Morphyre vs Radiance

Morphyre is a music-responsive 3D visualizer that creates animated scenes that move with music. Its library includes forms, tunnels, fractals, animated blocks, and sketches, with the maker describing thousands of unique scenes. Users can create scenes with the Scene Designer and make music videos for YouTube. Listed player plugins support iTunes, Windows Media Player, and Winamp; instructions are also provided for MediaMonkey. Morphyre Free and Morphyre Personal are for personal use, while professional use at nightclubs, gigs, or other public venues requires Morphyre Pro. Pro supports stereoscopic visuals where venues have suitable glasses. Personal customization includes scene controls, themes, favorites, settings, and effects such as strobe, HDR, negate, and blur. New scenes update automatically while the program is online, but full program updates require a separate download. The maker lists Windows or x86-based Macintosh, a processor faster than 1 GHz, and an OpenGL 2-capable graphics card. Free requires internet access at least every fifth time it runs. The maker says the software is free and has no warranty or support.

Radiance is free, open-source video art software for live performance, including VJ work. It runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Performers can work with more than 150 GPU-accelerated WGSL effects and edit them live. MPV integration opens video clips, images, files, webcams, live streams, and YouTube videos. Beat detection uses incoming audio as a shared time reference for effects. Radiance can send output to one or more screens and includes a projection mapping editor. The software is released under the MIT/X11 License. YouTube videos loaded by URL require yt-dlp to be installed separately. Building from source requires Rust, Cargo, and dynamically linked libmpv. The project README notes that MIDI controller input and TCP output for LED displays are absent from the rewrite compared with version 0.6.1. Radiance is listed at free.