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Club effect

Neon Abyss

Neon Abyss is a club lighting look in FRCTL, the browser VJ studio. Electric indigo swept by fuchsia and acid lime.

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 recoloured in indigo, bubblegum pink and mint green — Neon Abyss, default settings

What Neon Abyss does

Maps the picture by brightness: shadows go electric indigo sliding into azure, the upper mids burst into fuchsia where the source is red and acid lime where it isn't, and the brightest tones turn silver. Indigo spreads the blue base up the range, Neon pushes the fuchsia and lime burst, and Silver sets that top shoulder. It's the only Club look without a Blend control.

Using Neon Abyss

Where it works: Cover art for darker electronic releases, since line work survives while every colour is replaced. Peach and teal art splits cleanly into pink and lime, so illustrated flyers read at a glance.
With the music: A static grade with no audio of its own. Send B1 (kick) to Neon so the fuchsia and lime flare on the kick and the indigo returns in between, or a slow LFO on Silver to breathe the highlights.
Starting point: Indigo centre, Neon three-quarters, Silver a quarter, then lower Neon if the lime drowns the blue shadows.

Controls

Indigo: Indigo base spread through the midtones.
Neon: Fuchsia and lime burst over the base.
Silver: Silver shoulder on extreme highlights.

Pairs well with Neon Abyss