VS – Visual Synthesizer1.9.1 - App Store

VS provides a creative way to generate beautiful graphical representations of your music projects. Driven by both audio and MIDI data, VS is the visual equivalent of a traditional synthesizer.

VS takes the concept of music visualisation to a whole new level of customisation and expression, putting you in control and giving you the power to perform however you want.

VS is powered by 8 flexible layers which can use shaders, images or videos, allowing you to create generative graphics that you can interact with and layer on top of each other to create complex evolving visuals. With customizable parameters, a modulation matrix and an array of blend modes, use your audio and/or MIDI to trigger and manipulate your layers accordingly with your music. You can even import and create your own shaders to give your visuals a more personal feeling.

As the name suggests, VS - Visual Synthesizer can be played live like an audio synthesizer; use your MIDI keyboard to make each layer come alive with the concept of ‘polyphonic visual voices’.

As well as a standalone app, VS includes an AUv3 plugin version, so you can run it directly inside your favourite iOS DAW programs like AUM, Drambo, BAM, Cubasis, Loopy Pro, Groove Rider 2, Logic Pro etc. You can now give your existing projects a visual touch of creativity. Simply route the MIDI and audio of your tracks and watch the magic happen.

You can connect your mobile device to an external screen or projector for a live visual performance. If you prefer to create a video for your music, the built-in recorder lets you capture both visuals and audio. Record in landscape or portrait mode, with multiple output resolutions available.

We partnered with new media artist ‘Perplex On’ to bring you a factory preset bank full of amazing interactive visuals you can start using right away to create dazzling animations and make your music move in a whole new medium. With an ever growing collection of expansions, you can further augment your visual arsenal with preset packs created by handpicked new media art talents.

Features:

- 8 Polyphonic visual layers (with blend modes)
- 4 voices per layer
- 32 built-in material effects
- Layer material can be a shader, image or a video
- Background layer with solid color/image/video
- 4 LFO’s with SIN, SQR, TRI, SAW, S&H and filtered S&H
- 2 EG’s with ADSR controls
- 4 Dual-mode Audio Modulators (envelope and frequency band detection)
- Modulation matrix
- Full Screen mode
- HDMI output for external screen/projector
- NDI output
- Built-in audio player with MIDI support
- Built-in video recorder
- Built-in material code editor for custom material creation
- Exclusive factory presets by Perplex On

Version History - Added VS virtual midi port to the standalone version
- Fixed crash when downloading Noir Cuts expansion pack
- Fixed patch import
- Fixed matrix panel parameters when changing patch
- Fixed matrix opening while adjusting parameters
- Fixed layer material preview when reseting patch
- Fixed bad state when reverting default patch
- Fixed help page link
- General bug fixes and improvements 1.9.1 11/27/2025 - New Expansion Pack 'Raw Reflections'
- Improves video playback performance
- General bug fixes and improvements 1.9.0 03/14/2025 - Fixed missing values of layer MIDI filter slider
- Fixed state loading
- Fixed recording parameter automation when performed from host
- Fixed consistency between brightness slider and brightness knob
- Purge temporary files when app closes (this should free space occupied by VS app)
- Always use native video encoder, regardless of the device (aims to fix problems with recordings on some devices)
- Added render quality setting in AUv3 version
- General bug fixes and improvements 1.8.1 02/27/2025 - New preset pack 'Retro Riot'
- New four audio audio/MIDI demos
- New Mapping Manager panel
- New layer info panel

- Optimised rendering engine for a stability and performance
- Improved built-in recording for a better synchronisation between audio and video
- Improved audio recording with different buffer sizes and high sample rates (192k)
- Improved MIDI trigger settings with multi-channel and note range per layer

- Added font-size option to material editor
- Added setting to stop recording when player stops
- Added visual warning when FPS drops from the desired frame rate
- Added horizontal interaction in knob parameters
- Added FLAC audio files support
- Added audio to NDI stream

- Fixed audio file browser player playing after closing panel
- Fixed frozen frame when changing presets with video
- Fixed loading indicator not appearing when loading audio/midi
- Fixed previous patch button MIDI learn
- Fixed single file bank import
- Fixed NDI on AUv3 1.8.0 02/07/2025 - Added horizontal interaction in knob parameters
- Added flac audio files support
- Fixed iPhone layout issues
- Fixed layer media persistence
- Fixed NDI on AUv3 1.7.1 01/30/2025 - Added new preset pack 'Cyber Spells'
- Added new audio/midi demos
- Optimized render engine performance
- Prevent MIDI from demo songs from being routed to the mapping manager
- Audio/midi loaded state can now be saved with patch
- Record is now a parameter
- Improved voice handling to prevent turning off active voices
- Fixed record button armed state when hosted
- Fixed speed parameter's default value on texture layers 1.7.0 12/10/2024 - Fixes blend modes and fill mode when using images/video layers
- General bug fixes and improvements 1.6.1 08/08/2024 Important note:

- Your existing presets will be migrated to a new format after launching for the first time
- Please restore purchases after installation to download preset packs again as this is required to work
- If you are using audio modulators and the presets are not working as expected please take into account that the audio modulator has suffered significant improvements and its parameters might need to be adjusted.

