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Engine reference

Visualizer engine reference

60 production engines and 370 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.

60 engines

Engines

Particles

v4.0.0

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

7 modes · 52 controls

Trails

v4.0.0

Tapered light trails with white-hot heads and cooling tails, in three depth planes.

6 modes · 50 controls

Bloom

v4.0.0

Translucent organic growth: layered petals, watercolour ink, cell colonies, mycelium, crystals and lotus ripples.

6 modes · 55 controls

Character Motion

v4.0.0

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

6 modes · 47 controls

Radial

v4.0.0

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

7 modes · 53 controls

Spectrum

v4.0.0

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

6 modes · 50 controls

Bars

v4.0.0

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

7 modes · 51 controls

Tunnel

v4.0.0

A lit corridor flown toward a key light: glowing rings that keep the spectrum they were born with, lit wall panels, a spectrogram surface, waveform rings, light streaks or a particle vortex, with a shockwave on every kick and a bank at every new section.

6 modes · 60 controls

Waveform

v4.0.0

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

6 modes · 47 controls

Logo

v4.0.0

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

7 modes · 53 controls

Lattice

v4.0.0

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

6 modes · 54 controls

Terrain

v4.0.0

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

6 modes · 50 controls

Stage Lights

v4.0.0

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

7 modes · 51 controls

Harmonic Constellation

v4.0.0

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

6 modes · 49 controls

Chladni Resonance Plate

v4.0.0

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

6 modes · 47 controls

Voronoi Stained Glass

v4.0.0

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

6 modes · 45 controls

Procedural Night City

v4.0.0

A lit night skyline that is an equalizer: towers ordered by frequency rise with the music over a wet, reflecting street.

6 modes · 54 controls

Spectral Topography

v4.0.0

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

6 modes · 49 controls

Fluid Ink Feedback

v4.0.0

Ink carried by a simulated fluid: kicks drop curling blooms, snares spin eddies and the hi-hats tear it into threads.

6 modes · 49 controls

Arrangement Tunnel

v4.0.0

Fly through your song's structure: its real sections, bars and energy as a tunnel, with what is coming visible ahead.

6 modes · 48 controls

Cover-Art Relief

v4.0.0

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

6 modes · 46 controls

Kinetic Lyric Typescape

v4.0.0

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

7 modes · 46 controls

Stereo Phase Garden

v4.0.0

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

6 modes · 46 controls

Horizon Scenes

v5.2.0

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

8 modes · 57 controls

Disco

v4.0.0

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 · 44 controls

Liquid

v4.0.0

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

6 modes · 48 controls

Portal

v4.0.0

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

6 modes · 46 controls

Now Playing

v4.0.0

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

6 modes · 53 controls

Sketchbook

v5.2.0

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

7 modes · 57 controls

Halloween Night

v4.0.0

A moonlit hillside on Halloween night: carved lanterns that glow with the mix, bats across the moon, rolling fog, a dewy web and ghost lights. Spooky, never gory.

6 modes · 47 controls

Diwali Lights

v4.0.0

The Festival of Lights in six shots: clay diyas on courtyard steps, a rangoli that draws itself, swaying star lanterns, sparkler trails, courtyard fireworks and a marigold-framed doorway.

6 modes · 47 controls

Hanukkah Lights

v4.0.0

Eight nights of light: a hanukkiah in a winter window whose flames dance to the mix, a spinning dreidel, a clay oil lamp and gold gelt.

6 modes · 50 controls

Christmas Lights

v4.0.0

Six secular scenes of one snowy night: a lit pine, swagged garlands, glass baubles, a snow globe holding your cover, icicle lights and a cozy window, with every bulb on its own band and the chase stepping on the beat.

6 modes · 49 controls

Kwanzaa

v4.0.0

A warm Kwanzaa home scene: the kinara's seven candles light one by one through your song, beside the mkeka, the harvest and the unity cup.

6 modes · 47 controls

New Year's Eve

v4.0.0

A rooftop at midnight: a countdown to the end of your song, fireworks over the skyline, confetti, champagne and a sparkler greeting in black, gold and silver.

