DemRender 1.1.1

DemRender 1.1.1

Download: DemRender-Setup-1.1.1.exe below (Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit). Installed copies update themselves.

New in 1.1.1

• On the Free plan, the live previews (the creator and the Library's big preview) show the DemRender logo with
  “Free plan” three times through each song, for a moment. Exported videos keep their small mark in the corner;
  the plans have none, anywhere.
• Paid exports are confirmed with DemRender's server at the moment they start, so a plan that has ended switches
  the app back to Free right away.
• “Turns with Rotation” on a layer now says what the project's Rotation is doing, with a button to set it up.

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Everything new in 1.1.0

Your account and the plans

• Sign in with Google or with your email (top right, next to the theme button). Your plan follows you on your
  computers; your songs and projects never leave yours.
• Free stays free: every visualizer and effect, unlimited videos up to 720p — widescreen, vertical, square or 4:5 —
  with the DemRender logo in the top-right corner, and, with a free account, 10 minutes a month of lyrics from the song.
• Creator (€4.99 a month, 10 renders), Pro (€9.99, 50 renders) and Studio (€24.99, 250 renders): no mark,
  up to 4K and 60 fps, ProRes 422 HQ, several songs and every format at once, lyrics without a limit, three computers.
  Paid yearly, two months are free. A render is one video file; one you stop, or one that fails, is given back.
• The plans also unlock the studio's finer controls: Remix, Rotation, cover shapes and centre designs,
  highlight colours, expansion, echoes and corners, colours from a picture, the song's equaliser and normalise,
  and the sharpest pictures (twice as sharp, 3000×3000 cover art). On Free they are tagged CREATOR+; a visualizer
  from the Library keeps the look it was designed with.
• Your account — a new panel with your plan, the plans side by side (monthly or yearly), how many renders and
  minutes of lyrics are left this month, your computers (sign any of them out) and your sign-in and safety settings.
• When you sign in, sign out or switch accounts, DemRender restarts by itself (offering to save your work first), so
  every window follows the new account at once.
• Payments go through Stripe and open in the coming days; until then the app works as Free.

New — 21 visualizers, 193 in all

• 3D: Gyro Core (three chrome gimbal rings round a plasma core, light running round each ring with the spectrum),
  Pearl Orbit (two rings of iridescent pearls over a black mirror, rings of light on it with every beat).
• Worlds: Data Globe (a globe of glowing dots: continents lit by the spectrum, arcs of light between places, a ring
  of spectrum bars round it), Sacred Light (sacred geometry in turning layers that draws itself with the music, light
  running along every line).
• Burst: Shockwave (a shock wave that bends the stars behind it and splits light at its edge, plasma, lightning and
  sparks), Glitter Storm (thousands of glints spiralling out of the cover; spiral arms of light grow out of it with
  the music and turn faster as it gets louder).
• Spectrum blobs: Stained Glass (jewel-coloured panes in dark lead), Aurora Veil (translucent layers with northern
  lights flowing inside).
• Halo shapes: two new shapes — Halo Gem (a cut diamond in dots of icy light) and Halo Speech (a speech bubble for
  podcasts, rap and voice-overs).
• Themes: Polar Night (an aurora of fine rays over snowy peaks, mirrored in a frozen lake; its rays shoot up on the
  beat, a vortex of aurora turns round the cover, shooting stars cross the sky, the lake ripples, ice crystals glint
  with the highs), Firefly Forest (spruces in moonlit mist, a swarm of fireflies spiralling out of the cover with light
  trails, more of them when the song is loud, glowing mushrooms pulsing with the bass, moonbeams on the beat).
• Cinematic: Liquid Gold (a sea of molten gold, ripples on every beat).
• Signature: Total Eclipse (a corona of long streamers reaching out with the spectrum, red prominences boiling on
  the edge, solar wind, Baily's beads glittering with the highs and the diamond ring with its lens flare on the beat),
  Chronograph (a black-and-gold watch face; three sub-dials show the bass, mids and highs).
• Classic: Dot Matrix (a clean LED dot-matrix spectrum), Studio Curve (a mirrored spectrum curve, minimal and
  elegant).
• From 1.0.34: Shadow Ears, Contour Tide, Prism Tunnel and Neon Orbit.
• Redone from scratch: Rain on the Window (a night city in bokeh behind fogged glass; drops are little lenses, big
  ones slide down and wipe clear tracks) and Moonlit Sakura (blossoming branches rim-lit by the moon, petals turning
  as they fall, misty hills, and pink petals spiralling out of the cover with the music).

