AudioSpace

Released: Jun 30, 2021
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Last updated: 13 Sep 2026, 09:57 GMT

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18 Mar 2026Developer post
AudioSpace 7.2 is here
AudioSpace 7.2 has arrived, celebrating the spring by joining the Steam Spring Sale! 🌸 The highlight of this release is a versatile arpeggiator for the synth. Each step can contain up to 8 notes (as a chord), with up to 16 steps per sequence. There are controls for groove, veloc
AudioSpace 7.2 has arrived, celebrating the spring by joining the Steam Spring Sale! 🌸
The highlight of this release is a versatile arpeggiator for the synth. Each step can contain up to 8 notes (as a chord), with up to 16 steps per sequence. There are controls for groove, velocity dynamics, octave range, note length, repeat logic, and sequence ordering. The velocity of each step can also be adjusted individually.
There's a bunch of new synth presets too, including some arp patterns. They now provide a solid set of sounds to explore and experiment with. I hope you’ll make great use of this synth’s creative power — it’s lightweight only in price! 🎹🎵
If you want the backdrop for all visualizations be something other than the Milky Way, simply drop your custom environment texture into Documents/AudioSpace/media and name it "space-sphere". HDR is also supported via .exr files.
The full list of changes is below. If you have any feature ideas or wishes, let me know! I'd love to hear about them.
To set you on the right wavelength, here's a video from interstellar space: https://youtu.be/95_BsbpBKq8
(link may not work if you view this in What's New / Activity feed, but it works in the Community Hub)
On this video, both the audio and visuals are created by AudioSpace; the music is played with the "piano space" preset for incoming MIDI stream from a DAW via loopMIDI.
Enjoy! ✨
Kari / Ferrit
New in version 7.2:
SYNTH

added a pattern arpeggiator (each step can contain multiple notes)

each key zone can have its own arpeggiator (for max 16 zones)

added arpeggiator sequence presets: harp arp, jazz swing, overload, syncopated, tangram

other new presets: church organ, electric organ, noise of ocean, noise of storm, laser

synth overlay-UI now auto-opens & closes with synth mode, on left wall by default (configurable)

added mouse wheel support for the synth UI

key zones can now be added & removed with Alt+click on the synth UI MIDI keys

added support for drag & drop for synth presets and waveforms

much smoother reverb, also improved the shimmer

quality improvements for chorus/flanger

better DC control for pink & brown noise
VISUALS

added support for custom environment textures (equirectangular sphere maps): just copy a file named "space-sphere.png" (or .jpg, or .exr for HDR) in Documents/AudioSpace/media -folder to replace the normal Milky Way background with anything you like! (to try it out, rename "constellation figures.png" in the media folder to "space-sphere.png")

visual immprovements to black hole photon ring and lensing (now smoother)

compiled shaders are now cached for much faster loading

no more light leaking through the corners of opaque room walls
ENGINE

much better music tempo estimation, now pretty stable from ~90 to ~150 BPM

fixed unresponsive media player controls when an audio stream is offline

fixed an issue with saving nebula wavefronts in presets

removed one item from the radio playlist (no longer broadcasting)

several stability and performance improvements
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19 Dec 2025Developer post
AudioSpace 7.1: MIDI, soft synth, and a black hole
Just in time for 🎁Christmas✨, presenting AudioSpace 7.1: not only a visualizer, but now also a software synthesizer. Play your favorite tunes and see them visualized right away! The synth sports 4 primary oscillators and 8 LFOs with a good variety of assignment options. Oscillat
Just in time for 🎁Christmas✨, presenting AudioSpace 7.1: not only a visualizer, but now also a software synthesizer. Play your favorite tunes and see them visualized right away!

The synth sports 4 primary oscillators and 8 LFOs with a good variety of assignment options. Oscillators supports the usual waveforms & wavetables, several physical instrument models, FM synthesis, samples, and also user-defined math functions for generating audio. Each has their own envelope and set of (chainable) filters. Effects include unison/detune, bit crushing, vocoding/morphing (form input audio too), saturation, phaser, chorus/flanger, delay, and reverb. There's a small set of sound presets available, more will come with future updates. Thus, it's the perfect time for you to make some killer sounds and share them! Presets are found under Documents\\AudioSpace\\synth\\presets, and are simple text files for easy sharing.

