Music Reactivity

This page describes how the music reactive features work and how they can be tuned.

The Fluora Mini and Fluora Floor Plant are equipped with a microphone inside the device and can display sound reactive animations. These can really bring your lighting to life in ways that ambient animations cannot!

Monos does not yet support music reactivity. However, it is equipped with a microphone and may in a future firmware update!

You can identify which animations are music reactive by spotting the ♪ icon appended to it's label in the Animation List.

Tuning a Music Reactive Animation

Since not all music will be played at the same volume and some genres of music may display differently to an animation than others, each music reactive animation has one or more controls that can be tuned to adjust it's appearance:

Gain	How sensitive the microphone is to the audio levels of the selected animation. A higher gain will result in increased sensitivity and amount of light or activity in the animation.
Threshold	Some animations may ignore certain sounds until they reach a certain noise level. This adjusts the level at which the sound begins to affect this animation.

You can find several more controls on the Device Settings screen to further tune the appearance and behavior of the music reactive animations. Here you will also find:

Master Gain	Sets the base sensitivity that will be used for an music reactive animations.
Attack	How quickly the light will react to sounds. A high attack will reproduce a quick response from the lighting. A low attack will produce a slower response.
Decay	How quickly the lighting will "fade out" to a sound. A high decay will fade out quickly after a sound. A low decay will fade out more slowly.

You may want to tune these depending on the tempo of music you tend to listen to. A higher attack and decay for faster music and a lower attack and decay for slower music.