OPERATOR'S MANUAL

User guide

Everything in the rig, one topic per page. Start at the top if you're new, or search for the thing that's bugging you.

New in 1.7: Alive. Every console knob is one setting for every scene, Bass, Mid and Treble are color knobs, Motion lands on the beat’s hit, and Comfort mode holds fast flashing back. What’s new in 1.7.

Getting started

Install from Steam, first launch, and the one-screen layout.

Audio sources + controls

Now Playing, Spotify, MusicBee, foobar2000, VLC, Smart Auto, shuffle, and playlists.

Visualizers + presets

Five engines on one stage. MilkDrop, cycling, reactivity, your own presets.

Library: browse + manage

Twelve shelves, search, maker pills, favorites, My Scenes, previews, saving, file types.

Scenes

The hand-built scene library and how scenes differ from presets.

HDR + 4K

True HDR on an HDR display, wide gamut on a P3 panel, 10 bit recording. Every tier.

FX shaders

Real-time post effects and the FX image pipeline.

Motion on the beat

Swell, Bounce, Punch, Drift and Speaker, the Look, and the Bass, Mid and Treble color knobs.

Comfort and flashing

Comfort mode holds fast flashing back: where it lives, what it does, what it costs.

Capture FX

Any app, game, window, Spout feed or loop through effects that answer kick, snare and hats.

Spout in + out

Publish visuals to OBS and VJ software, or post-process compatible feeds.

Wallpaper + displays

Any visual behind your icons. Mirror or Span, per display, survives Explorer restarts.

Loops + recording

Your own video loops as a layer, F9 replay, Shift+F9 recording, bar-locked loop capture.

Lyrics

Synced lyrics on screen, where they come from, and what to do when a track has none.

STAGE: perform

Now/Next decks, GO with crossfades, blackout and strobe, pads, rundowns, shows, combos.

Logo maker

Image Studio: text or image, a rack of live treatments, live on any visual.

MIDI, phone remote, gamepad

Bind hardware with MIDI Learn, steer from your phone over LAN, fly with a controller.

Shader import + reactivity

Paste a shader and drive it from the music. No AI key needed.

AI scene generation

Bring your own key. Generate, fix, and tune scenes at provider cost.

Steam Workshop

Publish scenes you made, download what others made, keep your name on the work.

Games

One Small Step, a shared moon that dances to everyone's music; Slingshot, a gravity-well ship battle; and LUMINAL, a game you play with your own music.

Pets

Five companions who live on the show and dance to your tempo. Free for everyone.

Controls, themes, tips

Reactivity, seek and volume, three theme layers, UI size, workflow tips.

Troubleshooting + help

Fixes for the common snags, and where to reach a human.

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