Realtime Audio Visualizer Vst or Standalone

[VSTd]

Hi ppl!
After endless hours of search i finally seek your help here:
I am looking for a way to visualize live audio in realtime.
I mean a visualization like milkdrop (computer generated).
I used virtual audio cable and could use the "linein://" command in winamp to make milkdrop to react to the live audio from my DAW (ableton live) and any sound being played back on the system (Browser , Video/Music-Player) , but the VirtualAudioCable introduced inaceptable latency and some distortion. I even tried a hardware solution by rewiring my setup and feeding the splitted output cable into the input but that introduced other audio issues.

So i am looking for a Standalone app /64bit Vst that grabs the Audio played back by my DAW or my default playback device in windows 7 and generates stunning visuals according to the beat in realtime.

I have found one which is free and amazingly quick responding:
"Fractal Music visualizer" by buttermilch (its standalone)
https://acetix.itch.io/music-visualizer

I really like the concept and how it works.
Its exactly what i want but it has only one "theme".

Another one i "found" is this:
VS - Visual Synthesizer
https://www.kvraudio.com/news/imaginand ... -ios-52039

But i cannot run it on my system because of some .dll errors i could not fix.

So:
I would be very happy and thankful if you could shed some light on this topic and share your thaugts on how to accomplish this goal.

Thanks in advance!

[whyterabbyt]

So i am looking for a Standalone app /64bit Vst that grabs the Audio played back by my DAW or my default playback device in windows 7 and generates stunning visuals according to the beat in realtime.

Well, you've already seen that Virtual Audio Cable type devices are the only way to 'tap' into the audio chain be that Windows audio or ASIO, so any such standalone would have to integrate its own version of a VAC with exactly the same limitations.

However, I'd actually ask first; why do you need this in realtime?

[mcbpete]

As your DAW is Ableton you could use something like VIZZable ( https://github.com/zealtv/VIZZable-2 ) or Rokvid ( https://www.ableton.com/en/packs/rokvid/ ) or Zwobot ( https://www.zwobotmax.com/) directly within the application.

[VSTd]

Thanks for your well meant replies.
Please use "Fractal Music visualizer" by buttermilch as a reference: a perfectly working program that computer generates graphics in "realtime". With realtime i mean that my eyes and ears cannot detect any significant latency between action and reaction. Action for example is a sound triggered by midi keyboard and the reaction is the behavior of the program according to that action.

The max4life stuff: Besides i dont want to work with video files right now these "plugins" require additional files from other sources to be "installed" somewhere without telling me where.
The free ones are on github which i probably will never understand.
I never find a download link for a zip or rar file with all the necessary stuff packed inside.
They also have a steep learning curve and are modular and all are for videos as source material.

All i want is fancy computer generated optics reacting directly to the beat in fullscreen.

[whyterabbyt]

Please use "Fractal Music visualizer" by buttermilch as a reference

but by the look of it, its not really a reference for what you're asking for. its not operating on an audio stream from something else, its directly playing back an MP3.

if you want realtime audio to be sent from one application to another, then you need something above and beyond how windows normally routes audio, you need something additional to do that. unless your audio hardware already lets you do that sort of thing, virtual audio devices/virtual audio cables are the way of doing that 'in the box', actual physical cables are the way of doing it outside.

[VSTd]

@whyterabbyt: "Fractal Music visualizer" can in deed react to any sound that is played back by the default audio device be it by a browser/av player a DAW etc... without having the need of installing 3rd party programs as VACs or any additional .dlls!
The mode is called "realtime audio" (on the left side of the screen).
It is reacting superfast to the audio.
Plus it comes in a zip file and the extracted exe does not need installment (portable for the lack of better words)
It is programmed in unity if that means anything.
If it would have more "themes" that would change any 30 seconds or so it would not get boring so soon and i would be sattisfied for quite some time i guess.

I found another one doing what i want in general:
projectM:
https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/ ... tag/v3.1.7

It has changing presets but its not quite as on the spot (beat) as the buttermilch version.

edit: i found out that projectM is a milkdrop child.
I will play with it a little bit.
But i am still open for fresh input.
Peace