Bulb Matrix
A grid of bulbs lights up column by column like a vintage scoreboard, complete with dead bulbs, afterglow, and a sweeping rainbow hue — a playful music visualizer for funky, retro, or arcade-flavored tracks.
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About this template
Shape and layout
A full-frame grid of small round glass bulbs stands in for the visualizer: each column lights a symmetric stack of bulbs above and below the centre line according to its energy. An optional square artwork card floats over the board and can be dragged into place, and an optional elapsed/total timer and a progress bar sit with it.
Motion
Every column converts its live energy into bulb height and switches lamps on and off in time with the spectrum, while a rainbow gradient sweeps steadily across whichever bulbs are lit. Chosen columns stay permanently dark like dead wiring, decaying columns leave a brief afterglow, and the optional artwork card can pulse on the beat; at silence the board dims to just its unlit glass.
Look and colour
The board sits on near-black, with a rainbow hue you can phase, sweep and spread toward the centre, plus saturation, brightness and an edge vignette to taste. Bulb-to-bulb variation in tint and glow gives the panel a worn, hardware feel rather than a flat digital grid, for a playful retro-arcade or scoreboard mood.
What you can customize
Every setting below is yours to change in the editor, with the live preview updating as the track plays.
Visualizer
- Bulb density
- Bulb size
- Dark columns
- Keeps the chosen columns of bulbs permanently unlit, like dead wiring on a real board.
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- Bulb glow
- The halo of light around each lit bulb. Higher spreads it further.
- Unlit bulbs
- How visible the switched-off bulbs are. Zero hides the board wherever nothing is lit.
- Bulb variation
- How much the bulbs differ from each other in brightness and tint, like a real panel. Zero makes them identical.
- Bar reach
- Vertical position
- Moves the whole visualizer up or down the frame.
- Afterglow
- How long a bulb keeps glowing faintly after it goes out. Zero switches it off instantly.
- Audio reactivity
- How strongly the visualizer moves with the music — lower for calmer motion, higher for a punchier response.
- Attack / release
- How quickly the visualizer rises on a hit and settles afterwards — low is snappy, high is smooth and lazy.
- Energy gate
- How loud a column has to be before its bulbs light up — higher leaves only the strongest columns burning.
- Hue phase
- Shifts where the rainbow starts across the board.
- Color sweep
- How fast the colours slide across the board. Zero holds them in place.
- Center color span
- How much the colour changes between the edges of the board and its middle. Zero paints every column the same colour.
- Saturation
- Lit-bulb intensity
- Edge vignette
- Progress bar
- OnOff
- Time labels
- Shows the elapsed and total time of the track.
- OnOff
Artwork
- Artwork image
- Artwork size
- Artwork reaction
- How much the artwork pulses with the beat. Zero keeps it still.
- Artwork position X
- Slides the artwork left or right; you can also drag it in the preview.
- Artwork position Y
- Slides the artwork up or down; you can also drag it in the preview.