Use a music visualizer with System Audio on Mac

Set up Kamilovision on Mac with System Audio, microphone or direct audio, keyboard cues, and a separate audience display.

Kamilovision visualization: Helios Dynamo

Choose what the Mac listens to

System Audio is useful when the music plays on the Mac. A microphone hears speakers in the room; an audio interface is appropriate for a physical mixer or instrument feed. The selected source determines which permission is requested.

Settings › Audio Input. System Audio captures Mac playback; Microphone or an audio device captures its selected input.

Start Listening and grant the requested permission. On Mac, system capture may require Screen & System Audio Recording permission; microphone capture requires Microphone permission.

Calibrate at your real listening volume

Open Calibrate Musical Response in Audio Input. Measure your music, then adjust the response while watching Glacier Run.

Analysis gain changes input sensitivity, including qualified musical cues. Raise it gradually with ordinary music playing; a high meter alone does not prove a clean beat.

Global intensity controls how strongly worlds move, brighten, and respond. Bass, Mids, Highs, and other world controls tune that scene only.

Use the keyboard and a second display

Open Keyboard Shortcuts in Help for the current bindings. Single-letter performance keys belong to the live interface; use buttons when editing text. Select an audience display in Presentation to keep the control window on your Mac.

Presentation below the visual. Choose an audience display and start output; use Full Screen Here for this Mac.

Use buttons when typing into a field or when another window owns keyboard focus. Save and export apply to the current visual; undo and redo require editable history. Mac has no single-letter Breakdown shortcut.