6 modes · 45 controls

Lunar New Year

v4.0.0

A lantern-lit festival street for the new year: red lanterns that sway with the bass, plum blossom, paper-cuts, firecrackers and silk.

6 modes · 45 controls

Valentine's

v4.0.0

A heart drawn by your waveform that beats with the kick, a rose that draws itself and blooms, petals, ribbons, soft bokeh and neon, each drawn in light to your song.

6 modes · 47 controls

Ramadan & Eid

v4.0.0

Calm nights of crescent moons, fanous lanterns and gold star tilings, through to the garlands of Eid, made for nasheed, spoken word and podcasts.

6 modes · 47 controls

Easter & Spring

v4.0.0

A spring meadow at sunrise: painted eggs nestled in new grass, flowers that open with the music and petals on the breeze.

6 modes · 47 controls

Optical Illusions

v4.0.0

Famous optical illusions drawn from the principles behind them and played with your music, each shown six ways: the illusion itself, the truth revealed in the loud parts, a gallery wall, an op art wall, a projection in a hall and a stare challenge. Kept within broadcast flash and pattern limits.

6 modes · 56 controls

Story

v4.0.0

Tell a story with your own photos and videos, cut to your song: six templates from a three-act film to a phone story, each following your song's sections, with original stand-in pictures until you add yours.

6 modes · 47 controls

Release Ring

v4.0.0

A ring of glowing strands the music throws outward, drawn as a tube that tilts away in the quiet and turns to face you on the drop, beside your title, over a scene that changes with the song: misty landscapes, a halftone burst, a stream of data, flowing contours.

6 modes · 50 controls

Clockwork

v5.1.0

Clocks that keep time with your song: a second hand that ticks on every beat, pendulums that swing to the tempo, gears the bass and treble turn, a cuckoo that bows out on the big hits and a clock tower whose bell rings the downbeat.

6 modes · 46 controls

Countries & Flags

v5.1.0

The exact flag of any of 195 countries, made to move with your song: a flag hoisted and waving on its pole, a round flag drawn in a spectrum ring, the country's map drawn by a pen of light, its national colours as ribbons and fireworks, an anthem stage and a greeting card.

6 modes · 47 controls

Water Droplets

v5.2.0

Water that keeps time with your song: drops that land on the beat and run down glass, rings that spread across the water with every hit, a slow-motion splash whose crown is the spectrum, drips that fall in time, rain that falls as an equalizer and floating drops that wobble with their bands.

6 modes · 46 controls

Animals

v5.3.0

Any of our animals in its own habitat, from a wolf in a snowy mountain forest to a lion on the savanna and a polar bear on the sea ice, every layer of the scene moving with your song and the animal acting out its nature on the beat: a deer grazes, hears something and bolts, a wolf noses for a scent, a boar roots, and each calls on the phrase. Its habitat, on the move, at night, in a storm, close up and together with its own kind.

6 modes · 53 controls

Scene Clips

v5.3.0

Illustrated scenes that loop seamlessly and move with your song, built for lyric videos and Canvas loops: two chefs cooking at night with a wok that flares on the beat, a painterly sky with birds crossing your words, a rooftop guitarist over a neon city, a DJ in the booth, a beach at sunset and rain on a window, each with keyword or line lyrics drawn inside the scene.

6 modes · 53 controls

Sports

v5.4.0

A game in a full arena, drawn with code and played to your song: possession changes every phrase, the puck moves on the beat, a shot on the last bar of each phrase, the goal light and the crowd on its feet when it goes in. An attack on goal, the celebration, the faceoff, a pre-game light show and pond hockey under the stars. Ice hockey first, more sports to come, every team in your own colours and no logos.