MIDI input works directly from MIDI keyboards and other controllers, with user-mappable CCs and solid support for pitch bend, mod wheel, aftertouch, expression, foot & breath controllers, pedals (soft/sustain/sostenuto/legato), portamento, and mono/poly mode. Keyboard can be split up to 16 zones (each playing a fully separate sound), and there's even OMNI mode for listening to all 16 channels (each with separate, configurable sound preset). To feed MIDI from a DAW to AudioSpace, use a virtual MIDI driver such as loopMIDI.

Naturally, a powerful CPU is required for complex sounds, and a bit of patience for loading the interactive "synth" UI shader (under "overlays") which can take a few seconds to come up. That shader responds to mouse/controller, so in VR version click outside the synth shader area (or on another wall) to bring up the menu when you need it.

As for visualization, there's now a brand new spinning Kerr black hole with a dedicated visualization mode "gravity". Here's what it looks like:
View game page

If you wish to support development of AudioSpace, a positive review is the best gift you can give. Just a simple thumb-up is plenty.
Enjoy, and have a peaceful Christmas time! 🎍

Kari / Ferrit

New in AudioSpace 7.1
MIDI support, complete with an experimental software synth
"Black Hole" location now has a Kerr black hole, complete with accretion disk and 3 moons
a new location, "The Void", is now there when you want total blackness without stars
new SPACE mode, "gravity", based on the new black hole
new shader: seagrass
shader and script editor can now be launched from the menu (with a pen sub-button)
shader compile errors are now displayed directly on the respective panel
vectorscope enhancements (rebalanced params, more dynamic behavior)
menu layout improvements; now 3D models and automation scripts are always available, as primary shaders are merged under one button & list
improved auto-camera logic with with 3D models and side walls
re-clicking element group name in the menu now switches focus to the next active element of the same group (including the next panel on a multi-panel wall)
mouse wheel scrolling now works in menu lists without clicking the list first
improved title bar visibility
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02 Jun 2025Developer post
AudioSpace 7.0: more shaders, beat detection, and a cat
AudioSpace 7.0 has been released, with a whole lot of new shaders (a head-nodding cat included 🐱) and the possibility to stack multiple shaders as an effect chain. Video and text are now available in shaders as well, both through shader file comments and the new media player / a
AudioSpace 7.0 has been released, with a whole lot of new shaders (a head-nodding cat included 🐱) and the possibility to stack multiple shaders as an effect chain. Video and text are now available in shaders as well, both through shader file comments and the new media player / automation scripts menu intergration. All new features are demonstrated with the included shaders.
Thank you so much for your continued support! ❤️
If you have any feature requests or ideas for future development, do share them in the community forum. And remember to give AudioSpace a positive review (just a thumb-up is plenty) if you wish to support its development.
Enjoy!
Kari / Ferrit

VISUALIZATION

multiple effect shaders can now be selected, to be applied one after another
new shaders: 3D waveform, blur, brightness & contrast, cat, clouds, color fill, disco ball, flames, game of life, hue & saturation, marble & cube, RGB filter, RGB threshold, smoke & lights, rotator, media layers, text overlay
video texture support added for shaders (user texture 0), playback is controlled with media player
media player now has its own file browser, including buttons to select background and foreground textures from picture files; these will be passed as overrides to any shaders using user textures 1 and 2 (in that order)
max. 8 user textures are now available for shaders, including one Texture2DArray and one Texture3D (.DDS files supported)
both 2D and 3D RW "memory" textures, as well as a general-purpose state buffer, are available for writing the coolest shaders this side of the galaxy
UI

new style for selecting visualizations: choose the category with button, and the exact mode from a list
shader files are now moved under category folders (any shaders in old presets need to be reselected)
enabled frequency bands can now be selected individually for each element mode
console text lines are now scrollable with mouse wheel & controllers
new feature: press i to show system info on console and log it to file
ENGINE

beat probability is now available for shaders (per frequency band & channel), see "smoke & lights" and "game of life" shaders for usage examples
experimental: music BPM estimate, demonstrated in "text overlay" shader and also displayed on the console (2nd page, zap to toggle)
major performance optimizations for multiple simultaneous visualizations
new config option: extended keyboard controls allow triggering randomizations (numpad 0), adjusting params (numpad 1..9) and selecting color palettes (F1..F12) without opening the menu
new config option: waveformStabilization (for ultimate control of multiband waveforms under the hood)
new config section: [FAVORITES], for configuring the visualization mode which is turned on by default for buttons with more than one mode under them
some preset file format changes were introduced to support new functionality
AUTOMATION

