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Everything Luxaudica does,
in plain words.

Luxaudica listens to whatever your Mac is playing and paints living visuals to match. You never have to touch a line of code to use any of it — and neither do these docs. Pick your path: read the manual front-to-back, or jump into a trainer built for the way you'll actually use it.

The map

Four sections cover the whole app. Each one stands alone — start anywhere.

Read first Getting started From download to your first gorgeous, music-locked picture in about five minutes. The control room Every slider, toggle and menu in the panel, A to Z — what it does and when to reach for it. Scenes & looks The 83-scene library by family, the 149 factory looks, and how to save your own. Performing live Cues, shows, timecode, MIDI, OSC, multiple displays — running a real night without surprises.

Trainers — learn by doing

Each trainer is an interactive mission: real steps, checkboxes that remember your progress (on this device), and a "why" under every move. Twenty minutes each, tops. Pick the one that sounds like you.

Persona The DJ You play sets. You want visuals that hit on the drop and never embarrass you mid-transition. Persona The listener You want the TV to become art while music plays — set it up once, never touch it again. Persona The venue tech Projectors, show files, OSC from the booth, timecode — you make rooms light up on schedule. Persona The creator You make content. Record clean loops, brand the frame, grade the color, export. Persona The AI co-pilot Let Claude run the visuals: describe what you want in English, it does the knob-work.

The AI surface

Luxaudica is the first visual instrument built to be driven by an AI assistant. Connect Claude (or any MCP-capable assistant) and it can see what's on screen, change the look, build entirely new scenes from a sentence, and run your whole show — with your hands nowhere near the controls.

Full reference The AI copilot Connecting an assistant, what to say, safety rules, and all 29 things it can do — in plain English.

Just shipped

These docs match the current build. The latest engine work, in one breath:

  • The cull — the library went to 51 scenes in one pass, and the 43 that weren't earning their place were deleted, not quietly hidden. It has grown back to 83 since, a wave at a time, each one reviewed the same way. Saved looks pin their scene by name, so nothing can silently retarget onto a different scene. A look whose scene is gone is dropped on the next launch — and your library as it stood is kept beside it as presets.premigration.json, so nothing is lost without a copy.
  • The physics pack — nine scenes built on real standing-wave behaviour rather than a picture of it: Chladni, Cymascope, Sand Plate, Faraday, Standing Wave, Ferrofluid, Ripple Tank, Node Cathedral and Lodestone.
  • Every scene is an instrument — all 83 scenes now declare knobs of their own, with named sliders, their own named looks and a Reset, right in the Mix tab. An assistant can drive them by name too.
  • The modulation patch panel — wire a part of the music to a scene's own parameter, set how far it swings, and watch the route move live in the Mod tab.
  • Simple mode — the app now opens in a four-tap surface with a handful of feel knobs (Pace, Drive, Color, Air). The full control room is one click away and unchanged.
  • Social export — record, then crop to 9:16, 1:1 or 16:9 with a draggable frame over the live view, and an upload-ready encode. No licence gate on any of it.