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Novus Visualizers

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  1. Beat Burst driving motion on detected beats with shake, pulse, glow, and tilt properties
    Audio & beat-sync

    Mastering beat-sync: Beat Burst and beat-reactive properties

    Make the visuals move with the music, not just under it. How Beat Burst drives primary motion on detected beats, and how to layer beat-reactive properties — shake, pulse, glow, tilt — so the hits land where you want them.

    6 min · IntermediateStart
  2. Mapping a 32-band FFT — bass, mid, treble, RMS, and onsets — to visual parameters
    Audio & beat-sync

    Audio reactivity in depth: default bindings vs customizing the FFT mapping

    Go past the defaults: understand the 32-band FFT and how bass, mid, treble, RMS loudness, and onset detection map to motion — then customize which audio signal drives which visual parameter.

    8 min · IntermediateStart
  3. Choosing the most reactive section of a track — clear beats, dynamic range, defined frequencies
    Audio & beat-sync

    Picking the perfect song (section) for your visualizer

    The track you feed the analyzer decides how good the visual can be. What makes a section reactive — clear beats, dynamic range, defined frequency content — and how to choose the part of your song that will look best.

    6 min · BeginnerStart
  4. Sound design — the Audio Effects Generator and royalty-free Audio Library
    Audio & beat-sync

    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.

    5 min · BeginnerStart
  5. The Novus Visualizers Audio Library: tracks and audio assets to build a visualizer with
    Audio & beat-sync

    Using the Audio Library when you do not have your own track

    Use the companion Audio Library to grab tracks and audio assets to build a visualizer with when you do not have your own music ready.

    5 min · BeginnerStart
  6. The Audio Effects Generator: a preset library of pads, bass, leads, and percussion for short sound elements
    Audio & beat-sync

    Adding sound elements with the Audio Effects Generator

    Use the Audio Effects Generator — a preset library of synth pads, bass, leads, and percussion — to add short sound elements like stingers, risers, and transitions to a release.

    5 min · BeginnerStart
  7. Multi-band beat sync: bass, mid, and treble each drive their own effects in Novus Visualizers
    Audio & beat-sync

    Multi-band beat sync: drive effects from bass, mid, and treble

    Go beyond one global beat: route bass, mid, and treble energy to different elements so a kick pulses one layer while hi-hats animate another, and the same preset looks different on every song.

    7 min · IntermediateStart