Dream Strobe

Your music has been watched this whole time.

Dream Strobe is a music visualizer that listens the way you do. It doesn't pulse a dumb bar graph to volume — it hears the kick and the snare separately, locks onto the BPM, feels the buildup coming four to eight bars before the drop lands, and tenses every scene for the payoff. When the drop hits, the whole world reacts on the exact frame.

Play anything. System audio, microphone, YouTube, your own files. Dream Strobe doesn't care where the music comes from — only that it never stops.

🎧 IT HEARS EVERYTHING

Under the hood is a full structural listener, not a volume meter:

• Beats, split by drum — kick, snare, and hi-hat are detected separately, so scenes can dance to each one differently
  
• Drop detection — single-frame impact events with a decaying shockwave tail
  
• Predictive buildup — filter sweeps and snare rolls are recognized as they rise, so scenes compress, dim, and pull back before the release
  
• BPM-locked phrasing — beats, bars, and 16-bar phrases drive choreography, not just reaction
  
• Vocal awareness — when a voice takes the spotlight, the chaos automatically clears a path for it
  
• Wobble tracking — a dedicated detector tuned for bass LFOs. Yes, this is the dubstep feature.

🌊 LEAN BACK — it runs itself

Do nothing, and Dream Strobe becomes the best thing that has ever happened to the wall behind your desk. An autonomous director rotates through over 400 hand-tuned scenes — deep-sea jellyfish, collapsing galaxies, crystal cathedrals, liquid chrome, auroras, fractal tunnels, a frog playing piano — and guarantees no repeats until you've seen everything. Every scene carries its own internal arc of phases, switching on drops and phrase boundaries so nothing ever sits still long enough to get boring. Star your favorites and the director will run those alone.

🕹 LEAN IN — it goes as deep as you do

The moment you touch a key or a stick, Dream Strobe opens up:

• A full scene gallery with search, favorites, and instant switching
  
• 34 stackable cinematic post-effects — bloom, halation, anamorphic streaks, film grain, CRT phosphor, VHS, oil paint — every scene mixes its own
  
• Calm mode, projector mode, multi-screen control for parties and venues
  
• 100% controller support — every menu, every secret, every text box works from the couch, on-screen keyboard included

📺 THE RABBIT HOLE

This is where it stops being a screensaver. Dream Strobe ships with interdimensional cable: 27 TV channels of curated, absurd, beautiful video — infomercials, runway shows, old newsreels, Japanese commercials, fail tapes — that you channel-surf with the bumpers like it's 2 AM in 1997.

And the TV remembers being a TV. Two secret menus are hidden behind keys nobody tells you about. One is a dead-on late-90s CRT service menu — contrast, tint, scanlines, disco mode. The other is something stranger: picture modes named CURSED and LIMINAL, a bouncing DVD logo, absurdist subtitles, a news ticker, a hamster power meter driven by your bass, and a self-destruct button that loses its nerve halfway through the countdown. Find them. There may be more.

🤖 TELL IT WHAT TO DREAM

Dream Strobe was largely built by an AI, and the AI never left. Open the chat and talk to it — about the music, about the scene, about nothing. Ask it for "a thunderstorm over a neon ocean" and it will write a brand-new scene, live, while the current one keeps playing, then queue its creation up next. Your library grows the way a sketchbook does. No two copies of Dream Strobe drift the same direction.

THE NUMBERS

• 400+ audio-reactive scenes, zero-repeat rotation
  
• 27 cable channels / 600+ curated video clips
  
• 34 post-processing effects, mixed per scene
  
• 2048-point FFT analysis with per-band beat, onset, drop, buildup, vocal, and wobble detection
  
• 4 audio inputs: system audio, microphone, YouTube, local files
  
• 2 secret menus (that we admit to)
  
• Full controller + Steam Deck-friendly UI, 60 fps capped, worker-thread rendering

Put it on a second monitor. Put it on the TV. Put a song on, walk away, and let it work — or stay, press the wrong button, and find out how deep it goes.