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Bubblegum Reactor

Bubblegum Reactor is a colour grade in FRCTL, the browser VJ studio. Sky blue to bubblegum pink, detonating into electric yellow.

Runs live on video, images, a camera or generated art. Stack it with any other effect, and route LFOs, envelopes or any of ten audio bands to its controls so it moves with the music.

Try Bubblegum Reactor freeAll effects
The untouched demo art: an eye inside a triangle over wavy teal, blue and peach lines
Source
The eye-in-triangle illustration in lavender-grey lines over bubblegum pink and electric yellow swirls
Bubblegum Reactor, default settings

What Bubblegum Reactor does

Sky-blue shadows run into bubblegum pink, a lighter candy pink over the upper mids, then electric yellow detonates across the highlights. The yellow is close to full saturation, so bright details pop hard against the pink. Sky spreads pink down into the blues, Gum lightens the mid pink, Reactor widens the yellow.

Using Bubblegum Reactor

Where it works
Hyperpop covers, kawaii merch and bright festival Reels. It shares a pink with Arctic Punch but sorts by brightness rather than warmth, so pink covers the mids everywhere and yellow, not white, sits on top.
With the music
The grade itself ignores the track. Map B10 sparkle to Reactor so crashes and shakers flash yellow through the lights, and put a beat-triggered Envelope on Sky to pump pink into the shadows.
Starting point
Sky at centre, Gum at centre, Reactor a quarter, then raise Reactor until only the brightest details turn yellow.

Controls

Sky
Sky blue floor into bubblegum.
Gum
Bubblegum pink midtone weight.
Reactor
Electric yellow highlight detonation.

Pairs well with Bubblegum Reactor