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Visualizers
Building and using Novus Visualizers — reading audio with the Web Audio API, the engine/preset system, beat-synced rendering, and exporting release-ready video in the browser with WebCodecs.
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Visualizers · Jun 14, 2026
Make a music visualizer on your phone, start to finish
The full phone workflow: why the v2.0 mobile editor makes a desktop optional, picking a track and a format, choosing an engine and syncing it to the beat, adding text and a logo, exporting on-device, sharing to Reels and TikTok, and getting good results within mobile's limits.
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Visualizers · Jun 12, 2026
Best music-visualizer styles for each genre
Matching visualizer style to genre — energy, tempo, color, and motion — so the visuals feel like they belong to the track, with practical picks for each genre.
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Visualizers · Jun 1, 2026
Making a vertical music visualizer for TikTok & Reels
The 9:16 frame, safe zones for platform UI, designing for sound-off with captions, the first-second hook, and exporting a vertical visualizer that works on TikTok and Reels.
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Visualizers · May 31, 2026
Designing an upload → customize → export flow a first-timer can actually finish
How a deliberately linear three-stage flow turns a deadline-heavy creative task into something a first-timer completes in one session.
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Visualizers · May 30, 2026
Template-based editing: creative control without blank-canvas paralysis
The case for templates over a freeform editor, and the layered model that keeps them from becoming a creative straitjacket.
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Visualizers · May 29, 2026
What we deliberately left out of the Visualizers MVP — and why scoping down shipped it
How narrowing the scope, rather than expanding it, is what actually got the product live.
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