Four taps, then look away.
Luxaudica opens here. You are not asked to pick a scene, build a look, or learn a control surface — you answer 3 questions about the room you are actually standing in, press Start, and the app runs the night. The full control room is still there, one shortcut away, on the day you want it.
Simple and Advanced are the same engine. Not a lite version, not a restricted mode. Every scene, every look and every output is available in both — Simple just makes the decisions for you, and hands them back the moment you ask.
The 3 questions
- Where are you? 7 rooms. Some of the names carry
slashes of their own, so they are set apart here:
- Dance Music
- Live Music
- Corporate
- Fitness/Meditation/Worship
- Broadcast/Social Media/Creator
- Children
- Home
- How should it feel? Calm, Flowing or Peak. The tile you just picked shows what is behind it — “N scenes · M looks” — and each band tells you its own count on hover, so you can see the library behind your choice before you commit.
- For how long? 15 minutes, 45 minutes, 2 hours, or Until I stop.
Then Start. That is the fourth tap, and the last one you have to make.
It never refuses you. All three energies are always on the card, in the same place — a band with nothing filed under it is greyed out and says why, rather than vanishing and relaying out the card under your finger. If a room is thin, Simple runs it anyway and tells you looks will come round sooner. It will not withhold your night to protect its own variety.
Your rotation
Before you start, Simple shows exactly what it intends to play — “your rotation, N of M looks cycling” — and every look in it can be switched off. Nothing is hidden behind a shuffle. If you don't like one, turn it off and it will not appear tonight.
What Start actually does
The setup card disappears and everything collapses to a single bar at the foot of the screen: the room you picked, brightness, next, record, the time remaining, and stop. Seven controls, total. That is the whole running surface — it is designed to be operated by someone whose attention is on the room, not the laptop.
- Looks change on the phrase, not on a stopwatch — roughly every 128 beats when there is a beat to trust.
- With no trusted beat it falls back to wall-clock pacing, and a look never leaves the screen before it has had 20 seconds to be seen.
- It lands the session. In the last 90 seconds the picks come from the room's calmer pool, so the night winds down instead of being cut off mid-peak.
- In the final 20 seconds brightness fades to black, and every setting Simple borrowed is handed back exactly as it found it.
- Until I stop has no landing and no fade — it runs until you press stop, which is the right behaviour for an installation.
- Esc lands a running session at any time.
The Feel knobs
Four trims, available before you start and live while running, for when the room is nearly right but not quite:
| Knob | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Pace | Meditative | Frenetic |
| Drive | Ambient | Punchy |
| Color | Muted | Vivid |
| Air | Crisp | Dreamy |
Drive, Color and Air scale each look's own authored values rather than overwriting them — so a look that was designed to be restrained stays the restrained one even at the top of the range. You are nudging the whole rotation, not flattening it.
When you want the control room
⌥⌘A — or View ▸ Advanced Controls — opens the full panel: Mix, Looks, Mod, Show, Brand, Connect, Output and Settings. Everything Simple was doing is still running underneath, and you can go back. The control room page covers it properly.
Which one should you use? If you want a room to look good tonight, Simple is not the beginner's version — it is the right tool, and it will out-perform hand-driving for a four-hour night. Reach for Advanced when you need a specific picture: building a look to save, mapping MIDI or OSC, cueing a show to timecode, or driving output to a second display.
Library behind it: 83 scenes and 149 factory looks.