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External displays

Connect Particle Chimes to a second screen and it shows the visualizer full-screen there, while your iPad or iPhone keeps its whole instrument UI. Nothing to set up: it happens on connect.

External display is free. It is not part of Studio.

Standalone app only

The second screen comes from the standalone Particle Chimes app. Running as an AUv3 inside AUM, Logic or Cubasis, the app cannot open a second window, so nothing appears on the external display.

Connecting

Both routes work the same way:

  • AirPlay to an Apple TV, or to any AirPlay-capable TV or monitor.
  • Wired, with a USB-C to HDMI adapter, a USB-C monitor cable, or a capture card.

The instrument keeps running on the device throughout. The external screen is a second view of the same performance, not a takeover.

Two modes

Dedicated (default)

The external screen shows only the visualizer, full-screen, with no controls, no chrome and no status bar. Your device keeps the ribbon, the tabs and every control exactly where they were.

This is the mode for playing to a room, and the one you want feeding a capture card.

Mirror

The external screen shows exactly what is on your device screen, controls included. Use it for teaching, demos and tutorials, where the point is showing someone where to put their fingers.

Turn it on in the skin picker, in the settings group at the bottom of the sheet, between Sleep Mode and Hi-Res Visuals:

Mirror External Display Off shows the full-screen visualizer. Turn on to mirror this screen instead, for demos and tutorials.

The toggle is free in both positions.

The setting applies on the next connect

Particle Chimes reads this preference at the moment a display connects. Changing it while a display is already attached does nothing to that display. Disconnect and reconnect, and the new mode takes effect.

Resolution and quality

The external view renders for the screen it is on, independently of what your device is drawing for itself. Hi-Res Visuals raises the quality tier of the visualizer, and Low Power Mode and thermal pressure lower it, exactly as they do on the device.

This has nothing to do with video export, which renders offscreen at whatever resolution you pick and ignores both.

Streaming

For OBS and similar, feed the dedicated view into a capture card over HDMI: it is already clean and chrome-free, so there is nothing to crop. Use mirror instead when the stream is a tutorial and the controls are the subject.

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