Rotation and backgrounds

• Rotation (Project settings, or on any visualizer layer): turn the effects round the centre, the cover in the
  middle, or both — the same way or against each other. Constant, with the music (faster on the loud parts, almost
  still in the quiet ones) or on the beat (a quick turn on every beat), clockwise or anticlockwise, at the speed
  you choose. Any layer can be told to keep still.
• Effect and background apart: visualizers that paint their own background (Total Eclipse, Polar Night, Firefly
  Forest, Inferno, Galaxy, Event Horizon and about forty more) now come as two layers, the visualizer and its
  background. Change the visualizer's colours, size or even swap it for another one and the background stays — or
  replace the background with a picture or a colour. A scene you add yourself splits with one click (“Split into
  effect + background”).

Fixed

• A thin straight line that could show under the cover in Plasma Pulse, and the same kind of seam in a dozen other
  visualizers (Inferno, Supernova, Prism Tunnel, Solar Flare, Aurora Crown and more).

Export and full screen

• The DemRender mark on Free videos is the full logo, sharp at every size, and it pulses with the music.
• Full screen now always shows a thin playback bar (on a paid plan it fades while the mouse rests); on Free it also
  shows the mark, as in the exported video.
• ProRes follows the Quality setting: High = ProRes 422 HQ, Balanced = ProRes 422, Small = ProRes 422 LT. The dialog
  now says what ProRes is for (editing software) and how big the file will be; to watch or upload a video, use MP4.

Questions or a bug? contact@demrender.com · https://demrender.com

DemRender 1.1.0

DemRender 1.1.0

Download: DemRender-Setup-1.1.0.exe below (Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit). Installed copies update themselves.

Your account and the plans

• Sign in with Google or with your email (top right, next to the theme button). Your plan follows you on your
  computers; your songs and projects never leave yours.
• Free stays free: every visualizer and effect, unlimited videos up to 720p — widescreen, vertical, square or 4:5 —
  with the DemRender logo in the top-right corner, and, with a free account, 10 minutes a month of lyrics from the song.
• Creator (€4.99 a month, 10 renders), Pro (€9.99, 50 renders) and Studio (€24.99, 250 renders): no mark,
  up to 4K and 60 fps, ProRes 422 HQ, several songs and every format at once, lyrics without a limit, three computers.
  Paid yearly, two months are free. A render is one video file; one you stop, or one that fails, is given back.
• The plans also unlock the studio's finer controls: Remix, Rotation, cover shapes and centre designs,
  highlight colours, expansion, echoes and corners, colours from a picture, the song's equaliser and normalise,
  and the sharpest pictures (twice as sharp, 3000×3000 cover art). On Free they are tagged CREATOR+; a visualizer
  from the Library keeps the look it was designed with.
• Your account — a new panel with your plan, the plans side by side (monthly or yearly), how many renders and
  minutes of lyrics are left this month, your computers (sign any of them out) and your sign-in and safety settings.
• When you sign in, sign out or switch accounts, DemRender restarts by itself (offering to save your work first), so
  every window follows the new account at once.
• Payments go through Stripe and open in the coming days; until then the app works as Free.

