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Beam Wall
Send glowing trails down a wall and across the floor, with traveling light packets, waveform ripples and a choice of cool or warm palettes.
Beam Wall fills a dark stage with a curtain of glowing paths. Each path descends a wall, rounds the bend and runs across the floor toward you. Bright packets travel along the paths while the music bends individual sections of the lines. Start with a complete preset, then shape the wall, change the pace and direction of the light, or soften the glow. The scene remains visible when the music stops.
Open Beam Wall
Launch the visualizer with its matching left-nav entry selected.
Quick start
- Start the demo track, choose a local audio file, or enable a live input.
- Try a preset or style first, then open the section for the part of the image you want to change.
- On a control with Assign modulation, open the source picker, choose a signal, and watch the slider's live fill.
- Use Reset to Defaults whenever you want to return to the original look.
Presets and styles
Blue Curtain · Violet Hall · Laser Aisle · Ember Stage · Silver Installation · Reverse Current
Audio modulation
On a control with Assign modulation, select the activity icon to open Modulate with. Choose a named source, or choose — None to leave the control unmodulated. After you assign one, its name appears below the slider; select that name to edit the route, or use Clear modulation to remove it. The slider track shows the live signal reaching the control.
| Modulated control | Section | What the route changes |
|---|---|---|
| Spread | Shape | Sets the overall width of the wall and floor paths. |
| Center Gap | Shape | Sets the full dark gap between the left and right halves of the wall. |
| Spacing Variation | Shape | Shifts stable paths toward the center or edges while preserving their order. |
| Wall Height | Shape | Sets the physical height of the upright wall without moving the camera. |
| Floor Length | Shape | Sets how far the floor extends from the wall toward the viewer without moving the camera. |
| Floor Spread | Shape | Changes how widely the floor paths fan toward the foreground while preserving the wall width. |
| Bend Radius | Shape | Changes the physical radius of the rounded turn from wall to floor. |
| Floor Angle | Shape | Tilts the floor toward or away from the viewer while keeping the wall upright and the bend continuous. |
| Line Width | Light | Sets the width of each light path. |
| Glow | Light | Adds restrained color-preserving bloom around bright packets and tracks. |
| Brightness | Light | Sets how brightly the tracks and packets shine while retaining dark gaps. |
| Waveform Amount | Waveform | Moves individual path segments with the shared live waveform; 0 restores the structural paths. |
| History Depth | Waveform | Sets how much rolling waveform history travels from the floor into the wall. |
| Packet Speed | Flow | Sets how fast bright packets travel; 0 holds packets while the waveform remains live. |
| Packet Length | Flow | Sets the length of each bright head and its dim trailing light. |
| Packet Density | Flow | Sets how many independently phased packets occupy each path. |
| Trail Length | Flow | Sets how far each leading tip leaves a smooth fading wake while retaining dark space ahead. |
| Angle | Camera | Turns the selected view around the wall while keeping the bend as its focus. |
| Distance | Camera | Moves the camera toward or away from the wall while keeping the bend in view. |
| Elevation | Camera | Raises the camera above the floor to change its view of the fan and bend. |
Settings reference
Source
| Setting | Available values | What it changes |
|---|---|---|
| Background Opacity | 0–1 | Fades the black stage while keeping the light paths intact for compositing. |
Shape
| Setting | Available values | What it changes |
|---|---|---|
| Lines | 18–96 | Sets the number of stable paths across the curtain; surviving paths keep their positions and colors. |
| Spread | 8–28 | Sets the overall width of the wall and floor paths. Use Assign modulation to choose a source. |
| Center Gap | 0–5 | Sets the full dark gap between the left and right halves of the wall. Use Assign modulation to choose a source. |
| Spacing Variation | -1–1 | Shifts stable paths toward the center or edges while preserving their order. Use Assign modulation to choose a source. |
| Wall Height | 7–22 | Sets the physical height of the upright wall without moving the camera. Use Assign modulation to choose a source. |
| Floor Length | 10–30 | Sets how far the floor extends from the wall toward the viewer without moving the camera. Use Assign modulation to choose a source. |
| Floor Spread | 0.4x–2.5x | Changes how widely the floor paths fan toward the foreground while preserving the wall width. Use Assign modulation to choose a source. |
| Bend Radius | 1–7 | Changes the physical radius of the rounded turn from wall to floor. Use Assign modulation to choose a source. |
| Floor Angle | -20°–30° | Tilts the floor toward or away from the viewer while keeping the wall upright and the bend continuous. Use Assign modulation to choose a source. |
