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Club effect

Laser Bloom

Laser Bloom is a club lighting look in FRCTL, the browser VJ studio. Saturated laser greens and magentas with an open highlight bloom.

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.

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The untouched demo art: an eye inside a triangle over wavy teal, blue and peach lines — Source

The eye-in-triangle as a duotone of deep magenta and lime green — Laser Bloom, default settings

What Laser Bloom does

Rotates and supersaturates every hue, lifts the darks so nothing reaches black, then crossfades toward a two-colour laser pair, green and magenta by default, which is also added on top of the highlights as a bloom. Hue turns the pair round the wheel, Bloom sets the laser mix and glow, and Clip multiplies the colour by itself for a harder punch.

Using Laser Bloom

Where it works: Duotone cover art and flyer work, since any source collapses into two laser colours. Live, it can match the stage lasers in the room once Hue is set to their colour.
With the music: Hue is the control worth automating, since the grade holds still by itself. A beat-synced LFO on Hue rotates the laser pair each bar, and B7 (snare) on Clip hardens the backbeat.
Starting point: Blend centre, Bloom centre, Clip a quarter, Hue hard left, then sweep Hue until the pair matches the lasers in the room.

Controls

Blend: Strength of the filter vs source.
Bloom: Laser bloom add and neon/laser cross mix.
Clip: Highlight punch / self-multiply.
Hue: Green/magenta laser pair color shift.

Pairs well with Laser Bloom