Settings reference

Open Settings at the upper left to shape the visualization. Use Filter controls to find a setting, or select the help icon beside a control for details. For a practical walkthrough, start with First session guide. For the conceptual model behind these settings, see Understanding the engine. Desktop OSC, OSCQuery, and MIDI control-input setup lives in Parameter Automation; outbound modal-structure data lives in OSC Structure Export.

Common Tasks

Task	Controls to use
Manually rotate the cymatic volume	Set Rotation Mode to `Manual`, then adjust Manual Spin Speed in Motion.
Rotate the idle logo independently	Set Logo Rotation to `Manual`, then adjust Logo Rotation Speed in Logo.
Keep the scene stationary	Set Rotation Mode to `Off`.
Let audio drive scene movement	Set Rotation Mode to `Audio`, then tune Audio Rotation Amount.
Change viewpoint	Use the floating camera controls or orbit drag while the camera is unlocked.
Prevent accidental camera movement	Enable Lock Camera.
Capture a still	Frame the scene, lock the camera, set rotation intentionally, then use browser or OS capture tools.

Baryon does not currently expose keyboard shortcuts for manual cymatic rotation. The only currently documented keyboard shortcut is fullscreen where the host exposes it.

Audio input and intent

The live-input controls describe the capture setup. Voice/Vocal and Ambient are retained intent labels; neither selects one dominant pitch nor limits the frequencies entering the broadband solver. Files, line feeds, and microphone audio all drive the same modal response after preparation.

Input settings

Select a device, then open Input settings in the Listener or web source picker. In Performer, open the input slot in the show bar. Microphone processing controls appear for microphone inputs.

Label	Description
Input type	Choose Detect automatically, Microphone, or Line or loopback for the selected device.
Tuned for	Choose Music in the room or Voice for microphone capture. Both use the same broadband response.
Echo cancellation	Reduce speaker bleed and room echo. This can color the audio spectrum.
Noise suppression	Reduce steady background noise. This can soften quieter harmonics.
Automatic gain	Normalize mic volume automatically. This can flatten dynamics.

Performance

Controls for render cadence, adaptive quality, and the performance HUD.

Label	Description
Profile	`Auto` adapts raymarch steps toward 60 FPS, `Custom` uses Target FPS, and `Max Quality` leaves raymarch steps ungoverned. Adaptive profiles raise steps again whenever measured frame cost leaves room. Version 1.2.0 defaults to `Max Quality`; use `Auto` when you want adaptive performance.
Target FPS	Performer cadence and adaptive raymarch target used when Profile is `Custom`. In a window, a target above the display’s refresh rate adapts to the refresh rate instead.
HUD	Shows FPS and render resolution on screen.

Volume

Controls for the raymarched modal volume.

Label	Description
Shape	Show the rectangular cymatic field through a spherical clip or across its full cubic domain.
Boundary	Choose whether the modal family behaves like a reflective boundary (`Neumann`) or a fixed node.
Material Density	Scale the uniform optical tracer that reveals caustic irradiance. This changes scattering and absorption, not acoustic or caustic topology.
Laser Bending	Change how strongly laser rays bend through the acoustic pressure field, affecting caustic placement and concentration.
Max Samples	Set the maximum analytic camera-ray sample budget. `Auto` and `Custom` performance profiles may use fewer samples to hold their target.

Appearance

Controls for the scene background, tracer color, focused light, and bloom.

Label	Description
Color Mode	`Static` uses the chosen colors. `Spectral` colors the field from the full response spectrum.
Volume Color	Main color of the volume interior. Shown in `Static` mode.
Caustic Color	Color of focused laser irradiance revealed by the tracer. Shown in `Static` mode.
Spectral Chroma	Adjust spectral color vividness at constant luminance without blending in the configured static colors. Shown in `Spectral` mode.
Caustic Strength	Camera-visible focused-light gain. It does not change acoustic topology, ray bending, or material extinction.
Laser Focus	Inverse finite-source angular spread. Higher values produce narrower caustic folds without changing the acoustic field.
Bloom	Toggle the optional soft optical halo around bright parts of the volume.
Bloom Strength	How bright the bloom halo is.
Bloom Radius	How far the bloom spreads from bright areas.
Bloom Threshold	Minimum brightness before a region contributes to bloom — raise to limit it to the brightest highlights.
Background Color	Set the color behind the scene in Listener and on the web. Performer uses black for program output.

Motion

Controls for cymatic-render movement. These settings do not rotate the idle logo.

