Elements

An Element is one visual. Each layer in a scene is one Element, and each Element has its own knobs. This page lists all 41, with every knob's range, starting value and what it does. Free Nebula includes a set of ready-made scenes; Nebula Pro unlocks every Element and the Layers editor to use them.

Reading the tables

Knob: the name in the app, and below it the key used in scene files.
Cable: yes means Patches can move this knob with the music. Knobs that choose from a list can't be moved by a cable.
Elements already react to the music on their own; each knob's text says how.
Where an effect starts (the Origin knobs), the app lets you pick places by hand. Those picks aren't listed here.

Pin Field`pin-field`

A field of glowing LED pins in perspective: the spectrum lights rings of pins round the source, beats send ripples outward and a dark vortex swirls at the center.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the screen blend.

Outputs, for Patches: ripple (jumps when a beat ripple starts and fades as it travels out. Output ranges from 0 to 1).

Knobs (17)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Number of pins `pins`	2,016, 4,536, 8,064, 12,600, 18,144	8,064	no	Choose fewer, chunkier pins or more, finer pins; tip size follows the grid spacing.
Origin `source`	pick position, fixed, center, bottom, top, left, right, jump, scatter, drift, melody	center	no	Where the effect starts: a fixed place, a moving one, or places you pick yourself in the app.
Pin height `height`	0 to 2	1	yes	How tall the lit pins rise.
Center falloff `falloff`	0 to 1	0	yes	Pins stay full height at the source and get shorter toward the edges. 0 keeps every pin the same; 1 shrinks the outermost pins to a stub.
Dot size `dot`	0.3 to 3	1	yes	How big the glowing tip of each pin is.
Ring spacing `rings`	0.3 to 2	1	yes	How far out the spectrum's rings reach: small keeps the bass and treble close together, large spreads them across the field.
Beat ripples `ripples`	0 to 1	0.7	yes	How strong the rings of light are that travel outward on each beat.
Ripple speed `rippleSpeed`	0.2 to 3	1	yes	How fast the beat ripples travel outward.
Whirlpool size `hole`	0 to 1.5	0.45	yes	The size of the dark hole at the source.
Whirlpool swirl `swirl`	-1 to 1	0.35	yes	How fast the pins near the hole swirl round it. Negative turns the other way.
Color `colourMode`	amber, cyan, red, shared palette, custom	amber	no	Amber LEDs, other LED colors, the shared palette, or your own color.
Custom color `colour`	a color	`#ff9a2e`	yes	With Color set to custom: the pins' color.
Pattern `pattern`	one color, a color per ring, near to far, stem to tip	one color	no	One color for every pin, a color per ring of the spectrum, a fade from near to far, or stems that fade into a different tip color.
Ring colors `spread`	0.05 to 1	0.7	yes	How far round the color wheel the rings go, from neighboring shades to every color.
Second color `colour2`	a color	`#3d7bff`	yes	Near to far: the farthest pins' color. Stem to tip: the tips' color.
Glow `glow`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	The soft haze around lit pins.
Brightness `brightness`	0.2 to 2	1	yes	Overall brightness.

Fireflies`fireflies`

A swarm of glowing sparks born at the emitters, drifting on a turning current: bass stirs eddies, hits burst new sparks, treble twinkles.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the screen blend.

Outputs, for Patches: burst (jumps when a hit bursts new sparks, then fades. Patch it into another layer to flash with the swarm. Output ranges from 0 to 1).

Knobs (20)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Origin `source`	pick position, fixed, center, bottom, top, left, right, bottom corners, all edges, ring, jump, scatter, drift, melody	bottom	no	Where the effect starts: a fixed place, a moving one, or places you pick yourself in the app.
Sources `emitters`	1 to 8 steps of 1	4	yes	How many points give birth to sparks. Changes in whole steps.
Birth spread `spread`	0 to 0.3 steps of 0.005	0.05	yes	How far from each emitter a spark can be born. 0 = exactly at the point.
Sparks `count`	2048 to 32768 steps of 1024	16384	yes	How many sparks are alive at once.
Lifetime `life`	1 to 20 steps of 0.1	7	yes	How long each spark lives before it is born again at an emitter.
Current `flow`	0 to 2	1	yes	How strongly the slow, turning current carries the sparks.
Swirl size `scale`	0.5 to 8 steps of 0.05	2.5	yes	How big the swirls in the current are. Low = wide sweeps, high = tight curls.
Rise `rise`	-1 to 1	0.35	yes	A steady drift upwards (negative: downwards), like warm air.
Bass stirring `stir`	0 to 2	0.8	yes	How much the bass churns the current into fast eddies.
Hit bursts `burst`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	On drum hits and other sudden sounds, a share of the sparks is reborn at the emitters and flung outwards. 0 = no bursts.
Twinkle `twinkle`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	How much each spark flickers; the treble makes it livelier.
Spark size `size`	0.5 to 8 steps of 0.1	2.6	yes	How big each spark is, in pixels.
Trails `trails`	0 to 1	0.55	yes	How long the fading trail behind each spark is. 0 = no trail.
Color `colourMode`	shared palette, chords, custom	shared palette	no	Where the colors come from: the shared palette all layers agree on, the song's harmony, or your two colors below.
Color range `hueSpread`	0 to 1	0.25	yes	How different the sparks' colors are from each other.
Color intensity `saturation`	0 to 1	0.7	yes	How vivid the colors are.
First color `colourA`	a color	`#ffd36b`	yes	With Color set to custom: one end of the sparks' colors.
Second color `colourB`	a color	`#7bffb0`	yes	With Color set to custom: the other end.
Glow `glow`	0 to 1	0.55	yes	The soft haze around the swarm.
Brightness `brightness`	0.2 to 2	1	yes	Overall brightness.

Tesla Arcs`tesla-arcs`

Branching lightning leaps from the emitters into the air and across to each other on every hit, crawling with the treble.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the screen blend.

Outputs, for Patches: strike (jumps when lightning strikes, then fades. Patch it into another layer to make it react to the bolts. Output ranges from 0 to 1).

Knobs (17)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Origin `source`	pick position, fixed, center, bottom, top, left, right, bottom corners, all edges, ring, jump, scatter, drift, melody	center	no	Where the effect starts: a fixed place, a moving one, or places you pick yourself in the app.
Sources `emitters`	1 to 8 steps of 1	1	yes	How many points the lightning leaps from. Changes in whole steps.
Strike path `strike`	both, outward, between sources	both	no	Where the bolts go: out into the air, across between the emitters, or a mix of both.
Standing arcs `standing`	0 to 12 steps of 1	7	yes	How many arcs are always alive, slowly wandering round like the filaments in a plasma ball. Louder music crackles them faster. Changes in whole steps.
Hit strikes `hits`	0 to 1	0.7	yes	How readily a drum hit or other sudden sound fires new bolts. Harder hits fire more at once.
Steady crackle `rate`	0 to 1	0.25	yes	Bolts that strike on their own, more often when the music is loud. 0 = only on hits.
Reach `reach`	0.1 to 1.2	0.42	yes	How far the bolts reach out into the air.
Jaggedness `rough`	0 to 1	0.55	yes	How zig-zag the bolts are. 0 = nearly straight lines.
Branches `branches`	0 to 4 steps of 1	2	yes	How many forks split off each bolt. Changes in whole steps.
Crawl `crawl`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	How much the living bolts writhe; the treble makes them livelier.
Thickness `thickness`	0.3 to 3	1.4	yes	How thick the bolts are.
Color `colourMode`	custom, shared palette, chords	custom	no	Where the color comes from: your color below, the shared palette, or the song's harmony.
Custom color `colour`	a color	`#7a9cff`	yes	With Color set to custom: the glow around the white-hot bolts.
Coil glow `nodes`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	A glowing ball at each emitter that swells gently with the loudness.
Afterglow `afterglow`	0 to 1	0.4	yes	How long a fading after-image of each bolt stays.
Glow `glow`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	The soft haze around the bolts.
Brightness `brightness`	0.2 to 2	1	yes	Overall brightness.

Plasma Globe`plasma-globe`

A glass plasma ball: branching arcs of light crawl from a glowing core to the glass, flare on hits and thicken with the loudness.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the screen blend.

Knobs (15)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Origin `source`	pick position, fixed, center, bottom, top, left, right, jump, scatter, drift, melody	center	no	Where the effect starts: a fixed place, a moving one, or places you pick yourself in the app.
Depth `originDepth`	-0.75 to 3	0	yes	Apparent distance: negative is closer, positive is farther away. Keeps the screen position fixed. Layers still overlap in stack order, without shared 3D occlusion.
Globe size `size`	0.15 to 1	0.72	yes	How big the glass ball is, as a share of the screen height.
Arcs `arcs`	2 to 12 steps of 1	9	yes	How many arcs of light are alive at once. Onsets light extra ones. Changes in whole steps.
Thickness `thickness`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	How thick the arcs are. They also thicken with the loudness.
Crawl speed `crawl`	0 to 2	0.8	yes	How fast the arcs wriggle. The treble speeds them up.
Touch wander `wander`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	How far the points where the arcs touch the glass roam around.
Hit flare `flare`	0 to 1	0.7	yes	How brightly an arc flares on a sudden hit (drums, plucks).
Branches `branches`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	How much each arc forks into a second strand near the glass.
Core glow `core`	0 to 1.5	0.8	yes	Brightness of the electrode in the middle.
Glass `glass`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	How visible the glass ball's rim and reflection are.
Color `colourMode`	classic violet, blue, green, fire, shared palette, custom	classic violet	no	Classic violet plasma, other gases, the shared palette, or your own color.
Custom color `colour`	a color	`#b44dff`	yes	With Color set to custom: the color of the arcs.
Glow `glow`	0 to 1	0.55	yes	The soft haze around the arcs.
Brightness `brightness`	0.2 to 2	1	yes	Overall brightness.

Bokeh Drift`bokeh-drift`

Soft, out-of-focus discs of light drift out of the source like defocused city lights: more light up as the music gets louder, and they twinkle with the treble.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the screen blend.

Outputs, for Patches: lit (the share of the lights that are lit right now, following the loudness. Output ranges from 0 to 1).

Knobs (15)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Origin `source`	pick position, fixed, center, bottom, top, left, right, bottom corners, all edges, ring, jump, scatter, drift, melody	bottom	no	Where the effect starts: a fixed place, a moving one, or places you pick yourself in the app.
Sources `emitters`	1 to 8 steps of 1	3	yes	How many places the lights come from. Changes in whole steps.
Count `count`	10 to 220 steps of 1	120	yes	How many discs there can be. The loudness decides how many of them are lit.
Size `size`	0.2 to 2.5	1	yes	How big the discs are.
Drift speed `speed`	0 to 2	0.8	yes	How fast the lights drift away from the source. The bass gives them a nudge.
Spread `spread`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	How widely the lights fan out as they drift.
Depth blur `focus`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	How different near and far lights look: higher makes near discs bigger and softer, far ones small and crisp.
Shape `aperture`	round, hexagon	round	no	The shape of each disc: round, or the hexagon of a six-bladed lens.
Bright rim `rim`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	How much brighter the edge of each disc is than its middle, as with real lenses.
Color fringe `fringe`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	A faint rainbow edge on each disc.
Twinkle `twinkle`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	How much the lights shimmer with the treble.
Color `colourMode`	shared palette, warm lights, cool blue, custom	shared palette	no	Shared palette all layers agree on, warm city lights, cool blues, or your own color.
Color range `hueSpread`	0 to 0.6	0.2	yes	How different the lights' colors are from each other.
Custom color `colour`	a color	`#ffb46b`	yes	With Color set to custom: the lights' main color.
Brightness `brightness`	0.2 to 2	1	yes	Overall brightness.

