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AVS

What is AVS

AVS is a music visualisation plug-in for Winamp. Unlike most plug-ins however, AVS allows you to play around and make your own visuals, from a set of pluggable components combined with a scripting system. The result is the most flexible visualiser on the planet, and the resulting variety in visuals (called presets) is amazing.

To get a taste of the visual treats AVS offers, take a look at my AVS Gallery.

My trademark for AVS presets is technical complexity: 3D rollercoasters, convincing dancers, sci-fi shootouts, cartoony rendering, etc. Of course I still try to make every preset stylish and responsive to music.

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My Presets

The following packs of presets available for download, packaged in a self-extracting installer. Ordered chronologically, most recent on top.

  • Whacko Revisited

    Whacko Revisited - March 20th, 2004
    A pack consisting of remixes and remakes of presets from the Whacko series, released for my 20th birthday. Featuring Duo, El-vis, Fšk, Jheriko, Montana, NemoOrange, Raz, Skupers, Tuggummi, Yathosho, Zevensoft.

  • Final Whack

    Final Whack - Dec 16, 2003
    My biggest (and best?) pack of visuals, featuring some of the grooviest effects ever seen in AVS: a wicked rollercoaster, a zeppelin in the clouds, a trippy landscape, etc.
    Featured at DeviantArt on 2003-12-17. Requires Winamp 5+.

  • Whacko AVS VI

    Whacko AVS VI - Nov 29, 2002
    The last of the Whacko series, featuring a Star Wars scene, a Mars preset and more. This pack also contained the first release of the Colormap APE, giving preset makers a lot more options for tweaking colors.
    Featured at Winamp and DeviantArt.

  • Whacko AVS V - Aug 13, 2002
    The fifth episode of Whacko AVS, with yet more yummy effects. Highlights include a funny, drunken dancer and a hyponotising fountain.
  • Whacko AVS I-VI
    The first four episodes of Whacko AVS, combined into one package. Not as good as my most recent stuff of course, but everyone has to start somewhere!

My APEs

AVS can be extended by writing your own components. I've made several multi-purpose APEs which you can download here.

Note: my Texer II, Color Map, ChannelShift, Color Reduction and Multiplier APEs are already included with Winamp5.

Note: All these APEs are unsupported. Use them at your own risk. If you send me mail about any problems you have with them, you will get an abusive answer back. Redistribution outside of AVS packs is not permitted.

Available for download:

  • Picture II
    Improved picture renderer. Can read BMP and JPEG, supports all AVS blend modes, subdirectories and bilinear filtering.
  • VJ Control
    Gives you a bunch of sliders, buttons and checkboxes for controlling presets interactively.
  • AVSGrabber - 2.0 alpha
    Captures AVS presets to AVI. Insert into the preset to use it. For experimental audio capturing, use the provided out_grab.dll as output in Winamp.