Tales: a story typed through your song

Every look of the visualizer is the same tale read another way: The Scroll, The Newsletter, The Typewriter, The Storybook, The Manuscript and The Letter. Open it from its template page, in Classic or Studio, as the look of a Timeline clip, or as a layer over another look; the preview, the still and every export type the same words at the same moments.

The tale is written for your song: its hero, its place and the thing that starts the journey come from the look's seed, and its chorus sings your song's title. Each section of your song is a chapter, so a longer song tells a longer tale. The quiet sections walk the road, the build raises the wind, the drop opens the sky, and the last section brings everyone home.

• Open the Tales template

Each look reads the same tale:

• The Scroll: A parchment scroll unrolls down the frame and the tale is typed onto it, chapter by chapter as your song's sections play, the page rising as it fills.
• The Newsletter: The tale as a newsletter: your song's title on the masthead, each chapter a headline and its column, the issue's chapters listed down the side and the page scrolling up as it is written.
• The Typewriter: The typewriter itself, close: the keys going down, the typebars striking, the carriage running along each line and the paper rising as the tale is typed.
• The Storybook: An open storybook: a picture of the chapter on one page, its words writing in on the other, and a page turned as each section of your song begins.
• The Manuscript: An illuminated manuscript: a gilded initial for each chapter, the lines inked in and a vine border growing round the page as your song plays.
• The Letter: A letter on a desk by lamplight, written to the listener with a pen as your song plays, and signed when it ends.

Each chapter is typed while its section plays, starting a moment in and finished before the next section begins, at a steady typing pace. The page rises a line at a time as it fills. The caret breathes with the beat, a puff of ink lifts where the words land on the beat, and the light rises with the song's energy.

With no song analysis the look uses a 64-second stand-in song of six sections, so a 64-second clip starts and ends on the same frame and loops without a seam.

Type your own story into Your tale and the visualizer types it instead of the written one, laid along the song in order: each sentence lands in the section playing at its share of the song, and every sentence is typed once.

Every written tale is gentle: no one is hurt and nothing is fought.

The words are typed and nothing flashes. The candle, the lamp and the window rise and fall slowly through the flash limiter, which holds flashes to fewer than three a second. The lines of words, the letter's ruled lines, the typewriter's keys and the manuscript's vine border repeat, so each asks the site's pattern guard how much contrast it may have. The Contrast setting lowers it all further.

Beside the colours, speed, glow and the settings every look has, the visualizer has its own, labelled the same in every editor, and SW Agent can set each one by its name:

• Your tale: Your own words to type instead of the written tale, shared across the song's sections sentence by sentence. Leave it empty for a tale written for your song.
• Chapter headings: A heading over each chapter (Chapter II: The Crossing), one for every section of your song.
• Text size: How big the words are: smaller fits more of the tale on the page. From 0.7 to 1.4.
• Room light: How bright the candle, the lamp and the window are. It rises with the song and never flashes. From 0 to 2.
• Sparkles: Dust drifting in the light and the puff of ink where the words land on the beat. From 0 to 1.

Ask for it in your own words: "a fairy tale typed on a scroll", "a typewriter story for my song", "an illuminated manuscript" or "a scrolling newsletter", and SW Agent builds the project on it. In an open project, say "switch to the storybook", "bigger text" or "turn the chapter headings off"; each change is one step of undo in Classic and in Studio.

Through our MCP server, get_engine lists the visualizer's looks and settings, and build_editor_setup opens Classic or Studio on any of them.