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The Pulse

Audio responsive wallpaper that displays the low,mid and high frequencies as different colors on top of each other.

For best results set wallpaper engine settings to 60fp, and at the bottom of the wallpaper settings ( first under performance ), disable the frame limiter. Also be sure to check out the tips

- Set background image/color/gradient
- Adjust opacity/blending
- Adjust positioning/perspective
- Display 100ms or 60s of audio
- Alter orientation/direction
- Bunch of other options to adjust the visuals a little.

- If you are limiting the frame rate. This wallpaper makes frame intervals very apparent. Go for an extremely short display history ( say 1sec, or something fast enough that you can't notice it ), or increase the history ( until you can't notice it )
- If you are experiencing micro stuttering, Look at the tip above this one above limited frame rate. Looking into solving this one if I can.
- I've added color options, but for best results stick to a combination of (pure) red, green, blue ( diff color per channel )

- Some micro stuttering. If you think you have a tip, I'm happy to listen
- Running multiple webwallpapers can negatively effect performance of both. This is out of my control. While usually not noticable this wallpaper make such things very visible so advised when using this one to span accross all screens.

Check the sticky, it mentions several reasons for wallpapers not reacting to audio.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/431960/discussions/2/348292787747453462/

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Removed unused files to shrink size

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Some minor fixes to normalizing. I realized it didnt fully work as intended ( some calclations still give different results depending on volume, but not that anyone will notice haha ), so will be adjusting more of this later.
Added option to disable framelimiting. Use this option for the smoothest experience when looking for 60 fps.
Added stats option, in case of stuttering, check this first to see if you notice anything
Increased the default display time. This hides some of the micro stuttering.

Made a small change to the rendering order in the hopes of fixing some stuttering.

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Added option to spread/space the 2 channels a bit. Basically the minimum width/height of the bar.
Adjust the stereo seperation to a larger scale. ( also renamed to occilation to clearly distinct from the spacing option )
Updated normalization a bit and included an option to enhance or smooth peaks.
Added background color/gradient
Added opacity/transparency option
Adjust some code to remove another source of memory allocations
Mostly for my testing purposes but added in a small v-sync test.
Fixed history being cut short on low history settings ( thought I fixed that one but guess not )

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Fixed background not centering.
The stereospacing option left a whiteline on screen while silent. Added something in to make it vanish when its silent for a while. Will teak this some more in an upcoming patch.
Added some error reporting that might catch the problem when initializing.
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Remove fps being displayed that was left in in the last update.
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Cleaned up the broken settings layout.
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Some fixes regarding pausing. Should catch up instantly after pausing now and paused time should show no data anymore which was caused by no silence being recorded.