Loopwalk has 18 templates in six kinds: cover art, lyrics, 3D worlds, lines, particles and abstract. Upload a track and we split it into stems, so the kick, the bass, the voice and the melody each move their own part of the picture. Every template renders 16:9 for YouTube and 9:16 for Reels, Shorts and a Spotify Canvas, in your cover's colours or one of 8 palettes.
Below is a real render of each one, a line on what drives what, and a guide to which one fits your release. They aren't After Effects project files: each template is a 3D scene in the studio, and you preview it on your own song for free.
18 templates · 200 styles · 8 palettes · 32 screen effects · 16:9 and 9:16 · Colours from your cover
Each tile is two bars of the same drop from our demo song, so the differences you see are the templates' own. The cover is off in these renders, so where a template would show your cover you see its palette stand-in.
Your cover is the centre of the picture, on a disc, a tile, a record label or a cassette.
Your cover in a ring of spectrum.
What drives what: Kicks punch the cover and zoom the frame · bass breathes the ring · hi-hats run light round it · snares ripple out of the cover · vocals backlight it.
Kaleido Star · Molten Crown · Heavy Pulse
Spectrum bars with your cover tile, on water or glass.
What drives what: The spectrum sets the bars · kicks bounce the row and ripple the water · bass sends light through the gaps · hi-hats sparkle the tips · the chorus changes the layout.
Mirror Lake · Golden Hour · Spectrum City
A turning record with your cover as its label.
What drives what: The tempo sets the spin · the song's progress moves the tonearm · kicks thump the platter · bass lights the grooves · the voice lights the label · the spectrum is the ring.
Midnight Deck · Walnut Room · Picture Disc
A lit hi-fi whose four VU needles are your song's stems.
What drives what: Drums, bass, vocals and the rest each swing their own VU needle · kicks bounce the cabinet · snares flare the display · the drop pins the needles in the red.
After Hours · Street Boombox · Night Cruise
The words are the picture: 3D type that lands on the sung time.
Your lyrics as 3D type, each word landing on its sung time: glowing, street posters, hand-drawn, on fire or on tape.
What drives what: Each word lands on its sung time · kicks punch the word being sung · the voice lights and lifts it · the chorus goes bigger · the drop bursts the words.
Afterglow · Street Poster · VHS Tape
A place the song moves through. Most of them hang your cover somewhere inside.
A neon fly-through.
What drives what: The tempo sets the flight · kicks lunge the camera · snares flash every third ring · bass bends and twists the walls · vocals light them.
Synth Diamond · Star Gate · Black Glass
A neon grid road running to a banded sun.
What drives what: The tempo sets the drive · each bar rolls a swell to the horizon and the kick lights its front · bass notes race along the road edges · the melody steers the car · vocals light the sun.
Neon Drive · Night Drive · Cover Sun
A galaxy, a black hole, a nebula and a ringed planet; the sections fly between them.
What drives what: Bass spins the galaxy and the black hole's disk · kicks send shock rings · snares flare bright stars · vocals light the nebula · the drop dives in.
Event Horizon · Ringed World · Supernova
A concert stage in haze, seen from the crowd.
What drives what: Kicks fire the strobes · snares fire lightning · the voice brings up the follow spot · the melody sweeps the moving heads · the drop fires the lasers.
Headliner · Basement · Tesla Hall
A cosy room at night: rain on the window, the city in bokeh.
What drives what: Snares run drops down the glass · bass breathes the desk lamp · hi-hats light far windows · melody notes light the fairy lights · the sections change the hour and the weather.
Night Rain · Snowfall · Vinyl Night
Liquid chrome, glass, a disco ball or your logo, in a studio of light.
What drives what: Kicks make it jump · bass swells the liquid · hi-hats shimmer the reflections · vocals twist it · the drop throws up spikes.
Liquid Chrome · Disco Ball · Chrome Logo
A 3D room whose glass walls are the equaliser, your cover on the end wall.
What drives what: The spectrum lights the glass-tile walls · kicks step you toward the cover · bass lights the mirror floor · snares flash the ceiling edges · the camera cuts on the phrase.
Cover Gallery · LED Studio · Mirror Hall
Streams of light fall and bend across the floor.
What drives what: The spectrum brightens each stream · kicks send light down the fall · snares flash half the streams · hi-hats throw sparks · vocals light the falling part.
Neon Cascade · Ember Roots · Night Downpour
The signal drawn as lines: a turning spectrum helix, or your real waveform.
A turning double helix of thin plates.
What drives what: The spectrum shapes the plates · kicks send a pulse along both halves · snares blow the particles off · bass widens the strands · the chorus turns two strands into four.
Black Satin · Four Winds · Molten Thread
Oscilloscope traces of your waveform, or one bold waveform over your photo.
