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Every version,
every personality.

Engine releases, visual styles, preset schemas, and the daily personalities the cloud pipeline ships. Browse the full history or let the engine surprise you.

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Visual styles

Variants · surfaces · galleries
Saturated · halo

Neon

Bright halos around saturated pixels. Pure nightclub energy.

CleanFilm
Gradient · automix · session-private

Music Video

Drop a track, the engine synthesizes a preset and blends related anchors as reactive depth. Self-evolving on the A key.
16mm · sepia · scanlines

Film

16mm grain, sepia, warm temperature. For songs that want a music video.

CleanFilm
Monochrome · posterized

Grid

Hard cells, heavy posterize, snap-to-the-beat. Pure geometry.

CleanFilm
Wisps · slow drift

Smoke

Gentle horizontal wisps. The visualizer for slow songs.

CleanFilm
Scanlines · RGB drift

Hallucination

Scanlines plus RGB-drift stripes. Visceral, cinematic, wrong.

CleanFilm
Snap-beat · corrupt

Glitch

Snap-pan on every beat. The video breaks with the song.

CleanFilm
Soft · pastel

Aurora

Soft pastel light bands. For songs that breathe.

CleanFilm
Beat · ring

Pulse

A ring that pulses on every beat. Minimalist club aesthetic.

CleanFilm
Black · isolation

Void

Pure black canvas, single point of light. Negative space.

CleanFilm
Reflective · metallic

Chrome

Reflective metallic surfaces. Late 90s / Vaporwave.

CleanFilm
Soft · bleed

Watercolor

Soft, bleeding edges. For songs that feel like memory.

CleanFilm
Recursive · organic

Fractal

Recursive organic shapes. Math as music video.

CleanFilm
Corona · legacy

Eclipse

Deep black with a bright corona glow. The original light-destroyer.

CleanFilm
Ornate · gilded

Baroque

Gilded ornament and gold filigree. For songs that want cathedral weight.

CleanFilm
Split-screen · magazine

Mixed-media collage

Multi-clip split-screen composition. Magazine-grid cuts to the beat.

CleanFilm
White-wall · curated

Gallery

Clean gallery-white frames. The art-show version of your song.
Paper · recycled

Kraft

Brown-paper texture, raw edges. For songs that feel handmade.

CleanFilm
Stained glass · tiles

Mosaic

Posterize tiles in stained-glass colors. Cuts that read like a window.

CleanFilm
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CRT · terminal

Phosphor

Green-CRT terminal aesthetic. For hacker-beats and lo-fi.

CleanFilm
Audio · reactive

Spectrum

Pure audio-reactive visualizer. No footage / just your track and the analyzer.

CleanFilm
PLAY ▶ REC ●
VHS · degraded

Tape

VHS tape-tone, scan lines, soft chroma bleed. Late-night mixtape energy.

CleanFilm
dropmusic.
Animated · type

Typography

Animated type for designers and brands. Drop copy, audio, and a brand kit.

CleanFilm
Camera · AR · mobile

AR Animation Loop

Drop a GIF, see it loop in your space via markerless AR. One-click 5s WebM capture.
▶ KICK
Slideshow · beat-reactive

Photo Studio

Drop multiple photos. Each beat advances with a crossfade. Ken Burns per shot. Preset templates drive transition + timing.
3-column · collapsible

Engine Dashboard

Production dashboard with the engine behind the canvas. Three-column layout collapses for a focused render view.
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4D · preset embed · keyboard

Hologram

Music-video hologram: 4D-preset embed, applyR wrap, scatter panel, arrow/digit keyboard cycling.
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Standalone · 5 modes

ECHO · Manifold 5.0

30 generative formulas across 9 sections. 5 modes: Ambient, Euclidean, Chaos, Phi, Cellular. WebAudio only.

CleanFilm
Visual language · accent on black

Console

Precision oscilloscope aesthetic: pure-black canvas, a single accent (#FF6B1A), geometric primitives, spectrum bars and a persistent HUD.
Counterpoint · baroque

BACHDROP

Baroque gold-on-velvet palette driven by real audio analysis / 4-voice counterpoint scroll, beat-locked figured-bass pulse.
Gallery · 3D flip

Music videos

Flip through pre-rendered music videos with a 3D transition / the multi-video companion to the Hologram cut.
MTV
90s retro · VHS / CRT

Music video · MTV cut

MTV / 90s retro music video: VHS scanlines, CRT curvature, big bold type.
Index · six visual languages

Visual languages

The six visual languages side by side / same controls, same library, same MP4 export, different aesthetics.
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personal variants · unlocked after 3 uses
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Preset schema

swr-preset spec · JSON

swr-preset/v1

current

The single source of truth for a personality. A preset is a complete FX state + a palette + audio-reactive mapping. 12 required fields, 3 optional. Validated by preset-pipeline/verify.mjs (20/20 checks).

