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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