Make Anything React to Audio in After Effects - Custom Audio Visualizer

In this After Effects tutorial, we are going to make any custom artwork react to audio and use some expressions to help fix some common audio react problems.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:27 Overview
1:01 Getting Started
2:17 Linking Effects
3:34 Footage
6:07 Tunnel
8:24 Color Shift
10:04 3D Cube
11:31 Clamp

[@motionbynick]

👇 clamp expression used in this video 👇 temp = thisComp.layer("Audio Amplitude").effect("Both Channels")("Slider"); temp = clamp(temp, min, max); [temp, temp, temp]

[@user-iw7sv6em5p]

emm... if i have scale kayframes 0, 0, 0 to 120, 120, 120 then 100, 100, 100. How to combine with audio?

[@user-iw7sv6em5p]

I solve this with null object.

[@edwinjoshy1437]

Hey I have a real important question. Can I use my custom made audio visualiser in a live stream

[@poface4827]

hmm.. mine stops reacting to the audio when I add the clamp line. I copied and pasted it too.

[@MicahBuzanMUSIC]

Audio reactive visuals are so fun. It's kinda like seeing the music in real time.

[@homeixgx]

I mean, you can’t see music at all

[@NebMotion]

@@homeixgx laughs in cymatics

[@homeixgx]

@@NebMotion "Cymatics" 😂

[@thisisloveless]

holy crap you just solved so many issues I ran into editing our first lyric video. That time*2+ alone was worth the click. Thanks so much dude!

[@Kriscoart]

This was great! Lots of useful tips

[@alterego62]

Jesus, I saw this on reels and I already lov u, thanks

[@sybrandinmotion]

Couple of cool tricks man! I can see how I can use this. Great that you slowly feed my brain with the Expression Language.

[@ReFlectionsYT]

Thank you for this, I used this in a video on my channel called Halo Heartbeat. I used the method but on a different effect. You're videos are great and I plan on purchasing your class at some point when I have time. Again, awesome content.

[@CatalinGulan]

Simply awesome, so simply thank you much Nick!❤

[@avalancheofawsome]

This is great, keep it up please Nick!

[@kiw33]

Really great video! Thank you for so much useful tips!

[@zaneemming7337]

Incredibly helpful tutorial with super good universal concepts, thank you!!

[@TrueTexanMC]

This video is going to help me unlock more of my creativity. Thank you so very much!!

[@BananaBelisa]

I have a crush on you since I watched the spiral tutorial

[@eddyojeda608]

love how u explain this video not too fast not to slow!

[@CarlsSimGuides]

Well, damn. I'm all out of your videos. Guess I'll have to wait for YT to recommend me more as you make them. Thanks for all the valuable knowledge. You have a really good channel and I like your teaching style.

[@motionbynick]

thank you! I appreciate the love 🙌

[@Joshuaraves]

Explained perfectly! Thank you

[@stephanorstephan]

Very awesome and helpful. Thank you!

[@wandererradio9751]

Great tutorial! Thank you!!

[@lakajaksin]

Thank you for the great tutorial.

[@CreativeDojo]

Good stuff Nick!

[@ohoiifilmmotiondesign4822]

looooooove it !! thank you

[@minusnine5036]

This is perfect thank you.

[@parm0198]

Thanks Sir.. I needed it a lot ❤️😉😉

[@jyotiraj7830]

Thank you so much 👍 You just solved my problem

[@unfoldlab]

awesome tutorial

[@obadashammout]

enjoyed it!

[@insta_725]

Thanks i have learned a lot of new expressions thx ❤

[@JuniorJunior-ce3nw]

this is insane

[@feelthemusicwithyoureyes8015]

Thanks for tutorial :)

[@gangstermusicmix]

cool stuff !

[@youstosmouner9998]

thank you that's very helpfull

[@acidtears]

Coding is everywhere lol loved the video! Great explanation & incredibly useful:)

[@ReFlectionsYT]

Thanks!

[@jaytang5991]

Wow cooooool!!

[@CelestiaLOL]

Thank You

[@206Parth]

CLAMP! :o

[@MrJoeFuego]

Damn, this guy's good

[@Tangomango1720]

Your the man 🙏

[@Rossski]

You're*

[@user-tb6ch1qq5b]

thanks mate

[@JonassaintStudios]

Letssssssss goooooooo!!!

[@akashadreams4145]

Amazing class, thank you! I cannot access the project files though.

[@LiamBrazier]

Yes to the cube, and anything that makes 3D shape making easier please!

[@jerredjones9900]

Cube secrets would be awesome!

[@gawrysiak100]

enjoying

[@allexrain]

Yeah, I want to know about cube!