now only menu open & close trigger auto-camera movement during automation script execution (N/A for VR)
removed the obsolete "pp" automation command
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11 Jan 2025Developer post
AudioSpace 6.2
Rest of the 2024 development work of AudioSpace is now packaged 🎁 and released for your enjoyment, together with a demo reel video 🎞️ highlighting some of the best bits. Most significant new feature is the possibility to add text on top of the visualizations (for titles, lyrics
Rest of the 2024 development work of AudioSpace is now packaged 🎁 and released for your enjoyment, together with a demo reel video 🎞️ highlighting some of the best bits.
Most significant new feature is the possibility to add text on top of the visualizations (for titles, lyrics, credits and so on). Custom fonts are supported, both .ttf and .oft files. Other changes were mostly related to rendering quality and automation. Complete list can be found below.
Remember to give AudioSpace a positive review (just a thumb-up is plenty) if you wish to support its development. Thanks, and have a happy new year!
Kari / Ferrit

new feature: text overlays

define font properties, texts, timings and animations with the automation feature
custom fonts can be used, both .ttf and .otf supported
rendering:

VSync is now turned on by default
removed bloom shafts from the stars of the space sphere
automation:

added support for showing / hiding a model
new commands: "pause" (visualization), "unpause" and "exit"
new command "rt" for rotating around a point on the XY-plane
expanded functionality for "mv" command
shader name (or list index) can now be defined with the "on" command
longitude animation uses now the shortest rotation, and starts with current longitude if start and end are equal
palette change is reflected in the menu if it is open for the affected element
when automation is terminated with Escape key, ongoing movement animations are now correctly stopped
new visuals: Shape of Sound has now particle shape adjustment with param A < 0
media player volume and muting is now separately handled for each player
changed button text from "media layers" to "media player"
3D spectrum columns paramA now acts as magnitude limiter when < 0 (instead of lowering brightness)
toggling model visibility no longer forces a camera animation in AudioSpace VR
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03 Dec 2024Developer post
AudioSpace 6.1
Just in time for the season of celebrations, here's the latest AudioSpace for your delight 🎁. Level up the ambience and display beautiful visualizations for your playlists - the bigger the screen 📺 the better! With the added texture support for shaders, AudioSpace is now not on
Just in time for the season of celebrations, here's the latest AudioSpace for your delight 🎁. Level up the ambience and display beautiful visualizations for your playlists - the bigger the screen 📺 the better!
With the added texture support for shaders, AudioSpace is now not only a visualizer and a media player, but also a full-blown HLSL shader toy with Unreal Engine 5 visual fidelity (e.g. great blooms and reflections), comprehensive set of real-time audio data easily available, and runtime compilation just by re-selecting the shader in the menu. You won't find this anywhere else, and by itself the feature has indeed all the makings of becoming a separate application at some point.
To share your shaders and try our shaders created by others, visit the new shaders sub-forum. There's already something that's not included in the installation packet. ✨
There are also two new sub-forums that are long overdue, really:
Ideas & Feature Requests, and Bug Reports. Make good use of them.
As always, this update is free for current owners of AudioSpace. If you like AudioSpace and wish to support further development, give a positive review so that others can find it too 👍.
Enjoy! ❤️
Here's the full list of changes:

added support for user textures in shaders, completing the shader functionality; accepted file types include BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and GIF (but not DDS)
level meter can now be customized with a full variety of colors and styles
menu:

new preset buttons with +-10 preset range selection
improved clarity with dynamic opacity, esp. with media player
added visual feedback for clicking the prev/next buttons in the menu
better parameter slider & color adjustment help texts
AudioSpace window:

position is now saved and restored correctly (as applicable)
in VR, window tries to get keyboard focus and is switched to real full-screen mode (instead of borderless window) on startup and always on reset to reduce stuttering
maximize/restore button in title bar is now correctly updated after Alt+Enter
added "AudioSpace" to the title bar
auto-camera:

auto-saving viewpoints is now done only when menu is closed, to avoid unnecessary overwriting of manually saved viewpoints
any media player wall is now brought to view if no visualizations are active in the room
in VR, HMD centering is now checked on startup and followed by auto-centering (if very wrong) or hint message (if somewhat wrong)
change of audio device (e.g. speakers <-> headphones) is now handled gracefully without need to restart application
traveling to another location is now appropriately animated
improvements to planet rendering and animation, especially regarding Earth
visual improvements to nebula wavefronts (fog fade in/out, expanse to the sides)
better and more stardust with aurora, warp tunnel & trinity flux (much more with only the high frequency band enabled!)
improved kaleidoscope edge fadeout and added "spiralizer" under param B
improved media player pause & stop handling
fixed an issue with the floor grid audio status color not always updating correctly on startup
anti-aliasing options are now either 2xMSAA or 4xMSAA, as UE5's masked opacity doesn't work with anything else
automation with program scripts:

