Built-in Audio Visualizers

Alongside its generative shaders, VS includes specialized shaders for real-time audio waveform and spectrum visualization. Each layer can receive audio input, feeding the shader with waveform and frequency data to drive dynamic visual responses. Users can fine-tune the behavior with controls for audio gain, buffer size, and spectrum decay, making it easy to create precise or abstract audio-reactive displays tailored to any sound source.

The Shape of Sound

A nod to classic analog gear, the Oscilloscope material visualizes audio waveforms in real time. It’s not only technically informative but also visually captivating. Use it for waveform-inspired designs that trace the raw energy of your sound with geometric elegance. Perfect for glitch aesthetics, experimental music, and adding a scientific edge to visuals.

Your Media, Your Style

VS supports loading images and videos into layers, allowing artists to blend their own content into the visual mix. Use modulations and blend modes with your logos, animations, and textures to make your own branded reactive show.

Say It Visually

Display custom text as a reactive visual element. Perfect for live messages, lyrics, or branding, the Text material can be modulated like any other material, giving life to your words with rhythmic movement. From pulsing titles to glitching typography, text in VS becomes an expressive part of the audiovisual narrative.

Live Feeds, Live Layers

Feed real-time video from external apps like Resolume or TouchDesigner directly into VS layers. Treat these inputs like any other source—modulate, blend, and transform them for seamless integration into your visuals.

Capture Motion, Create Emotion

Turn your webcam or external camera into a visual source. Capture live video input and apply real-time modulations, mixing it with other visual layers. This is great for adding a personal touch, VJing with physical media, or incorporating live audience visuals into a show.

Visual Feedback Loops

Route the output of the rendering engine back into one or more layers to create powerful visual feedback loops. This feature enables endlessly evolving visuals by recycling the final image as a source, allowing for effects like trails, echoes, fractals, recursive distortion, or infinite zoom. It’s a creative technique that adds a generative character to your visuals with minimal setup.

Modulation Made Simple

VS features a powerful modulation system that brings visuals to life with dynamic, responsive motion. With 2 EGs, 4 LFOs, and 4 audio modulators, users have a versatile toolkit to shape how visuals behave and evolve. Modulation sources can be routed through an intuitive matrix for precise control over parameters across visual layers, making it easy to assign and fine-tune modulation, unlocking rich, expressive visual feedback.

Open the DAW to a world of visuals

VS - Visual Synthesizer also comes in a range of plugin formats which can run inside a DAW - such as Ableton Live, FL Studio, or Logic - to react directly to your compositions in real time. Route your MIDI and audio tracks to VS and create amazing visuals right inside your DAW.

Run the Show

Users can now create a list of presets that play back in order, each for a defined duration, with optional fade-in and fade-out transitions. Alternatively, use your MIDI controller to trigger the presets yourself. Whether you're preparing a predefined set for a live show or setting up a looping visual installation, the Playlist makes it effortless to run a complete audiovisual experience with minimal manual control.

Built-in Shader Editor

For the shader enthusiasts, VS - Visual Synthesizer features a shader editor, giving you full control over your materials. Write your shaders from scratch, or port existing shaders from ISF, GLSL Sandbox, Shadertoy, or ChatGPT-generated code. The real-time preview lets you see changes instantly, streamlining your shader development experience.

Built-in Recorder

VS - Visual Synthesizer offers a built-in recorder, allowing seamless creation of high-quality videos up to 4K 60 FPS in landscape or portrait orientation, with no external software. Synchronize the recorder with the internal player or your host DAW’s transport for smooth, perfectly timed recordings.