Ambient Music Visualizer

Let your music breathe on screen.

Ambient Music Visualizer is a lightweight, PC-friendly visualizer that turns sound into living art. Fire it up, drop into Ambient Mode, and watch soft, evolving color fields flow to your music—perfect for working, relaxing, or setting the vibe for your space. The core experience is simple, beautiful, and distraction-free. 

What’s included

🌫️ Ambient Mode (the main attraction)

• Smooth, organic visuals that swell and drift with your audio

• Customizanle Audio Sensitivity, Orb Size, Edge Sharpness, Movement, Pulse, and Hue speed

• Optional hue cycling + multiple palettes (Original, Vibrant, Dark, Greyscale)

🌆 Bonus: CityScape Mode

• A neon wireframe skyline with reactive stars, gridded streets, and shimmering windows

• Adjustable Building Count, Max Height, City Width, Speed Boost, Star Reactivity/Count, and Fog/Dimming

• Performance profiles (Mobile, Low, Medium, High, Ultra) so it runs smoothly on potato laptops or big-boy GPUs

• Experimental toggles like Subways (gliding light trains beneath the grid) for a subtle cyberpunk wink 😉

📻 Radio & Desktop Audio

• One-click Radio Mode to stream Sammy’s NYC Indie-Electro station inside the app (optional)

• PC Audio capture mode (💻 button) for visualizing whatever your computer is playing

Tip: The Controls (⚙️) and Color (🎨) panels let you tweak everything live. No restarts, no headaches.

Why you’ll like it

• Instant mood: Zero setup, immediate ambience for your workspace or living room

• Highly tunable: From ultra-soft pastels to punchier neon, make it your vibe

• Runs on a toaster (mostly): Smart profiles + sensible defaults

• No tech skills required: Launch the program and go

Controls (quick reference)

• Open Controls: Hover top-left or press Shift + C

• Sensitivity: ▲ / ▼

• Color Preset (Ambent Mode): ◀ / ▶

• Performance Profile (CityScape Mode): ◀ / ▶

• Fullscreen: F11 or Shift + F

• Reopen Tips: Shift + T

• Radio Volume (Radio Mode): Shift + ▲ / ▼

• Buttons: ▶ (play/stop stream) • 💻 (PC Audio) • ⚙️ (Controls) • 🎨 (Colors) • ⛶ (Fullscreen)

Recommended use

• Lo-fi work sessions, writing, coding, studying

• Backdrop for wall art or ambient DJ sets

• Unique screen-saver 

Performance & compatibility

• Tested on a range of hardware (Ambient Mode should run on almost any PC; CityScape Mode has adjustable performance profiles)

• Requirements

  
  

  • OS: Windows 10/11
  • GPU: Any modern integrated or discrete GPU
  • RAM: 4 GB+
  • Input: Keyboard & mouse
  • Internet: Only required for Radio Mode streaming; otherwise runs offline. 

  
  

FAQ

Does it require my own music?
Connects to your PC audio by default (💻), or enable the built-in radio stream.

Can I customize colors and settings?
Yes—pick palettes in Ambient Mode or choose base hues for CityScape’s windows and grid. There's also a range of settings to customize in the Control Panel

Will it eat my CPU/GPU?
Ambient Mode is gentle. CityScape scales with performance profiles (Mobile → Ultra).

Credits & License

Created by John Leonard. Enjoy, and feel free to share screenshots.