Pressing ‘+’ or ‘-‘ on your numerical keypad will increase/decrease the sensitivity of the particles. There are four hidden commands that aren’t shown in the menu. The standard iTunes Visualizer menu allows you to lock the camera in place by pressing ‘L’Īnd freeze the particles in place with ‘F’.Īll of these actions, and a few more, can be accessed by pressing the ‘?’ key inside the visualizer.
To prevent automatic mode cycling, press ‘C’ after you activate the visualizer. Upon each song change the visualizer is set to change modes. Pressing ‘M’ while in the visualizer will change the mode how the particles are displayed. I am just an Overload kind of guy, haha) and also pressed + a bunch of times to make them way more sensitive. In mine I have pressedĪ a bunch of times to add a shitload of extra particles (kind of like all the added verbiage in my posts. NOTE - this is only a VERY small sample of only a few of the modes in the DEFAULT version of the visualizer in iTunes (NOT the original Magnetosphere I mention above) Best way to do that is just get the free download of iTunes. Here's the bigger versions of the stills from the above page to give you a really quick idea, but you really gotta see this marvel in action. Actually they both have quite a different "feel" and are both immensely cool and amazing. more about MANY sparkles (looking at times like an immense tripped-out swarm of alien fireflies), less about several big planets.and also it switches up more often and seems MUCH MUCH more delicately responsive to the music. I just discovered this, and actually I might like it better.
I'm sure there are also versions for MAC if thats what you have.
PLUS: Seems Apple did their own Borg-ification of Magnetosphere, and alot of people prefer the original, which you can still find to download and install into iTunes for Windows here
I have a longer list if anyone wants one. Here's a page with some stills and a few of the available keyboard shortcuts. in Itunes its all gorgeous and smooth as butter. You also search YouTube for "itunes visualizer" for alot more examples, but they all see to play lousy due to YouTube's suckiness. Massive Attack - Paradise Circus (Gui Boratto Remix ) with iTunes visualizer HD I really like the song, just great! and what the visualizer does with it all in real time is pretty damned amazing Actually this is really a beautiful and captivating video. ALSO it only shows one of the MANY built-in modes, alot of which are just incredible to watch.
Actually leaving it as a little box not full screen it looks nicer, but you dont get the proper WOW effect of full screen. switch it to HD mode then let it buffer all the way and show full screen, you'll get the general,though degraded quality, idea. though this is WAY jerkier and more lo-res than the actual thing running on your computer. Its SO hypnotic, I can just watch it for hours, very responsive to changes in music and almost intelligent seeming. "M" changes the preset, which changes on its own with each new song, there's a bunch of other controls too.
There's a bunch of keyboard mods you can make to add or subtract particles, their sensitivity. Mindblowing smooth organic 3-d motion and lovely glowing orbs, mixed with some dark orbs, some reflective, all spewing and gravitationally attracting these bursts of particles that leave various kinds of trails with their own complex behaviors. The guy who originally wrote it is clearly a total genius. It is so fucking psychedelic it is beyond belief. IMO most astonishingly cool visualizer I've seen is the default visualizer for iTunes 8 and above (available for Windows too of course). Why there's not a thread on "The most psychedelic music visualizers" here in PD is beyond me! There's a million of them, and it seems like a GREAT topic to share about! On to my nomination: