Audio-reactive video synth · VST

Phosphor

A video synthesiser that listens. Drop it on a track and Phosphor analyses the audio — untouched as it passes — and renders a beat-locked visual field you can throw fullscreen onto a second screen. Live visuals that move with the music, straight from your DAW.

Coming soon

VST3 · AU · Standalone · macOS & Windows

A paid SHLabs plugin in active development. Follow SHLabs for the release.

What it does

AUDIO-REACTIVE

Visuals driven by sound

The render engine reacts to the audio on the track — level, motion and transients shape the image in real time. Insert it anywhere; the audio passes through untouched.

FIVE FIELDS

A morphing source

One source control morphs across five visual fields — bands, rings, plasma, moiré and spiral — with spatial frequency, domain warp, and full palette control over hue, spread and brightness.

FX PIPELINE

Feedback & fold

Feedback trails with tunnel zoom and rotation, a mirror-to-kaleidoscope fold, RGB chromatic split, and colour posterise — stack them for anything from subtle motion to full psychedelia.

LOCKED IN TIME

Beat-synced motion

Animation locks to your transport — sample-accurate from the host playhead inside the DAW, or over Ableton Link when running standalone alongside Live. Motion stays on the grid.

SECOND SCREEN

Fullscreen output

Throw the render fullscreen onto a second display or projector for live shows and installations — a visual instrument that runs right next to the sound it's reacting to.

ONE ENGINE

Plugin or standalone

The same host-agnostic render core runs as a VST3/AU insert and as a standalone app, so the look you build in the studio comes with you to the stage.