Pulse Ring is an audio visualizer in FRCTL, the browser VJ studio. A ring that breathes on the beat and is dented by the spectrum around it.
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.
Draws a thin glowing ring round the centre that jumps outward on each beat and settles back, its edge dented by the spectrum. The dents crawl a quarter turn every bar. Pulse sets both how far the ring jumps and how short the jump is, Detail how many dents fit round it, Radius its resting size, and Glow its thickness and halo.
Using Pulse Ring
Where it works
A logo sting or a DJ name card, since the ring frames something central and marks every beat without covering it. It's also a clean overlay for a live stream where heavier visuals would distract.
With the music
Already locked to the clock's beat and dented by the live spectrum, so it moves with no routing. B2 (sub bass) on Radius swells it on long bass notes, and a slow LFO on Palette shifts its colour.
Starting point
Detail centre, Smooth centre, Pulse three-quarters, Palette hard right for acid, Glow centre, Radius centre.
