Audio-reactive visuals + DMX · for VJs
When part of the show needs reactive visuals, start Pulse and hand that job over. It follows the kick, the build and the drop on its own, across as many screens as you need, while you get on with everything else.
14-day free trial. No card, no sign-up form.
How VJs use it
Pulse isn't here to replace your workflow. Think of it as the part of the show you can delegate: the stretches where the screens just need to move with the music, so your hands and your head can be somewhere else.
On its own
Don't feel like putting together a whole Resolume setup for a gig? You don't have to. Pulse drives the screens itself, across several displays, and reacts to the music without anyone touching it.
Next to Resolume
Already built your show in Resolume? Bring Pulse in as one more source, over NDI or through a plain HDMI input, and launch it for the moments you'd rather hand off. Your comps stay exactly as they are.
Remote control
Install the Android app and change styles, launch content and run the lights from your phone, while Pulse keeps running on the computer. Handy when you're out on the floor checking the screens, or the computer is tucked away somewhere awkward.
The Android app is a remote control. Pulse itself runs on Windows or Mac.The audio engine
Pulse doesn't just pump with the volume. Its audio engine reads the track as it plays: the BPM, every kick, the build-up, the drop, the break, the moments of silence, how much energy is in the room. Each of those moments has its own effect attached.
So when the build starts climbing, the screen climbs with it, and when the drop lands, everything lands together. You don't write a cue list for that and you don't sit there riding faders. You pick a look, press play, and the engine handles the timing.
Plenty to play with
Simple on the surface doesn't mean thin underneath. There's a long list of effects and reactive behaviours you can stack and combine, and you can feed it your own material instead of (or as well as) the styles it comes with.
Glitch, glow, fire, fluid, glass, kaleidoscope, neon, scanlines, pixelation and more, on any layer.
Audio visualizers, virtual lights and strobes driven by bass, mids and highs, layered over your video.
Upload your photos, videos, visuals and logos, build playlists and launch videos when you want them.
Control it with AI
Pulse speaks MCP, the standard that AI assistants such as Claude Code use to work other software. Connect one and you stop digging through menus. Type what you're after, or say it out loud if your assistant takes voice, and Pulse does it.
Want the whole show red? Write "make it red". Need skulls for a Halloween night? Ask for skulls, and it searches the built-in royalty-free library (Pixabay and Pexels), pulls the clips and drops them into a playlist. Logos, text on screen, light scenes, the schedule, recording the set: all of it can be asked for in plain words.
Lights included
Plug in a USB-DMX interface and the same analysis that drives the screen starts driving your fixtures. Dimmers, colours, strobes and moving heads follow the track automatically, so the lights hit the drop at the same moment the visuals do.
When you'd rather take over, you can fire scenes, strobe, haze or a blackout by hand. There's a fixture library built in, which means most lights are a search away instead of a profile you have to build, and a laser safety flag on patterns that shouldn't go near an audience.
From a booth
The crowd noticed something different. That's all I needed to know.DJ Rony Rex · @itsronyrex
Questions
No. Download it, install it and the 14 days start. No form, no card.
No. Pulse runs on its own and drives one screen or several. If you do use Resolume, bring Pulse in as a source over NDI or through an HDMI input, and nothing in your existing project has to change.
Through your audio interface, the DJ controller or a virtual cable such as VB-Cable. The laptop mic is there as a fallback, though you'll get a far better read from a proper line signal.
Any assistant that supports MCP, Claude Code being the obvious one. If yours takes voice, you can talk to it instead of typing.
Pulse runs on Windows 10 and 11, and on Macs with Apple Silicon. The Android app isn't a phone version of Pulse, it's a remote control: install it on your phone to drive the copy running on your computer.
Yes. Pulse takes MTC over MIDI or LTC over an audio channel, and you can hang cues on exact frames to change the style, the lights or individual layers.
Nothing gets charged, because we never asked for a card. If you want to keep it, the personal license is $99, paid once. Clubs, festivals and paid events need the commercial license, which is $179 a year.
14 days free · no card · no sign-up
Install it next to your usual setup, point some audio at it and see what it does with your music. If it earns a slot in the rig, great. If not, you've lost an evening.