Visualz 3.0.10

3.0.10 is a big effects drop with a quieter but important set of live-feature fixes underneath it. Five new effects land, three favourites grow new tricks, CrowdStream stops thinking in modes, and the audience features finally stop dropping when you switch clips.

Five new effects

All five are audio-bindable and slot straight into the four-bus chain. Find them on the effects catalog, flagged New.

• Gaussian Splat — rebuilds the frame as a field of soft, drifting Gaussian blobs for a 3D-splat / point-cloud bokeh look. Audio Scatter kicks the cloud apart on louder moments.
• Datamosh — the wet, melting corrupted-codec smear: held motion vectors dragged over stale frames with chroma bleed and scanline dropout. Beat onsets fire bursts; Recovery pulls it back between hits.
• Halation — warm analogue film glow that bleeds around highlights. Screen-blended rather than additive, so bright areas don't clip the way Bloom can.
• God Rays — volumetric light shafts radiating from a movable light position. Bass drives the shafts harder on every kick.
• Dream Warp — a flowing noise field domain-warps the image while a soft glow and radial chroma drift melt it into a lava-lamp haze.

Bloom, Pixel Sort, and RGB Shift get deeper

Three of the most-used effects pick up new modes — all backward-compatible, so existing presets render exactly as before until you reach for the new dials.

• Bloom grows a fifth pass: a directional anamorphic streak with its own flare tint, plus optional lens ghosts — a tinted Cinemascope flare and mirrored ghost dots off the highlights.
• Pixel Sort swaps the old hard streak for a graded monotonic ramp, so runs blend as smooth bands instead of harsh stripes. Sort by luma, hue, or saturation, with Smear and Invert controls.
• RGB Shift adds a Radial (Lens) mode where the fringing grows toward the frame edge like real lens dispersion. Linear mode is unchanged.

CrowdStream layers, now mixable

CrowdStream used to make you pick one of four modes — color, flashlight, video, or hybrid. 3.0.10 drops the dropdown for three independent toggles you can combine in any way. Color and Video each get their own opacity, so you can ride a 50% color wash over live video for a tinted, fully-synced screen, or fade the video under a solid strobe. Older sets that saved a mode migrate automatically.

Live rooms that don't drop

CrowdStream and FanCam rooms used to be owned by the clip you were playing — so the moment you switched clips, the room tore down and every audience phone disconnected. 3.0.10 moves room ownership up to the active track. Switch between clips all you like; the audience stays connected and synced, with no re-subscribe and no video blip. A room ends only when its last clip leaves the track, you switch tracks, or the rig goes offline.

The phone Remote gets a real page

The PRO phone Remote — scan a QR, change tracks, play / pause, set play order, hit blackout, all from the floor — has been hardened and now has a proper feature page. It pairs over a quick handshake and rides a live channel so the controls always mirror what the rig is doing, and it's fully gated off when you're not using it so it costs the renderer nothing on the common path.

Deck mode is fixed at boot

Whether a process is the deck (a CVJ-1 launched with --vz-mode=deck) or a perform-only instance is now decided once at launch and never changes at runtime. The /perform and /deck routes are just views you navigate between; your preferred layout lives in Settings and takes effect on the next restart. No more Deck tab flickering in and out of a perform rig.

Per-pair FX / Sources picker

The four FX fader pairs (5–8) used to share one global mode — all FX or all Sources. Now each pair remembers its own mode, persisted per track, so you can leave pair 1 on FX and pair 2 on Sources and have that layout come back exactly where you left it.

Media that sticks around

Importing a VJ Pack or a marketplace item used to write its media to a temp folder that got cleaned up after registration — which orphaned the library rows and left "unavailable" cards behind. 3.0.10 writes imported media to permanent, per-import folders so it persists for the life of the row.

CVJ-1 page refresh

The CVJ-1 page gets an interactive product gallery and an embedded demo of the deck in action. The current drop is a limited run of 20 units.