New — 21 visualizers, 193 in all

• 3D: Gyro Core (three chrome gimbal rings round a plasma core, light running round each ring with the spectrum),
  Pearl Orbit (two rings of iridescent pearls over a black mirror, rings of light on it with every beat).
• Worlds: Data Globe (a globe of glowing dots: continents lit by the spectrum, arcs of light between places, a ring
  of spectrum bars round it), Sacred Light (sacred geometry in turning layers that draws itself with the music, light
  running along every line).
• Burst: Shockwave (a shock wave that bends the stars behind it and splits light at its edge, plasma, lightning and
  sparks), Glitter Storm (thousands of glints spiralling out of the cover; spiral arms of light grow out of it with
  the music and turn faster as it gets louder).
• Spectrum blobs: Stained Glass (jewel-coloured panes in dark lead), Aurora Veil (translucent layers with northern
  lights flowing inside).
• Halo shapes: two new shapes — Halo Gem (a cut diamond in dots of icy light) and Halo Speech (a speech bubble for
  podcasts, rap and voice-overs).
• Themes: Polar Night (an aurora of fine rays over snowy peaks, mirrored in a frozen lake; its rays shoot up on the
  beat, a vortex of aurora turns round the cover, shooting stars cross the sky, the lake ripples, ice crystals glint
  with the highs), Firefly Forest (spruces in moonlit mist, a swarm of fireflies spiralling out of the cover with light
  trails, more of them when the song is loud, glowing mushrooms pulsing with the bass, moonbeams on the beat).
• Cinematic: Liquid Gold (a sea of molten gold, ripples on every beat).
• Signature: Total Eclipse (a corona of long streamers reaching out with the spectrum, red prominences boiling on
  the edge, solar wind, Baily's beads glittering with the highs and the diamond ring with its lens flare on the beat),
  Chronograph (a black-and-gold watch face; three sub-dials show the bass, mids and highs).
• Classic: Dot Matrix (a clean LED dot-matrix spectrum), Studio Curve (a mirrored spectrum curve, minimal and
  elegant).
• From 1.0.34: Shadow Ears, Contour Tide, Prism Tunnel and Neon Orbit.
• Redone from scratch: Rain on the Window (a night city in bokeh behind fogged glass; drops are little lenses, big
  ones slide down and wipe clear tracks) and Moonlit Sakura (blossoming branches rim-lit by the moon, petals turning
  as they fall, misty hills, and pink petals spiralling out of the cover with the music).

Rotation and backgrounds

• Rotation (Project settings, or on any visualizer layer): turn the effects round the centre, the cover in the
  middle, or both — the same way or against each other. Constant, with the music (faster on the loud parts, almost
  still in the quiet ones) or on the beat (a quick turn on every beat), clockwise or anticlockwise, at the speed
  you choose. Any layer can be told to keep still.
• Effect and background apart: visualizers that paint their own background (Total Eclipse, Polar Night, Firefly
  Forest, Inferno, Galaxy, Event Horizon and about forty more) now come as two layers, the visualizer and its
  background. Change the visualizer's colours, size or even swap it for another one and the background stays — or
  replace the background with a picture or a colour. A scene you add yourself splits with one click (“Split into
  effect + background”).

Fixed

• A thin straight line that could show under the cover in Plasma Pulse, and the same kind of seam in a dozen other
  visualizers (Inferno, Supernova, Prism Tunnel, Solar Flare, Aurora Crown and more).

Export and full screen

• The DemRender mark on Free videos is the full logo, sharp at every size, and it pulses with the music.
• Full screen now always shows a thin playback bar (on a paid plan it fades while the mouse rests); on Free it also
  shows the mark, as in the exported video.
• ProRes follows the Quality setting: High = ProRes 422 HQ, Balanced = ProRes 422, Small = ProRes 422 LT. The dialog
  now says what ProRes is for (editing software) and how big the file will be; to watch or upload a video, use MP4.

Questions or a bug? contact@demrender.com · https://demrender.com

DemRender 1.0.33

DemRender 1.0.33

Download: DemRender-Setup-1.0.33.exe below (Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit). Installed copies update themselves.

