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Synesthesia Ripples

Synesthesia Ripples is a beat-reactive motion effect in FRCTL, the browser VJ studio. Concentric waveform ripples distort hue instead of geometry.

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 Synesthesia Ripples freeAll effects
The untouched demo art: an eye inside a triangle over wavy teal, blue and peach lines
Source
The eye-in-triangle art re-hued in purple, green and pink, faint rings circling out from the eye
Synesthesia Ripples, default settings

What Synesthesia Ripples does

Rings travel outward from the centre of the frame and rotate hue as they pass, with noise bending them so they wobble instead of running true. Geometry stays put and only colour moves, pushing the peach and teal into greens, purples and pinks. Rings sets how tightly the rings pack, Hue how far the colour swings, Vivid the saturation and brightness lift on each crest.

Using Synesthesia Ripples

Where it works
Keeps linework and type exactly where they are while colour pours through them, so it works on a logo sting or a lyric card. On a psy set it's a slow colour wash to sit on between drops.
With the music
Ripples roll at a fixed rate from the clock. B5 (mids) on Vivid makes the crests bloom with vocals and leads, while B1 (kick) on Rings tightens the rings on every kick.
Starting point
Rings a quarter, Hue centre, Vivid three-quarters, lowering Rings further if the rings read as stripes rather than waves.

Controls

Rings
Ripple spatial frequency.
Hue
How far hue rides the wave.
Vivid
Saturation and value lift from the ripple.
Speed
Rate of the effect motion. Centre is the authored speed, hard left a tenth of it.

Pairs well with Synesthesia Ripples