About This Software

See your music.

IKANDY listens to whatever your PC is playing and paints it across every screen you own, live and in HDR. It is sold as a music visualizer. Underneath it is an engine: five renderers behind one finish, a director that hears bars and drops, a studio that makes new scenes, and a rig that performs them.

What is free

• Over 500 reactive visuals. 440 MilkDrop presets on WARPCORE, IKANDY's own MilkDrop engine, 117 WarpField visuals built on Ryan Geiss's authored motion, shader scenes, seven 3D fractal families and WebGPU compute worlds. Nothing you can watch is held back for a paid tier.
  
• True HDR. On an HDR display the highlights rise above white, with headroom you set. Wide gamut on Display P3 panels. A status line in Settings tells you what you are seeing and why.
  
• It follows the music you are actually playing. Smart Auto follows whichever app is making sound, per-app capture ignores Discord, and line-in, interfaces and virtual cables work too.
  
• PILOT changes scenes on the structure of the track, not a timer.
  
• A place, not just a picture. One Small Step is a shared moon where everyone hears their own music and the sky is painted by all of it. Slingshot is a gravity-well melee with 25 ships, local and online. Five pets dance at your tempo.
  
• Capture the moment. F9 saves the last 30 seconds, Shift+F9 records, with 10 bit and HDR options.

Pro, one-time purchase

• Create. AI Create on your own provider key, Shader Import for Shadertoy, ISF, GLSL and WGSL, Image Studio, Logo Studio and My Scenes.
  
• Wallpaper. A reactive scene behind your icons, in HDR, on any of your displays.
  
• Every screen. Span one picture across all your monitors, or mirror it, plus an Output Window and OBS or Spout output up to 30 fps at 4K.
  
• Share. Steam Workshop publishing and downloads, preset packs, the Milk Deck and the Quick Access Ring.

AI generation is bring your own key: you connect an account from a supported provider and pay that provider directly, at its rates. IKANDY adds no markup and sells no credits.

Studio, not yet available

The Studio tier ships inside the app today and unlocks when its DLC reaches Steam: the Stage console with the Phrase Tape and MIX, app and game capture through eleven Capture FX, Spout input, Spout at 60 to 120 fps, NDI output, projection mapping, MIDI and OSC, the Preset Lab and the video loop library.

Built like an instrument

• Five engines, one finish. GLSL, WGSL, WebGPU compute, Three.js and MilkDrop render through one HDR post chain, so god rays, the color grade and temporal AA look the same on every engine.
  
• It hears music as music. A Musical Director measures tempo, sections and 8, 16 and 32 bar phrases from the raw signal. Ableton Link brings the room's clock in.
  
• Safety is engineered. A written Visual Safety Standard governs motion, and Intensity 0 is exactly inert.
  
• Provenance travels with the art. Every preset card carries where it came from and its license. Your name stays on your work.

Windows 10 and 11 only.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

IKANDY includes an optional AI scene generator. When you choose to use it, it creates new audio-reactive visual scenes in real time from a text prompt you write. This content is generated live, only when you request it, using an AI service you connect with your own API key. Not required to use IKANDY. Some of IKANDY's artwork and promotional media (key art, trailer visuals and music, and some in-app imagery) was created with generative AI tools and is reviewed by the developer.