A downloadable Music Visualiser for Windows and Linux

VisualiStar is a versatile, lightweight audio visualiser program.

See visualisation for any music app or website using your computer's "Stereo Mix" or "What U Hear" or similar audio device. With these, VisualiStar can use any audio going through your sound card to create visuals.

If you're a musician, you could even link it to your instrument's line-in and see visuals in real-time for what you play.

There are currently 7 unique, sci-fi themed visualisers in the program. This is a work in progress, more visualisations and features will be added in the future.

Runs under WINE on Linux - choose "Pulseaudio" as the input, and in the PulseAudio Volume Mixer recording tab, set Visualistar to "Monitor of Built-In Audio..."

Features:

  • 7 unique visualisers
  • Auto-cycle
    • Cycle any subset of visualisers
    • Set the cycle time
  • Colour customisation
    • Set the colours in the visualisers and UI to use random colours, or pick from a custom gradient
  • Window transparency
    • Make the window transparent and operate as an overlay to other programs
  • Save and load presets
    • Store all the above settings as presets to keep for later
  • Audio Input
    • Choose any input from your system's list of devices
More information
StatusReleased
CategoryTool
PlatformsWindows, Linux
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Authorrahisaurus
Made withSFML
Tags2D, Audio, Colorful, Experimental, Music, Procedural Generation, Sci-fi, Space, Visualization
Average sessionA few minutes
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Mouse

Download

Download
VisualiStar_2021-11-03.zip 3 MB

Install instructions

  • Download and extract the VisualiStar.zip file somewhere on your PC. 
  • Double-click VisualiStar.exe to run the program.

Windows 10 may block it as an uncertified executable. To proceed, press "More Info" and choose "Run Anyway" (at your discretion - never do this with software you don't trust. I may get the software signed properly in the future if this project works out).

VisualiStar should work "out of the box" on Windows 8+ systems. If you can't get the audio input you want, check this forum post for additional setup tips.

Runs under WINE on Linux - choose "Pulseaudio" as the input, and in your system's PulseAudio Volume Mixer, recording tab, set Visualistar to "Monitor of Built-In Audio..."

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