Light
| Setting | Available values | What it changes |
|---|---|---|
| Line Width | 0.035–0.28 | Sets the width of each light path. Use Assign modulation to choose a source. |
| Glow | 0–1.5 | Adds restrained color-preserving bloom around bright packets and tracks. Use Assign modulation to choose a source. |
| Brightness | 0.25–2 | Sets how brightly the tracks and packets shine while retaining dark gaps. Use Assign modulation to choose a source. |
| Palette | ARCTIC, VIOLET, LASER, SUNSET, SILVER | Assigns stable color roles across the paths. |
Waveform
| Setting | Available values | What it changes |
|---|---|---|
| Waveform Amount | 0–2.5 | Moves individual path segments with the shared live waveform; 0 restores the structural paths. Use Assign modulation to choose a source. |
| History Depth | 0.05–1 | Sets how much rolling waveform history travels from the floor into the wall. Use Assign modulation to choose a source. |
Audio
| Setting | Available values | What it changes |
|---|---|---|
| Audio Enabled | On / Off | Enables all waveform, band and routed audio responses; off leaves only the idle choreography. |
| Smoothing | 0.01–0.99 | Sets how smoothly the shared analyzer follows the music. |
| Master Gain | 0x–3x | Scales the whole shared audio response. |
| Bass Intensity | 0x–3x | Scales controls routed to bass. |
| Mid Intensity | 0x–3x | Scales controls routed to mids. |
| High Intensity | 0x–3x | Scales controls routed to highs. |
Flow
| Setting | Available values | What it changes |
|---|---|---|
| Style | RAILS, LEADING TRAILS | Chooses traveling packets on dim rails or one leading tip with a fading wake on each dark path. |
| Tempo | FREE, BEAT SYNC | Uses free packet speed or locks each packet interval to the shared session tempo. |
| Packet Speed | 0–0.8 | Sets how fast bright packets travel; 0 holds packets while the waveform remains live. Use Assign modulation to choose a source. |
| Packet Beats | ¼, ½, 1, 2, 4, 8 | Sets the beats between packet intervals on Rails or full-path tip cycles on Leading Trails. |
| Reverse | On / Off | Reverses packet travel along the same continuous paths. |
| Packet Length | 0.04–0.5 | Sets the length of each bright head and its dim trailing light. Use Assign modulation to choose a source. |
| Packet Density | 1–10 | Sets how many independently phased packets occupy each path. Use Assign modulation to choose a source. |
| Trail Length | 0.12–0.68 | Sets how far each leading tip leaves a smooth fading wake while retaining dark space ahead. Use Assign modulation to choose a source. |
Camera
| Setting | Available values | What it changes |
|---|---|---|
| View | FRONT, SIDE, LOW FLOOR, WIDE | Chooses a front, side, low-floor or wide framing while retaining the camera controls below. |
| Motion | STILL, SLOW SWEEP | Holds the selected view or lets it sweep slowly from side to side. |
| Angle | -60°–60° | Turns the selected view around the wall while keeping the bend as its focus. Use Assign modulation to choose a source. |
| Distance | 14–32 | Moves the camera toward or away from the wall while keeping the bend in view. Use Assign modulation to choose a source. |
| Elevation | 2–10 | Raises the camera above the floor to change its view of the fan and bend. Use Assign modulation to choose a source. |
| Sweep Speed | 0.02–0.2 | Sets the speed of the slow side-to-side camera sweep. |
Some controls appear only after you enable a related mode or style. The settings panel always reflects the options available for the current selection.
Tips for a better audio visualization
- Start with a factory preset to change the palette and movement together, then adjust Bend Radius and Spread to shape the turn from wall to floor.
- Use Center Gap to open an aisle, then Spacing Variation to gather paths toward the center or the outer edges. Zero keeps the original spacing.
- Change Wall Height and Floor Length to resize the stage without moving the camera. A large bend uses more of a short floor. Choose Wide or increase Distance when framing a taller wall.
- Raise Waveform Amount with music playing to bend individual sections of the lines. Compare it at zero, then use History Depth to spread earlier sound through the wall.
- Choose Leading Trails under Flow → Style for one bright moving tip per path with a fading wake. Adjust Trail Length to change its reach. Rails keeps repeated packets on continuous paths, with Packet Length and Packet Density controls.
- Choose Free tempo to set Packet Speed, including zero to hold the light while the waveform stays live. Choose Beat Sync and Packet Beats to pace the motion at ¼, ½, 1, 2, 4 or 8 session beats: a packet interval in Rails or a full path cycle in Leading Trails. It follows the session tempo, with 120 BPM when no tempo is available. This sets the cadence; it does not align every path to a downbeat.
- Use Reverse to send the light back up the wall. Keep space between paths when raising Line Width or Glow.
- Choose Front, Side, Low Floor or Wide under Camera. Use Angle to turn the view, or choose Slow Sweep and set Sweep Speed for a gentle moving view.
- Use Background Opacity when layering Beam Wall over another source in Studio.