New

• Lyrics from the song. Add a Lyrics layer and press Get the lyrics from the song: DemRender listens to the song — on your
  computer, the song never leaves it — and writes its lyrics down, every word at the moment it is sung, the lines appearing as it
  hears them. Check them in a list where every line plays, and fix, split, join or move anything in a click; lines it only
  imagined in a drop or an instrumental part are left out for you. Then they go on screen and light up word by word, karaoke
  style. Have the lyrics already? Paste them first: your words are kept exactly, and only the timing comes from the song.
  (The first time, DemRender downloads its listening model, 547 MB, once.)
• Room round your cover. The visualizers built round the cover now come smaller — the effect and the cover together,
  keeping the proportions they were designed with — so the title, the artist and the lyrics have room around them.
  Scale and the cover size still go as big as you like.
• Smoke Halo, remade. Real smoke now: folds, curls and thin wisps flowing out of the ring, lit from behind, billowing
  further where the music is loud and puffing on the beat — sharp at any size, no more smudge.
• Export only the best part of the song. Export → Part of the song: Best 15 s (TikTok, Reels, Shorts), Best 30 s or Best 60 s.
  DemRender finds the drop and starts a bar or two before it, so the clip opens on the build-up and the drop lands in its first
  seconds. Listen to it before you render, or type your own From … to …. The sound fades in and out where it is cut.
• Every shape in one export. Export → Also make: tick 9:16, 1:1, 4:5 or 16:9 and one render makes a video for each, next to
  the first. The visualizer, cover and texts re-arrange themselves for every shape.
• Several songs, one look. Export → Several songs…: add the songs of an album, EP or playlist and get a video for each,
  one after another — whole songs or the best 15 / 30 / 60 s of each. Every song is analysed on its own, the title text takes
  each song's name and every video is named after its song.
• Fade the picture in from black and out to black — a finished start and end (on by itself for a part of the song).
• The drops on the timeline. Pink DROP marks show where the song hits; press D to jump to the next one.
• Drop impact — a new effect that waits for the song's drops and hits once, hard: a punch in, a shake, the colours tearing
  apart and a burst of light. Every parameter can follow it too (modulation source “Drop hit”).
• Remix (R). One click dresses the visualizer differently: new colours, another beat effect, another design in the middle,
  now and then another cover shape or pace. Press again for another; Ctrl + Z goes back to the one you liked.
• Save a frame as a picture (P, or Picture on the preview): as you see it, twice as sharp, as a YouTube thumbnail
  (1280×720, under 2 MB) or as cover art for the song (3000×3000, the size music services ask for).
• Favourites in the Library. A ♥ on every card and in the big preview; your favourites get their own category.
• Surprise me in the Library: a visualizer at random, straight into the big preview with music.
• A sharper first look. The big preview in the Library is drawn at the full sharpness of your screen, Windows scaling
  included — only a computer that can't keep up gets a lighter picture there, never your video.
• Lyrics by hand, better too. Lyrics pasted as plain text show at once, line by line, until they are timed; directions like
  [Chorus] are left out; a new Lyrics layer finds a free spot away from the artist and track names, a long line goes onto two
  rows in a tall format, and nothing shows before the singing starts.

Also new since 1.0.29

• A new 3D category: eleven real 3D scenes, rendered on the graphics card and lit like a studio render — soft shadows,
  reflections, glass with real refraction and rainbow dispersion, atmospheric fog: Chrome Melt, Chrome Pulse, Equalizer City,
  Glass Möbius, Sound Mountains, Ring Gate, Liquid Metal, Fractal Bloom, Subwoofer, Crystal Cluster and Ringed World.
• Forty-one more visualizers, five or more in every category — 172 in all:
  • Worlds: Tesseract, Ripple Tank, Circuit, Maurer Rose, Constellation.
  • Burst: Particle Lace, Poly Blast, Splash Crown, Feather Crown, Dust Nova, Waveform Crown.
  • Spectrum blobs: Holographic, Pop-Art, Furry, Crystal and Neon Tube ears.
  • Halo shapes: Sparkle, Clover, Shield, Cloud and Kitty.
  • Themes: Rain on the Window, Moonlit Sakura, Target Lock, Galaxy Heart, Deep Sea.
  • Cinematic: Neon Rain City, Ink in Water, Nebula Flight, Above the Clouds, Desert Night.
  • Signature: Hex Portal, Twin Stars, Orbit Bloom, Ring Cascade, Icosa Core.
  • Classic: Studio Bars, Neon Waveform, Midnight Vinyl, Podcast Studio, Lyric Night.
• Seven classics rebuilt from scratch at render quality: Plasma Core, Chrome Melt, Fractal Mandala, Plasma Pulse,
  Liquid Waveform, Aurora Borealis and Retro Scope.
• Edit the song. Sound → Edit the song…: trim, cut the silence, fade in and out, volume, normalise and a five-band
  equaliser with presets — heard live; the visualizers and the video follow the edited song. Your file is never changed.
• Cover shape. Project settings → Cover shape: a circle, triangle, square, diamond or any polygon (3–12 sides), with
  rotation, rounded corners and scale; the visualizer bends into the shape and a round logo takes it too.
• No logo, no empty circle — nine centre designs (Mirror, Orb, Pulse, Mandala, Iris, Vortex, Geometry, Record, Light).
• Loop the song and a Sound menu (volume, mute, loop, preview speed 0.5×–2×).
• Side panels you can hide and resize.
• No more stutter when the app opens, one song at a time across tabs, a richer Ribbon Burst.
• Fixed: notifications readable in the dark theme and no longer piling up; paired settings no longer cut off at the panel edge.