Fireworks`fireworks`

Shells launch on the beat and burst into colored sparks with gravity and fading trails; harder hits make bigger bursts.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the screen blend.

Outputs, for Patches: burst (jumps when a shell bursts, then fades. Patch it into another layer's brightness or size. Output ranges from 0 to 1).

Knobs (15)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Origin `source`	pick position, fixed, center, bottom, top, left, right, bottom corners, all edges, ring, jump, scatter, drift, melody	bottom	no	Where the effect starts: a fixed place, a moving one, or places you pick yourself in the app.
Sources `emitters`	1 to 8 steps of 1	3	yes	How many launch points there are. Shells take turns between them. Changes in whole steps.
Beat launches `rate`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	The chance of a shell going up on each beat. 1 = every beat.
Hit launches `hits`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	How readily a strong drum hit or other sudden sound fires an extra shell. 0 = only on the beat.
Launch height `height`	0.2 to 1.5	0.85	yes	How far the shells fly before they burst.
Style `style`	mixed, sphere, ring, willow, split sparks	mixed	no	The burst shape: mixed combines all shapes; sphere makes a full ball of sparks; ring makes a circle; willow makes long, drooping gold trails; split sparks makes sparks that split again.
Burst size `size`	0.2 to 2	1	yes	How wide and full the bursts are. Louder hits make them bigger still.
Gravity `gravity`	0 to 2	1	yes	How fast the sparks fall.
Spark size `sparkSize`	1 to 8 steps of 0.1	3	yes	How big each spark is, in pixels.
Trails `trails`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	How long the fading trail behind each spark is.
Color `colourMode`	shared palette, chords, rainbow, custom	shared palette	no	Where the colors come from: the shared palette, the song's harmony, a full rainbow, or your color below.
Color range `hueSpread`	0 to 0.5	0.2	yes	How far each burst's color may stray from the base color.
Custom color `colour`	a color	`#ff5a3c`	yes	With Color set to custom: the bursts' color.
Glow `glow`	0 to 1	0.55	yes	The soft haze around the sparks.
Brightness `brightness`	0.2 to 2	1	yes	Overall brightness.

Starscape`starscape`

An astrophotography night sky whose stars gather on the colorful parts of the layers below.

Has its own colors; set them with its color knobs. Starts with the screen blend.

Outputs, for Patches: twinkle (how much the stars are twinkling right now, 0-1 (follows the treble and the Twinkle knob). Try patching it into a shimmer or glow on another layer); meteor (rises while a shooting star crosses the sky, then falls back to 0. Try patching it into another layer's brightness for a flash with each one).

Knobs (12)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Stars `count`	5000 to 60000 steps of 1000	30000	yes	How many stars are drawn, in steps of 1,000. More = a denser sky, at a small cost in speed.
Bright stars `bright`	0 to 1	0.45	yes	What share of the stars are big, glowing stars instead of faint pinpoints. Higher = more bright stars.
Glow size `glow`	0.3 to 3	1	yes	How big the halo around the bright stars is. Higher = larger, softer glows.
Palette `palette`	natural, cool, warm, shared palette	natural	no	Star colors. Natural runs from orange to blue-white like real stars; cool and warm lean one way; shared hue uses the app's slowly turning color so it matches other layers.
Gather below `follow`	0 to 1	0.85	yes	When there are layers underneath, how much the stars bunch up on their bright, colorful parts. 0 = stars spread evenly; 1 = stars cluster tightly on what's below.
Tint from below `tint`	0 to 1	0.55	yes	When there are layers underneath, how much the stars take on the colors below them. 0 = stars keep their own colors.
Milky Way `milkyway`	on or off	on	yes	When nothing is drawn underneath, show a band of the Milky Way with its soft glow. Off = an even field of stars.
Twinkle `twinkle`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	How much the stars twinkle with the treble (hi-hats, cymbals, bright sounds). 0 = steady stars.
Bass swell `swell`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	How much the bright stars grow with the bass and the song's loudness. 0 = they stay the same size.
Shooting stars `meteors`	0 to 1	0.4	yes	How often sharp hits in the music launch a shooting star. 0 = none; at most about one every 1.2 seconds.
Origin `meteorSource`	pick position, fixed, center, bottom, top, left, right, bottom corners, all edges, jump, scatter, drift, melody	scatter	no	Where the effect starts: a fixed place, a moving one, or places you pick yourself in the app.
Drift speed `drift`	0 to 1	0.25	yes	How fast the sky slowly turns and slides. 0 = still. A change of song also pans to a new patch of sky.

Stellar Nursery`stellar-nursery`

Luminous interstellar gas, sculpted dust and newborn stars; a slow voyage through a stellar nursery.

Has its own colors; set them with its color knobs. Starts with the screen blend.

Outputs, for Patches: glow (how bright the center of the cloud is: follows the bass and the song's overall energy, slowly (over a second or two). Try it on another layer's brightness or glow); ripple (rises and falls over about 3 seconds each time a beat ripple spreads out. Try it on another layer's size or opacity for slow beat waves).

Knobs (14)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Gas density `density`	0 to 2	1.15	yes	How thick and bright the glowing gas cloud is. 0 empties the sky to stars; higher = denser, brighter gas.
Gas stirring `warp`	0 to 1.5	0.65	yes	How much the gas swirls and folds. Higher = more twisted clouds; the mid frequencies (voices, guitars) stir it further.
Fine detail `detail`	0 to 1	0.75	yes	Fine grainy texture in the gas. 0 = smooth clouds; 1 = lots of small wisps.
Dust lanes `dust`	0 to 1.5	0.85	yes	Dark dust lanes that block the glow, like the shadows in a nebula photo. 0 = no dust; higher = deeper, darker lanes.
Core glow `core`	0 to 1.5	0.8	yes	The glow of the bright center of the cloud. The bass makes it swell and brighten.
Stars `stars`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	How many stars are shown, from none to a full field.
Palette `palette`	Hubble, Webb, Orion, custom	Hubble	no	The cloud's three glow colors: Hubble uses pink, teal and gold; Webb uses copper, blue and cream, inspired by the James Webb Space Telescope; Orion uses pink, blue and peach; custom uses your three colors below. Changes blend in over about a second.
Outer gas color `hydrogen`	a color	`#ed427a`	yes	Used only when the palette is custom: the main color of the outer gas. This represents the hydrogen glow.
Inner gas color `oxygen`	a color	`#35c9c5`	yes	Used only when the palette is custom: the color of the hollow inner gas near the bright center. This represents the oxygen glow.
Edge color `sulfur`	a color	`#f5b45c`	yes	Used only when the palette is custom: the color of the thin lit edges and filaments. This represents the sulfur glow.
Camera drift `drift`	0 to 1	0.35	yes	How fast the camera drifts through the cloud. 0 holds it still.
Shimmer `shimmer`	0 to 1	0.4	yes	Fine flickering highlights along the thin wisps when the treble (cymbals, hi-hats) is loud. 0 = none.
Origin `source`	pick position, fixed, center, bottom, top, left, right, jump, scatter, drift, melody	drift	no	Where the effect starts: a fixed place, a moving one, or places you pick yourself in the app.
Beat ripples `ripples`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	Faint rings that spread out from near the bright center on the beat (at most one every 0.65 s). 0 = none.

Nebula`nebula`

64 filaments, one per frequency band, plus amoeba ripples on the beat.

Has its own colors; set them with its color knobs. Starts with the screen blend.

Outputs, for Patches: pulse (jumps up each time the filaments snap to a new shape (see Pulse), then fades in about a quarter second. Try it on another layer's brightness or size for a beat-locked kick); bloom (rises when the song suddenly gets louder (a drop after a build) and settles over about a second. Try it on another layer's glow or opacity to bloom with the big moments).

Knobs (16)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Color spin `spin`	-4 to 4 steps of 0.25	1	yes	How fast the filament colors rotate round the color wheel, in full turns every 8 bars of the song. Negative turns the other way; 0 holds the colors still.
Reach `reach`	0 to 2	1	yes	How far each filament swings out when its frequency band is louder than usual, and in when it is quieter. 0 keeps the cloud still; higher makes it breathe more with the music.
Squiggle size `squiggle`	0 to 2.5	1	yes	How wavy each filament gets as its band gets louder. Bass filaments make slow waves, treble filaments fine ones. 0 = smooth rings.
Trail length `trail`	0 to 1	0.55	yes	How long the light lingers behind moving filaments. Higher leaves longer, softer streaks; 0 draws only the current shape.
Glow `halo`	0 to 2	1	yes	The soft outer glow, which brightens with the treble (cymbals, hi-hats). 0 turns it off; 2 makes it strong. Changes fade in over about 1.5 s.
Quiet tint `sepia`	0 to 1	0.3	yes	Fades the picture towards a warm old-radio brown in quiet passages, and back to full color when the song gets loud. 0 = never.
Threads `filaments`	on or off	on	yes	Shows or hides the 64 filaments (one per frequency band). Turn off to see only the ripples and other layers.
Crystal pattern `crystal`	off, pattern 3, pattern 5, pattern 7	off	no	Adds a slowly turning grid of colored dots. Pattern 3, pattern 5 and pattern 7 use number rules in base 3, 5 and 7, each giving a different pattern. It shrinks while the song builds and flashes on note bursts.
Pulse `pulse`	off, every beat, every 2 beats, every bar, every 2 bars	every beat	no	Holds the filaments' shape, then jumps to the music's new shape (in under a tenth of a second) every beat, every 2 beats, every bar or every 2 bars. Off follows the music continuously.
Note bursts `burst`	0 to 1.5	1	yes	How hard sudden notes and hits kick the filaments near the pitch that jumped. 0 = no kicks; higher = bigger flashes and pushes.
Inhale `inhale`	0 to 1.5	1	yes	While the song builds up, the cloud draws in, then releases when the drop arrives. 0 turns this off; higher makes the inhale deeper.
Orbit speed `orbit`	-2 to 2 steps of 0.05	1	yes	How fast the camera circles the cloud. Negative goes the other way; 0 holds the view still.
Ripples `ripples`	puddle, to edges, off	puddle	no	Rings that drop on the beat, like rain in a puddle. Puddle rings stay near the middle and fade quickly; 'to edges' rings travel out to the screen edges and last longer.
Ripple line `rippleLine`	thin, thick, very thick	thin	no	How thick the ripple rings are drawn.
Drops `drops`	automatic, every beat, every 2 beats, every bar	automatic	no	How often a ripple drops: every beat, every 2 beats, every bar, or automatic. Automatic drops every beat when the song is loud and every 2 beats when it is quieter.
Ripple brightness `rippleBright`	0 to 2	1	yes	How bright the ripple rings are. 0 hides them; 2 is double.

Aurora`aurora`

Northern lights: translucent curtains with fine rays folding in the wind; bass surges, mids ripple along the folds.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the screen blend.

