The preview and both editor buttons show the Colombina mask in every moment: the ball, the wall, the game, the stage, the parade and the unmasking.
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Masks & Theatre
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.
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Preview video
The Mask Wall, 8 seconds on a steady 120 BPM test beat, looping with no sound. A wall of masks in a Venetian shop, the chosen one in the middle: on every beat a ripple runs out from it and each face lifts its brows and smiles in turn, the gold catching the light as it passes. The live preview at the top plays the same look: pick a song there to watch it follow your own music.
What it builds
Masks that move with your song: faces that turn with its mood, filigree that grows as it builds, and a mask that lifts away on the drop. Start with The Mask Wall, then combine it with logos, masks, captions, camera layers, and global effects without changing document formats.
Where it fits
Individual layers
Browse every visualizer’s current and earlier look layers, plus the universal added-layer presets. This page starts with Masks selected; choose any asset to open it in Classic.
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Each preview is the layer asset’s transparent still. Use it in Classic, or visit the full animated library to preview and download it.
Controls
Every control this mode has, grouped by what it changes, with its starting value. Each one is yours to change in Classic and Studio; the ones marked “Follows the music” can also be driven by the song through an audio route.
| Control | Default | Music |
|---|---|---|
| Primary colorPrimary color used by the engine palette | #e8bb62 | Set by you |
| Secondary colorSecondary color used by the engine palette | #6a1426 | Set by you |
| BackgroundBackground used by the engine palette | #0a0608 | Set by you |
| Color modeDuo palette, primary→secondary gradient, or full rainbow sweep | duo | Set by you |
| Control | Default | Music |
|---|---|---|
| OpacityVisualizer opacity | 1 | Set by you |
| Control | Default | Music |
|---|---|---|
| SensitivityBounded overall audio response | 1 | Set by you |
| Spectrum rangeHow much of the 40 Hz to 14 kHz range the visual spans, from the bass up. Lower it to give the bass and mids more of the bars | 1 | Set by you |
| Frequency scaleHow the bars are spread across the frequencies. Log spreads them by octave, mel by how pitch is heard, and linear by hertz, which gives most bars to the highs | log | Set by you |
| Auto-levelLifts every part of the spectrum to its own recent range, so quiet highs move as much as loud bass. A note held for several seconds settles lower as it adapts. 0 shows the raw spectrum | 0.8 | Set by you |
| Primary audio source | bass | Set by you |
| Frequency focusWhich part of the spectrum drives this visual; while no explicit audio source is set, the motion envelope follows this selection | full | Set by you |
| Burst intensityGlow and trail swell on sharp hits; 0 keeps bursts off | 0 | Set by you |
| Audio contributionMaximum contribution from the primary audio route | 0.55 | Set by you |
| Audio dynamicsHow much of the band's movement reaches the visual. 1 = full dynamics; 0 holds it at a steady level for a calmer, more constant look | 1 | Set by you |
| Audio attackEnvelope attack in milliseconds | 45 | Set by you |
| Audio releaseEnvelope release in milliseconds | 240 | Set by you |
| Beat responseHow hard every engine hits on each detected beat | 1.2 | Follows the music |
| Beat smoothingHow long each beat hit rings out before it settles | 0.35 | Follows the music |
| Beat attackSeconds for a hit to swell to full. 0 snaps instantly | 0 | Follows the music |
| Beat releaseSeconds for a hit to fade, overriding Beat smoothing. 0 follows it | 0 | Follows the music |
| Beat sync allRoute beat energy into spawn, shake, pulse, speed, and scale | true | Set by you |
| Control | Default | Music |
|---|---|---|
| Ambient bedProminence of the standing background layer behind the beat-born elements | 1 | Set by you |
| Wake lengthHow far motion trails stretch behind beat-born travelers; 0 removes the wake | 1 | Set by you |
| Glow | 0.55 | Follows the music |
| Global glowShared emissive strength across the frame | 0.35 | Follows the music |
| Pulse intensityBeat pulse scale for spawn, size, and shake | 1 | Follows the music |
| Beat shakeFrame kick strength on each beat | 0.6 | Follows the music |
| Motion echo | 0 | Follows the music |
| Blur | 0 | Follows the music |
| Chromatic aberration | 0 | Follows the music |
| Control | Default | Music |
|---|---|---|
| Geometry scale | 1 | Follows the music |
| Control | Default | Music |
|---|---|---|
| Motion directionRotate the animated visual pass to face this direction; the general background stays fixed | none | Set by you |
| SpeedTime-based motion; default major cycle is 6–12 seconds | 0.1 | Follows the music |
| Control | Default | Music |
|---|---|---|
| Symmetry and tilingReshape the whole picture: mirror it, fold it into a kaleidoscope, or tile it (the plane groups p1, p2, p4m and p6m) | none | Set by you |
| Kaleidoscope foldsHow many mirrored copies go round the kaleidoscope | 6 | Set by you |
| Symmetry angleTurns the mirror line, or the kaleidoscope, in degrees | 0 | Follows the music |
| Kaleidoscope spinHow fast the kaleidoscope turns, in turns per bar of the song (0.25 is once a phrase) | 0 | Follows the music |
| Tile sizeEach tile's size as a share of the frame | 0.5 | Set by you |
| Tile gapThe gap between tiles, as a share of a tile; it shows the background colour | 0 | Set by you |
| WarpBend the whole picture: a twist, a bulge, waves or ripples that move once a bar, a polar unroll, or a fisheye lens | none | Set by you |
| Warp amountHow strong the warp is | 0.5 | Follows the music |
| Warp centreWhere the warp is centred in the frame | centre | Set by you |
| Control | Default | Music |
|---|---|---|
| MaskWhich mask the moments show: its tradition's shape, material and ornament, and how its face moves with your song | colombina | Set by you |
| OrnamentHow far the filigree grows along each mask's edge (it grows as the song builds and blooms on the drop), and how much the feathers sway | 1 | Follows the music |
| Gold sheenThe highlight that sweeps across gold, gilt and lacquer every two bars (more slowly across a mask that fills the frame), brighter with the song's energy | 1 | Follows the music |
| ExpressionHow far the faces turn with the song's mood, from tragedy to comedy, and how much they glance and breathe on the beat | 1 | Follows the music |
| RibbonsHow long the masks' silk ribbons are and how hard the music's breeze blows them | 1 | Follows the music |
| Control | Default | Music |
|---|---|---|
| LightsHow bright the candles, chandeliers, footlights and lanterns. They pulse with the kick | 1 | Follows the music |
| VariationAnother take on the same scene: the game's swaps, the wall's other masks, the dancers and the fireworks. The same number always gives the same scene | 0 | Set by you |
| Control | Default | Music |
|---|---|---|
| Title and artistShow or hide the song title and artist this visualizer draws. | auto | Set by you |
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