HOW TO PLAY
steflight synthesizer — a light instrument you play
StefLight isn't a video you watch — it's an instrument you play.
Move, paint, and tweak to create your own hypnotic light show.
THE ONE THING TO KNOW
Press and drag — with your finger on a touchscreen, or hold the mouse
button and move on a computer. Light trails follow your every move, folded into symmetry.
Let go to stop painting and let the trails fade.
OPEN THE CONTROLS
Tap the gear ⚙ in the top corner to open the control panel. At the very
top are PRESETS — one tap jumps to a completely different look. Start there:
try classic, ribbons, tunnel,
dots and kaleido.
SHAPE THE LOOK
shape
the form that gets painted — orbs, stars, blooms, ribbons…
sym-mode
how it repeats: radial kaleidoscope, mirror, grid, or free painting
folds
how many mirrored copies fan out
motion
how the light travels — spiral, orbit, wave and more
palette
the colour family
background
the scene behind — plasma, aurora, tunnel, stars
BRING IT TO LIFE
depth / zoom
make the whole scene rush toward you or fall away
particles
swirling flecks of light that follow your touch
oscillators
auto-movement — set them going and it performs itself, hands-free
auto-paint
paints on its own — tap to cycle off / layer 1 / layer 2. Touch any time to take over.
PLAY WITH MUSIC
In the panel under AUDIO REACT, choose ♪ mic to make the
visuals throb to music playing in the room, or ♫ music file to load a track
from your device for tight, precise reactivity. Tap ✕ off to stop — the
microphone is fully released and never listens in the background.
The throb amount slider sets how much the music drives the visuals while
you stay in control.
KEYBOARD (on a computer)
1–90
switch shape
X
symmetry mode
S
folds
P
palette
D
motion
B
background
F Z
particles · depth
A
audio on / off
SPACE
auto-paint (off / 1 / 2)
C
clear the screen
H
hide all controls for full-screen flow
✦ Tip: the loveliest sessions come from picking a preset,
putting on some music, then slowly moving your finger and nudging one or two sliders. Less is
more — small moves, big light.
⚠ This experience contains moving
lights, flashing and rapidly changing colours. If you are sensitive to flashing visuals,
please take care.