[@martinbartos81]

Hi Nick, thank you for this tutorial :) I'm wondering, if you would know or give me a hint, how to accomplish a custom "stroboscope" effect, reacting to music. All clear to me with "Convert audio to keyframes" and linking to a value. But is it possible (with AE expressions) to play custom clip at certain waveform peaks at certain timeline positions? That clip would be lets say "white solid" with a "fade in - fade out effect", but custom length and nonlinear speed. Thank you ;)

[@Colinlutterloah]

3D Space tutorial would be dope!

[@shotbyjkru]

Dropping trade secrets on us Nick, thank you

[@salvaravens]

Hi, great tutorial!! im doing it with opacity instead of scale but it only goes from 0 to 15, how can i change it to 0-100?

[@adriancisco101]

Great tutorial Nick! Just one dumb question... Can I make this a part of OBS so that I can have this graphic active when I'm speaking or playing any other music during a live stream?

[@anorinifx]

this sht useful fr

[@erwinsmith4586]

niCe

[@ragibnoor7882]

I am your 1000th like

[@motionbynick]

thank you!!

[@2infamouz475]

lit

[@KyleWoodard]

This was super helpful!! I have a question regarding the clamp idea. Let's say I have my visuals reacting to the kick drum of a track, is there a way to not just clamp the scale min/max but also have it smooth out the decay of each hit? Basically every time the kick hits, the visuals react suddenly. I'm wondering if there's a way of adding some time expression or something to soften the effect so it's not so immediate, or so the scale can gradually reduce back down over the course of ~1 sec instead of being super fast. I thought about adding some reverb to the kick to give the audio some more information as a roundabout way of having it trail off.

[@umershye2931]

did you ever figure this out? wondering the same here

[@KyleWoodard]

@@umershye2931 hey, there may be a more elegant solution with an expression but in a pinch I ended up using an isolated stem of the kick audio with a bunch of extra reverb on the tail of each hit in order to add the taper I needed. Muted that and just had the actual final mix turned on for the export.

[@RintorikiEdit]

yessssssssssss

[@samkhpak]

CUBE!

[@Freyerx]

Sounds like a Longshot, but I wish someone would make a video of these for multiple different kinds of songs, but also I should just learn more codes and how to manipulate after effects better, just some songs need extra editing

[@RadFyah]

is it posible to use this reacting to a live music instead of prerecorded track?...somehow hookig up a mic to a program and using it for live concert visuals, or you would recommend other software for that?

[@muhammedmajdi5027]

How did you make the 3d anchor point like that 😅 is it plugin??

[@rajdcoolest]

Can't find the pickwhip button for time remapping ("@") in After Effects CC 2018! Please help!

[@lioxel.official]

Is it possible to draw any squiggly line drawing and have it react to it like an audio visualizer?

[@motionbynick]

you could use a wave warp effect or zig zag

[@xfauthoux]

what is the link to buy the plugin Aescript ?

[@itskyledavid2826]

I have 2 objects and 2 audios, I want to make them react only to one audio but they are reacting to bought of them, renaming the audios layers didn't work...does anybody know what to do?

[@elarmuzik]

somebody please help!why my logo goes beyond canvas when reacting to audio?how to scale it properly after i set expression to scale!please help!thanks

[@TonyDGunner]

I get uknown bib error after connecting the tunnel scale to both channels

[@wanglin119]

hi i've tried this expression. But shows an error msg which is "one argument to mu(),ust be a scalar". how to solve this issue. temp = thisComp.layer("Audio Amplitude").effect("Both Channels")("Slider"); [temp, temp]/6*[50,50]

[@Joshh.K]

you had PEMDAS the UK had BIDMAS brackets, indecests, multiplication, addition, subtraction

[@achrefbettaieb5110]

hey does this work with real raw footage ?

[@edwinjoshy1437]

Hey I have a real important question. Can I use my custom made audio visualiser in live streams

[@motionbynick]

Why not? The only issue would be streaming the music (DMCA rules)

[@elarmuzik]

@@motionbynick Hi Nick!can you help?why my logo goes beyond canvas when reacting to audio?how to scale it properly after i set expression to scale!please help!thanks

[@iamvulgar8188]

Please help, expressions stopped working for me and I can't figure out why. NO ERRORS, they've just stopped working.

[@Bensetter82]

n1!

[@iniciativafenix]

I tryed to do the warp speed effect but my pc its going down... I have no remedy, i will download a youtube video and fckt it up xD

[@iniciativafenix]

PS: THANKS 4 YOUR TUTORIAL

[@vickydaniel9532]

In the end, I thought Steve Aoki came to say the subscribe note😅

[@noobicorn_gamer]

Gotta hate all these "If you don't know then go watch this video" crap but then again, if you're a total beginner maybe this vid isn't for you. But still, hate it because it's so lazy.