Outputs, for Patches: surge (how strong the current bass surge is, 0-1. Try patching it into another layer's brightness or size so it swells with the bass); glow (how bright the aurora is overall right now, smoothed, 0-1. Try patching it into a background layer so it brightens with the lights).

Knobs (13)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Curtains `curtains`	1 to 5 steps of 1	3	yes	How many curtains of light hang in the sky (1-5). Changes in whole steps; a new curtain fades in gently over about a second.
Height `height`	0.2 to 1	0.6	yes	How tall the curtains reach up the sky. Higher = longer curtains.
Folds `fold`	0 to 1	0.55	yes	How much the curtains pleat, wave and ripple. 0 = flat, smooth sheets; higher = deep folds that glow brighter where they bend.
Wind speed `wind`	0 to 1	0.3	yes	How fast the folds drift and the ripples travel along the curtains. Bass hits push them along a little faster.
Ray detail `rays`	0 to 1	0.75	yes	How strongly the fine vertical rays show in the light. 0 = smooth glowing sheets; higher = sharp, streaky rays.
Brightness `brightness`	0 to 2	1	yes	Overall brightness of the lights. Bass hits and choruses brighten them further on top of this.
Chorus bloom `bloom`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	How much the curtains grow wider, higher and brighter in choruses and build-ups. 0 = they stay the same all song.
Color `colourMode`	natural, chords, shared palette, custom	natural	no	Natural uses green with a pink-red top and a blue lower edge, like real auroras. Chords follows the song's chords. Shared palette matches the colors of other layers. Custom uses the three colors below.
Main color `green`	a color	`#38ff7a`	yes	Only for 'custom' color mode. The main color of the curtains.
Upper fringe `upper`	a color	`#f2388c`	yes	Only for 'custom' color mode. The color at the top of the curtains, where the light fades out.
Lower edge `lower`	a color	`#4d6bff`	yes	Only for 'custom' color mode. The color along the bottom edge of the curtains.
Horizon `horizon`	on or off	off	yes	Show a dark landscape silhouette along the bottom. With the 'normal' blend it also hides the layers below it.
Rotation `rotation`	0 to 360 steps of 1	0	yes	Turn the whole sky, curtains and horizon together, a full circle. 0 = curtains hang from the top as usual; 180 = upside down. The sky always fills the screen.

Rain Pond`rain-pond`

A dark pond at night: drops fall on the beats and hits, rain patters with the treble, ripples cross and reflect a colored sky and moon.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the normal blend.

Outputs, for Patches: splash (rises with each drop that lands, then fades. Patch it into another layer's brightness or size. Output ranges from 0 to 1).

Knobs (13)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Origin `source`	pick position, fixed, center, bottom, top, left, right, bottom corners, all edges, ring, jump, scatter, drift, melody	jump	no	Where the effect starts: a fixed place, a moving one, or places you pick yourself in the app.
Drop points `points`	1 to 8 steps of 1	4	yes	How many places the big drops fall at. Each beat drops at the next one in turn. Changes in whole steps.
Drop size `dropSize`	0.2 to 2	1	yes	How big the beat drops are. Louder hits still make bigger ones.
Beat drops `onBeat`	on or off	on	yes	Drop on every beat as well as on sudden hits.
Rain `rain`	0 to 1	0.45	yes	A fine rain of small drops all over the pond; it gets heavier with the treble (cymbals, hi-hats). 0 = no rain.
Ripple life `life`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	How long ripples keep spreading before the pond is still again.
Ripple speed `speed`	0.3 to 2	1	yes	How fast the ripples travel across the water.
Ripple depth `relief`	0.2 to 3	1	yes	How strongly the ripples bend the light: higher = deeper, shinier waves.
Light ripples `caustics`	0 to 2	1	yes	Bright lines of light the ripples focus onto the pebbles below.
Sky reflection `reflection`	0 to 2	1	yes	How much of the sky and moon the water reflects.
Sky `colourMode`	night, sunset, shared palette, custom	night	no	The colors the pond reflects: a blue night with a pale moon, a sunset, the shared palette, or your own color.
Sky color `skyColour`	a color	`#5a3cff`	yes	With Sky set to custom: the color the water reflects.
Brightness `brightness`	0.2 to 2	1	yes	Overall brightness.

Ink`ink`

A GPU fluid simulation stirred by the music: bass pushes slow swirls up from below, mids curl vortices, treble draws fine filaments, beats drop luminous ink at drifting emitters.

Has its own colors; set them with its color knobs. Starts with the screen blend.

Outputs, for Patches: turbulence (how hard the music is stirring the fluid right now (bass, mids and treble together), smoothed, 0-1. Try patching it into another layer's speed or brightness); ink (how much ink is in the water, 0-1: rises as ink is added, falls as it fades. Try patching it into a background layer's brightness so it dims as the ink fills in).

Knobs (17)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Material `appearance`	glowing dye, ink in water	glowing dye	no	Glowing dye makes colored light swirl on black. Ink in water makes thick paint sink from the top and billow like ink dropped in a glass.
Ink density `body`	0.3 to 3	1.3	yes	Only for 'ink in water'. How much paint each nozzle releases. Higher = thicker, more solid clouds of color.
Billowing `billow`	0 to 1	0.7	yes	Only for 'ink in water'. How much the sinking paint rolls and puffs out as it falls. Higher = bigger billows from wider nozzles.
Source spread `coverage`	0.2 to 1	1	yes	Only for 'ink in water'. How far across the screen the nozzles are spread. Lower = paint falls in a narrow band in the middle.
Flow speed `speed`	0.2 to 3	1	yes	How fast the whole fluid moves. Higher = faster. Louder, more energetic parts of a song speed it up on top of this.
Swirl `swirl`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	How much the fluid keeps its small whirlpools. Higher = curlier, more turbulent swirls; lower = smoother, lazier flow.
Thickness `viscosity`	0 to 1	0.25	yes	How thick the fluid is. Higher = movement dies out quickly, like syrup; lower = swirls keep going, like water.
Dye fade `fade`	0 to 1	0.3	yes	How quickly old ink disappears. Higher = ink fades sooner and the screen stays darker; lower = color builds up and lingers.
Origin `source`	pick position, fixed, center, bottom, top, left, right, bottom corners, all edges, ring, jump, scatter, drift, melody	drift	no	Where the effect starts: a fixed place, a moving one, or places you pick yourself in the app.
Sources `emitters`	1 to 8 steps of 1	4	yes	How many points release ink and spin the fluid (1-8). Changes in whole steps. Changing it re-spreads every emitter's color, so a patched count can make the colors jump.
Bass push `bassPush`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	How hard the bass pushes. Higher = bass hits send big plumes up from the bottom and a slow swirl round the center.
Beat ink `beatInk`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	How much ink drops on each beat: one emitter pulses per beat, and all of them on the first beat of a bar. 0 = no beat pulses.
Shimmer `trebleShimmer`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	How much the treble (hi-hats, cymbals, bright sounds) adds fine, fast ripples across the fluid. 0 = none.
Palette `palette`	shared palette, ocean, ember, aurora, candy, nebula	shared palette	no	The ink colors. 'shared palette' uses the app's slowly turning color, so it matches other layers; the others are fixed color families.
Color range `hueSpread`	0 to 0.5	0.18	yes	How different the emitters' colors are from each other. 0 = all the same color; higher = a wider rainbow. The fixed palettes always keep a little spread.
Glow `glow`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	Only for 'glowing dye'. The soft halo of light around the ink. Livelier parts of the song make it a little stronger.
Brightness `brightness`	0.3 to 2	1	yes	Overall brightness of the ink. Higher = brighter, more solid color.

Neon Jellyfish`neon-jellyfish`

Glowing see-through jellyfish swim out of the source through a dark sea: they squeeze and shoot forward on the kick drum, tentacles trailing behind.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the screen blend.

Outputs, for Patches: squeeze (how hard the jellyfish are squeezing right now: jumps on a kick and relaxes. Output ranges from 0 to 1).

Knobs (13)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Origin `source`	pick position, fixed, center, bottom, top, left, right, bottom corners, all edges, ring, jump, scatter, drift, melody	bottom	no	Where the effect starts: a fixed place, a moving one, or places you pick yourself in the app.
Sources `emitters`	1 to 4 steps of 1	2	yes	How many places the jellyfish come from. Changes in whole steps.
Jellyfish `count`	1 to 7 steps of 1	5	yes	How many jellyfish swim at once (1 to 7). Changes in whole steps.
Size `size`	0.3 to 2	1	yes	How big the jellyfish are.
Kick pulse `pulse`	0 to 1	0.7	yes	How hard a jellyfish squeezes and shoots forward on the kick drum.
Drift speed `drift`	0 to 2	0.6	yes	How fast they swim between kicks.
Wander `wander`	0 to 1	0.4	yes	How much they turn and meander as they swim.
Tentacle length `tentacles`	0.2 to 2	1	yes	How long the trailing tentacles are.
Sea specks `snow`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	Tiny drifting specks in the water around them.
Color `colourMode`	mixed neon, shared palette, custom	mixed neon	no	Mixed neon colors, the shared palette, or your own color.
Custom color `colour`	a color	`#38e8ff`	yes	With Color set to custom: the jellyfish color.
Glow `glow`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	The soft haze of light round the jellyfish.
Brightness `brightness`	0.2 to 2	1	yes	Overall brightness.

Living Painting`painting`

Load a painting and the music moves its paint along its own brushstrokes, blooms its busy areas on the beat and trades its colors with the chords, then brings it back to the original.

Has its own colors; set them with its color knobs. Starts with the normal blend.

Outputs, for Patches: melt (a rough measure of how far the paint has moved from the original, 0 = untouched, 1 = fully moved. Try patching it into another layer so it grows as the painting melts); bloom (jumps up when a beat blooms a swirl and fades over about a second. Try patching it into another layer's brightness or size to pulse with the blooms).

Knobs (16)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Fit `fit`	fill screen, whole painting	fill screen	no	Fill screen crops the painting to cover the whole screen. Whole painting shows all of it, with bare edges around it.
Likeness `likeness`	0 to 1	0	yes	Lays the untouched painting over the moving paint. 0 = only the moving paint; 1 = the original painting, still. Patch it to drift between the two.
Return `returnAmt`	0 to 1	0.55	yes	How strongly the paint is pulled back to the original painting. 0 = it never comes back and keeps drifting; higher = it settles home quickly.
Return when `returnWhen`	always, quiet parts, new sections, every 4 bars, every 8 bars	always	no	When the pull back to the original happens: all the time, only in quiet parts, for a few seconds at each new section of the song, or every 4 or 8 bars.
Moves `target`	whole painting, lines only, except lines	whole painting	no	Which part of the painting moves: all of it; only her drawn lines (pen, crayon and paint lines) while the color fields stay put; or everything except the lines, so the lines hold while the color moves around them.
Line detail `lineDetail`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	How faint a mark still counts as one of her lines. Higher = more and fainter lines join in; lower = only the boldest lines.
Line glow `lineGlow`	0 to 1	0	yes	Her lines brighten with the beat and the loudness. The glow stays where the lines were drawn.
Movement `movement`	0 to 1	0.4	yes	How much the music moves the paint. The bass and the loudness do the pushing.
Follow strokes `strokes`	0 to 1	0.8	yes	How closely the paint follows the direction of her brushstrokes. High = paint slides along her strokes; low = it swirls freely.
Favor busy areas `busy`	0 to 1	0.7	yes	How much the busy, heavily worked areas move compared with the calm, flat areas. High = calm areas stay still.
Beat blooms `bloom`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	On each beat, a swirl opens at one of the busiest spots of the painting (on the lines when only the lines move). Higher = bigger swirls.
Shimmer `shimmer`	0 to 1	0.35	yes	A fine trembling of the paint driven by the high notes (cymbals, hats, sparkle).
Swirl `swirl`	0 to 1	0.4	yes	How much the paint curls into small eddies as it moves.
Thickness `viscosity`	0 to 1	0.35	yes	How thick the paint feels. Thick paint moves in short, heavy pushes; thin paint flows on further, like a wash.
Chord colors `colourShift`	0 to 1	0.35	yes	When the chord changes, her colors trade places with each other: each area takes on another of her own colors, keeping its lightness. 0 = colors never change.
Brightness `brightness`	0.5 to 1.5	1	yes	Overall brightness of the painting.