6 modes · 60 controls

Mythological Creatures

v5.5.0

Creatures of myth in their own realms, drawn with code and alive to your song: a dragon breathing fire on a volcano, Medusa with a snake of her hair for every band of the music, the phoenix bursting into flame over a sun temple, the kraken rising from a storm, Fenrir breaking his chains and more, grouped by the myths they come from. Every layer of the realm moves, each power answers its own part of the song and on every phrase the creature unleashes it. Its realm, in flight, by moonlight, in a storm, close up, guarding its ruins and seen in a hero's bronze shield.

7 modes · 53 controls

VJ Deck

v6.0.0

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.

6 modes · 59 controls

Zodiac & Horoscopes

v5.6.0

The Western and the Chinese zodiac in one visualizer: pick any of the twelve star signs or the twelve animals of the Chinese years and see it drawn in celestial line art, alive to your song. The sign traced in starlight inside a ring of stars, its figure in its element's sky, the zodiac wheel turning to it, a horoscope card with a line for fun or your own words, the sign in neon and a birthday card for your sign.

6 modes · 52 controls

Constellations

v5.6.0

Every constellation in the sky and the star patterns people know by name, from real star charts, made to move with your song: a night sky where the figure draws itself a line on every beat, its story drawn like an old atlas plate, a planetarium dome, a telescope tracing it star by star, a printed star chart and a card for your star sign.

6 modes · 53 controls

Casino

v5.7.0

A casino-themed visualizer drawn with code: a roulette wheel on a lit table, the ball riding the rim against the wheel's spin and landing in a pocket on the drop, the number lighting up. The table, the spin up close, the floor at night in neon, a private lounge with a chandelier, a grand finale of chips and light, and the dealer's side of the table. Roulette first, more games to come.

6 modes · 53 controls

Tree of Faces

v5.7.0

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.

6 modes · 50 controls

Railway Vision

v5.7.0

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.

6 modes · 49 controls

Circus

v5.8.0

A circus drawn with code and played by your song: the big top at night with its bulbs chasing on the beat and the curtains opening on the drop, the ringmaster in the spotlight, a flying trapeze whose swing keeps the bars and whose catch lands on the downbeat, a juggler throwing real siteswap patterns that change with the song, a wire walker who wobbles on the beat and recovers, and a grand finale with every act at once.

6 modes · 51 controls

Rollercoaster

v5.8.0

A steel rollercoaster drawn with code and run on real physics: the train climbs the chain lift through the build, tips over the crest on the drop and races through a clothoid loop, a corkscrew, a banked helix and airtime hills, its speed from the height it fell. Six ways to watch it: the lift hill at dusk, the front seat, the park at night, the loop up close, an engineer's blueprint with live speed and g-force plots, and opening night's fireworks.

6 modes · 50 controls

Masks

v5.8.0

Masks of the carnival and the stage drawn with code, each built from its tradition: Venetian gold leaf and porcelain, commedia leather, Greek theatre, Noh and kabuki, Peking opera's painted faces and Mardi Gras. Couples waltzing at a masquerade ball, a wall of masks rippling on the beat, a shell game of masks hiding a light, a stage where comedy turns to tragedy, a carnival parade and the unmasking on the drop.

6 modes · 54 controls

Satellite

v5.8.0

Satellites on real orbits drawn with code: the Earth from space with its shells of satellites, every orbit solved from Kepler's equation and timed in whole bars of your song, so passes land on the beat and every link lights on the drop. Six ways to watch them: the orbits round the Earth, the ground tracks on a world map, a mega-constellation of hundreds, a mission control room's wall, a satellite unfolding its panels and a night sky with satellites crossing among the stars.

6 modes · 54 controls

Haunted House Walk

v5.8.0

A walk through an old house on the hill after the circus, drawn with code and played by your song: the clowns lead you up to the front door, along a hall whose portraits watch you pass and whose doors slam on the downbeats, into a parlour where a music box plays and a jack-in-the-box springs on the drop, to a mirror that shows a clown behind you, up stairs that never end and back to the entrance hall, where the clowns take their bow and the door opens on the fairground's lights. Fun-house scares, every one a movement, never a flash.

6 modes · 51 controls

How it works

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.