Full changelog:

- Adds support to images in all layers
- Adds support to videos in all layers
- Adds new material browser
- Adds single preset import/export
- Adds buttons to cycle through materials without the need to open browser
- Adds MIDI mapping to preset change buttons
- Adds MIDI mapping to audio panel play/stop buttons
- Adds manual MIDI assignment (double press parameters with MIDI learn enabled)
- Adds LFOs syncing to host playback
- Adds phase parameter in LFO
- Adds record arm to sync record to host playback (press and hold record to toggle)
- Adds “No files" label when main folder doesn’t have valid files
- Adds shader materials search box
- Adds portrait mode (toggled under settings)
- Adds back button on factory files browser
- Adds material clear cache option in settings
- Adds scroll wheel handling to adjust parameters
- Adds AIFF support
- Improves visibility of disabled layers
- Improves spectrum mode of audio modulator
- Improves ADSR (adds decay and sustain parameters)
- Fixes freezing when browsing a folder with a lot of videos
- Fixes files not being shown in some circumstances
- Fixes Ableton Link
- Fixes video recordings only having mono audio output
- Fixes MIDI clip playing position when changing position of audio clip
- Fixes background layer render when changing resolution
- Fixes audio output with bluetooth headset
- Fixes copying/pasting HEX color with keyboard
- Adds iOS photos and files providers to layers
- Fixes background layer media from photos provider
- Fixes iOS media loaded from Photos not persisting when save/loading presets
- Fixes purchases not being shown in user account on Imaginando dashboard 1.6.0 07/09/2024 - Added new Textural Memories preset pack
- Added more audio demos and respective midi files
- Added volume knob to audio player
- Added notification when audio engine is not running
- Added more resources to factory
- Fix stuck notes when using mono mode
- Fix NDI 1.5.0 03/13/2024 - Fixes opening of iOS file browser 1.4.2 02/06/2023 - Prevents UI freezing in Roland Zen Beats 1.4.1 01/23/2023 - New 'Retina Refill' Preset Pack by Perplex On as in-app purchase
- Added the ability to delete Imaginando account from user profile section
- General bug fixes and improvements 1.4.0 09/13/2022 - Fix material export
- Fix bug which prevent material's options menu to appear
- General bug fixes and improvements 1.3.4 08/25/2022 - Added midi timeline visualization panel
- Added pause/resume render engine function
- Added mp3 support
- Added auto playback of audio file when recording as a setting (on by default)
- Added playback indication when a midi file is loaded and playing
- Fix sample rate change not applied to open audio files
- Fix opacity in some materials
- General bug fixes and improvements 1.3.3 08/10/2022 - Allow turning knobs by using left/right gesture as well
- Improved layout on phone
- Fix bug that prevented restoring selected background image/video
- Fix layer material preview when animated thumbnail is disabled
- Fix grouped parameters automation
- General bug fixes and improvements 1.3.2 04/25/2022 - Fix material editor preview 1.3.1 03/12/2022 - Material import/export
- Material editor
- General bug fixes and improvements 1.3.0 03/07/2022 - New render quality setting with two modes: performance, high quality
- New animated layer thumbnail setting. Off by default to save GPU resources.
- New toolbar in the top of display area that aggregates all utility functions icons
- Access to bottom panel changed and is now via independent icons
- Bottom panel now features a new section for demos/custom audio/midi loading
- Improved audio/video sync while recording
- General bug fixes and improvements 1.2.0 12/16/2021 - Add iPhone support
- Fix recording on iOS 15 1.1.2 09/30/2021 - Fix crash when saving recorded videos to photos
- Screen recording now includes audio
- Improves screen recording length consistency
- LFO triggering by ANY or specific channel
- General bug fixes and improvements 1.1.1 09/21/2021 - New engine architecture to support render to file
- Added built-in recording system (video only for now)
- Quality setting replaced by explicit output resolution setting
- Seizure warning at startup
- General bug fixes and optimizations 1.1.0 07/29/2021 - Add reset material option to layer reset
- Improve consistency or material parameters
- Clicking outside color panel closes it
- General bug fixes and improvements 1.0.3 07/11/2021 - Add support for HDMI on iOS (standalone only)
- Add MIDI activity indicator
- Fix modulators buttons checked state
- Fix gif not playing bug
- Fix demo tempo when changing presets
- Fix layer mono release state
- Fix crash with midi clock 1.0.2 06/27/2021 - Add undo/redo to paste layer operation
- Add undo/redo to layer/backgroun reset
- Add resources browser option to background layer context menu
- Add support to gif and webp (Giphy files)
- Fixed bug that would cause enabled layers to appear as disabled
- General bug fixes and improvements 1.0.1 06/19/2021 1.0.0 06/14/2021