Waveguide

A real-time music visualizer grounded in psychoacoustics: it draws what the ear receives, not what the microphone does. This is version 0.1.0. The essay The Lawful Half of Hearing explains the project.

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Download for macOSApple silicon + Intel · macOS 14.2+ · 14.8 MB
Download for WindowsPreview · Windows 10/11 x64 · 7.1 MB

Install on macOS

Open the disk image, drag Waveguide to Applications, then launch it from Applications. Waveguide will ask for permission to capture system audio.

If the visualization stays silent while audio is playing, enable Waveguide under System Settings → Privacy & Security → System Audio Recording, then restart the app. Permission changes do not affect an already-running process.

Install on Windows

This is an unsigned preview build. Windows SmartScreen may showWindows protected your PC because it cannot verify a publisher. Only continue if you downloaded the ZIP from this page and its SHA-256 value matches the one below.

Extract the ZIP and run Waveguide.exe. If SmartScreen appears after you verify the download, choose More info, confirm the app is Waveguide, then choose Run anyway.

Verify the download

SHA-256 checksums (the Windows checksum is also available as a downloadable file):

7076e7759942c5d3ddbdb40d8c812a9343cee4ebcfc13c4626158a959ac1fc51  waveguide-0.1.0-macos-universal.dmg
ad4c799f0f54c29a6d32d44936241f577a88ca21722638456e281849360c4903  waveguide-0.1.0-windows-x64.zip