Best visualizer! Get the HD version too! – iBeams Music Visualizer Review

This is an impressive visualizer with touch sensitivity, motion sensitivity and best of all you can build your own visuals. The controls are infinite and you can program most parameters for to motion, touch or sound control. Plenty of different particles and of course you can map your own transmitter/ receiver layout for some great custom designs. Very easy to use. It'll give you all the control over your AV show you'd want. There is nothing you can't adjust. It's amazingly thorough. The new 3D camera View is a really nice touch. The HD version is even more complete with more programming options. The best of which IMO is the ability to place moving transmitters on a grid rather than moving relative to just the center. It also has a great spirograph draw feature. Well worth it. A few things I'd like to see in the future that would really make this a "pro" app... (some notes might best apply to the HD version) The UI is a little tweaky in that it's hard to be exactly precise. Sometimes the buttons don't respond. Not bad if your just tripping out, but if you're trying to use it at a live performance it's annoying. I wonder if tweaking the iPhone and iPad versions similar to how apple mail works on those devices. A familiar but different UI for the devices might make for a better trip as it were. Maybe a single control panel or drawer on the iPad version. Rather than can overlay the visuals or perhaps it would be better to stretch the visual window when the control panel is open. Hmmm. Bringing me to my next point, maybe a different scheme for the circular touch controls would make small adjustments easier. It would be nice to have a programable slider bank instead of just the two finger circular touch dials. I'd also like to see a user preset bank of buttons so it's easier/ faster to make changes during a live show. The ability to share your programed visualizers between the iPad and iPhone/ iPod would be great. For programming without speakers it would be great if the visuals also worked without the microphone and just through the library so you can use headphones. There's a boring visualizer called iseemusic that does this, but it's lame in comparison to ibeams. The video out is a little tricky, but I have a feeling that future iOS updates will give the Dev more control. It'll certainly give us better quality on iPhone 5 and iPad 2. Hopefully HD. I only have the composite cable kit. Hopefully the component kit I ordered gives me better quality, so my main beef is that there is a strange sequence of starting iTunes, launching the app and plugging in the av cable that I would like to see disappear. Also it would be great if the mirror mode worked with the video out. Not sure why it doesn't but it's kind of a disappointment that it doesn't. And of course a few new particles would be great. ;) Especially if they were just a little more refined, but I'm thinking more along the lines like a pro AE plugin like dige effects. Maybe I'm wishful. Keep up the great work! This is an amazing visual app that's only going to get better.
Review by orb! on iBeams Music Visualizer.