VibroFlō — Luminous Settings

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Configure how light-sync behaves during real sessions, and test your connected hardware

Settings

Test Hardware

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Audio Files

Live Session Behavior

These apply the next time you start a session with Luminous or Screen Mode turned on — on the Session page itself, they stay out of the way as simple on/off toggles.

General

Fade-in durationhow gently a session eases in, instead of jumping straight to full intensity. Skipped when Screen Mode is decoding a real signal, for an accurate hardware comparison

10s

Screen Mode countdowntime to get positioned before the flicker starts

Screen Mode default brightnesswhere the brightness slider starts — still adjustable each time

70%

Generating a signal — no real embedded content

These three only apply when Luminous makes up its own pattern — the signal sent to external hardware, or Screen Mode's flicker when the track playing has no real embedded signal. None of them affect decoding a real Lumasonic, SpectraStrobe, or AudioStrobe track.

Eye driftlets left and right slowly wander out of sync and back, instead of flashing in rigid lockstep

40%

Brightness variationa subtle natural wander in intensity, so the light breathes rather than blinks at one fixed level

30%

Follow Music by defaultbrightness tracks the ambient track's volume instead of the drift wander above. Only affects the external-hardware signal — Screen Mode never uses this one

Screen Mode follows the musicthe same idea as above, but for the on-screen flicker — the flash rate stays exactly where it already is, anchored to the tone engine and kept within the same safety-checked range as always. What changes is intensity: quiet passages dim it down, louder or fuller moments hit harder, so it feels genuinely locked in to what's playing instead of a fixed pulse running underneath it. Real beat-by-beat flash-syncing was considered and deliberately set aside — it needs the kind of sharp, percussive hits that ambient and embient-style tracks mostly don't have, and letting raw audio drive the rate itself (rather than just intensity) is exactly the kind of unpredictable pattern the safety design elsewhere on this page exists to avoid

Follow depthhow much the music actually moves the brightness. Low keeps it close to the steady baseline with just a hint of movement; high makes quiet and loud moments feel dramatically different. 0% is identical to Screen Mode follows the music being off

70%

Flash duty cyclehow much of each cycle the flash is on. Lower means a shorter flash against a longer dark phase, which reads as a much more distinct flicker at faster rates — and is a stronger stimulus, not just a look. 50% is an even on/off

50%

Decoding a real embedded signal

Decoder sensitivityhow weak a signal still counts as real — 5 is the practical floor. SpectraStrobe runs more sensitive than this at every level, since it reads dimmer than a Kasina decoding the same file. Only matters for real tracks — nothing to detect in a generated signal

Flicker contrasthow hard the off-phase is driven to true black. Higher gives a sharper, more distinct strobe — matters most at 15Hz and above, where a soft fade reads as a continuous glow instead of a flicker. Lower is gentler

60%

Test Your Hardware

Some light-and-sound machines — like the MindPlace Kasina — read tones hidden above normal hearing range to flash their LEDs in sync with audio. AudioStrobe uses one tone for brightness only; SpectraStrobe and Lumasonic each use four tones for independent color. Use this to confirm your specific device and cables actually reproduce whichever one you're testing.

If you're testing through speakers instead of headphones, start at a low system volume and increase gradually. These tones sit right at the edge of hearing for a lot of people, and SpectraStrobe and Lumasonic in particular are steady, full-strength tones with no pulsing — genuinely loud at higher volumes, not just noticeable.

AudioStrobe

SpectraStrobe

Lumasonic

Carrier frequency19200Hz is the AudioStrobe standard — adjust only to test what your device can actually reproduce

19200Hz

Left eye Hzindependent from Right — set them apart to test how the flicker rate difference itself feels

10.0Hz

Right eye Hzindependent from Left

10.0Hz

Phase shiftnudges Right's flicker forward within its own cycle, relative to Left — 180° is exactly opposite (Right bright while Left is dark)

0°

Gate depth100% = full on/off flash, lower = dimmer pulse instead of a hard cut

100%

Gate shape

Smooth

Sharp

Signal strengththe carrier tone's own volume — needs to be strong enough for the decoder to catch it reliably

80%

Channel

Both

Left only

Right only

Test signal

Requires AudioStrobe/SpectraStrobe-compatible hardware to see any effect, and should be silent or near-silent to most people on ordinary speakers.

Storage

Everything you add here stays on this device only — nothing is uploaded anywhere.

Audio Library — everything available to the Ambient Layer on the Session page

+ Add audio files

Light signalif you know this file has a real embedded AudioStrobe/SpectraStrobe/Lumasonic signal, set it here — this can always be changed later by selecting the file below

Audio contentif this file already has an isochronic tone and/or vibroacoustic sub baked in, say so here — the Session Wizard will mute the Low/High tone engines automatically when you pick this file, instead of layering a second tone on top of it

Choose a file to view or change its settings

Bundled samples ship with the app and can't be removed here — edit public/audio/samples/manifest.json to change the built-in library. Anything you add yourself shows up under "This device only" or "Synced," depending on whether you're signed in.

Noise Loops — dev only, for building the noise generator

Clean loops, 30–60 seconds, MP3 only. Tag each with the category it belongs to before uploading — Wind, Rain, Flow, Waves, or Grove. This whole section is hidden from regular users; you're only seeing it because dev tools are unlocked on this device.

Category for the next upload

+ Add loop

Test Mixer

Turn any combination on and set each one's own level to hear how they layer together. This plays through its own test engine here — not yet wired into real sessions.

Auto-evolve — each active layer slowly wanders its own volume instead of holding still

▶ Play test mix

Backup & Transfer

Presets, session history, Luminous settings, and light-signal format tags all live only on this device right now. Export them as one file to move to another device, or attach it to an email as a backup. This does not include the actual audio files you've uploaded locally — those are large enough to make a file like this impractical to email, and would need re-adding on the new device. Files hosted through Cloudinary don't have this problem at all, since they're already reachable from anywhere.

Export backup file

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