time codes can now be also relative (with a "+" prefix)
revised, fully documented example program is now included
updated documentation available here
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31 Aug 2024Developer post
AudioSpace 6.0: SHADERS, FLUIDS, MODELS
The long anticipated 🌞summer🌞 release of AudioSpace is finally here, and not a day too soon as tomorrow it's already September. But the wait was worth it: now you can choose to enjoy AudioSpace as a windowed application with a normal set of title bar controls. Its highlight is
The long anticipated 🌞summer🌞 release of AudioSpace is finally here, and not a day too soon as tomorrow it's already September. But the wait was worth it: now you can choose to enjoy AudioSpace as a windowed application with a normal set of title bar controls. Its highlight is automatic viewpoints: there's no longer need to move around to find the best camera angle. For those who prefer the freedom of movement of the earlier versions, fear not: "AudioSpace VR" provides now this, as well as the full VR experience when your headset is detected or your OpenXR Runtime (such as SteamVR) is running,
Also new are the three big features of this release to level things up:

User defined shaders - that is, your own visualizations! Many shaders already included, including ray marching examples and the kaleidoscope effect. Experiment freely with existing shaders (they can be reloaded runtime just be re-selecting the shader) and add your own under Documents/AudioSpace/shaders.
Fluid simulations (liquid and gas).
3D models: customize your visualization environment to your liking.

add your 3D models under Documents/AudioSpace/models (one subfolder / model)
set model position, scale etc. via a config.ini file (created automatically)
supports glTF models (.gltf and .glb), more file formats may be added later
animations supported, tangent space normals required (for now)
a fully operational space station included, of course :)
To top things off, here's more:

new ROOM modes: 3D spectrum - 3 variations of spectrum columns in 3D. This and some other ROOM modes now have multiple variations (small sub-buttons inside the main button).
improved cursor visibility in all experiences; VR mode has now a beam cursor for motion controllers for aiming with your hands (instead of eyes like in the earlier versions)
help texts are now shown for param sliders (also with shaders)
switched from 8-bit to 32-bit textures on all panels (quality improvement)
Unreal Engine version updated from 4.26 to 5.3
on Earth, day has dawned and ground details are more visible towards the sunrise
new configuration options:

maxChannels: limit number of visualized channels (default is 2 channels)
autoSaveViewpoint: in the non-VR AudioSpace, save the most recent viewpoint always to the current preset (on by default)
allowMultiplePanelsPerWall: by default there's now only one visualization panel per each wall, this option allows to have many
alwaysSyncPanels: for copying visualization style changes to all panels with the same mode; this behavior can also be temporarily toggled by pressing Shift when changing things in menu (syncing panels is useful e.g. with a shader such as the "fractal space" on multiple walls)

As usual, this update is free for current owners of AudioSpace. Newcomers are also in luck, as the price will remain the same as before. Looking forward to see your next AudioSpace visualizations of your favorite music. 🎵🎬 Enjoy!
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20 Dec 2023Developer post
Merry Christmas!
As a small thank you for the past year, here's an audiovisual Christmas greeting for all you wonderful AudioSpacers: O Holy Night by Life in 3D In terms of future development of AudioSpace, some quite interesting new features are already being planned for 2024. Can't spoil more y
17 Dec 2023Developer post
AudioSpace 5.1 released
This version includes the following changes: - improved dynamic behavior of Shape of Sound - fixed Shape of Sound palette not updating correctly on preset changes - fixed audio initialization issue on certain audio chipsets on Windows 11 - fixed camera height after using teleport
11 Sep 2023Developer post
AudioSpace 5.0 released
Now it's here: AudioSpace that is not only a visualizer but also a media player! This major update includes a good volume of other delights as well, such as new visualizations on the back wall, the VU meter, and vectorscope v2 with multiband skills. See the full list at the end o
Now it's here: AudioSpace that is not only a visualizer but also a media player! This major update includes a good volume of other delights as well, such as new visualizations on the back wall, the VU meter, and vectorscope v2 with multiband skills. See the full list at the end of this post to get properly excited. ✨
Installation typically requires Windows restart due to full Explorer integration of the media player. Steam doesn't warn users about that, so check that reboot is OK before installing.
As always, this update is free for current owners of AudioSpace. Newcomers are also in luck, as the price will remain the same as before (for now). Looking forward to see your next AudioSpace visualization videos around. 🎵🎬 Enjoy!

