Novus Visualizers
Sound design: the Audio Effects Generator and Audio Library
The audio companions round out a release: design custom sound effects with the Audio Effects Generator and pull royalty-free music from the Audio Library — so your visuals have the right sound to react to.
A visualizer reacts to audio, so the audio is half the asset. Novus Visualizers includes two audio companions — the Audio Effects Generator and the Audio Library — that help you get the right sound, whether you are sourcing music or adding sonic accents. This guide covers both.
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1. Source music from the Audio Library
If you do not have a track ready — or you need something you can publish without copyright worries — the Audio Library provides royalty-free music to build a visualizer around. It is the fastest path to a finished video when you need the visual more than a specific song, and it keeps your exports clear to post anywhere.
- Audio Library: royalty-free tracks to visualize.
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2. Design accents with the Audio Effects Generator
The Audio Effects Generator creates custom sound effects — risers, impacts, whooshes, and transitions — that you can use to punctuate a video. A well-placed riser into a drop or an impact on a beat adds production value and makes the visual moment land harder.
- Audio Effects Generator: risers, impacts, whooshes, transitions.
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3. Pick audio with the visual in mind
Because the visuals react to the audio, choose or build sound with reactivity in mind. A track or effect with clear transients and dynamics gives the engine more to respond to (as covered in the picking-the-perfect-song guide). Sound design and visual design reinforce each other — a punchy effect on a beat is also a punchy visual moment.
- Clear transients/dynamics → more for the visual to react to.
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4. Round out the release package
The audio companions sit alongside the visual ones — album art, lyric videos, stream overlays — so a single release can be produced end to end in one place: the music or effects, the visualizer, the cover, and the overlays, all sharing your look and all free.
Sound and visual reinforce each other
Treat audio as part of the visual design, not an afterthought — a riser into a drop is a visual moment as much as a sonic one. Use the Audio Library when you need a publishable track fast, and the Audio Effects Generator to punctuate the moments your visuals are already emphasizing.