Visualizer engine reference

29 production engines and 180 modes. These pages render capabilities and controls from the same versioned `EngineDefinition` used by Classic and Studio.

For the vocabulary behind those controls (FFT, onset, envelope, deterministic export) start at the glossary. Longer explainers of the analyser and Canvas loop are listed below.

How the engines get their numbers

This reference is the control-table pillar. The posts are the “how audio visualizers work” cluster: FFT bins, Canvas `requestAnimationFrame`, and the measure-then-draw loop.

Particles

Layered point, path, area, and volume emitters with calm time-based motion.

7 modes · 44 controls

Trails

Persistent splines, ribbons, flow fields, and resampled motion paths.

6 modes · 41 controls

Bloom

Organic growth simulations for petals, ink, cells, tendrils, crystals, and ripples.

6 modes · 44 controls

Character Motion

Glyph choreography and production 2D/3D skeleton animation in one engine.

6 modes · 39 controls

Radial

Logo-aware circles, rings, mandalas, rays, and orbiting crowns.

7 modes · 43 controls

Spectrum

Frequency-domain lines, areas, ribbons, spectrograms, ridges, and meshes.

6 modes · 40 controls

Bars

Dedicated equalizer bars with mirrors, stacks, paths, depth, and peak hold.

7 modes · 41 controls

Tunnel

Looping depth corridors, tubes, fields, and camera paths with deterministic fog.

6 modes · 42 controls

Waveform

Time-domain lines, fills, ribbons, XY scopes, and historical surfaces.

6 modes · 39 controls

Logo

Brand-first scenes: reactive geometry arranged around your artwork, never over it.

7 modes · 43 controls

Lattice

Mirrors, tilings, wireframes and trusses: hard-edged geometry that switches on the beat.

6 modes · 44 controls

Terrain

The last few seconds of the track rendered as receding landscape.

6 modes · 40 controls

Stage Lights

A lighting rig rather than a readout: beams, haze, pools and chases cued by the beat.

7 modes · 41 controls

Harmonic Constellation

Spectral peaks become stars, and harmonically related peaks link into changing constellations.

6 modes · 39 controls

Chladni Resonance Plate

Analytic nodal patterns that reorganise as the dominant tone crosses a resonance.

6 modes · 37 controls

Voronoi Stained Glass

A gap-free cell partition that illuminates by band without ever flashing the frame.

6 modes · 38 controls

Procedural Night City

An original stylized skyline generated from the spectrum: windows, signs, traffic, and weather.

6 modes · 38 controls

Spectral Topography

The spectrum's history as a contour map: frequency across, time down, rhythm visible as banding.

6 modes · 39 controls

Fluid Ink Feedback

Pigment injected into a bounded feedback field, so the image carries the whole track's history.

6 modes · 37 controls

Arrangement Tunnel

Sections, beats and energy as a forward-moving tunnel that makes song structure visible.

6 modes · 37 controls

Cover-Art Relief

Your artwork as a layered relief: lows raise it, mids ripple it, highs make it shimmer.

6 modes · 38 controls

Kinetic Lyric Typescape

Caption phrases as timed spatial typography, with a readable non-kinetic mode always available.

7 modes · 38 controls

Stereo Phase Garden

Correlation, width and phase grow mirrored stems and petals; mono collapses toward the centre.

6 modes · 38 controls

Horizon Scenes

Original audio-reactive landscapes: a horizon, a sky and a sun that the mix drives, from lo-fi coasts to neon highways.

6 modes · 38 controls

Disco

An 80s club in six shots: a turning mirror ball, scissoring light rays, a lit dance floor, glitter, haze and a neon roller rink, all timed to the beat.

6 modes · 36 controls

Liquid

Liquid surfaces that move with the music: flowing gradients, glowing beads, lava wax, chrome, oil film and silk.

6 modes · 38 controls

Portal

Luminous gateways: rings of light that pull the frame inward, with the spectrum on their rim.

6 modes · 36 controls

Now Playing

Finished release cards: your cover art, title and artist framed by a live spectrum, a progress bar and a timer.

6 modes · 42 controls

Sketchbook

Hand-drawn visuals on paper: pencil strokes, ink and charcoal that sketch the music as it plays.

6 modes · 38 controls