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A music visualizer built for YouTube uploads
YouTube is where most independent releases actually live. WaveForge exports at the exact sizes YouTube wants, with your title and cover art already in the frame.
Free account: 3 thirty-second recordings a day at 1080p. No card needed.
Export at the size YouTube actually serves
YouTube’s standard landscape frame is 1920 × 1080. Uploading at 3840 × 2160 gets you a better encode even for viewers watching at 1080p, because YouTube gives 4K uploads a higher bitrate ladder. WaveForge does both, at 30 or 60fps.
Sixty frames per second matters more for a visualizer than for most footage. The motion is continuous and high-contrast, which is exactly the case where 30fps reads as stuttering.
Shorts as well as long-form
The same track can be exported at 1080 × 1920 for YouTube Shorts without redesigning anything — you pick the vertical format and the layout adapts.
That means one session produces both the full upload and the clip that promotes it.
Record visuals and audio together
WaveForge analyses the file first, then records the visualizer and audio together while the track plays. A full-length recording takes about as long as the song, plus file preparation and finalization.
Keep the tab visible and use settings your device can record smoothly. Preview the downloaded file before uploading it.
At a glance
- Long-form
- 1920 × 1080 or 3840 × 2160, 16:9
- Shorts
- 1080 × 1920, 9:16
- Frame rate
- 30fps or 60fps
- Format
- MP4 or WebM, depending on browser support
- Overlays
- Track title, artist name, cover art, custom background
- Lyric videos
- Timed .lrc lyrics as a layer, with fade, slide or pop in
Questions
Will a visualizer video get copyright claimed on YouTube?
The visual is generated from scratch, so it introduces no claim of its own. Any claim would come from the audio you supplied — if the song is someone else’s, that is a question about the song, not about the tool used to make the video.
What length can I upload?
The subscription has no product length cap, but your browser, memory and storage set practical limits. The free demo caps each recording at thirty seconds.
Which browser should I record in?
Use an up-to-date browser with audio and video recording support. Try a short demo recording first. WaveForge selects MP4 or WebM based on the formats the browser supports, and records in real time.
Try it on your own track
Every style renders live in your browser. Load a file and see what it looks like before deciding anything.
Open the free demo