NotchsterLive visuals · macOS · in development

Play visuals like
an instrument.

Notchster turns your sound into stunning, reactive visuals you perform live — from your mic, your set, or your system audio. All on your Mac.

No plugins · no cloud · runs natively on Apple Silicon

Built forDJsMusiciansVJsProducersLive showsFestivalsStreamers
Features

An instrument for light.

Everything you need to turn a room into a reactive light show — designed to feel less like software and more like an instrument.

Real-time reactivity

Sub-frame audio analysis maps loudness, bass, and transients straight to motion. It moves the instant the music does.

GPU-accelerated

Built on Metal. Hundreds of thousands of particles at a locked 60fps — smooth even on a laptop on stage.

A library of scenes

Curl-noise fields, geometric bloom, and more — each scene tuned from the ground up to respond to sound.

Play it live

Map any parameter to a MIDI controller or your keyboard. Build moments and trigger them right on the drop.

Output anywhere

Full-screen to a projector or LED wall, or pipe into OBS and your VJ rig with Syphon and NDI.

Make it yours

Dial in color, motion, and sensitivity, then save your looks as presets and recall them mid-set.

How it works

From sound to spectacle in seconds.

01

Connect your audio

Mic, audio interface, or your Mac's system audio. Notchster starts listening the moment you open it.

02

Choose a scene

Pick a visual and shape it — color, intensity, and exactly how hard it reacts to the low end.

03

Perform & output

Send it full-screen to the room and play the visuals live, right alongside the music.

Don't just read about it. Hear it move.

The hero above is the real engine, running live in your browser. Open the demo and drive it with your own mic or a track.

Open the live demo →
Pricing

Simple, honest pricing.

Early-bird rates — lock in launch pricing for life when you join now.

Free
For trying it out.
$0forever
  • Core scene library
  • Mic & line-in
  • Single output
  • Notchster watermark
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Most popular
Pro
For gigging artists.
$12/ month
  • Every scene
  • System-audio capture
  • MIDI mapping
  • Syphon & NDI outputs
  • No watermark
  • Save & recall presets
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Studio
For venues & pros.
$29/ month
  • Everything in Pro
  • Multi-output
  • Commercial license
  • Priority support
  • Early access to new scenes
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FAQ

Questions, answered.

A live-visuals instrument for your Mac. It listens to audio — your mic, an interface, or your system audio — and turns it into GPU-rendered visuals you can perform, tweak, and project in real time.

A Mac running macOS 13 or later. It's built for Apple Silicon and runs natively on the GPU, so it stays smooth even with hundreds of thousands of particles on screen.

Yes. Alongside mic and line-in, Notchster can capture your system audio, so anything coming out of your Mac — Serato, Ableton, a browser tab — drives the visuals.

Full-screen Notchster to a second display or projector, or send it into your streaming and VJ setup with Syphon and NDI outputs.

No. Everything runs locally on your machine — no cloud, no accounts required to perform. Your set never depends on a connection.

Notchster is in active development. Join the early-access list and you'll be first to know the moment the beta is ready.

Early access

Be first to perform with Notchster.

Join the early-access list and we'll email you the moment the beta drops — plus locked-in launch pricing.