Effects
VHS Tape, Circuit Breaker, signal damage, instability, and screen shaping.
VHS Tape is its own creative section in 2.0. Start with the broad controls, then open Advanced Mode only when you want to sculpt a particular machine or cassette.
| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|---|
| VHS | Toggle | Off | Turns the tape stage on or off. |
| Tape Speed | ChoiceSP / LP / EP | SP | Moves from cleaner standard-play character toward softer, more fragile long-play and extended-play tape. |
| Tape Wear | Float0% - 100% | 15% | Blends in age, dropout, and worn-cassette character. |
| Tracking Error | Float0% - 100% | 0% | Introduces unstable tracking bands. |
| Head Switching | Float0% - 100% | 25% | Shapes the displaced playback band near the lower edge. |
| Signal Noise | Float0% - 100% | 5% | Adds tape-signal texture. |
| Chroma Noise | Float0% - 100% | 10% | Adds wandering color noise and unstable hue. |
| Edge Wave | Float | 0.5 | Adds horizontal waviness along the tape image. |
Advanced Mode opens the deeper tape-shaping palette: bandwidth and softness, multiple noise layers, tracking-band character, head behavior, smear and ringing, color timing, edge motion, sharpening, and a repeatable variation seed. These controls are for art direction, not a required setup checklist.
Circuit Breaker turns broken video hardware into an expressive instrument. Choose a personality, decide whether it blends over the source or reacts to it, then steer its color and motion.
| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|---|
| Circuit Breaker | Toggle | Off | Turns the selected broken-video personality on or off. |
| Physical Unit | Choice4 units | Dirty Mixer | Chooses between Dirty Mixer, Archer Video Enhancer, Sandin Image Processor, and Panasonic WJ-AVE5 CV personalities. |
| Signal Interaction | ChoiceBlend / Reactive | Blend | Either layers the fault into the image or lets the image provoke it. |
| Color Circuit | Choice6 styles | Source Chroma | Selects a color-fault character, from drifting broadcast color to folded composite color. |
| Color Drive | Float | 1.6 | Controls the strength of the color transformation. |
| Use Custom Colors | Toggle | Off | Replaces the selected color circuit with your own two-color relationship. |
| Seed | Integer | 0 | Chooses a repeatable variation of the active personality. |
Each unit reveals its own performance controls: mix and sync collisions, false triggers and line shear, keyed feedback and tearing, or Panasonic Waves and Blocks.
| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|---|
| Static Amount | Float0 - 100 | 18 | Noise intensity. |
| Static Type | Choice4 types | White (Classic CRT) | Character of the noise. |
| Grain Size | Float0.1 - 5.0 | 1.0 | Scale of the noise. Higher = chunkier. |
- White (Classic CRT) - TV snow
- Blue (Fine Grain) - Subtle, cinematic texture
- Pink (Rolling) - Organic, shifting static
- Gaussian (Analog) - Smooth, even analog noise
| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|---|
| Signal Type | ChoiceOff / NTSC / PAL | Off | Broadcast signal emulation. |
| Signal Amount | Float0% - 100% | 50% | Intensity of the signal effect. |
| Bandwidth | Float0% - 100% | 50% | How much color detail survives the signal. Higher = more smearing. |
| Dot Crawl | Float0% - 100% | 30% | The shimmering pattern where colors meet. |
| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|---|
| Signal Warp | Float0 - 10 | 0.0 | Distortion intensity. |
| Warp Shape | Choice6 shapes | Noise (Analog Tear) | Type of distortion. |
| Warp Rate | Float0.01 - 20 | 1.0 | Animation speed. |
| Warp Depth | Float0 - 1 | 0.5 | Density of the distortion. |
| Signal Noise | Float0% - 100% | 0% | Adds organic life so the distortion never looks mechanical. |
- Noise (Analog Tear)
- Wave (Ripple)
- Zigzag (Electric)
- Block Shift (Digital)
- Barrel Roll (Bulge)
- Tape Slip (VHS Roll)
| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|---|
| Chroma Smear | Float0 - 5 | 0.0 | Color bleeding and smearing, like a worn-out tape head. |
| Prism Shift | Float0 - 5 | 0.0 | Color fringing around edges. |
| Channel Split | Float0 - 5 | 0.0 | Color separation. That broken-convergence look. |
| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|---|
| Brightness Wobble | Float0 - 1 | 0.01 | Brightness flicker. |
| Wobble Rate | Float0 - 10 | 3.0 | Speed of the flicker. |
| Vertical Hold | Float0 - 0.1 | 0.002 | Vertical jitter. |
| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|---|
| Screen Position | 2D Point | Center | Places the complete screen inside the output frame. |
| Screen Size | Float | 100% | Scales the complete screen while preserving its chosen shape. |
| Aspect Ratio | ChoiceSource / 4:3 / 5:4 / 16:9 / 1:1 / 3:4 / 9:16 / Custom | Source | Builds the image into a classic tube, monitor, widescreen, square, or vertical frame. |
| Framing | ChoiceFill / Fit / Stretch | Fill | Controls how the source occupies the shaped screen. |
| Outside Screen | ChoiceBlack / Source / Transparent | Black | Chooses what remains outside the screen silhouette. |
| Screen Curvature | Float0% - 100% | 0% | Curved screen distortion. |
| Horizontal Bow / Vertical Bow | Float | 0 | Bends the face of the picture independently in each direction. |
| Corner Rounding | Float0% - 100% | 0% | Rounded corners. |
| Edge Falloff | Float0% - 100% | 0% | How the edges fade to dark, like a real tube. |
| Glass Refraction | Float | 0% | Bends the image through the faceplate. |
| Glass Reflection | Float | 0% | Adds a movable highlight and edge sheen across the glass. |