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PulseBake — Audio-Reactive Animation for Blender

Make your objects, lights, and materials respond to music — fully automated, baked to keyframes, render-ready.

PulseBake analyzes your audio file and bakes the reaction directly into your scene as keyframes. No drivers. No real-time playback. Just hit Bake and render.

WHAT IT DOES

Object Effects — combine any of these on your mesh objects:

• Scale — the object scales up when audio energy hits

• Bounce — the object jumps on the beat

• Treble Color — material color shifts with high-frequency content

• Emission Glow — material glows based on audio energy (quiet + on beat)

For each effect you choose which frequency range drives it — bass, mids, treble, or the full spectrum.

Light Reaction — your light's color and brightness react to the audio.

Camera Shake — the camera moves and rotates on the beat.

Smoke & Fire — a smoke or fire emitter bursts on the beat. Perfect for flame thrower or fog machine effects.

Fluid Force — a force field pushes a fluid simulation to the beat. Works with Blender's native Mantaflow liquid simulations.

Multi-Band — select any number of objects, each reacting to its own slice of the frequency spectrum simultaneously.

Phase Offset — animate multiple objects with a ripple delay:

• Linear — delay increases object by object (wave effect)

• Radial — delay increases by distance from a center point (ripple effect)

Apply to Selected — bake all selected objects at once with one click.

KEY FEATURES

✓ One-click baking — pick your audio, set your options, hit Bake

✓ Keyframe-based output — works with Cycles and EEVEE

✓ Combine effects freely — Scale + Bounce + Glow all at once

✓ Phase Offset Ripple — stunning wave effects across object arrays

✓ Multi-Band — any number of objects, each on its own frequency band

✓ Smoke & Fire and Fluid Force simulation support

✓ Light Reaction and Camera Shake included

✓ Auto-Update Check — notified when a new version is available

✓ Clean uninstall — removes all PulseBake data from your scene

REQUIREMENTS

• Blender 5.0 or newer

• Supported audio formats: WAV, MP3

• Treble Color and Emission Glow require a material on the object

LICENSE

GNU General Public License v3 (GPL-3.0)

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HOW TO INSTALL PULSEBAKE

1. Download the ZIP file (PulseBake_v2.0.0.zip) — do NOT unzip it.

2. Open Blender and go to: Edit → Preferences → Add-ons → Install...

3. Select the downloaded ZIP file and click "Install Add-on".

4. Enable the addon by checking the checkbox next to "PulseBake".

5. Find PulseBake in the 3D Viewport: Press N to open the sidebar → click the "PulseBake" tab. You're ready to go.

UPDATING TO A NEW VERSION

1. Remove the old version: Edit → Preferences → Add-ons → search "PulseBake" → Remove

2. Install the new ZIP as described above.

TROUBLESHOOTING

• Addon not visible? Make sure you enabled the checkbox after installing.

• Audio not loading? Make sure your file is WAV or MP3.

• Something else? Contact support at [email protected].

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