Novus ecosystem documentation

Sonic Weaver (formerly Novus Visualizers) is the live music-video workflow inside the Novus ecosystem. The app runs at sonicweaver.com for creators, artists, editors, and small teams who want to upload a track (MP3, WAV, OGG, or M4A), pick an engine and a mode, customize motion and layout, and export a finished video without building every animation from scratch. The heavy compute stays on the user's device: a real-time 32-band FFT plus beat, onset, and loudness detection drives the motion; rendering uses HTML5 Canvas and WebGL via Three.js across 29 engines (Particles, Trails, Bloom, Character Motion, Radial, Spectrum, Bars, Tunnel, Waveform, Logo, Lattice, Terrain, Stage Lights, Harmonic Constellation, Chladni Resonance Plate, Voronoi Stained Glass, Procedural Night City, Spectral Topography, Fluid Ink Feedback, Arrangement Tunnel, Cover-Art Relief, Kinetic Lyric Typescape, Stereo Phase Garden, Horizon Scenes, Disco, Liquid, Portal, Now Playing, and Sketchbook) that each carry 6 or 7 modes (180 in total), composited as ordered layers; on-device Whisper generates lyric captions; and export is client-side via WebCodecs to MP4 (H.264) or WebM (VP9) up to 4K at 24/30/60 fps, with platform presets, no watermark, and no export quota. Two editors share one saved document and one deterministic renderer, so the preview always matches the export: the Classic Editor is the guided path (upload a track, choose an engine and mode, then tune colors, geometry, direction, audio bindings, captions, logos, and overlays) while the Studio Workstation is the node-based path, with direct canvas editing, ordered layers, a beat-aware timeline with beat and bar markers, keyframes and graph curves, clips and loop regions, groups, masks, blend modes, and full-document undo/redo. What is no longer ephemeral is the work itself: a free Novus account adds a Creator Studio dashboard where drafts, projects, saved documents, and albums persist durably and reopen with every setting intact, a community feed where creators publish, like, and save visualizers, and a Creators hub for building an audience, plus companion tools (Cover Art Studio, Audio Effects Generator, Lyric Video Creator, Stream Overlays, and an Audio Library) around the core editors. The distinction worth holding onto is between local compute (rendering, transcription, and export run on your hardware) and account-backed persistence (your saved projects, albums, and community posts live with your account so you can reopen them on any device). This page is the canonical hub-side reference for the product; for the full build story see novusstreamsolutions.com/product-blog/building-novus-visualizers-uploaded-track-to-video.