According to American Psychological Association, about one in 2000 people is synesthete ^[1], who can hear color or see sound naturally, although that's 19-year-old data. Well, for the rest of us ordinary people, is it possible to visualize music? If yes, what are some best free music visualizer maker software? How to make an audio visualizer free for parties?

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Trinfinity Software has brought Collage to Mac OS X. Collage is an iTunes visualizer plugin that will search the Internet for imagery relating to the music you are playing, and then displays those. WhiteCap is a sleek and sophisticated music visualizer and screensaver that features futuristic, wireframe mesh visuals with dynamic backgrounds and colors. WhiteCap contains thousands of visual combinations, real-time audio response, configurable on-screen.

Quick Answers in Advance

1. Music visualization has been realized successively by:

Color organ in live performance
Electronic audio spectrum tool
Digital music visualizer software
Online/web-based music visualizer service

2. Top music visualizers in 2020 include, but are not limited to:

Online Renderforest music visualizer
Rainmeter Visualizer with Monstercat
Magic Music Visuals for power users

Besides auto dynamic music visualizer websites for a single music streaming platform like Spotify, there are a lot of music visualizer software/apps, coming with various templates for you to interpret any music soundtracks in the way you like. Well, it could be media player with music visualization option as well.

And to top it all off, you can manually adjust and export the music videos created with visualizer software for uploading to YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram, etc. See our choices of best music visualizer makers 2020 in the following part.

1. Renderforest

We add Renderforest to this top list of music visualizer software, just as most articles do after search and test. Renderforest is one of the most popular online audio visualizer makers. What makes it so hot? We bet 49 templates is not the only reason. Check the highlights and limits below.

The Highlights

A deluge of psychedelic templates are available in Renderforest music visualizer, such as YouTube channel music visualizer, interesting Emoji visualizer, single/album promo visualizer, and 3D geometric shapes visualizer.
Every template is labeled with rating and exports to make it easy for you to compare and decide.
Free stock images can be added as background, or you can upload local pictures. Adding text is possible too.
You can export the music visualizer you create for sharing on YouTube, Facebook, etc. For example, this remix of Maroon 5 Memories music visualization video has reached 6.2 million views on YouTube.

The Limits

Signing up and logging in are required. If you only want to use this online music visualizer for free, then the output will be limited to 2 minute in 360p with watermark.
Error - Besides slow processing and sudden crash, the odd thing is there is no OK or Back button after applying filter during image editing.

Note - In spite of all the limits, Renderforest still is one of the best options if you need an online music visualizer ready-made and cheap. The Amateur subscription charging $9.99/month allows you to make 7 HD music videos per month without watermark.

2. Rainmeter Visualizer with Plug-ins

What might be confusing to you here is Rainmeter is actually a desktop customization tool. Yes, it is not a music visualizer app in the usual sense. But once you get the hang of it, Rainmeter will be the most flexible software to visualize any sound played on your computer in real time, whether it's music played through web player/music app or songs recorded by yourself.

Basically, a free audio visualizer maker for any sound = Rainmeter + Visualizer plug-ins written in Lua, like Monstercat, HoloFFT, and many others on GitHub, VisualSkins, DeviantArt, etc.

How to use Rainmeter to personalize a music visualizer? We will give you two examples here. To get started, you need to firstly download and install Rainmeter 4.3.1 final release.

Case 1. Rainmeter with Monstercat visualizer

Monstercat itself is an online music streaming platform. For working in conjunction with the popular desktop customization tool, it provides a spectrum plug-in for Rainmeter for music visualization.

Download and install Monstercat Visualizer for Rainmeter_2.1.0.rmskin.
Run Powershell to install WebNowPlaying for web player music visualization.
Open your Spotify desktop app or go to YouTube to play a track.
Launch Rainmeter and find it in the Taskbar > Show hidden icons.
Right click Rainmeter > Skins > monstercat-visualizer > visualizer.ini and music visualization should start right away.

You can change how the visual appears from the Monstercat visualizer management panel, by adjusting visualizer scale and height, bar width, gap and count, skin color and even the sensitivity.

Case 2. Rainmeter Visualizer with HoloFFT

There are a lot of open-source music visualizer plug-ins for Rainmeter on GitHub. HoloFFT is one of them. Instead of presenting music simply in spectrum, it shows dynamic 3D cloud music visualizations.

Download and install HoloFFT via Code > Download ZIP.
Unzip the file to C:UsersThis PCDocumentsRainmeterSkins.
Right click the music visualizer you are using, e.g. Monstercat visualizer, and choose Unload skin.
Play a track and again go to the Taskbar and right click the Rainmeter icon.
Choose Skins > HoloFFT > HoloFFT.ini.

3. Magic Music Visuals

Magic Music Visuals is desktop-based music visualizer software for both real-time audio animation and audio file playback. It supports various types of input audio, including MIDI, microphones, guitars, turntables, synthesizers, etc. Once your audio sources is playing, Magic Music Visuals responds with visual effects and animations that spin and dance to the sound. The best part? You can even tweak it to react differently to each source of input. Beside live audio, Magic Music Visuals also allows you to create visuals offline, and save them as MP4 or MOV video files.

There are two versions of this tool, Magic Studio costs $44.95USD and Magic Performer $79.95. You can check out the detailed feature comparison of these two editions before making an upgrading.

Availability: Windows and MacOS

The Highlights:

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No restrictions on commercial usage
Draw and preview 2D and 3D graphics and shapes that react to the audio
Active forums maintained by the software developers to solve technical problems

The Limitations:

No option to stream the visualized video in the Studio Version
Limited control over MIDI files for live audio visualization

4. Plane9

Plane9 is a scene-based 3D music visualizer, making it fantastic for VR, oculus rift, or simply as a screensaver. Featuring more than 250 configured effect scenes, you will never have to stick to one view for the entire music track. Plane9 allows you to combine scenes with seamless transitions, offering you a continuous experience at the flow of the music. Besides responding to audio recorded from microphone, it readily dances to whatever you are listening, Spotify, iTunes, you name it. For hackers, you can also add music visualizer to OBS.

Availability: Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10

The Highlights:

Support realtime audio feed and can analyze sound from up to 18 speakers
Support Multi-monitor displaying

The Limitations:

Cannot work with unprocessed digital audio such as DTS
Require some learning curve to set up everything

Note: If you are going to publish visualized music video on YouTube, Vimeo and other sites, make sure to include text credit to Plane9,

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