A music visualization studio for Windows.

LaryWaves Studio transforms your music library into a customizable reactive visual experience with 12 real-time audio visualizers, 24 handcrafted themes, 27 background effects, 14 built-in tools, audio engine with a 10 band equalizer, and support for 17 file formats across audio, video, GIF, and images. Fully offline with no telemetry, subscriptions, or cloud dependency. Your media stays yours.

12 Real Time Visualizers

Every visualizer reacts to your music in real time via FFT audio analysis:

• Spectrum Bar: Classic frequency spectrum with customizable smoothing, bar count, and glow

• Waveform Display: Interactive audio waveform with zoom and scrubbing

• Oscilloscope: CRT style display with Lissajous curves and 3D mode

• Vinyl Record: Spinning platter with customizable appearance and rotation speed

• Aurora Borealis: Flowing Northern Lights ribbons that dance and shimmer

• Kaleidoscope: Sacred geometry mandala patterns with audio reactive symmetry

• Wind Turbine: 11 layer environment with particle physics and dynamic camera

• Cassette Tape: Retro compact cassette with spinning reels, VU meters, and custom labels

• Roulette Engine: Mathematical spirograph curves traced by audio driven nested gears

• Stained Glass: Voronoi tessellation window with audio-reactive illumination and beat pulses

• Bioluminescent Deep Sea: Glowing jellyfish pulsing and drifting in dark ocean depths

• Grand Piano: 88 key piano with MIDI style falling note rectangles and particle sparks

• Album Art: Full screen artwork display with metadata overlay

• Video: Native video playback for video files

Each visualizer has its own settings panel with customizable settings and 'reset to default' buttons. Fine tune everything from color to style to effects...

24 Themes

Every theme is unique and transforms the entire application with handcrafted transport controls, scrollbars, sliders, color palettes, transitions, and background effects:

Citypop · Synthwave · NeoPulse · Neon Noir · Neon Reactor · Chiptune · Chocolate · Firefly Grove · Abyssal Depth · Sakura Dream · Crimson Eclipse · Golden Dune · Harvest Moon · Clockwork Tide · Night Warden · Cosmic Horror · Cyberpunk Slums · Solar Ember · Polar Spark · Alpine Glow · Strawberry · Volt Storm · Amber Dream · Cosmic Nebula

27 Background Effects

Layer animated effects on top of your visualizer:

Neon Rain · Neon Race · Electric Jellyfish · Neon Wire Sparks · Plasma Containment · Media Runner · Chocolate Fountain · Firefly Sanctuary · Abyss Echo · Sakura Wind Dance · Tidal Wave · Spectral Patrol · Shadow Swarm · Eclipse Corona · Sand Dune Parallax · Autumn Abductor · Toxic Vent · Ember Vortex · Polar Discharge · Alpine Dusk · Strawberry Fizz · Heartfall · Volt Storm Lightning · Amber Dream Embers · Cosmic Nebula Drift · Aurora Curtain · Idle Mascot

Plus 5 animated customizable border effects: Animated Gradient, Pulse, Color Wave, Neon Flicker, Dual Tone Rotation.

Built-In Tools

14 built-in tools are included for managing and tagging your music library:

• Library Health Scanner: Find missing files, corrupted tracks, incomplete metadata, oversized art, duplicates, unusual sample rates

• Album Art Manager: Batch extract, embed, resize, replace, or remove album art

• Batch File Renamer: Pattern-based rename with {artist}, {title}, {album}, {year} tokens (with undo)

• Folder Organizer: Sort files into metadata-based folder structures ({artist}/{album}/)

• Duplicate Track Finder: Three-tier scan: identical files, normalized tag match, and perceptual audio fingerprint

• ReplayGain Tagger: ITU-R BS.1770-4 integrated loudness analyzer; writes track and optional album gain/peak tags

• BPM Tagger: Tempo detector (energy-envelope onsets + autocorrelation, 60–200 BPM range); writes the standard BPM tag

• Auto-Tag from Filename: Pattern-based metadata extraction (6 presets included); inverse of Batch File Renamer

• Waveform Image Exporter: Waveform PNGs in 4 styles and 5 color palettes

• Playlist Format Converter: Import PLS/XSPF, export M3U/M3U8/PLS/XSPF/JSON

• Backup & Restore: Bundle settings, asset packages, registry, playlists, and statistics into a portable .lwabackup ZIP file; restore auto-snapshots current state to a safety backup first

• Character Creator: Use built-in characters or create your own character with 4 paint colors on a 16x16 or 32x32 grid. Draw 16 different animation frames to bring your character to life and use it in a variety of different features and effects across the program. Characters can be exported in .lwa format (LaryWaves Asset) and shared with anyone to use in LaryWaves Studio

• Toast Creator: Customize the appearance, content & fonts, animation & behavior, and stickers. Give your toast a name, author, lock it, and share in .lwa format with anyone to use in LaryWaves Studio

• Metadata Editor: Customize a variety of metadata settings for any audio track including add artwork / remove artwork, title, artist, album artist, album, year, genre, track number, disc number, comment / notes

• Bulk Metadata Editor: Customize a variety of metadata settings for any quantity of audio tracks in bulk including add artwork / remove artwork, title, artist, album artist, album, year, genre, track number, disc number, comment / notes

• Discord Rich Presence (Togglable): Show current track in discord status

Audio Engine

• 10 band parametric equalizer with 15 presets

• DSP chain: ReplayGain → Gain → EQ → Limiter → Hard Clipper

• Supported formats: MP3, FLAC, WAV, OGG, M4A (audio) + MP4, MKV, AVI, MOV, WebM, TIFF (video) + JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP, WEBP, TIFF (image) + LWA (larywaves asset)

• WASAPI audio output for low latency playback

• Sleep Timer (Togglable): Automatically pauses playback after a set duration of time

Privacy First

• Zero telemetry. No analytics, no tracking, no user data collection of any kind.

• All data stored locally. Settings, playlists, statistics → everything stays on your machine.

• Discord Rich Presence is opt-in only and disabled by default.

• No account required other than downloading from steam. No login, no cloud sync, no server.

• No auto update phoning home. Updates come through Steam.