a Premiere Pro sequence, made on your own computer.
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Export for Spotify Canvas, Shorts and Reels
Export one edit for each platform at its own shape and length, see each app's safe area over the preview, and check the finished file against the platform's published rules before you upload it.
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The Video Studio: tracks for your music video
A music video on tracks: your own footage and pictures, visualizers, words and shapes on video tracks over the song's parts, sounds on audio tracks, then make it each platform's shape and export it.
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Ask a question, report a bug or share an idea with the person who makes Sonic Weaver. Signed in, you write from your account and our answer arrives in your notifications; you can also email us.
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