VKO1

EPIC UPDATE! NODE GRAPH EDITOR Build your own visualizer — Connect generators, modifiers, combiners, and live audio inputs into custom signal chains 25 generators, 20 Metal modifiers, 6 combiners, 11 input nodes — the deepest visual toolkit in any VJ app on iOS NEW METAL SHADER NODES Bloom — Beat-reactive glow with threshold and intensity controls; the more bass, the brighter the halo Beat Crossfade — Hard-cut, smooth sine, or downbeat-flash transitions between two generators, locked to the grid Luma Key — Replace the dark or bright regions of one layer with another; punch stars through plasma or terrain through noise NEW CORE IMAGE MODIFIER NODES (×7) Twirl — Spiral distortion from center; radius and angle independently controlled Vortex — Rotational warp that spins the whole frame outward Pinch — Squeeze inward or bulge outward from a focal point; great for beat-reactive lens effects Variable Blur — Smooth Gaussian blur with adjustable radius; wet/dry mix preserved Color Controls — Independent saturation, brightness, and contrast sliders with a wet/dry blend knob Transform — Rotate and scale the frame; patch an LFO to the amount pin for perpetual motion Film Look — 8 cinematic presets: Noir, Chrome, Fade, Mono, Process, Tonal, Transfer, Instant; blend with original via wet/dry NEW AUDIO INPUT NODES Bass, Mid, Treble — Each frequency band exposed as its own node; wire them to any numeric pin to make different parts of the spectrum control different visual parameters independently 19 GRAPH TEMPLATES Ready-to-play starting points covering every new node: Twirl Plasma — Bass energy drives twist angle on a Plasma field Vortex Voronoi — Slow LFO continuously rotates Voronoi cells Pinch Pulse — Beat phase kicks a bulge through Tunnel Warp Dreamy Haze — Terrain → Variable Blur → Color Controls, atmospheric slow burn Color Burst — Starfield → max saturation → Bloom, pure neon Film Noir — Neon Prism → Film Look (Noir) → Edge Detect, cinematic B&W LFO Spin — Fractal Noise rotating forever via Affine Transform Cinema Blend — 6-node chain: two generators → Screen blend → Chrome film → Bloom Beat Switch, Star Punch, Bass Bloom, LFO Glitch, Pulse Storm — Audio-reactive multi-node chains from the previous session SHADER PACK STORE In-app Shader Store — New store accessible from the toolbar, browse and install shader packs with one tap Metal Starter Pack — 24 hand-crafted Metal shaders included free: Aurora, Biocore Monitor, CGA Dither, CRT Monitor, CRT Tunnel, Diamond Spin, Digital Rain, Hex Wave, Holo HUD, Kaleidoscope, Laser Grid, Neon Tunnel, Nihon Grid, Pixel Warp, Plasma Orb, Retro Grid, Signal Intercept, Spiral Vortex, Star Warp, Synth City, System Crash HUD, Tech Diag HUD, Voronoi Glass, and Wireframe Cube PHOSPHOR CULT — FIRST PAID SHADER PACK Phosphor Cult — 12 hand-crafted Metal shaders: Arcade Idle, Circuit God, Data Corruption, Deep Scan, Fungal Bloom, Neon Topology, Phosphor Eye, Pixel Shrine, Signal Ghost, Star Forge, Terminal Soul, and VHS Nightmare. From VHS glitch storms and occult trading cards to PCB circuit deities and mech diagnostics. Audio-reactive, BPM-synced, and built to haunt your next set.

3D Environment Your visuals now live in real 3D space. Import OBJ models, write custom Metal shaders for them, and move your camera through the scene. A low-poly disco ball is included to get started. 3D models travel with exported .visualko project files. New Master Effects Two new effects: Outline (soft edge glow, beat-reactive) and Ripple (radial wave distortion). RGB Split, VHS, and DOF are now smooth under beat-sync with no more stutter. Computer Veld Pack 12 MS-DOS-era Metal shaders — boot terminals, EGA flight sims, dungeon crawlers, and more. Audio-reactive and BPM-synced. Available in the Shader Store. VKO1 Player — AUv3 Run VKO1 visualizers directly inside AUM, GarageBand, Logic, and any AUv3 host. All 33 palettes, Complexity / Reactivity / Speed sliders, custom shaders, node graph support, and 3D model import — all from inside your host.

