WebVis.app

exit vis

[ESC]

help

[F1/Ctrl+1]

settings

[F2/Ctrl+2]

effects

[F3/Ctrl+3]

start random vis

[TAB]

start slideshow

[Shift+TAB]

input device

Browser tab

Internal player

internal player

0:00 / 0:00

Drag and Drop
your local mp3
files here

remove

clear

shuffle

Help

Show main help (this screen) on the main window or show visualizer specific help in visualizer mode.
Press

Ctrl+1

or the

help

button to toggle (show/hide) or press

Esc

to hide. On mobile devices tap the screen in visualizer mode the bring out the help menu and the

Back to the Visualizer

to close it.

Exit visualizer

When in visualizer mode, press

Esc

to exit to the main screen. If you are using a mobile device, tap the screen an press the

Exit to Gallery

button.

Start a visualizer

Click or tap on the visualizer thumbnail to start the visualizer. You can also press

Tab

or the

start random vis

button to start a random visualizer.

Visualizer parameters

When a visualizer is started, you can change different parameters of the visualizers by pressing the adequate key. Usually these keys are mapped from the

,etc buttons. Each visualizer has it's own parameters and key mapping. Bring out the visualizer help (by pressing

inside the visualizer) to see the available options.

For mobile devices, you can tap the screen for the help and tap on the button/line to change the different parameters.

Input device

Input devices are the audio input sources used to generate the visualizers. Usually devices has multiple input sources which can even change over time (e.g. connecting or disconnecting a headset).

If you are using webvis.app on your PC or laptop and using a browser that supports screen sharing, you can also select Browser tab as an input source and select your screen, application or browser tab to capture audio stream. Please note that not all platform support all options (e.g. on MacOS only browser tabs has audio stream).

On desktops, an internal player is available, where you can drag and drop your local audio files (.mp3 and .flac) and play them directly from this site.

You can select your input device on the welcome screen and on the left side of the main screen under the input device section. When in the visualizer, you can press

Ctrl+2

to bring out the input device selector.

Settings

You can configure various parameters for the WebVis.app in the settings screen such as rotation, toast messages, samplerate, slideshow timer and so on. To access the settings press

Ctrl+2

keys or the

settings

button.

Effects

You can add post processing effects to each visualizer. Effects can be toggled and view on the effects screen, which you can access by processing

Ctrl+3

keys or the

effects

button.

Each effects has it's own shortcut key on the number row (starting from

) so you can change the effects on the fly.

Slideshow

When you start a slideshow then a random visualizer will start and a new random visualizer will replace it in predefined intervals. This feature can be used to keep visualizers on for a long period of time but you would like them to change after some minutes. You can set the change interval with the

slideshow timer

button and you can start the slideshow with

Shift+Tab

Internal Player

On desktops an internal player is available to play your local audio (.mp3 and .flac) files. You can also change the audio source to internal player for better and undistrupted visuals. Your audio files can be dragged and dropped to the playlist part of the player. You can control the player with the bottom row buttons as follows:

for previous track,

for play or restart,

for pause and resume and

for next track.

You can open the internal player controls from the visualizer with the

Ctrl+4

button.

Settings

You can boost your input audio volume if your original input audio volume is too low. For normal volumes it will saturate most of the visualizers, so make sure you set it properly. This parameter has a hotkey so you can adjust the audio gain easily: press

Ctrl+5

to decrease and

Ctrl+6

to increase audio gain.

Audio gain:

You can toggle the sample frequency between 44Khz and 22Khz. The default one is 44Khz, but most mobile devices are only using 22Khz for audio input. The application sets the sample rate to 22Khz for mobile devices automatically, but you can adjust it later. If your sampling rate is 44Khz, but your device only supports 22Khz then most of the frequency based visualizers will only show half of the frequency.

Sample rate:

44100 Hz

You can configure how and when screen is rotated with 90°. If it is turned off, vis screen is not rotated by the website, if it is turned on, screen is always rotated, if it is set to "auto", it will rotate the screen if the screen width is smaller than the screen height (e.g. mobile phones or tablets).

Screen rotation:

auto

Toast messages are messages shows inside the visualizers. When the visualizer starts, it displayes the Title with some additional text and when a parameter changes it displays the parameter and the new value.

Toast messages:

all

You can set how frequently new visualizers are displayed when in slideshow mode.

Slideshow timer:

2 min

You can print various debug information in the top left corner.

Debug:

off