AudioSpace
AudioSpace brings music visualization to a new level and to new venues, from home use to live stages. Enjoy it on your desktop PC or project it on a wall as a next-level party decoration, stream your audiovisual art performances, or get immersed in VR. Built from ground up to fully utilize the computing power of modern PCs, it provides unparalleled visual fidelity enabled by Unreal Engine.
You’ll be located in a virtual room that orbits a planet/star of your choice. On the walls of the room you may choose to display vectorscopes, phase wheels, spectrum columns, spectrograms and waveforms. Inside the room and in the surrounding space you have a selection of unique 3D visualization elements that you may combine and configure to your liking. Sound moves and shapes the elements, particles dance to the rhythm. Chill out watching the auroras, fly over rolling wavescapes, or engage full speed into a warp tunnel. Freely configurable scene presets can be instantly selected with keyboard or set to change at random (or in order) when silence is detected between tracks. Randomization can also be activated for visualization parameters and color palettes.
Virtual Reality is supported through SteamVR; reference hardware is Pimax 5K Plus with Valve Index controllers (finger tracking included), but any SteamVR compatible VR headset should work. Controller support is readily available for Windows Mixed Reality and Oculus Touch, but can be customized and expanded via SteamVR Input. In VR, music and visualization can come together in a wonderful way. Nowhere else does one have the freedom to see absolutely anything, only limit is the imagination. AudioSpace puts this freedom into good use and creates an unprecedented way of experiencing music. Enjoy!
Game Discussion
Steam User 0
AudioSpace is a fullscreen music visualizer for the PC or VR. It reacts to audio input from an audio player or microphone.
This software is licensed for personal use, but if you want to use it commercially like me, contact the Indie Developer Ferrit for permission. Guidance will be given for crediting.
I wanted AudioSpace to make my live streams (using OBS) on Twitch (DeniseIsaacMusic) more visually appealing. I compose electronic music with my digital audio workstation Reason 12, an XLR Microphone, and an external audio interface (Focusrite 2i2 4th gen) using the Focusrite USB Audio driver.
For best performance, a powerful CPU and GPU are needed. I was able to stream my DAW, audio player, and AudioSpace with the following hardware specs: Windows 11 Pro 64 bit, 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700KF 3400 MHz 16 Core(s) 24 Logical Processors, Baseboard Product: PRO B760M-P DDR4 (MS-7E02), RAM: 64.0 GB, and Graphics Card: Nvidia RTX 4070.
The software starts with a basic tutorial. It was hard for me to follow, but with the help of a more detailed beginner guide on Steam, I got the hang of it. The Indie Developer Ferrit even popped into my live stream to see how I was doing and said I was managing the software pretty well.
The software is controlled by both the keyboard and mouse. The WASD keys enable movement within the space or room. The arrow keys navigate you to the back, front, and side walls. The home button centres the cross-hair on the screen. Clicking the left mouse button on any wall, ceiling, or floor opens the menu. For instance, clicking on a wall will indicate whether it’s the left, right, front, or back wall, where you can start creating visuals or edit them if they’re already present.
Presets 0-9 are empty (there are 100 preset slots available to create visuals!) - PageUp and PageDown buttons brings up the next or previous 10 slots. When you manually press the numbers 0-9 on the keyboard, it changes the presets or you can zap enable the auto-change after silence button.
Depending on what you pick - Space, Room, or Wall - the patterns may vary from 2D to 3D. Start with one pattern and see how the PC handles it, and add more patterns to the preset if you like. It has a very customizable colour palette that can be set to auto. The parameter sliders - slider A changes the brightness, slider B is for the liveliness of the visualization, and slider C changes the appearance of the visualization in some way. Just do not go overboard when live streaming. Keep it simple.
An advanced guide is also available on Steam, since AudioSpace has more capabilities. However, I haven’t tried the recording and media layers yet.
Recording: This advanced feature allows you to capture sound. It can record any audio that’s being visualized, whether it’s coming in (input) or going out (output). The record button is conveniently located next to the input/output source selection.
Media Layers: This is another advanced feature for playing back media. It can play music or videos, and even handle playlists. It’s also capable of streaming audio, like from an internet radio station. Additionally, it can display static images as overlays or backgrounds.
Suggestions for improvement:
Make the cross-hair more visible.
Additional video settings, such as windowed borderless, would be helpful to allow the mouse pointer to operate on other screens. For now, ALT+Enter works for me. To exit the AudioSpace window and use my DAW, etc., I need to press the Windows key.
I would prefer the visuals to be at 720p or higher for streaming.
Links to the beginner and advanced guides on Steam should be readily available in the menu.
Presets 0-9 should come with default patterns and not be empty, while the rest should be left empty for customization.
I’m pleased that it works on my high-end PC and hope that it will be compatible with mid and low-end PCs in the future.
I truly enjoy using this visually appealing and colourful audio visualizer during my live streams.
What I love most about AudioSpace is that the hotkey presets and colour palettes can be set to auto/auto-change. This allows my hands to be free to do other things on stream.
Keep up the good work, Ferrit.