Questions or a bug? contact@demrender.com · https://demrender.com

DemRender 1.0.29

DemRender 1.0.29

Download: DemRender-Setup-1.0.29.exe below (Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit). Installed copies update themselves.
The Linux AppImage follows in a later release — Linux users keep 1.0.28 until then.

New

• Demo drops by dandem. The previews now play real songs: 20 drops from songs made for DemRender, each starting two bars before the drop so you see how a visualizer builds up and how it hits.
  • Every preview in the Library picks another drop at random; the 🎲 button picks a new one.
  • Pick one drop, or your own song, and it stays for every visualizer you open.
  • A visualizer opened straight from its card starts on a random drop too, so it moves from the first second.

Fixed

• Library thumbnails now always show the cover in the middle (some were drawn before the picture had loaded).

Under the hood

• A slightly smaller download: map files of the update library are no longer packed.

Questions or a bug? contact@demrender.com · https://demrender.com

DemRender 1.0.28

DemRender 1.0.28 — first public release

Turn your song into a music video: pick a visualizer, add your track and cover, export.

Download (free — no account, no watermark):

• Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit): DemRender-Setup-1.0.28.exe
• Linux (64-bit, e.g. Ubuntu 22.04, Linux Mint 21 or newer): DemRender-1.0.28.AppImage — make it executable
  (right-click → Properties → Permissions → Allow executing file as program, or chmod +x DemRender-1.0.28.AppImage) and open it; nothing to install.

What's inside

• 121 audio-reactive visualizers in ten families: Burst, Halo shapes, Spectrum blobs, Worlds, Themes, Cinematic GPU scenes and more — preview each one with your own song.
• A full creator: layers, GPU scenes, effects on the beat, colours from your cover, animated titles and synced lyrics, an image catalog of original covers and backdrops, undo history and crash recovery.
• Fast export up to 4K at 60 fps — MP4, WebM or ProRes — in 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 and 4:5. MP4 goes straight from the graphics card to the encoder.
• Automatic updates on Windows and Linux: new versions download in the background; click Restart to update or just keep working.
• Private by design: works offline, your songs and projects never leave your computer.

Good to know

• Windows SmartScreen may warn about the installer because it is not code-signed yet: click More info → Run anyway.
• FFmpeg (LGPL) is included in both versions for writing video files; its source code is attached to this release (SOURCES.txt).

Questions or a bug? contact@demrender.com · https://demrender.com

Lyrics engine — listening model

The listening model DemRender downloads by itself the first time you use Get the lyrics from the song (DemRender 1.0.33 and newer). You don't need to download it yourself.

• ggml-large-v3-turbo-q5_0.bin — 574,041,195 bytes, SHA-256 394221709cd5ad1f40c46e6031ca61bce88931e6e088c188294c6d5a55ffa7e2
• OpenAI's Whisper large-v3-turbo, converted and quantised by the whisper.cpp project — MIT licence (see the licence files in DemRender's resources/licenses).

DemRender checks the file against its SHA-256 before using it, and runs it only on your computer.