Melody Thread`melody-thread`

A glowing silk ribbon traces the sung melody: pitch is height, loudness is thickness, vibrato shimmers, sustained notes bloom, chords tint it.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the screen blend.

Outputs, for Patches: voice (how strongly someone is singing right now, 0 in instrumental gaps and about 0.7 while singing. Try patching it into another layer's brightness so it lights up with the vocals. This combines how confidently a voice is detected with its loudness); pitch (how high the melody is, 0 = low, 1 = high (smoothed). Try patching it into a color or position knob on another layer).

Knobs (17)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Follow `follow`	automatic, analyzed melody, live sound	automatic	no	Where the ribbon gets the tune from. Automatic uses the analyzed melody once it is ready, and live sound until then. Analyzed melody uses the song analysis; live sound follows the sound bands and works on any song right away.
Pitch zoom `zoom`	0.5 to 3	1.5	yes	How far the ribbon rises and falls for each note. Higher = bigger swings between low and high notes; the line stays centered on the singer's usual range.
Smoothness `smoothness`	0 to 1	0.4	yes	How long the ribbon takes to glide to a new note (about 0.03 to 0.4 s). Lower shows every wobble and vibrato; higher draws long, smooth curves.
Fade in gaps `gapFade`	0 to 1	0.4	yes	How slowly the ribbon dims when the singing stops (about 0.1 to 1.5 s). Higher = it lingers through short pauses.
Origin `source`	center, bottom, top, left, right, jump, scatter	right	no	Where the effect starts: a fixed place, a moving one, or places you pick yourself in the app.
Wrap edges `wrap`	on or off	off	yes	On: a line that leaves one edge comes back in at the opposite edge until it fades. Off: it simply flows off screen.
Ribbon width `width`	0.2 to 3	1	yes	How thick the ribbon is. Choruses and builds widen it further on their own.
Strands `strands`	1 to 5 steps of 1	3	yes	How many threads braid round each other (1 to 5). In center mode each strand is its own ray. Changes in whole steps.
Flow speed `speed`	0.03 to 0.5 steps of 0.005	0.11	yes	How fast the drawn line flows away from the pen, in screen lengths per second. Higher = notes spread out more and leave sooner.
Duration `trail`	1 to 30 steps of 0.1	7	yes	How long the line lives before it has faded away, in seconds (1 to 30). Long durations with Wrap on keep a whole verse on screen.
Shimmer `shimmer`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	How much the singer's vibrato shows as rippling light along the ribbon. 0 = a calm, even line.
Glow `glow`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	The soft halo of light around the ribbon. It swells a little in choruses.
Trails `echo`	0 to 1	0.35	yes	How long a faint afterimage stays where the ribbon was. 0 = clean, higher = smoky trails.
Brightness `brightness`	0.3 to 2	1	yes	Overall brightness of the ribbon and its glow.
Color `colourMode`	chords, shared palette, custom	chords	no	How the ribbon is colored. Chords follows the song's chords (related chords get related colors); shared palette uses the color all layers agree on; custom uses your two colors below.
Low notes `colourLow`	a color	`#ff7a3d`	yes	With Color set to custom: the ribbon's color on low notes. It blends towards the High notes color as the voice rises.
High notes `colourHigh`	a color	`#7ad4ff`	yes	With Color set to custom: the ribbon's color on high notes.

Note Nursery`note-nursery`

A graceful stream of little gold musical notes swims through deep space, trailing teal, violet, gold, rose and blue light. The music ripples down its body.

Has its own colors; set them with its color knobs. Starts with the screen blend.

Outputs, for Patches: pulse (smoothed beat swell, scaled by Music response. Try wiring it to another layer’s glow); nearness (mean proximity of the stream to the viewer, from distant specks to a close pass).

Knobs (15)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Notes `count`	8 to 64 steps of 1	28	yes	Number of notes traveling together. More notes make a longer dragon.
Note size `size`	0.4 to 2	1	yes	Size of the gold notes. Distance still shrinks them to specks.
Spacing `spacing`	0.4 to 2	1	yes	Distance between neighbors along the route.
Swim speed `speed`	0 to 2	0.7	yes	Forward speed through space. At zero the stream stays in place and gently undulates.
Reach `roam`	0.2 to 1	0.85	yes	How much of the screen the winding flight visits.
Depth `depth`	0 to 1	1	yes	Near and far perspective. Zero keeps every note at the same distance.
Body wave `wave`	0 to 1.5	0.65	yes	Strength of the traveling wave from head to tail.
Horizontal center `centreX`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	Horizontal center of the route: left to right.
Vertical center `centreY`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	Vertical center of the route: top to bottom.
Comet tails `tail`	0 to 1.5	0.65	yes	Length of each short colored tail. Zero removes tails.
Glow `glow`	0 to 1	0.55	yes	Soft local halo around each note, without filling the background.
Brightness `brightness`	0 to 2	1	yes	Light from notes and tails. Zero makes this layer fully transparent.
Note color `gold`	a color	`#ffda87`	yes	The notes keep this color; their tails use the five title colors.
Music response `response`	0 to 1	0.75	yes	Bass breathes size and wave; mids guide speed; treble brightens tails; beats send a soft pulse along the body; sections open the route.
Melody lift `melody`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	Confident analyzed melody gently lifts and lowers the stream. Unavailable melody stays centered. Scaled by Music response.

Attention`attention`

Glowing beads remember the music. Threads reach back to similar beats, while a faint bead guesses what comes next.

Has its own colors; set them with its color knobs. Starts with the screen blend.

Outputs, for Patches: recall (how strongly this beat resembles earlier beats, from zero to one).

Knobs (6)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Memory `memory`	32 to 256 steps of 1	128	yes	How many beats remain in the ring. Longer memory can recognize a returning chorus.
Heads `heads`	1 to 4 steps of 1	3	yes	Separate listeners for bass, middle, treble, then onset and rhythm. Each has a scene color.
Focus `focus`	0.05 to 1	0.65	yes	High focus favors strong matches. Builds spread the threads; drops lock each head to its best match.
Threads per head `threads`	1 to 12 steps of 1	5	yes	Maximum remembered beats each head reaches toward.
Guess ghost `guess`	0 to 1	0.65	yes	Brightness of the next-beat prediction. A correct guess shines; a miss briefly fragments.
Layout `layout`	Ring, Spiral, Line	Ring	no	Arrange memory in a ring, a curling spiral, or a line along the long side.

Equalizer`equalizer`

A luminous spectrum instrument: neon LEDs, liquid ribbons, radial crowns and a receding history of the sound.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the screen blend.

Outputs, for Patches: peak (the largest current value in the selected raw spectrum, before display smoothing); peakBand (the logarithmic center position of the strongest band, from bass to treble, or zero in silence); mean (the mean of the 64 selected raw bands, before display smoothing).

Knobs (25)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Style `style`	Neon LEDs, Glass bars, Spectrum ribbon, Radial crown, Perspective history	Neon LEDs	no	Choose segmented LEDs, smooth bars, a joined spectrum, a circular spectrum or past spectra in perspective.
Scale `scale`	Absolute, Normalized	Absolute	no	Absolute uses the fixed loudness mapping; Normalized follows each band’s adaptive peak.
Bars `bars`	16, 32, 64	32	no	Choose the number of bars, taking the loudest value in each group of adjacent bands.
Smoothing `smoothing`	0 to 1	0	yes	Add up to one second of smoothing; zero displays each delivered frame exactly.
Peak caps `peakHold`	on or off	on	yes	Show recent raw maxima as bright falling caps on bars and the radial crown.
Peak fall speed `fall`	0.05 to 2	0.3	yes	Set how much of the full scale the peak caps fall each second.
Bar gap `gap`	0 to 0.8	0.22	yes	Set the space between neighboring bars or radial spokes.
Roundness `roundness`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	Round the ends and corners of bars and radial spokes.
LED steps `segments`	8 to 48 steps of 1	24	yes	Set the number of light segments across the full height of an LED bar.
Ribbon edge `lineWidth`	0.5 to 5 steps of 0.1	1.5	yes	Set the thickness of the bright edge on spectrum ribbons and history rows.
Ribbon fill `fill`	0 to 1	0.25	yes	Fill the area under the spectrum ribbon with translucent color.
Mirror `mirror`	on or off	off	yes	Grow bars on both sides of the baseline or extend the radial crown inward as well.
Rotation `rotation`	-180 to 180 steps of 1	0	yes	Rotate the display without changing the frequency order or audio values.
Crown radius `radius`	0.1 to 0.65	0.35	yes	Set the empty center radius of the radial crown.
Floor reflection `reflection`	0 to 1	0.35	yes	Add a fading reflection beneath the LED, glass or ribbon spectrum.
Neon glow `glow`	0 to 1	0.65	yes	Add a soft local halo around lit bars and spectrum edges.
Brightness `brightness`	0.2 to 2	1	yes	Adjust the light intensity without changing the measured heights.
Color scheme `colourMode`	Aurora · cyan / violet, Fire · gold / crimson, Ice · blue / white, Classic · green / yellow / red, Rainbow, Shared palette, Custom gradient	Aurora · cyan / violet	no	Choose a fixed color scheme, the shared palette or your own two-color gradient.
Color direction `gradient`	By frequency, By height	By frequency	no	Run the color gradient across frequencies or up the measured height.
Low color `colour`	a color	`#28efd9`	yes	Set the low end of the Custom gradient.
High color `colourHigh`	a color	`#e348ff`	yes	Set the high end of the Custom gradient.
History rows `historyRows`	4 to 24 steps of 1	16	yes	Choose how many real past spectra appear behind the current spectrum.
History seconds `historyTime`	0.5 to 4 steps of 0.1	2	yes	Set the time covered by the fixed-size history ring.
Perspective depth `depth`	0.2 to 1	0.75	yes	Spread and shrink older history rows into the distance.
Frequency guides `guides`	on or off	off	yes	Show faint markers at 100 Hz, 1 kHz and 10 kHz without labels.

Lissajous Scope`lissajous-scope`

A glowing phosphor oscilloscope drawing harmonograph figures: the shape steps to a new ratio every bar, bass and treble set its size and the bands ripple along the trace.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the screen blend.

