Template guide

Every template reads the same audio and draws it differently. This guide covers what each one is for, which settings change it most, and where it works best. Templates marked PRO need a paid plan.

How to choose

Match the template to the track before you match it to your taste. Dense, busy visuals fight a dense mix; sparse visuals make a sparse track feel intentional rather than empty. As a rough guide: bar-based templates suit rhythmic music, wave and line templates suit melodic music, particle templates suit ambient and downtempo, and typographic templates suit anything where the title is the point.

Bars and spectrum

Bar Spectrum

The classic reactive bars, centred in the frame. Reliable, readable at any size, and the safest choice when you are not sure. Adjust with Detail (how many bars) and Sensitivity.

Mirror Bars

Bars mirrored across a centre line with a soft reflection underneath. Slightly more polished than plain bars for the same effort. Works well on 16:9.

Skyline

Bars rising from the bottom edge like a city skyline. Leaves the whole upper frame free, which makes it the best bar template to combine with a background photo.

Dot Matrix

An LED-style dot grid. Reads as technical and retro. Lower the detail setting for a chunkier, more legible grid on phone screens.

Equalizer Wall (PRO)

A wall of bars receding towards a horizon in perspective. More dramatic than flat bars, and holds up well at 1080p and above where the depth is visible.

Glitch (PRO)

Bars with an RGB channel split that opens only on hits, plus fine scanlines. Deliberately restrained — the split closes between beats so it reads as an effect rather than a broken screen. Suits electronic and harder genres.

Waves and lines

Audio Wave

A single continuous waveform line. Clean and modest, and the best template when the music should stay in the foreground and the video should not compete with it.

Ribbon

The waveform filled into a solid ribbon with a two-colour gradient. More presence than a line, still calm. Set both colours for the gradient to show.

Oscilloscope (PRO)

The waveform wrapped into a circle, radar style. Distinctive and unusual; works especially well square.

Trails (PRO)

Keeps the last couple of seconds of waveform on screen, stacked into a moving ribbon. It solves the usual weakness of waveform visuals: quiet passages still have something to look at.

Spiral

A single spiral line whose radius is shaped by the spectrum. Hypnotic and slow. Good for ambient and instrumental work.

Circular and cover-art templates

Circle Spectrum

Radial bars around your cover art. The most-used layout in music video visuals for a reason: it puts the artwork at the centre and everything else serves it. Load a square cover.

Vinyl

A slowly spinning record with your cover in the label position and reactive bars around the rim. Warm and physical. Rotation is deliberately slow so the artwork stays readable.

Halo

Cover art inside soft rings of light that thicken with the midrange. Calmer than Circle Spectrum and more modern.

Pulse

A soft glow that breathes with the volume, with optional artwork in the middle. Minimal, and forgiving of quiet tracks.

Echo Rings (PRO)

Rings that expand outwards, triggered on each detected beat. Works only as well as the track's beat is clear — try it on something with a defined kick.

Burst

Lines firing outwards from a central point, rotating slowly. Energetic without being chaotic.

Particles

All particle templates share three controls: Particle size, Particle speed and Particle reaction. Reaction at zero gives a steady, cinematic drift that ignores the music entirely; turned up, particles surge on every beat and swell with volume.

Dust

Slow drifting motes that speed up with volume. Atmospheric and unobtrusive — the best particle template to layer over a background photo.

Snow

Falling snow that gusts sideways on loud passages. Obvious seasonal use, but it also works as a general calm texture at low speed.

Bokeh

Soft out-of-focus lights that breathe with the bass. Expensive-looking for how simple it is. Raise particle size and lower the count for larger, slower orbs.

Star Field (PRO)

Stars flying towards the viewer at a speed set by the music. The classic space effect. Keep the count high and the size low.

Confetti (PRO)

Bursts fired on every detected beat. Celebratory, and best in short bursts — a whole song of it is a lot.

Orbit (PRO)

Particles orbiting your cover art, with the orbit widening on the bass.

Three-dimensional

Wire Terrain (PRO)

A wireframe landscape flying past the camera, its ridges shaped by the spectrum. Strong on 16:9.

Cube (PRO)

A rotating wireframe cube that scales with the bass. Simple, graphic, and readable at any size.

Sphere (PRO)

A sphere of points, each one driven by its own frequency. Dense and detailed — give it 1080p or more so the points stay distinct.

Retro Grid (PRO)

A perspective floor grid with a glowing horizon. Synthwave, but the grid scrolls with the beat rather than at a fixed speed, which keeps it from feeling like a stock loop.

Colour and atmosphere

Aurora

Layered bands of light reacting to the spectrum. Soft, wide, and easy to read text over.

Nebula (PRO)

Drifting colour clouds. The most abstract template here and the one that most rewards picking two colours that actually go together.

Liquid

An organic blob whose outline is deformed by the spectrum. Fluid rather than rhythmic, and a good modern alternative to bars.

Hexa Grid (PRO)

A hexagon grid lighting up by frequency. Technical and grid-like; suits electronic music.

Typography

Kinetic Type (PRO)

Your track title is the visual: it scales and layers with the music, with your artist name underneath. No cover art needed. Made for 9:16, and the strongest option for a teaser clip where the title has to be remembered.