Modulo 1.1: 50 visualizers that play along
Fifty visualizers that move with your music, from copper bars and vector bobs to little games that play themselves on the notes. Plus Play all and Shuffle, playlists from every track and three new demo songs.
Tracker music was always something to watch as well as hear. Demos, cracktros, the pattern racing past in the tracker. Modulo 1.1 adds the part that was missing: fifty visualizers that move with the music. On the iPhone, and from this version on Android too.
They read the song, not the sound
Most visualizers are a spectrum that wiggles to any sound. Not these. A module isn’t a recording but a score: Modulo knows ahead of time which instrument plays which note, where the beat falls and where the bar starts. Every visualizer reads that song itself. So the drums hit when the drums hit, the bassline walks where the bassline walks, and the melody leads where the melody goes.
That also makes them exact: they follow what you hear, even when you seek, pause or repeat a section. And they draw in your theme’s colours, the light and the black-and-white ones included.
Three families
Retro. The effects of the old demos, as if they were written for this song: a full cracktro with a copper bar per channel in Copper Harbour, Vector Bobs, Plasma Cycle, a Pattern Tunnel you fly through, ASCII and Quadrascope, ProTracker’s main screen with a scope for every channel.
Games. Little games that play themselves on the notes. In Breakout every note is a brick the ball strikes exactly when the note plays, in Shmup every note is an enemy shot down right on its note, in City Builder the city builds itself, and in Night Castle the hunter lands every move on the music. Pinball, Rally, Whack-a-Mole and a rollercoaster are in there too. Twenty-one in all.
Native. Drawings that grow out of the song. Constellations puts the notes in the sky as stars, Sheet Music writes the song out in notation, Circle of Fifths shows which key you’re in, Forest grows out of the song, Orrery turns along and the Night City skyline pumps on the beat.
How it works
Under the pattern there’s a strip: pick a visualizer there, or step through them with the arrows. Tap the button next to it for full screen and swipe to the next. The pattern itself is always first in the list, one tap back.
Quadrascope, FX2, Kaleidoscope and Constellations are free. The rest come with Modulo Plus, the same one-time purchase as before, no subscription. Without Plus you get a short preview of each one. With Reduce Motion on, every visualizer has a calm version, without flashes or shaking.
Also new
- Play all and Shuffle on the whole library and on every artist, and a shuffle button in the playlist.
- The + on a track puts it in the current playlist, a saved one or a new one.
- Three new demo songs: Copper Siege, Long Way Round and Square Slap, next to Neon Harbour.
- Auto plays a looping song at least twice through and always stops at the end of a pass.
- Playing works again after Siri, a call or the car’s hands-free system, and many smaller fixes.
Modulo 1.1 is out now on the App Store and Google Play. Already have Modulo? The update comes to you by itself.