Resonate

Resonate is an animated line composition in BeamTracer Audio Visualizers, built on WebGPU. Settings, audio modulation, presets, and tips.

Default demo track · live audio-reactive settings

Resonate is a morphing structure of luminous loops in the Lines category. A stack of shaped rings — circles, stars, polygons, blooms — travels through space, eases into new configurations on beats and on a clock, and leaves fading ghost trails that sweep fans of light behind it. The live waveform is carved along every loop, so sound visibly ripples down the structure. Resonate requires WebGPU; see Browser Support for current platform details.

Open Resonate

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 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.
Drag on the canvas to orbit the camera; release and it eases back to autopilot.
Use Reset to Defaults whenever you want to return to the original look.

Presets and styles

Default · Deep Bass · Neon Flow · Midnight Bloom · Solar Flare · RGB · Still Water · Arctic Dawn · Deep Ocean · Moonlit · Hypnotic · Aurora

Each preset combines a layout, palette, and motion character. Applying a preset restarts the composition from that preset's base colors.

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.

Settings reference

Core

Setting	Available values	What it changes
Ring Count	10–240	How many loops form the structure. Use Assign modulation to choose a source.
Ring Spacing	0.05–0.5	Distance between loops along the structure. Supports modulation.
Base Radius	0.05–0.5	Loop size. Supports modulation.
Tube Radius	0.02–0.3	Line thickness. Supports modulation.
Ring Segments	12–96	Divisions along each loop; lower is more faceted.
Side Segments	3–12	Divisions around the tube profile.
Resolution	0.5–1	Render resolution scale — lower it on weaker machines.
Exposure	0.1–2	Overall scene exposure.

Shape

Setting	Available values	What it changes
Layout	Stack / Fan / Tunnel / Swarm	How the loops arrange themselves: a column, a fanned bouquet, a fly-through tube, or a scattered cloud. In Tunnel, the camera rides behind the traveling structure.
Shape Family	Auto / 10 shapes	Pin the base shape (circle, triangle, square, star, gear, …) or leave Auto to morph across the whole family.
Shape Variety	0–1	In Auto, how far morph targets may wander from a circle toward stars, polygons, and blooms.
Depth Warp	0–1	Out-of-plane warping of each loop — saddles, crowns, and waves.
Audio Ripple	0–2	Frequency-band ripple around each loop: bass moves the low loops, highs shimmer the top.
Wave Displace	0–2	How strongly the live waveform is carved along every loop. Silence is a clean line. Supports modulation.

Trails

Setting	Available values	What it changes
Ring Fade	On / Off	Turns the ghost trails on or off.
Fade Count	1–58	How many ghosts each loop leaves behind.
Fade Min Opacity	0–1	Opacity floor at the oldest ghost.
Trail Spacing	0.02–0.25 s	Time between ghost captures — larger values separate the fans into distinct lines.

Material

Setting	Available values	What it changes
Light Intensity	0–10	The orbiting light's strength. Supports modulation.
Light Orbit Radius	1–30	How far the light circles the structure.
Light Orbit Speed	0–20	How fast the light circles. Supports modulation.
Ambient Intensity	0–5	Scene-wide fill light.
Metalness	0–1	Surface response from matte toward mirror.
Roughness	0–1	Highlight sharpness.
Emissive Core	0–4	How strongly the loops glow from within.
Bloom Strength / Radius / Threshold	—	Glow accent around the brightest cores.

Colors

Setting	Available values	What it changes
Color A / Color B	Color	The two-tone gradient across the structure.
Auto Hue (Mat) + Hue Speed (Mat)	On/Off · 0.01–2	Slow hue drift of the material palette. Supports modulation.
Light Color, Auto Hue (Lights) + Hue Speed (Lights)	Color · On/Off · 0.01–2	The orbiting light's color and drift. Supports modulation.
Background, Auto Hue (Bg) + Hue Speed (Bg)	Color · On/Off · 0.001–0.2	Backdrop color and optional drift.

Audio

Setting	Available values	What it changes
Master Gain	0x–3x	Overall input sensitivity.
Bass / Mid / High Intensity	0x–3x	Per-band response strength.
Bass → Light Pulse	0–2	Bass hits flare the orbiting light. Supports modulation.
Mids → Orbit Speed	0–2	Mids accelerate the light's orbit. Supports modulation.
Volume → Ambient	0–2	Overall level lifts the fill light.
Beat → Transitions	On / Off	Beats trigger the structure to morph into a new configuration.
Beat Threshold	0.3–0.95	Level a beat must cross to trigger a morph.

Animation

Setting	Available values	What it changes
Auto Rotate + Rotate Speed	On/Off · 0–10	Whole-structure tumble. Supports modulation.
Meander	0–2	How far the structure travels through space, constantly opening new angles. Supports modulation.
Transition Interval	0.5–10 s	Time between scheduled morphs.
Transition Duration	0.1–6 s	How long each morph takes.

Tips for a better audio visualization

Give bass the structural motion (Base Radius, Light Pulse) and let highs live in Audio Ripple and Wave Displace; the frequency split keeps the composition legible.
Larger Trail Spacing with a high Fade Count turns motion into distinct fans of lines; small spacing melts them into silk.
Tunnel layout with a slow Rotate Speed is a strong background look; Swarm with Beat → Transitions is the wild one.

Resonate

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