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17 articles for OSC-1 Oscilloscope
How Does Oscilloscope Music Work? Hear the Drawing
Explore oscilloscope music in BeamTracer Scope. Hear how phase, pitch, summed tones, and square-wave offsets change an X/Y drawing, then take the artwork to Laser.
What Harmony Looks Like: Hear the Shape of Music
Hear and see musical intervals in BeamTracer Scope. Explore Lissajous curves, just and equal tuning, phase, harmonics, beats, and four-note chord projections.
Trace Live Video on an Oscilloscope (and Send It to a Laser)
Trace a camera or screen live on an XY oscilloscope in OSC-1, then send the same outlines to a laser. Plus which of three video-to-laser routes fits your job.
LaserCube Audio-Reactive Without Loopback Software
Make a Wicked Lasers LaserCube react to music from a browser tab, a file or a mic: OSC-1 in Chrome or Edge, no virtual audio cable, with a free simulator first.
Lottie to Laser: Turn a Lottie Animation into an ILDA Show
Turn a Lottie animation into a laser show: drop the .json or .lottie file into BeamTracer, keep its colors, export ILDA, and prepare the file so it draws cleanly.
Oscilloscope Music on a Laser Projector: How to Play It
Play oscilloscope music on a laser projector: stream OSC-1 to a Helios, Ether Dream or LaserCube, preview the scanners free, and see what changes from a CRT.
Music Frequencies Explained: See Bass, Mids and Highs Live
Every band from 20 Hz to 20 kHz, where each instrument sits, and how to see bass, mids and highs on a free browser visualizer. Read EQ colors like a DJ.
How to Draw Two Things at Once on an Oscilloscope
Add two shapes on an oscilloscope and you get one hybrid, not two objects. Here are the four real ways to draw two things at once, phase cutting included.
Hidden Line Removal Makes Your 3D Model Sound Better
On an oscilloscope the beam's path through a 3D model is also its waveform, so removing hidden lines changes the sound as much as it changes the picture.
Controlling Brightness With No Brightness Control
An XY oscilloscope has no brightness knob for a single point. Here is how oscilloscope beam brightness is really controlled: path density and beam speed.
Why Your Oscilloscope Image Is Blurry: Sample Rate and Trace Detail
Keep fine detail in oscilloscope music with high-rate originals. Learn what sample rate, drawing speed, and display settings can—and cannot—fix.
Oscilloscope Music Software: OsciStudio vs osci-render
OsciStudio, osci-render, or a browser? An honest look at three oscilloscope music tools — what each is genuinely best at, and how to pick one for your work.
What Audio Effects Look Like on an Oscilloscope
See what reverb, low-pass filters, phasers and bit reduction look like on an XY oscilloscope — the two-way dictionary between how audio sounds and draws.
Where Oscilloscope Music's Chords Come From
On an oscilloscope, drawing a shape twice is an octave. Here is where oscilloscope music harmony comes from, and why it drifts against a 12-TET piano.
Animated GLTF to XY Audio and Laser Art in Your Browser
Convert animated GLTF or GLB files into XY audio and laser-ready motion in your browser. Choose clips, loop, scrub and export WAV without Blender or plugins.
3D Model to Oscilloscope or Laser Art in Your Browser
Turn a 3D model into XY oscilloscope art or a laser projection. Import GLTF/GLB in the browser with hidden-line removal and real scan limits — no plugins.
How to Make Oscilloscope Music — Beginner Guide (2026)
Learn oscilloscope music and Lissajous art with OSC-1, a free XY oscilloscope for Chrome or Edge — CRT phosphor simulation, synth, and real laser DAC output.