What drives what: Every line is about 50 ms of your real waveform · the spectrum lifts them into mountains · kicks roll through the stack · vocals light the horizon.
Blaze · Ridgeline · Podcast Bar
Tens of thousands of points of light that gather into shapes.
Up to 65,536 glowing particles.
What drives what: Each particle swells with its band · kicks send a shock wave · snares throw half the cloud off · bass pulls it in · vocals stretch it up.
Cover Swarm · Spiral Galaxy · Firefly Ring
Light and liquid in your colours, with no objects at all.
Light trails that zoom, swirl and melt through your colours.
What drives what: Kicks punch the zoom · bass bends the warp · snares flash the echo · the melody draws the wave · the drop opens a tunnel.
Endless Tunnel · Kaleido Bloom · Ink Bloom
Ink, smoke and liquid light, stirred by the song.
What drives what: Kicks puff ink · bass notes push slow currents · snares fan out streaks · each sung note turns an eddy · the drop floods the centre.
Liquid Light · Lava Lamp · Cover Melt
Start from what you already have for the release, then from how the song moves. Every one previews free on your own track, so the quickest test is to try two side by side.
Halo · Vinyl · Bars · Hi-Fi Deck
The four cover-art templates put the picture in the middle and build the motion round it: a spectrum ring, a record label, a tile over water, a cassette in a hi-fi. The colours come from the cover too, so the scene matches the artwork without any setup.
Most of the 3D worlds hang the cover inside too: on the end wall of Room, on the LED wall of Stage, as a poster in Lofi Room, graded into the sun in Synthwave, and as a planet's surface in Cosmic. Swarm can gather its particles into it.
Helix · Light Rain · Scope Lines · Fluid
Helix and Light Rain never put the cover in the scene; they only take its colours, or a palette you pick. Scope Lines in its line mode does the same.
A cover full of small detail reads poorly at the size of a record label or a corner tile. Abstract looks such as Fluid take its colours and let you skip the picture. Every cover-art template also has a palette fallback when the cover is off.
In Lyric Video the words are the picture: each one lands on its sung time, timed to the vocal stem from lyrics you paste. Lyrics can also sit over any other template, and eight of them keep a band of the frame clear for the words.
Timing is measured on English, Spanish, German and French. Portuguese, Ukrainian and Korean run but aren't measured on singing yet. Japanese isn't aligned. The lyric video maker page has the details.
Every template can show your logo in a corner. Three put it in the scene itself: 3D Object turns it into a solid of chrome or glass that jumps on the kick, Halo can put it on the disc in place of the cover, and Room inlays it in the mirror floor, where the bass warms it.
For a label or a DJ brand that releases often, a logo template keeps every upload recognisable at a glance.
Lofi Room · Vinyl · Hi-Fi Deck
Quiet songs need small reactions: a drop running down the glass on the snare, a lamp that breathes with the bass. Lofi Room is calm by design (it has its own page). Vinyl turns at the tempo with the tonearm on the song, the format these genres already use on YouTube. Hi-Fi Deck swings a VU needle per stem.
A steady kick wants a template built on it. Tunnel locks its travel to the beat and lunges on each kick; Stage fires strobes on the kick and lasers on the drop; Room walks you toward the cover on every kick. Bars rolls a wave through its row.
These flash a lot. The export's Flash-safe switch slows any flashing to under three a second, and a Canvas always has it on.
Synthwave · Hi-Fi Deck · Lyric Video
Synthwave is the neon grid road to a banded sun, its drive set by the tempo. Hi-Fi Deck has a boombox and a car stereo among its six devices. For words, the VHS Tape and Cassette Label styles of Lyric Video fit the same era.
Cosmic · Fluid · Helix · Feedback
When the change happens over minutes, pick a template where the sections do the work. Cosmic moves between a galaxy, a planet, a black hole and a nebula as the song moves through its sections. Feedback cross-fades to another look in the chorus and the breakdown, Fluid changes its layout by section, and Helix coils in the bridge and unwinds in the breakdown.
Lyric Video · Vinyl · Hi-Fi Deck
Dense verses suit Lyric Video word by word, where each word lands as it's rapped. For a beat tape or an instrumental, the Crate Digger style of Vinyl puts the record in front of a wall of sleeves, and the Street Boombox style of Hi-Fi Deck needs no words at all.
Stage · Halo · Scope Lines
Stage is a concert seen from the crowd, the cover on the LED wall and the follow spot on the voice. The Heavy Pulse style of Halo hits hard on the kick. Scope Lines draws the real waveform for a rawer look, or one bold waveform over a photo of the band.
Upload the track and switch templates while it plays. The preview is free at full quality, with the stems. Video files and stills come with Unlimited.
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