The living room.

Goal: music night turns the TV into art, and nobody touches a computer after the first keypress. One mission, once — about fifteen minutes — and it's yours forever.

The shortest version needs no mission at all: Luxaudica opens in Simple, where you pick the room, the feeling and a length — 15 min, 45 min, 2 h, or Until I stop — and press go. A timed session lands itself: the final approach drifts into the room's calmest looks, then the picture fades gently to black and stays there, and every setting the session borrowed is handed back exactly as you left it. (Stop it by hand instead and the picture comes straight back up.) The mission below is the deeper version, for when you want the evening to be exactly yours.

The mission

1. Source: System audio

   One pick in the source menu — now everything the Mac plays feeds the art: Spotify, vinyl rips, a movie, a friend's phone over AirPlay.

   why: this is the set-and-forget source. You'll never think about it again.

2. Send it to the TV

   Connect the TV/projector, drag the visual window onto it, press f. The panel stays on your Mac.

   why: the art belongs on the biggest, most comfortable surface in the room.

3. Pick the room's resting look

   Step through scenes with n and find your default. For living rooms, the nocturnes earn their keep: Smoke, Dunes, Firefly Field, Zen Garden.

   why: you're choosing wallpaper for the evenings — calm wins over spectacle.

4. Soften the response

   Punch low (0–0.2), speed slightly down, trails up a touch. Ambient up a hair if the room is bright.

   why: dinner guests should notice the music breathing, not a light show demanding attention.

5. Turn on auto-pilot, slow

   Auto-pilot on, ~3–5 minutes per change (or 128 beats), surprise moderate. Pool: leave it on everything, or curate after a week.

   why: the picture stays fresh all evening with zero input from the couch.

6. Cap the frame rate

   Max FPS → 30 for ambient evenings.

   why: half the work, silent fans, identical character — trails are frame-rate-compensated, so the smear looks the same.

7. Let color follow the music

   Toggle Key color on.

   why: albums in different keys paint the room in genuinely different light. It's the subtle magic guests ask about.

8. Save it as "Evenings"

   Save the whole state as a look named Evenings. Next time: open app, press 1, done.

   why: the entire setup ritual becomes one keypress.

9. Optional: a weekend of taste

   Each evening, when a look lands with you, save it. After a week, set auto-pilot's pool to only your saved looks.

   why: now the app improvises exclusively within YOUR taste.

Taste notes

• Jazz & classical: Punch to 0, Macro reactive off, nocturnes only. The visuals become weather, not commentary.
• Electronic evenings: Punch 0.3, Macro reactive on — builds and drops gently steer the room.
• Parties: borrow the DJ trainer's showtime moves; your "Evenings" look is one keypress away when the neighbors complain.