AudioSpace can now play music and videos from files, playlists and online streams
most audio formats are supported (not .flac and .ogg though), as are all major playlists
for videos, H.264 encoded .mp4 is the best format for compatibility and performance
playback is controlled by a media layer that can be toggled on & off for each wall, floor and roof; example playlist of online radios is available by default on the roof media layer
media layers can also include background & overlay pictures for frames, watermarks, lyrics textures etc., let your creativity run wild!
new mode in the ROOM group: "VU meter" (modeled to be a fairly decent imitation of an analog VU meter, with RMS averaging and correct rise/fall times; toggle all frequency bands off for full-band mode)
visualizations are enabled now also on the all-new back wall, with unique variations of each mode
wall dimensions are now 16:9 or ~21:9 (64:27) to match display aspect ratios better
new location: "Black Hole" (when you want a fully black background for visualizations)
console panel now tries hard not to be on the way of any visualizations
configuration & presets are now saved under Documents\AudioSpace as text files for easy access and editability; that's a good place also for any program sequences you might create (an example is available)
new feature: multiband vectorscope; unselecting all frequency bands brings out the (classic) full-band vectorscope (same applies for waveforms)
vectorscope slider B is now dedicated to a new "attractor" parameter; slider C controls the line style
spectrum columns: param C was moved on B slider, as C now controls a new "hollow -> peak afterglow" parameter (try full peaks on the back wall!)
aurora & warp tunnel: faster reacting visualization can now be selected by lowering slider B when you need better sync / snappier response
shape of sound: param B now controls also the "vortex-foce" of particle movement; max vortex at both -1 and 1
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10 Aug 2023Developer post
AudioSpace 5.0 shaping up
Here's a little teaser to get you moderately hyped: soon you'll be able to witness the power of AudioSpace as a fully operational media player and even more capable audio visualizer than it is today. Aim is to support several audio and video formats as well as playlists and onlin
25 Nov 2022Developer post
AudioSpace 4.1 released
Here are the highlights: major upgrade to programming interface, now covers basically everything added commands for changing location, colors, parameters and freq. bands as well as for turning individual visualization modes on / off looping animations with freely selectable timin
Here are the highlights:

major upgrade to programming interface, now covers basically everything

added commands for changing location, colors, parameters and freq. bands as well as for turning individual visualization modes on / off
looping animations with freely selectable timings and easings
7 easings with adjustable power, including sine and triangle curves
shape of sound can now be on at the same time with room spectrograms
also nebula wavefronts can now co-exist with other space-modes
improved VR position & orientation reset functionality
new application icons

Tutorial here has been updated with the new programming functionality. Enjoy!
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08 Oct 2022Developer post
AudioSpace 4.0 has arrived!
Here are the highlights of this major release: a brand new visualization mode "trinity flux"; see it in action here level meter: improved looks, better performance and accuracy (down to -120 dB) added recording functionality for input & output sources, multichannel included a
Here are the highlights of this major release:

a brand new visualization mode "trinity flux"; see it in action here
level meter: improved looks, better performance and accuracy (down to -120 dB)
added recording functionality for input & output sources, multichannel included
audio source and recording controls are now all part of the new in-app console
much improved audio device and format detection & error handling
moved most of the audio processing chain into a separate thread
expanded in-app tutorial and made it more tolerant to various scenarios
many other visual, usability, performance and stability improvements
If you have not experimented with the parameter sliders before, now is a good time: there are some radical param combinations to be found for trinity flux. This new mode tends to shine especially with vocal and acoustic music. Give it a go and post your best screenshots here!
This update, just like all future updates, is free for all existing AudioSpace users. Enjoy!
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30 Sep 2022Developer post
Upcoming release, new price
Just to give you a heads-up: a major update for AudioSpace is on its way! It will include a new visualization mode as well as a certain highly requested feature, together with some smaller fixes and improvements. No exact release date yet, but most likely it will happen before mi
11 Sep 2022Developer post
AudioSpace questions & answers
Answers to some of the most commonly asked questions are available here:
11 Sep 2022Developer post
AudioSpace tutorials