VisualKO 1.24 — Bigger Visuals, Sharper Pixels MetalFX Spatial Upscaling Render at lower internal resolution, upscale with Apple's MetalFX for crisp visuals at a fraction of the GPU cost. PerformanceGuard auto-tunes quality on thermal pressure so your set keeps running cool, even on long gigs. (iOS 17 / macOS 14+) New Shader Pack — Alchemist Sketchbook 12 hand-crafted Metal shaders. Ink-washed textures, alchemical diagrams, and organic matter in motion. Audio-reactive, BPM-synced, built for sets that blur the line between ancient and digital. Reactivity tuned tighter in 1.24. Fullscreen Mode — Built for Live Performance - MFX overlay lives in fullscreen now — toggle MetalFX upscaling live without leaving the canvas via the persistent on-screen button or a long-press anywhere. - Jog Wheel is right there in fullscreen too — scrub, nudge BPM, swap palettes without dropping out of the visual. VisualKO Player AUv3 — Now Immersive in 3D - New Camera Distance slider and Jog Wheel control for 3D shaders. Zoom the orbit, scrub the scene live — host-automatable as AUv3 parameters. - All purchased shader packs (Phosphor Cult, Alchemist Sketchbook, Computer Veld) now appear in the plugin automatically. No more reinstalling. Jog Wheel Modes — More Ways to Play - New BPM jogwheel mode for instant tempo nudges. - New CLR palette mode for live color swaps from the wheel. Quality of Life - Beat detection auto-enables on launch for always-on shader reactivity. - Master transitions now apply to external displays and AirPlay output. - Pad background colors no longer flicker during sequencer playback. - iCloud deletions stick — deleted pad colors stay deleted. - Session loading animation on the pads. - iPhone node-editor preview tightened so the graph stays the focus.

MEDIAMESH3D — YOUR MEDIA ON A 3D MESH New generator node wraps any image, GIF, or video onto a real-time 3D mesh rendered in Metal. Six mesh types selectable in the inspector: Sphere, Cube, Plane, Torus Knot, Icosphere, and custom imported OBJ. Audio-reactive scale — Connect Beat Strength or Bass to the Scale pin and the mesh pulses with every hit. Cross-device sessions — Custom OBJ files embed into the session bundle. Open the same session on iPad or Mac and the geometry travels with it. OUTPUT BRANDING — LOGO WATERMARK Drop your own logo on every output surface — fullscreen preview, external display, AirPlay, HDMI, and exported tapes. Configure in the Output sheet. Image formats — PNG, JPEG, HEIC, GIF, TIFF, BMP, WebP, and PDF (first page auto-rasterized). Sources — Import from Photos or pick any file from Files. Defaults to a clean Apple-style mark until you swap it. 9-cell position grid — Top, middle, or bottom × left, center, or right. Size, opacity, and edge padding sliders — Dial the watermark to taste. Baked into exports — The logo renders into recorded tapes so your brand ships with every clip you share. The Mac control surface stays clean. QUICK SHORTCUT MENU Long-tap + drag down on a pad. A floating overlay appears with Edit Graph, Background Color, Speed, and Effects. Quick access without navigating menus. Mac Catalyst mouse button support — Map the shortcut menu to Middle, Button 4, or Button 5 in Settings. NODE GRAPH — NEW MODIFIER NODE Rotate — Spin any texture by a fixed angle (0–360°). Patch an LFO or Beat Strength into the angle pin for continuous audio-reactive rotation. Useful for correcting upside-down textures or adding motion to any generator. NODE GRAPH — NEW INPUT NODES Microphone — Outputs live microphone amplitude as a 0–1 float. Sensitivity adjustable via inline drag slider directly on the node. Wire it to any numeric pin for microphone-reactive visuals without audio routing setup. Spectrum — Outputs the mean of all 32 frequency bins as a single float. Smooth broadband energy signal — great for driving global intensity when bass or beat alone isn't enough. NODE LIBRARY FAVORITES Star any node type to pin it to a Favorites section at the top of the library. Favorites persist across launches so your most-used generators and modifiers are always one tap away. INTERACTIVE NODE CONTROLS Inline drag sliders on nodes — drag directly on an LFO node to set amplitude, on a Microphone node to set sensitivity, on a MIDI CC node to set the channel. No inspector required. SHADER THUMBNAILS 128×128 first-frame preview. Each Metal shader renders a thumbnail at compile time and caches it to disk. A shimmer skeleton shows while compiling so the UI never shows a blank slot. ON-CANVAS PERFORMANCE HUD Toggle in the STAT popover under "On-canvas perf HUD". Overlays live RAM, CPU, GPU frame-budget, FPS, and visualizer memory in the bottom-left of the preview, the on-device fullscreen view, and the Node Editor preview (both inline and fullscreen). External output stays clean. Useful when tuning custom shaders — see the cost of a tweak the instant you ship it. PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS Reduced CPU and GPU load on slower devices. Smoother playback on older iPhones and iPads across all visualizer types. BUG FIXES Black-frame flash on pad transitions — Renderers were clearing the last frame on stop; now hold it until the next clip is confirmed live. iCloud fresh install — Single retry was not enough; now polls up to 60 seconds for iCloud availability on first launch. MediaMesh3D cross-device media — Image/GIF/video binaries now embed into session files (25 MB cap per file) so MediaMesh3D nodes show the correct texture when a session is opened on a different device, instead of rendering a black mesh.