Outputs, for Patches: shape (jumps to 1 when the figure starts moving to a new shape, then fades over a second).

Knobs (13)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Origin `source`	pick position, fixed, center, bottom, top, left, right, jump, scatter, drift, melody	center	no	Where the effect starts: a fixed place, a moving one, or places you pick yourself in the app.
Size `size`	0.1 to 1.2	0.95	yes	How big the figure is. The bass and treble make it breathe.
Shape changes `change`	every beat, every bar, every 4 bars, chord changes, never	every bar	no	When the figure moves to a new frequency ratio: every beat, every bar, every 4 bars, on chord changes, or never.
Glide `glide`	0.05 to 3	0.8	yes	How many seconds the figure takes to unwind into the next shape.
Spin `spin`	0 to 2	0.25	yes	How fast the figure turns, as if it were a 3D wire shape.
Band ripple `ripple`	0 to 1	0.4	yes	How much the bands shake the trace along its length.
Beam width `width`	0.5 to 6 steps of 0.1	2.2	yes	Thickness of the beam, in pixels.
Trails `persistence`	0 to 1	0.35	yes	How long the phosphor keeps glowing after the beam moves on. 0 = no trail.
Color `colourMode`	green screen, amber, shared palette, custom	green screen	no	Green CRT phosphor, amber, the shared palette, or your own color.
Beam color `colour`	a color	`#7a6bff`	yes	With Color set to custom: the beam color.
Grid `graticule`	0 to 1	0.4	yes	A faint measuring grid behind the trace, like a real scope.
Glow `glow`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	The bloom around the beam.
Brightness `brightness`	0.2 to 2	1	yes	Overall brightness.

Crystal Cells`crystal-cells`

A stained-glass window of drifting cells: each pane's edges glow with its own band, the glass refracts a slow light and cells crack into shards on sharp hits.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the normal blend.

Outputs, for Patches: crack (how much of the window is cracked right now. Output ranges from 0 to 1).

Knobs (8)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Cell size `cells`	2 to 14 steps of 0.1	5	yes	How many cells fit across the screen. Higher = smaller panes.
Drift `drift`	0 to 1	0.35	yes	How quickly the cells wander and reshape. It quickens with the music's energy.
Glassiness `glass`	0 to 1	0.7	yes	How strongly each pane bends the light behind it and catches a highlight.
Edge glow `edges`	0 to 2	1	yes	How brightly the lines between panes glow; each pane's edge follows its own band.
Hit cracks `cracks`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	On sharp hits some panes crack into small shards that heal over a second or two. 0 = never.
Gem colors `gem`	amethyst, emerald, sapphire, ruby, amber, shared palette	amethyst	no	Which gem the glass is made of, or the shared palette (a rainbow window that shifts with the other layers).
Glow `glow`	0 to 1	0.4	yes	The soft haze around bright edges.
Brightness `brightness`	0.2 to 2	1	yes	Overall brightness.

Recall Lattice`recall-lattice`

A turning cloud of tiny lights remembers the music. Connections grow with repeated beats, fade when unused, and light up again when familiar sounds return.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the screen blend.

Outputs, for Patches: ripple (a strong attack sends this pulse outward through the links); recall (lights when a passage matches a stored sound shape, scaled by Recall); memory (average strength of the learned connections).

Knobs (8)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Memory `memory`	0 to 1	0.55	yes	How quickly repeated beats strengthen connections. Zero stops new learning.
Forgetting `forgetting`	0 to 1	0.25	yes	How quickly unused connections fade. Zero keeps their strength.
Recall `recall`	0 to 1	0.8	yes	How brightly a familiar passage lights its remembered web. Matching sounds are required, even when section names repeat.
Density `density`	50 to 300 steps of 1	200	yes	Number of nodes, chosen when this Element starts. Save and reload the scene to apply a new count.
Spin `spin`	0 to 1	0.3	yes	Slow turning speed. Song progress also gently turns the cloud.
Color `colourMode`	Scene palette, Fixed color	Scene palette	no	Follow the scene colors or use a fixed color.
Fixed color `colour`	a color	`#71dfff`	yes	Color used when Color is set to Fixed color.
Position `source`	Center, Chosen places, Drift	Center	no	Center the cloud, anchor it to the first chosen place, or let its center drift.

Hunch`hunch`

A pearly folded creature guesses the next musical accent. Faint paper poses rehearse ahead of the beat, then become solid or peel away when the music changes its mind.

Has its own colors; set them with its color knobs. Starts with the normal blend.

Outputs, for Patches: confidence (agreement in the recent rhythm and band pattern, from zero to one); surprise (a brief rise when an accent differs from the prediction or fails to arrive).

Knobs (8)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Origin `source`	pick position, fixed, center, bottom, top, left, right, bottom corners, all edges, ring	center	no	Where the effect starts: a fixed place, a moving one, or places you pick yourself in the app.
Scale `scale`	15 to 100 steps of 1	65	yes	Size as a percentage of the screen’s short side.
Anticipation `anticipation`	0 to 2 steps of 0.05	1	yes	How many beats ahead the next pose begins to unfold. Zero hides previews.
Alternatives `alternatives`	1 to 3 steps of 1	2	yes	Number of possible next poses rehearsed in tracing paper.
Conviction `conviction`	0 to 100 steps of 1	70	yes	Soft folding at zero; crisp decisions at one hundred.
Flexibility `flexibility`	0 to 100 steps of 1	25	yes	Rigid paper hinges through gently curved sheets.
Finish `finish`	Pearl, Brushed metal, Translucent	Pearl	no	The surface of the folded sheets. Scene colors tint every finish.
Ghost opacity `ghostOpacity`	0 to 60 steps of 1	28	yes	Visibility of the possible poses. Zero shows only the solid creature.

Counterfactual`counterfactual`

Luminous ribbons imagine several futures. The next hit chooses one; the others fold into faint ghosts. Chosen paths slowly grow a shared shape.

Has its own colors; set them with its color knobs. Starts with the screen blend.

Outputs, for Patches: conviction (confidence in the last matching future, from zero to one); surprise (how far the hit departed from the prediction or recent pattern, from zero to one).

Knobs (8)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Futures `futures`	2 to 8 steps of 1	6	yes	Maximum ribbons across the entire picture, including outgoing thoughts and all anchors. Energy opens more possibilities.
Foresight `foresight`	0.25 to 2	1	yes	How many beats ahead the ribbons reach. Quiet passages grow slowly and carefully.
Commitment `commitment`	0 to 1	0.75	yes	How solid and bright a matching prediction becomes on the next hit.
Memory trail `memory`	0 to 1	0.55	yes	How long faint diagrams of earlier paths remain. Zero clears the ghosts.
Curiosity `curiosity`	0 to 1	0.55	yes	Calm to wild: opens the crown and increases curling, forks and petals.
Underlayer instinct `instinct`	-1 to 1	0	yes	Negative avoids bright parts of lower layers; positive seeks them. Zero follows the music alone.
Line character `character`	Silk, Glass, Electric, Ink	Silk	no	Silk flows softly; glass has bright edges; electric shivers; ink makes broad dark-edged strokes.
Origin `source`	Center, Anchors, Drift	Center	no	Grow from the center or chosen anchors. Anchors share the same ribbon budget.

Second Guess`second-guess`

Ghosts guess the coming beats. They drift into a fine now line, glow when right and scatter into sparks when surprised. Repeating music gradually sharpens the forecast.

Has its own colors; set them with its color knobs. Starts with the screen blend.

Knobs (8)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Lookahead `lookahead`	2 to 16 steps of 1	8	yes	How many future beats fit ahead of the now line. These are guesses learned from previous beats, not future audio.
Confidence `confidence`	0 to 1	0.35	yes	How solid an unfamiliar prediction starts. Repeated patterns become clearer as they are learned.
Memory `memory`	1 to 16 steps of 1	4	yes	Bars remembered by the sixteen-beat pattern. Short memory adapts quickly; long memory holds earlier patterns.
Surprise flare `flare`	0 to 2	1	yes	White light and sparks when the sound differs from the forecast. Zero removes the surprise flare.
Ripple into layer below `ripple`	0 to 1	0.35	yes	A surprise sends a ripple through bright parts of the lower layers. Needs a visible layer below.
Trail `trail`	0 to 1	0.55	yes	How long resolved beats glow behind the now line.
Origin `source`	pick position, fixed, center, bottom, top, left, right, bottom corners, all edges, ring	fixed	no	Where the effect starts: a fixed place, a moving one, or places you pick yourself in the app.
Emit from anchors `anchors`	on or off	off	yes	Ghosts drift from the nearest chosen anchor toward the now line. Uses the layer’s shared places.

Logit Garden`logit-garden`

Luminous marks compete to be the next choice. Music tilts their odds; each beat prints a winner into a drifting ribbon of memories.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the screen blend.

Knobs (8)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Candidates `candidates`	4 to 16 steps of 1	8	yes	How many marks compete. Each listens to a different group of music frequencies.
Temperature bias `temperature`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	Higher values make the choice more decisive. Bass and musical builds sharpen it further.
Attention threads `attention`	0 to 1	0.45	yes	Brightness of the fine connections between candidates. Zero hides the threads.
Ribbon speed `ribbonSpeed`	0 to 2	0.7	yes	How quickly earlier winners drift along the ribbon. Zero stops the drift; new winners still advance the sentence.
Glyph style `glyphStyle`	Runes, Circuits, Strokes, Dots	Runes	no	Four families of abstract marks, never real text.
Color mode `colourMode`	Scene palette, Hue turn, Picture underneath	Scene palette	no	Use scene colors, a turning color wheel, or sample the lower layers. An empty lower picture keeps the palette visible.
Drop flare `dropFlare`	0 to 1	0.7	yes	Size and strength of the winning mark during an analyzed drop. Zero removes the large flare.
Origin `source`	Center, Chosen places, Bottom, Ring, Drift	Center	no	The fan rises from these anchors. Nearby anchors gather into one stream.

Solid`solid`

One flat color over the whole screen. Under everything it is a colored background; with Multiply on top it tints the layers below; with Add a cable on Brightness makes it flash.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the normal blend.

Knobs (3)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Color `colourMode`	custom, scene colors	custom	no	Your own color, or the moving scene color (it travels along the scene colors).
Color `colour`	a color	`#141b33`	yes	The color, when Color is custom.
Brightness `brightness`	0 to 2	1	yes	How bright the color is. 0 is black. A cable from the beat or a hit makes it pulse.

Gradient`gradient`

Two colors blended across the screen, straight or round from a point, turning slowly if you like. A calm background, or a color wash over everything with Multiply.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the normal blend.