Label	Description
Rotation Mode	`Audio` rotates the cymatic render with music, `Manual` uses Manual Spin Speed, and `Off` keeps it still.
Manual Spin Speed	Spin speed in Manual rotation mode — negative values reverse direction.
Audio Rotation Amount	Scales the auto-calibrated rotation in Audio mode. It has no effect in Manual rotation mode.
Pattern Persistence	Sets the cymatic geometry exposure from 0.05 to 2 seconds. Higher values retain recognizable structures longer but overlap more.

Logo

Idle-state overlay controls.

Label	Description
Logo Intensity	Brightness of the idle logo shown when no audio is playing.
Logo Size	Size of the 3D idle logo shown when no audio is playing.
Logo Color	Color of the 3D idle logo shown when no audio is playing.
Logo Rotation	`Manual` rotates the idle logo independently; `Off` keeps it stationary.
Logo Rotation Speed	Idle-logo spin speed in Manual mode — negative values reverse direction.

Interface

Turn on Show controls in fullscreen to keep the app controls visible when you press F to enter fullscreen.

Diagnostics

Diagnostic controls help isolate render, audio, and analysis behavior. Debug-only controls require devtools (DEVTOOLS_ENABLED).

Label	Description
TRAA	Toggle temporal anti-aliasing for diagnostics when isolating render latency, shimmer, or post-process cost.
Capture Debug Data	Record per-frame debug data for the active analysis and renderer.
Freeze Pattern	Hold the current modal pattern in place instead of updating it from live audio.
Force WebGL2	Restart the renderer on the WebGL2 fallback path for compatibility testing. This remounts the canvas.
Suppress Playback Telemetry	Pause per-frame devtools snapshots and console audit logs during playback. Rendering quality and frame cadence are unchanged.
Inject Tone	Replace live audio with a synthetic test tone so you can inspect a known, repeatable input.
Tone Hz	Frequency of the injected test tone in Hz. Low values inspect renderable patterns; high values exercise bandwidth-limit diagnostics.
Tone Signal	Choose whether the injected test signal is a pure sine or an explicit harmonic series.
Tone Amp	Amplitude of the injected test tone — lower values produce subtler pattern excitation.
Log Frames	Write a debug snapshot to the browser console every N frames. Use 1 for every frame.

Presets

Use Presets at the top of Settings to save and recall named looks from Volume, Appearance, Motion, and Logo. Presets leave this machine’s own settings alone. Input settings, Performance (quality profile, target FPS, HUD), Max Samples, camera lock and Diagnostics are never saved into a preset and never changed by loading one, so the same look works on a laptop and on a show machine.

Action	Description
Name field	Type a name for the preset you want to save.
Save	Save the current look under the typed name. Choose Replace when the name already exists.
Current preset dropdown	Select a saved preset to restore its look. Changing a look control after loading clears the selection indicator.
Reset all	Restore all controls to their factory defaults.
Delete	Delete the preset currently shown in the Current preset dropdown (controls are left unchanged).
Manage	Tick any number of presets (Shift-click selects a range, or use Select all) and delete them together; click Delete again to confirm. Rename a preset with the pencil on its row: Enter saves, Escape cancels.

If the device refuses to store a preset (for example, when storage is full), the Presets folder says so and keeps the name you typed so you can try again.

Camera angles in presets

Every preset also remembers the camera angle it was saved with. The Recall camera switch next to Presets decides whether loading a preset uses it:

Off (default): presets are looks. Loading one changes the look and leaves the camera where it is.
On: each preset is a full shot. Loading one sets the look and moves the camera to its angle. If you move the camera away, the selected preset shows Edited; click it to restore the preset’s look and angle.

Presets saved before camera angles were remembered stay look-only.

Camera views

In Desktop Listener and Performer, choose a camera view while idle to use it when audio starts. Use Reset camera to return to automatic framing. To type an exact camera position, press the position button (crosshair) in the camera panel, or click any number in the x · y · z readout under it. Type, use Tab to move between axes (the up and down arrows nudge a value by 0.1, or by 1 with Shift), and press Enter to move the camera there. Escape or clicking away cancels. The camera keeps its current aim point and lens. The Views button in the camera panel saves camera angles separately from looks, so any look can be shown from any angle.

Action	Description
Name / Save	Save the current angle under a name. Replace appears when the name already exists.
Saved view	Click to move the camera there. The view matching the current camera is highlighted.
×	Delete a saved view; click again to confirm.

Baryon saves your latest settings on this device and restores them the next time you open the app.

Get started

Guides

Reference

Settings reference

Common Tasks

Audio input and intent

Input settings

Performance

Volume

Appearance

Motion

Logo

Interface

Diagnostics

Presets

Camera angles in presets

Camera views