  • id req
  • schema req
  • name req
  • family req
  • shader req
  • palette req
  • motion req
  • fx req
  • reactivity req
  • tags req
  • created req
  • seed req
  • _meta opt · basePersona / usageCount / bpmAvg / key
  • color opt
  • parent opt · for on-device variants
{
  "id": "swr-preset-2026-08-17-annihilation-curl-static",
  "schema": "swr-preset/v1",
  "name": "Annihilation Curl Static",
  "family": "annihilation",
  "shader": "curl-noise",
  "palette": "annihilation-aurora",
  "motion": "static-grid",
  "fx": { "temp": 0.12, "mut": 0.78, "chroma": 0.34, "grain": 0.22, "vignette": 0.55, "posterize": 0.18 },
  "reactivity": { "bass": 0.85, "mid": 0.6, "treble": 0.4, "beat": 0.95 },
  "tags": ["psychedelic", "slow", "iridescent"],
  "created": "2026-08-17T00:00:00Z",
  "seed": "swr-preset/2026-08-17/annihilation-curl-static"
}

swr-preset/v1.5

draft · Q3 2026

Adds LLM-curated novelty pass. Pipeline takes the top 5 user-favorite presets and asks a model to mutate one into a fresh variant. Adds novelty: { source, method, rationale } and a compatibility: { engines: ["≥v1.0"] } field for cross-engine reuse.

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Engine releases

Newest first · git history

v1.0 · self-evolving 2026-08-17

build a3f2 · kai-djuric/sainted-word-records

The engine creates new audio-reactive personalities on its own. A daily cloud pipeline ships 2 fresh presets every morning, the engine ingests them on load, and after 3 uses of a single persona, the engine mutates a personalized variant tuned to your song's BPM and key.

  • Daily cloud pipeline (cron 0 9 * * *) — 2 presets/day from 10 shaders × 8 palettes × 7 motions
  • Engine fetches /presets/manifest.json on load and surfaces new ones in a gold pill
  • On-device variant generation after 3 uses (BPM/key/palette mutation)
  • ★ personal badge for self-evolved variants
  • Manifest auto-committed + pushed + redeployed to Vercel by cron
  • Daily press kit + 7 marketing pages + status probe

v0.9 · engine upgrade option 2026-08-14

build fec5c2

Engine stops being a static visualizer. Adds the manifest endpoint, a presets.client.js ingest layer, and the daily cron that auto-redeploys. Engine upgrade option = user can swap personalities without reloading the app.

  • Preset manifest served at /presets/manifest.json
  • presets.client.js — load / diff / markSeen / apply
  • presets-panel.client.js — "N new personalit*" pill in footer
  • macOS crontab: 0 9 * * * preset-pipeline/cron.sh
  • Vite dist/ auto-deploy via npx vercel build + deploy --prebuilt

v0.7 · URL restructure 2026-08-14

build e71200

Splash at /, app at /engine/, no index.html at root. PWA launches straight into the app. Service worker bumped to swr-v2 to invalidate the old cache.

  • / → landing.html, /engine → engine.html, /index.html → 404
  • vercel.json rewrites for /, /engine, /engine/
  • manifest.webmanifest start_url = /engine, scope = /engine/
  • sw.js APP_SHELL includes /landing.html, /engine, /engine.html, /pt.client.js

v0.6 · 12 visual styles 2026-08-12

build 7617b1c

Each style is a self-contained engine variant at /versions/<style>.html with its own GLSL post-process pass. Same WebGL pipeline, different uniforms + page-specific effect function.

  • 12 styles: neon, film, grid, smoke, hallucination, glitch, aurora, pulse, void, chrome, watercolor, fractal (+ eclipse legacy)
  • versions-presets.js — shared WebGL post-process, per-page uniform dictionary
  • Single GLSL with switch on u_page (0..5)
  • Media sets per style (library/<style>/)

v0.5 · first play 2026-08-07

build 8592b42

The engine works. Drop a song, drop a library, get a music video. Audio-reactive WebGL post-process with persona-style FX uniforms, MediaRecorder for MP4 export, project save/load with audio source.

  • WebGL post-process: 14 FX uniforms (temp, mut, chroma, vignette, grain, sepia, glow, blur, grayscale, posterize, etc.)
  • Audio features: bass / mid / treble / air / sub / rms / centroid / beat / onset / bpm
  • MediaRecorder MP4 export (30s default, configurable)
  • Project save/load (JSON + audio source)
  • 20 generated persona assets (20-box-set, etc.)

v0.1 · initial commit 2026-07-31

build init

First commit. Single HTML file, two layers, one shader pass. The idea is simple: a music video shouldn't require an editor, a renderer, or a render farm.