Knobs (11)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Style `style`	straight, round	straight	no	Straight: from one side to the other. Round: from a point outward.
Angle `angle`	0 to 360 steps of 1	90	yes	Which way the colors run, in degrees. 90 runs from top to bottom.
Turn `turn`	-1 to 1	0	yes	Turns the angle slowly: 1 goes once round in 10 seconds, negative the other way.
Center across `x`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	Where the middle of the blend sits, left (0) to right (1).
Center down `y`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	Where the middle of the blend sits, top (0) to bottom (1).
Spread `spread`	0.1 to 2	1	yes	How wide the blend is. Small gives a sharp edge between the colors; large a long, soft fade.
Colors `colourMode`	custom, scene colors	custom	no	Your own two colors, or two of the scene colors, moving along them.
First color `colourA`	a color	`#0b1030`	yes	The color at the start (the top, or the middle of a round gradient).
Second color `colourB`	a color	`#5a2a6e`	yes	The color at the end (the bottom, or the outside of a round gradient).
Color distance `paletteSpread`	0 to 1	0.3	yes	How far apart along the scene colors the two ends are.
Brightness `brightness`	0 to 2	1	yes	How bright the gradient is.

Shape`shape`

One clean shape: a circle, ring, square or triangle. Put a cable from the bass on its size for a pulse, or from the bar on its rotation; with Difference it inverts what is behind it.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the screen blend.

Knobs (11)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Shape `shape`	circle, ring, square, triangle	circle	no	Which shape.
Size `size`	0.02 to 1	0.25	yes	How big it is, as a share of the screen's shorter side. A cable from the bass makes it pulse.
Ring width `thickness`	0.005 to 0.3 steps of 0.005	0.04	yes	How thick the ring's line is.
Softness `softness`	0 to 1	0	yes	How soft the edge is: 0 is crisp, 1 a soft glow.
Rotation `rotation`	0 to 360 steps of 1	0	yes	Turns the shape, in degrees (a circle looks the same).
Spin `spin`	-1 to 1	0	yes	Keeps it turning: 1 goes once round in 10 seconds, negative the other way.
Across `x`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	Where it sits, left (0) to right (1).
Down `y`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	Where it sits, top (0) to bottom (1). A cable from the melody makes it rise and fall.
Color `colourMode`	custom, scene colors	custom	no	Your own color, or the moving scene color.
Color `colour`	a color	`#8fb4ff`	yes	The shape's color, when Color is custom.
Brightness `brightness`	0 to 2	1	yes	How bright the shape is.

Vignette`vignette`

Darkens the edges of the screen so the eye goes to the middle. Put it on top. A colored vignette with Screen makes a glowing frame instead.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the normal blend.

Knobs (8)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Strength `strength`	0 to 1	0.8	yes	How dark (or bright) the edges get. A cable from energy can open it up in the loud parts.
Clear middle `size`	0 to 1.5	0.7	yes	How big the untouched middle is.
Softness `softness`	0.02 to 1.5	0.6	yes	How gradual the edge is: small is a hard frame, large a long fade.
Roundness `roundness`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	0 follows the screen's shape (an oval on a wide screen); 1 a circle.
Center across `x`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	Where the clear middle sits, left (0) to right (1).
Center down `y`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	Where the clear middle sits, top (0) to bottom (1).
Color `colourMode`	custom, scene colors	custom	no	Black (or your own color), or the moving scene color.
Edge color `colour`	a color	`#000000`	yes	The edges' color. Black darkens; a color with Screen glows.

Sand Plate`sand-plate`

Glowing sand on a vibrating plate gathers into Chladni figures: every chord shakes it into a new figure, hits throw grains up, bass blurs the lines and treble sparkles.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the screen blend.

Outputs, for Patches: change (jumps to 1 when the chord changes the figure, then fades over about a second. Output ranges from 0 to 1).

Knobs (14)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Grains `count`	8192 to 65536 steps of 1024	49152	yes	How many grains of sand are on the plate.
Detail `detail`	0 to 1 steps of 0.25	0.5	yes	How intricate the figures are. Low = a few bold lines, high = fine lace.
Figure size `scale`	0.4 to 2	1	yes	How big one figure is. 1 = it fills the short side of the screen; smaller repeats it like tiles.
Change time `morph`	0.2 to 3 steps of 0.05	0.9	yes	How many seconds the sand takes to travel to a new figure when the chord changes.
Bass shake `shake`	0 to 2	1	yes	How much the bass shakes the plate: the lines blur and fizz. 0 = always razor sharp.
Hit bounce `bounce`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	On drum hits, a share of the grains is thrown up off the plate, flares and lands a little scattered. 0 = no bounce.
Sparkle `sparkle`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	How much the treble makes moving grains glint.
Grain size `size`	0.5 to 4 steps of 0.1	2	yes	How big each grain is, in pixels.
Trails `trails`	0 to 1	0.25	yes	How long the fading trail behind moving grains is. 0 = no trail.
Glow `glow`	0 to 1	0.55	yes	The soft haze around the lines.
Brightness `brightness`	0.2 to 2	1	yes	Overall brightness.
Color `colourMode`	shared palette, chords, custom	shared palette	no	Where the colors come from: the shared palette all layers agree on, the song's harmony, or your two colors below.
Middle color `colourA`	a color	`#ffcf7a`	yes	With Color set to custom: the color of the sand in the middle of the plate.
Edge color `colourB`	a color	`#7ad8ff`	yes	With Color set to custom: the color toward the edges.

Pendulum Wave`pendulum-wave`

Hanging rigs of luminous pendulums swing into waves and braids, drift apart and reunite: bass widens the arcs, hits gather their phases, treble glints at each crossing. Idea by Astra and Fable.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the screen blend.

Knobs (12)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Bobs per rig `count`	24 to 64 steps of 1	40	yes	How many distinct pendulums hang in each rig. Fewer makes the waves and individual strings easier to follow.
Arrangement `layout`	hanging rows, concentric rings	hanging rows	no	A hanging curtain or rings of suspended lights. Both use the same ordered swing law.
Reunion bars `reunion`	2 to 16 steps of 2	8	yes	Base reunion period in bars. Alternating rigs use half and equal periods, developing long waves through most of the cycle with a brief disorder interval. Unknown tempo uses 120 BPM.
Swing `swing`	0 to 1.5	0.85	yes	Vertical swing relative to the gap between rigs. Bass and musical energy open the waves; quiet music keeps a smaller visible wave.
Hit gathering `sync`	0 to 1	0.3	yes	Ordinary hits tighten the wave partway and send a flash along it without resetting its clock. Rare strong onsets at high energy gather completely; full resets are at least eight seconds apart. Zero disables both.
Treble glints `glints`	0 to 1	0.65	yes	Treble makes lights flash briefly as they cross the middle of their swing.
Depth `depth`	0 to 1	0.85	yes	Compresses distant rigs and shrinks their bobs while opening dark space between the large foreground pendulums.
Strings `strings`	0 to 1	0.7	yes	Visible suspension threads and their supporting rails. Zero hides both.
Trails `trails`	0 to 1	0.25	yes	A short comet hugging each bob's swing arc. Zero removes tails; no past-frame haze is retained.
Color `colourMode`	shared palette, chords	shared palette	no	Phase blends smoothly through a narrow scene-palette range, or related hues around the chord root.
Glow `glow`	0 to 1	0.55	yes	The soft halo around the suspended lights.
Brightness `brightness`	0.2 to 2	1.15	yes	Overall light output.

Sync Lanterns`sync-lanterns`

A field of lanterns that pull each other into step, so waves and spirals of flashes sweep across it: beats pulse the field, big hits flash it all at once, bass draws it together, treble breaks it up.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the screen blend.

Outputs, for Patches: hit (jumps when a big hit flashes the whole field, then fades. Patch it into another layer to flash with it. Output ranges from 0 to 1).

Knobs (16)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Lanterns `density`	30 to 160 steps of 1	70	yes	How many lanterns fit across the short side of the screen. More gives finer waves.
Lantern size `size`	0.15 to 1	0.5	yes	How big each lantern is, as a share of the gap to its neighbor. Small keeps dark gaps between them.
Tilt `tilt`	0 to 0.9	0.45	yes	Tips the field back like a plain of lanterns seen from above. 0 = flat, facing you.
Blink rate `speed`	0.25 to 2 steps of 0.05	0.5	yes	How often each lantern flashes, in flashes per beat at the song's tempo.
Flash length `flash`	0.04 to 0.4	0.12	yes	How long a flash glows before the lantern goes dark, as a share of its cycle. Short = crisp blinks.
Pull together `coupling`	0 to 2	1	yes	How strongly each lantern pulls its neighbors into step; the bass makes it stronger, so loud bass gives faster, smoother sweeping waves and quiet parts drift more loosely.
Disorder `spread`	0 to 1	0.3	yes	How rough the fronts are: each lantern's own rhythm differs a little, and the treble scatters the flashes along the fronts into sparkle (the waves themselves stay whole).
Spiral twist `twist`	0 to 1.2	0.7	yes	How much the waves curl into turning spirals. 0 = plain fronts that settle into step.
Beat pulse `beatKick`	0 to 1	0.3	yes	On each beat where a flash is due, every lantern is nudged toward flashing, so the field pulses with the beat.
Hit flash `hit`	0 to 1	0.8	yes	On a big hit nearly every lantern flashes at once, then they drift apart again. 0 = off.
Color `colourMode`	shared palette, chords, custom	shared palette	no	Where the colors come from: the shared palette all layers agree on (the chord walks the lanterns along it), the song's chords, or your two colors below.
Color range `hueSpread`	0 to 1	0.25	yes	How different the lanterns' colors are from each other.
First color `colourA`	a color	`#ffc46b`	yes	With Color set to custom: one end of the lanterns' colors.
Second color `colourB`	a color	`#6bd8ff`	yes	With Color set to custom: the other end.
Glow `glow`	0 to 1	0.55	yes	The soft haze around the flashing lanterns.
Brightness `brightness`	0.2 to 2	1	yes	Overall brightness.

Iron Filings`iron-filings`

Thousands of glowing needles combed along the field of magnetic poles that sit on the chord's notes: hits flip a pole and the field re-combs in a wave, bass pulls the needles tight, the spectrum sends light running along the field lines.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the screen blend.

Outputs, for Patches: flip (jumps when a pole flips (fully when all flip), then fades. Patch it into another layer to flash with the field. Output ranges from 0 to 1).

Knobs (12)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Needles `count`	8192 to 40960 steps of 1024	24576	yes	How many needles cover the screen. More = finer, denser field lines.
Poles `poles`	2 to 8 steps of 1	4	yes	How many magnetic poles shape the field. They sit on the chord's notes round a slowly turning ring and glide when the chord changes. Changes in whole steps.
Needle length `length`	0.4 to 2	1	yes	How long each needle is, compared with the gap between them.
Turn speed `response`	0.2 to 3	1	yes	How quickly the needles swing round to follow the field. Low = slow, heavy waves when the field changes.
Hit flips `flips`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	On beats, one pole flips (north becomes south) and the needles re-comb end for end in a wave spreading from it; a big hit flips them all. 1 = every beat, 0.5 = every other beat, 0 = never.
Bass pull `bassPull`	0 to 2	1	yes	How much the bass strengthens the field: the needles line up tight and glow brighter. With no bass they lie loose.
Light pulses `pulses`	0 to 2	1	yes	Pulses of light that run along the field lines, each line lit by its own part of the spectrum. 0 = none.
Treble shiver `shiver`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	How much the treble makes the needles tremble.
Color `colourMode`	shared palette, chords	shared palette	no	Where the colors come from: the shared palette all layers agree on, or the song's chords.
Color range `hueSpread`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	How different the colors round each pole are from each other.
Glow `glow`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	The soft haze around the needles.
Brightness `brightness`	0.2 to 2	1	yes	Overall brightness.

