Visual Source
Show your camera, a shared screen, a video or an image as a visualizer, with the bass punching it in, then play effects and tracking looks over it.
Visual Source shows your own picture: press Camera, Screen or Video · Image under Source. Until you pick one, a studio photograph stands in. The bass punches the picture in with Bass Punch and can jolt it with Shake; Fill crops it to the frame and Whole Picture shows all of it. Open Effects at the bottom of the settings to put tracking boxes, plexus lines, tiles, scan lines or any other effect over it. It is the same picture the effects rack uses, so your camera opens once however many effects follow it. In Performer mode, open Presets and pick the Visual Source pill: the Camera presets start your camera in one click.
Open Visual Source
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
Clean · Kick Zoom · Mono Print · Still
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Brightness | Color | Makes the picture lighter or darker. |
| Contrast | Color | Spreads the darks and lights apart, or pulls them together. |
| Saturation | Color | From black and white at 0 to extra-vivid color at 2. |
| Zoom | Framing | Moves in on the middle of the picture. |
| Bass Punch | Framing | How far the picture punches in on each bass hit. |
| Shake | Framing | Jolts the picture sideways with the bass. |
Settings reference
Source
| Setting | Available values | What it changes |
|---|---|---|
| Fit | FILL, WHOLE PICTURE | FILL crops the picture to fill the frame; WHOLE PICTURE shows all of it with bars at the sides or top. |
| Mirror | CAMERA ONLY, ON, OFF | Shows the picture as in a mirror. CAMERA ONLY mirrors a camera, which is easier to perform with, and leaves screens, videos and images the right way round. |
| Camera | Button | Shows your camera. The browser asks the first time; allow it. With more than one camera connected, Which Camera picks one (a capture card works too). |
| Screen | Button | Shows a screen, window or browser tab you choose to share. |
| Video · Image | File | Shows a video file (it loops) or an image (it drifts slowly so effects have something to move with). The file stays in this browser. |
| Stop | Button | Switches the picture off and releases the camera or the screen; the studio photograph comes back. |
Color
| Setting | Available values | What it changes |
|---|---|---|
| Brightness | 0.2–2; default 1 | Makes the picture lighter or darker. Use Assign modulation to choose a source. |
| Contrast | 0.3–2; default 1 | Spreads the darks and lights apart, or pulls them together. Use Assign modulation to choose a source. |
| Saturation | 0–2; default 1 | From black and white at 0 to extra-vivid color at 2. Use Assign modulation to choose a source. |
| Background Opacity | 0–1; default 1 | Fades the picture out, so a backdrop behind the visualizer shows through. |
Audio
| Setting | Available values | What it changes |
|---|---|---|
| Sensitivity | 0–3; default 1 | How strongly the picture answers the music. |
| Response | 0–1; default 0.35 | Low values snap to every hit; high values glide. |
Framing
| Setting | Available values | What it changes |
|---|---|---|
| Zoom | 1–3; default 1 | Moves in on the middle of the picture. Use Assign modulation to choose a source. |
| Bass Punch | 0–0.5; default 0.08 | How far the picture punches in on each bass hit. Use Assign modulation to choose a source. |
| Shake | 0–1; default 0 | Jolts the picture sideways with the bass. Use Assign modulation to choose a source. |
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
- The picture is live only: a rendered video does not include it. To keep a performance with your camera in it, record the screen while you play.
- Leaving Visual Source for another visualizer switches the camera off, unless Visual Source is in the effects rack, which keeps it running under that visualizer.
- Use Background Opacity at zero to fade the picture out over a backdrop.