-- Daft Cyber Pack (new) New paid shader pack in the Shader Store — 14 hand-crafted Metal shaders. Spinning vinyl, after-hours disco, neon ziggurats, Tokyo neon rain and synthwave villas. French-touch synthwave visuals, audio-reactive and BPM-synced for late-night sets. Tap the pack in the Shader Store, then Installed ▾ → Add to Bank to drop the whole pack onto free pads at once — it fills empty slots and spills across banks, never overwriting your existing visuals. The Shader Store now flags new packs: a badge on the store icon and a NEW tag on the tab, both clearing once you own the pack. New packs sort to the front. -- App Theming from Your Images (new) New App Theme section in the Session Manager. Pick any image and VKO1 extracts a color palette from it, then retints the entire interface to match. Colors only — your image isn't stored or shown as a background; only the extracted colors are kept. Smart contrast, light and dark mode — colors are re-derived so the UI stays legible in both appearances (dark surfaces stay dark, text stays high-contrast) for any palette you throw at it. Palette library — every extracted palette is saved as swatches. Tap to apply, long-press to delete, and "Use Default" to return to the classic EP-133 look. Syncs across your devices — your saved palettes follow you via iCloud, so a theme made on iPad shows up on your Mac. -- Clear Colored Pads (new) New "Clear Colored Pads" button in Session Manager under Keep Pad Colors. Shows the current count of tinted pads, asks for confirmation, and wipes all pad colors at once. Syncs immediately via iCloud. -- VKO1 Player (AUv3) 10× more audio-reactive by default: soft-saturating spectrum response, higher RMS energy gain, more sensitive beat detection threshold, and slower beat decay so visuals hold each hit longer. Tighter plugin window: smaller default size, better compact layout, square/centered video.

Music Player in the Node Editor: Load a track or folder and your graph reacts live to bass, beats, and energy. Full transport, scrubbing, and auto-advancing playlists right under the preview. New Palette node: Cycle the color palettes on the beat, randomly, on an LFO, or pick a fixed one, and drive any generator's new Palette pin. Node editor polish: Preview and player resize together, new BPM settings, cleaner top bar. Fixes: .vkograph files from the Web Editor now open correctly; audio engine recovers from route changes. Test the new web editor: https://temperamento.net/vko1/vko1-graph-editor-web/

Video Export improvements - Export now works reliably across iPhone, iPad, and Mac - Recording HUD no longer appears in the exported video - Smoother frame capture synced to display refresh - New resolution picker — choose 360p / 540p / 720p / 1080p to balance quality vs. speed - Mac cursor hidden during capture

MCP Control — AI Co-Pilot (Mac only) VKO1 is now an instrument an AI can play — connect Claude Code, or any MCP-compatible agent, and it writes custom Metal shaders, builds node graphs, previews its own renders, and pushes visuals straight onto your pads, live Real compile feedback — your agent compiles inside VKO1, reads actual Metal compiler errors, and fixes its own code until the shader works Zero installation — VKO1 speaks the open MCP standard directly. One toggle (the new stars icon in the top bar), one Terminal command, done Performance tools — your agent can trigger pads with HOLD layering, set BPM, switch AutoMix modes, drive both Master Effect knobs, and read live audio energy + beat strength to react to the music Private by design — localhost only, off by default; nothing on your network or the internet can ever reach it Full guide — see the new MCP Control section in the manual Bug Fixes Node editor wires detaching on external monitors — on large displays (viewport wider than ~2000pt) every wire drifted away from its pins after a resolution change. The wire layer now always covers the visible canvas Wires clipped for imported graphs — graphs authored outside the app (Web Editor, MCP) could carry negative node positions, leaving wires cut off mid-air at the canvas origin. Imported graphs are now normalized into visible canvas space