Sequin Tide`sequin-tide`

Thousands of luminous diamonds hinge together across a curved skin: bass billows, hits send flips traveling, and chords turn the sweeping flashes.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the screen blend.

Knobs (11)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Sequins `count`	3000 to 5000 steps of 100	3200	yes	How many facets cover the surface; fewer leaves more dark space between diamonds.
Facet size `facet`	0.6 to 1.25	1	yes	The long axis of each narrow diamond, scaled to the screen’s short side.
Billow `billow`	0 to 1.5	0.7	yes	How deeply the skin bends; bass pushes the billow further.
Tilt `tilt`	0 to 1.5	1	yes	How far the sequins turn around their hinges, narrowing to nothing when edge-on.
Sweep speed `sweep`	0.1 to 1.8	0.65	yes	How quickly the shared tilt wave crosses the surface; chords slowly turn its direction.
Variation `variation`	0 to 1	0.45	yes	Differences in hinge direction, stiffness and delay break a flash into individual glints.
Hit flips `flips`	0 to 1	0.75	yes	How strongly drum hits launch a traveling band of turns. Zero disables hit flips.
Flutter `flutter`	0 to 1	0.45	yes	Treble adds a fine flutter near the edge of each turn.
Color `colourMode`	shared palette, chords	shared palette	no	Use the shared scene palette or colors chosen by chord root.
Glow `glow`	0 to 1	0.32	yes	Soft light around each flash; lower values keep the diamonds crisp.
Brightness `brightness`	0.2 to 2	1	yes	Overall light from the sequins and their glow.

Attractor Cloud`attractor-cloud`

A cloud of glowing points streaming along a turning 3D strange attractor: bass makes the shape breathe, hits fling points out and the flow pulls them back, chord changes morph it into the next shape, treble sparkles.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the screen blend.

Outputs, for Patches: scatter (jumps when a hit flings points out, then fades. Output ranges from 0 to 1).

Knobs (17)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Shape `shape`	cycle with the chords, Thomas (knot), Halvorsen (three lobes), Dadras (two loops), Lorenz (butterfly), Aizawa (hollow sphere)	cycle with the chords	no	Which attractor the points follow. Cycle moves to the next one every fourth chord change (or every 24 seconds without chords).
Points `count`	16384 to 262144 steps of 8192	131072	yes	How many points stream along the shape. More is denser and costs more (the 131k default keeps an iPhone XS at 60 fps).
Flow speed `speed`	0.2 to 3	1	yes	How fast the points run along the shape; the music's energy adds a little.
Turning `turn`	0 to 2	0.5	yes	How fast the whole cloud turns round. 0 = still.
Size `fill`	0.5 to 1.6	1	yes	How much of the screen the cloud fills.
Bass breathing `breathe`	0 to 1	0.7	yes	How much the bass bends the shape (one of its parameters moves with the low end).
Hit scatter `scatter`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	On drum hits a share of the points is flung outward, then the flow pulls them back. 0 = no scatter.
Sparkle `sparkle`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	How much each point flickers; the treble makes it livelier.
Point size `size`	0.5 to 5 steps of 0.1	1.8	yes	How big each point is, in pixels. Nearer points are drawn bigger.
Streaks `streak`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	How long the short line each point draws along its flow is. 0 = dots only (about half the GPU cost, but grainier).
Trails `trails`	0 to 1	0.4	yes	How long the fading trail behind the points is. 0 = none.
Color `colourMode`	shared palette, chords, custom	shared palette	no	Where the colors come from: the shared palette all layers agree on, the song's harmony, or your two colors below.
Color range `hueSpread`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	How far round the scene's colors (or between your two) the streams go: low keeps the cloud one color, high gives each stream its own.
First color `colourA`	a color	`#6be0ff`	yes	With Color set to custom: the slower points' color.
Second color `colourB`	a color	`#ff7ad9`	yes	With Color set to custom: the faster points' color.
Glow `glow`	0 to 1	0.35	yes	The soft haze around the cloud.
Brightness `brightness`	0.2 to 2	1	yes	Overall brightness.

Ring System`ring-system`

Thirty thousand moons on orbits round a dark world, piled into spiral arms by their shared precession: hits squeeze every orbit so the ring breathes, bass makes the world heavier and the arms tighter, treble sparkles at closest approach, chords swing the arms round.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the screen blend.

Outputs, for Patches: breath (jumps when a hit squeezes the orbits, then relaxes. Patch it into another layer to breathe with the ring. Output ranges from 0 to 1).

Knobs (30)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Moons `count`	1024 to 49152 steps of 1024	30000	yes	How many moons orbit. More = a denser ring, at a small cost in speed.
Ring size `size`	0.4 to 1.6	1	yes	How big the ring is on the screen. 1 just fits the long side.
World `body`	0 to 0.45	0.2	yes	How big the world at the center is, as a share of the ring. 0 = no world, only the rings.
Center hole `hole`	0.05 to 0.6	0.25	yes	How big the empty middle of the ring is, as a share of the ring. Separate from the world, so World 0 leaves the rings round an empty hole.
World look `world`	black hole, star, banded, dark	black hole	no	What sits in the middle: a black hole that bends the ring's light round it, a burning star, a gas giant with cloud bands in the scene colors, or a plain dark world.
World spin `spin`	0 to 3	1	yes	How fast the world's cloud bands turn, or the star's surface boils. The bass stirs them faster. Banded and star looks.
Aurora `aurora`	0 to 1.5	0.6	yes	How bright the aurora flashes round the world's poles on drum hits (the banded look), or the flares off the star.
Tilt `tilt`	0 to 1	0.55	yes	How much the disc leans away from you. 0 = as round as fits the screen, 1 = nearly edge on.
Thickness `thickness`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	How far the moons stray above and below the disc.
Gaps `gaps`	0 to 3 steps of 1	2	yes	How many gaps are swept clear in the ring, each kept by one bright shepherd moon.
Speed `speed`	0 to 3	1	yes	How fast the moons go round. Inner moons always go faster than outer ones.
Stretch `eccentricity`	0 to 2	1	yes	How oval the orbits are. 0 = circles.
Arms `arms`	0 to 3	1.4	yes	How tightly the spiral arms wind. 0 = no arms, just an oval ring.
Arm turn `precession`	-2 to 2	0.6	yes	How fast the arms turn on their own. Negative turns the other way.
Bass weight `mass`	0 to 1.5	0.7	yes	How much the bass makes the world heavier: the moons speed up and the arms wind tighter.
Hit breath `breath`	0 to 1.5	0.6	yes	On drum hits, every orbit is squeezed toward one side at once, so the whole ring breathes in and relaxes.
Sparkle `sparkle`	0 to 1.5	0.7	yes	How much the moons flash at their closest approach when the treble is loud.
Chord swing `chordSwing`	0 to 1	1	yes	How far a chord change swings the arms round. 0 = chords do nothing.
Color `colourMode`	scene colors, custom	scene colors	no	Where the colors come from: the scene colors from the inside out, or your two colors below.
Color range `hueSpread`	0 to 1	0.8	yes	How far the color changes from the inner ring to the outer edge.
Color intensity `saturation`	0 to 1	0.85	yes	How vivid the colors are when the scene has no colors of its own.
Inner color `colourA`	a color	`#ff5e3a`	yes	With Color set to custom: the color of the inner ring.
Outer color `colourB`	a color	`#3ad0ff`	yes	With Color set to custom: the color of the outer edge.
World color `worldColour`	ring colors, custom	ring colors	no	The colors of the star or world in the middle: taken from the ring, or your two colors below. The black hole has no color of its own.
World main color `worldA`	a color	`#ffb347`	yes	With World color set to custom: the star's glow, the dark world's lit edge, and one end of the banded world's stripes.
World second color `worldB`	a color	`#5a7bff`	yes	With World color set to custom: the other end of the banded world's stripes.
Moon size `size_px`	1 to 8 steps of 0.1	2.8	yes	How big each moon is, in pixels.
Trails `trails`	0 to 1	0.25	yes	How long the light lingers behind each moon. 0 = no trail.
Glow `glow`	0 to 1	0.45	yes	The soft haze around the ring.
Brightness `brightness`	0.2 to 2	1	yes	Overall brightness.

Sunflower`sunflower`

A sunflower head of glowing seeds set by the golden angle: every beat pours the spiral arms one seed outward, bass bends the arms, treble sparkles the rim, the spectrum lights the arms band by band.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the screen blend.

Outputs, for Patches: pour (jumps when a beat pours the arms outward, then fades. Patch it into another layer to pulse with the head. Output ranges from 0 to 1).

Knobs (17)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Seeds `seeds`	4000 to 32000 steps of 1000	24000	yes	How many seeds make the head. More = finer, denser arms.
Zoom `zoom`	0.5 to 2	1	yes	How much of the head fills the screen. Small shows the whole head with room round it, large fills the screen with its middle.
Tilt `tilt`	0 to 1	0.55	yes	How much the head is tilted toward you, like a bowl. 0 = flat and face on.
Seed size `size`	1 to 12 steps of 0.1	5	yes	How big each seed is, in pixels. Seeds grow toward the rim.
Pour per beat `pour`	0 to 3 steps of 1	1	yes	How many seeds outward the arms pour on each beat (a hard hit in a loud passage adds one more). 0 = no pour on beats. Never more than one pour every 150 ms, so fast songs do not strobe.
Slide time `slide`	0.03 to 0.5	0.12	yes	How long each pour takes, in seconds. Short = a snap, long = a glide.
Drift `drift`	0 to 3 steps of 0.05	0.5	yes	A slow steady pour between beats, in seeds per second, so the head keeps flowing in quiet passages.
Bass bend `bend`	0 to 2	0.5	yes	How much the bass bends the angle between seeds off the golden angle: the arms re-form into fewer, bolder spirals.
Arm lighting `arms`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	How much the spectrum lights the arms: the bands sweep the head as a spiral, bass to treble, so each arm is lit by its own band; minor chords wind the sweep the other way. 0 = every arm lit alike.
Sparkle `sparkle`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	How much the treble makes the outer seeds twinkle.
Beat flash `flash`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	A brief brightening of the middle on each pour.
Color `colourMode`	shared palette, chords, custom	shared palette	no	Where the colors come from: the shared palette all layers agree on, the song's chords (the root turns the color), or your two colors below.
Color range `spread`	0 to 1	0.3	yes	How far the color changes from the middle of the head to its rim.
Middle color `colourA`	a color	`#ffb347`	yes	With Color set to custom: the seeds in the middle.
Rim color `colourB`	a color	`#ff4fa3`	yes	With Color set to custom: the seeds at the rim.
Glow `glow`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	The soft haze around the seeds.
Brightness `brightness`	0.2 to 2	1	yes	Overall brightness.

Particle Life`particle-life`

Colored species of glowing particles that pull and push each other into living cells, snakes and chasing creatures: chords re-form them, beats send a ring of push outward, bass makes them breathe.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the screen blend.

Outputs, for Patches: pulse (jumps when a beat sends a push ring out, then fades. Output ranges from 0 to 1).

Knobs (20)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Creatures `creatures`	follow chords, cells, snakes, worms, comets, colonies, swarm, drifters, stars	follow chords	no	Which set of pulls and pushes the species follow. Follow chords: each chord has its own, and a chord change slowly turns one into the next, so the creatures dissolve and re-form.
Species `species`	3 to 8 steps of 1	6	yes	How many kinds of particle there are, each its own color. Changes in whole steps.
Particles `count`	2048 to 16384 steps of 512	10000	yes	How many particles there are.
Reach `reach`	0.02 to 0.06 steps of 0.001	0.037	yes	How far a particle feels the others. Small = many little creatures, large = a few big ones.
Pull `force`	0.2 to 2	1	yes	How strongly the particles pull and push each other.
Speed `speed`	0 to 2	1	yes	How fast life runs. 0 = frozen.
Chord change time `morph`	0.2 to 6 steps of 0.1	1.2	yes	How many seconds the creatures take to turn into the next kind when the chord (or Creatures) changes.
Beat push `push`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	On each beat a ring of light and push travels outward, lighting the creatures and shoving them aside. 0 = none.
Push from `pushFrom`	middle, anywhere	anywhere	no	Where the effect starts: a fixed place, a moving one, or places you pick yourself in the app.
Start over `startOver`	when one is left, never	when one is left	no	When one creature has swallowed all the others, it spirals into the middle, spins up shaking, collapses and goes off like a supernova; the particles spread over the screen to grow new creatures.
Bass breathing `breathe`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	How much the bass makes every creature swell (the particles feel each other from further away).
Twinkle `twinkle`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	How much each particle flickers and jitters; the treble makes it livelier.
Particle size `size`	1 to 6 steps of 0.1	2.4	yes	How big each particle is, in pixels.
Trails `trails`	0 to 1	0.35	yes	How long the fading trail behind each particle is. 0 = no trail.
Color `colourMode`	shared palette, chords, custom	shared palette	no	Where the species' colors come from: the shared palette all layers agree on, the song's harmony, or your two colors below.
Color range `hueSpread`	0 to 1	1	yes	How different the species' colors are: 1 spreads them round all the colors, 0 makes them one color.
First color `colourA`	a color	`#ff5fa8`	yes	With Color set to custom: the first species' color.
Second color `colourB`	a color	`#5fd8ff`	yes	With Color set to custom: the last species' color; the others lie between.
Glow `glow`	0 to 1	0.55	yes	The soft haze around the creatures.
Brightness `brightness`	0.2 to 2	1	yes	Overall brightness.

Slime Veins`slime-veins`

A living slime-mould web of glowing veins that branch, merge and re-route: bass thickens the lace into rivers, beats drop food the veins race to, treble sparkles the crawling tips.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the screen blend.

Outputs, for Patches: feed (jumps when a beat drops food, then fades. Patch it into another layer to flash with the web. Output ranges from 0 to 1).

Knobs (16)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Origin `source`	pick position, fixed, center, bottom, top, left, right, bottom corners, all edges, ring, jump, scatter, drift, melody	scatter	no	Where the effect starts: a fixed place, a moving one, or places you pick yourself in the app.
Food spots `emitters`	1 to 8 steps of 1	4	yes	How many places get food on each beat. Changes in whole steps.
Slime `count`	16384 to 262144 steps of 4096	131072	yes	How many crawling agents make the web. More = a denser, brighter web (and more work for the phone).
Crawl speed `speed`	0.2 to 2.5	1	yes	How fast the agents crawl, so how quickly the veins grow and re-route.
Reach `reach`	0 to 1	0.4	yes	How far ahead each agent feels for trail. Low = fine lace, high = a coarse web of wide channels.
Vein memory `memory`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	How long a trail lasts once the agents leave it. Low = restless, ever-changing veins; high = lasting highways.
Bass thickening `bassShape`	0 to 2	1	yes	How much the bass widens the agents' feelers, turning fine lace into thick rivers. 0 = the bass leaves the web alone.
Beat feeding `food`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	On beats and drum hits, a glowing blob of food drops at the food spots and the veins rush to it. 0 = no food.
Sparks `sparkle`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	How brightly the crawling agents glint, hottest at the growing tips; the treble makes them flicker.
Chord shifts `chordShift`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	On each chord change the colors slide along and the agents turn a little sharper or softer. 0 = chords change nothing.
Color `colourMode`	shared palette, chords, custom	shared palette	no	Where the colors come from: the shared palette all layers agree on, the song's harmony, or your two colors below.
Color range `hueSpread`	0 to 0.5	0.35	yes	How far apart the colors of the thin veins, the thick veins and the hot cores are.
Vein color `colourA`	a color	`#2fd8ff`	yes	With Color set to custom: the color of the thin veins.
River color `colourB`	a color	`#c45cff`	yes	With Color set to custom: the color of the thick veins (their cores run hot toward white).
Glow `glow`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	The soft haze around the veins.
Brightness `brightness`	0.2 to 2	1	yes	Overall brightness.

Murmuration`murmuration`

A starling flock that wheels and folds as one glinting sheet: bass banks the turns, chord changes send it across the sky, hits send a predator tearing a hole through it.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the screen blend.

Outputs, for Patches: dive (jumps when the predator dives through the flock, then fades. Patch it into another layer to flash with the hole. Output ranges from 0 to 1).

Knobs (17)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Look `look`	starlings, sardines	starlings	no	Starlings: a flock of birds whose wings glint as it banks. Sardines: a tighter school of silver fish whose flanks flash as it turns.
Birds `count`	4096 to 32768 steps of 1024	24576	yes	How many birds are in the flock.
Speed `speed`	0.3 to 2	1	yes	How fast the birds fly.
Togetherness `cohesion`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	How tightly the flock packs. The music's loudness adds to it: quiet parts spread a thin sheet, loud parts pull it into a dense ball.
Bass wheeling `wheel`	0 to 2	1	yes	How hard the bass makes the flock bank and wheel. 0 = slow drifting turns whatever the music.
Predator `predator`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	On drum hits a falcon dives through the flock and a hole tears open, then closes. Higher = a bigger, harder hole. 0 = no predator.
Banking flash `flash`	0 to 1	0.7	yes	How brightly the birds glint when their wings tilt into the light, so a turn sends a flash across the flock.
Wing flicker `flicker`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	How much the wing beats shimmer; the treble makes it livelier.
Bird size `size`	0.4 to 3 steps of 0.05	1	yes	How long and wide each bird's dash is.
Trails `trails`	0 to 1	0.15	yes	How long the fading streak behind each bird is. 0 = no streak.
Color `colourMode`	shared palette, chords, custom	shared palette	no	Where the colors come from: the shared palette all layers agree on, the song's harmony, or your two colors below.
Color range `hueSpread`	0 to 1	0.45	yes	How different the birds' colors are from each other.
Color intensity `saturation`	0 to 1	0.6	yes	How vivid the colors are (when they come from the chords or the scene has no colors).
First color `colourA`	a color	`#cfe8ff`	yes	With Color set to custom: one end of the birds' colors.
Second color `colourB`	a color	`#ffd0a0`	yes	With Color set to custom: the other end.
Glow `glow`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	The soft haze around the flock.
Brightness `brightness`	0.2 to 2	1	yes	Overall brightness.

Ember Sieve`ember-sieve`

Bright ember grains collect on hidden ledges and spill in branching cascades: bass loosens the piles, hits feed packets, and chords slowly redirect the falling streams.

Can follow the scene colors (set its color knob to a palette choice). Starts with the screen blend.

Knobs (12)

Knob	Range or choices	Starts at	Cable	What it does
Feed `feed`	0 to 3	1	yes	How quickly grains return from the offscreen reservoir to the upper feeder.
Fall speed `fall`	0.2 to 2	1	yes	Gravity on airborne grains; slower falls make the delayed cascades easier to follow.
Grip `grip`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	How steep a pile can become before its exposed grains slip sideways.
Openings `gates`	0 to 1	0.5	yes	Width of the narrow gaps. Chords slowly move their positions.
Bass shake `shake`	0 to 2	0.8	yes	Bass shakes the ledges and lowers the slope needed to start a spill.
Hit packets `packet`	0 to 1	0.7	yes	Size of the bright packet released from the waiting reserve on each hit. Zero disables packets.
Treble hops `glint`	0 to 1	0.7	yes	Treble lifts exposed grains and makes their hot cores glint.
Grain size `size`	0.6 to 4 steps of 0.1	2	yes	Size of each luminous grain in screen points.
Trails `trails`	0 to 1	0.3	yes	How long a moving grain leaves a fading trace.
Color `colourMode`	Shared palette, Warm embers	Shared palette	no	Follow the shared scene palette, or use orange and gold embers.
Glow `glow`	0 to 1	0.55	yes	Soft light around the bright individual grains.
Brightness `brightness`	0.2 to 2	1	yes	Overall light output.

Elements

Reading the tables

Pin Fieldpin-field

Firefliesfireflies

Tesla Arcstesla-arcs

Plasma Globeplasma-globe

Bokeh Driftbokeh-drift

Fireworksfireworks

Starscapestarscape

Stellar Nurserystellar-nursery

Nebulanebula

Auroraaurora

Rain Pondrain-pond

Inkink

Neon Jellyfishneon-jellyfish

Living Paintingpainting

Melody Threadmelody-thread

Note Nurserynote-nursery

Attentionattention

Equalizerequalizer

Lissajous Scopelissajous-scope

Crystal Cellscrystal-cells

Recall Latticerecall-lattice

Hunchhunch

Counterfactualcounterfactual

Second Guesssecond-guess

Logit Gardenlogit-garden

Solidsolid

Gradientgradient

Shapeshape

Vignettevignette

Sand Platesand-plate

Pendulum Wavependulum-wave

Sync Lanternssync-lanterns

Iron Filingsiron-filings

Sequin Tidesequin-tide

Attractor Cloudattractor-cloud

Ring Systemring-system

Sunflowersunflower

Particle Lifeparticle-life

Slime Veinsslime-veins

Murmurationmurmuration

Ember Sieveember-sieve

Pin Field`pin-field`

Fireflies`fireflies`

Tesla Arcs`tesla-arcs`

Plasma Globe`plasma-globe`

Bokeh Drift`bokeh-drift`

Fireworks`fireworks`

Starscape`starscape`

Stellar Nursery`stellar-nursery`

Nebula`nebula`

Aurora`aurora`

Rain Pond`rain-pond`

Ink`ink`

Neon Jellyfish`neon-jellyfish`

Living Painting`painting`

Melody Thread`melody-thread`

Note Nursery`note-nursery`

Attention`attention`

Equalizer`equalizer`

Lissajous Scope`lissajous-scope`

Crystal Cells`crystal-cells`

Recall Lattice`recall-lattice`

Hunch`hunch`

Counterfactual`counterfactual`

Second Guess`second-guess`

Logit Garden`logit-garden`

Solid`solid`

Gradient`gradient`

Shape`shape`

Vignette`vignette`

Sand Plate`sand-plate`

Pendulum Wave`pendulum-wave`

Sync Lanterns`sync-lanterns`

Iron Filings`iron-filings`

Sequin Tide`sequin-tide`

Attractor Cloud`attractor-cloud`

Ring System`ring-system`

Sunflower`sunflower`

Particle Life`particle-life`

Slime Veins`slime-veins`

Murmuration`murmuration`

Ember Sieve`ember-sieve`