Cavasik is an audio visualisation application based on Cava. It converts audio spectrum information into animated graphics, offering a range of drawing styles and extensive appearance controls.
The application originated as a fork of Cavalier and has developed its own features and interface customisations. It is intended for users who want to accompany music playback with responsive graphical effects rather than perform technical audio measurements.
Cavasik integrates with the GNOME desktop through GTK and Libadwaita. Its configuration options allow users to alter the visualisation style, colours, animation behaviour and response to incoming audio.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Five conventional visualisation modes for displaying audio spectrum information.
- Two circular drawing modes for radial effects.
- Five mirror modes for producing symmetrical visualisations.
- Four drawing directions.
- Customisable GTK and Libadwaita interface.
- Set foreground and background colours independently.
- Create linear gradients containing up to ten colours.
- Assign different colours to mirrored visualisation elements.
- Animate colours through gradually changing colour sequences.
- Configure Cava smoothing, noise reduction and sensitivity settings.
- Adjust frame rate and other animation parameters.
- Change foreground and background colours through a D-Bus interface.
- Run multiple instances with shared application settings.
- Read initial colour settings from external files.
- Keyboard shortcuts and command-line controls for adjusting visualisations.
Website: github.com/TheWisker/Cavasik
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Developer: TheWisker
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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