What it does
Quantizes each channel to a fixed step count. Hard-edged retro look. Great in front of Hue Cycle.
Plugin id: core.posterize
Effects · Stylize
Posterize
Reduce the color palette to N levels.
Parameters
The controls you'll see in the inspector. Like every effect parameter in Visualz, each one is audio-bindable — route a frequency band, beat onset, sweep, or MIDI CC at it and it moves with the show.
levels
Runs everywhere effects run
Drop Posterize on any of the four buses — clip, layer, track, or set — with pre-or-post placement and a per-effect dry/wet mix. Stack it with the rest of the chain freely; the engine batches everything into a single per-frame draw graph, and a chain you like can be saved as an FX preset and re-applied with one click.
More Stylize effects
Pixelate
Block-down to chunky pixels.
Threshold
Hard black-and-white cut.
Dot Matrix
LED display grid.
ASCII
Render the frame as monospace characters.
Halftone
Newsprint dot-screen.
Dither
Ordered (Bayer) or error-diffusion dithering.
Decimate
Quantize the time axis — frame-skipping effect.
Watercolor
Multi-pass painterly stylization.
Crosshatch
Multi-direction hatching lines stylize the frame.
Oil Paint
Kuwahara-style painterly bucket sort.
Stipple
Random dot stippling, density driven by darkness.
Comic
Cel-shaded posterize + dark outline.
Crystallize
Voronoi-cell color averaging — stained-glass look.
Outline
Colored line wrapping bright shapes.
Gaussian Splat
Rebuild the frame as a field of soft, drifting Gaussian blobs.