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Fact sheet

DeveloperVibralizer LLC — a two-person independent studio in Nashville, Tennessee, USA
FoundersKate Snyder, PhD and Nick Pettit
Founding dateSeptember 30, 2025
Release dateMay 20, 2026 (Early Access)
PlatformsWindows 10 or later (64-bit) · macOS Sonoma 14.2 or later (Apple silicon)
Price$4.99 USD introductory Early Access price; higher at full release
Where to buySteam · itch.io (free demo available)
Review copiesAvailable on request — email press@vibralizer.com
Websitevibralizer.com
Press contactpress@vibralizer.com
CommunityDiscord
Social@vibralizer on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, Threads, and Bluesky

Description

Vibralizer is a music visualizer for the streaming age. Vibralizer is both the name of our product and the name of our company. We're a small two-person team based in Nashville, Tennessee.

In depth: Vibralizer turns whatever is playing on your computer into concert-grade visuals in real time, with a latency under 0.004 seconds. Because it listens to system audio rather than hooking into a specific app, it works with effectively every music source: streaming services, browser tabs, DJ software, DAWs, or a live microphone. Its Vibes are audio-representative rather than merely beat-reactive — built on real-time spectrum analysis, so frequencies, dynamics, and song structure all show up on screen. Every Vibe is hand-crafted by humans; no generative AI imagery is used anywhere in the app. Vibralizer runs entirely on-device (it never records, uploads, or stores audio), works offline, and outputs to Spout on Windows for VJ pipelines like Resolume, TouchDesigner, and OBS. It launched into Early Access on May 20, 2026, and new Vibes and features ship roughly every two weeks.


History

Origins

The story of Vibralizer is kind of the story of us, Kate and Nick. We met in late 2022, the week after Kate defended her PhD on the evolution of birdsong. Nick has been a game developer for over a decade now and has shipped titles on all consoles and platforms. From the start, our relationship has been defined by us ping-ponging ideas around and asking “what if?” Out of all our harebrained ideas, the one we kept coming back to is the one we were both most passionate about from the beginning: resurrecting the humble music visualizer.

AI Slop and Hearing Loss

We kept seeing hints that we needed to do this. A party, with only looping videos appearing on the TV that was playing music. Game night with friends, where music was playing in the background and some AI slop video of “trippy visuals” occupying the screen. In an age of AI visuals and halfhearted efforts to connect visuals to music, we wanted to provide an alternative.

The other motivation was Kate’s hearing loss. She was diagnosed and started wearing hearing aids in 2020. As her hearing worsened, she noticed that she was no longer hearing certain details of music she knew by heart. Spectral representations of sound, like the spectrograms she used to study birdsong, allow her to see the details that she cannot hear.

Getting Real

We started seriously building Vibralizer at the beginning of 2025. We committed to never using AI-generated imagery in our visualizations. Instead, we hand-craft all of our Vibes. We wanted to make an application that is simple to use. We wanted to harness the power of seeing sound. We invite you along for the ride!


Features

  • Hand-crafted Vibes. No generative AI imagery used in any of our art.
  • Native loopback support — no plugins or extra downloads required.
  • Full screen and windowed views.
  • Spout output; feel free to record and use on social media, on Twitch, during live events, or however else you like!
  • Real-time reaction to live audio with less than 0.004 seconds of latency — no track uploads, no offline renders.
  • Private by design: audio is processed 100% on-device and never recorded, uploaded, or stored.

Videos

Vibralizer — Official Trailer #1 | Next-Gen Music Visualizer — watch on YouTube or play below. Feel free to embed or re-upload in coverage; more clips on the Vibralizer channel.

Download the trailer (H.264 MP4, 1280×720).


Screenshots

Click any screenshot to download the web version; full-resolution 4K versions are in the press kit zip.

Eleven glass marbles laid out in rows on a light wooden surface, each holding a miniature preview of a different visualizer scene: an eyeball, a kaleidoscope mandala, burning logs, stacked metal discs, a pink waveform, a magenta spectrogram, a spiral galaxy, a fiery swirl, a small CRT television, a looping green line, and a black sound wave. A folded sheet of lined notebook paper sits at the lower left, and one empty slot remains at the lower right.
Choosing a Vibe from the Vibe Gallery
A 3D-rendered audio waveform composed of stacked metallic disc shapes extending horizontally across a glassy reflective surface, set against a partly cloudy blue sky.
Discs
A magenta audio spectrum visualization with vertical light columns and horizontal scanlines, evoking a vintage analyzer display on a black background.
Spectrogram
A symmetrical kaleidoscopic mandala featuring orange heart-shaped petals, blue triangular accents, glowing gold geometric outlines, and a deep purple star with a small white burst at the center.
Kaleidoscope
Two glossy cartoon eyeballs floating side by side above a horizon, with green laser beams streaking across the sky above them and blue, violet, and magenta beams fanning out below, all against a starry black background. Playback and menu buttons line the edges of the screen, and a now playing panel in the lower right shows "Griztronics" by GRiZ.
Stargate, with the built-in media display showing what's playing
A swirling S-shaped spiral of fiery orange and white streaks radiating from a bright center on a black background. A speed slider set to 1.50x is open in the lower left, and a now playing panel in the lower right shows "Islands" by HABITAAT.
Corona, with the speed control open
A color palette picker open in the lower left, its grid of swatches recoloring the scene behind it so the flames burn acid green and white above charred logs and rocky ground under a starry sky. The now playing panel in the lower right shows "This Is Halloween" by The Citizens of Halloween.
Recoloring the Fire Vibe with the palette picker
A scene transformed by a stack of visual effects into a pink, teal, and cream psychedelic pinwheel spiraling out from the center of the frame. The filters panel in the lower left shows Lens, Ripple, Swirl, and Kaleidoscope active with strength sliders, next to a list of further options including Mirror Horizontal, Mirror Vertical, ASCII, Glitch, and CRT. The now playing panel shows "Ripple - 2013 Remaster" by Grateful Dead.
Stacking visual effects in the filters panel
A large looping spiral drawn entirely out of glowing teal letters, numbers, and symbols on a nearly black background, with dense knots of characters clustered along its path. The track title "Wook Whistle" by CloZee and its album art appear in the lower right.
Phase
A jagged, spiky neon-pink waveform forming an oval silhouette that glows against a soft purple-to-magenta gradient background.
Ring
A particle-based visualization of concentric rings resembling the spiral structure of a galaxy.
Galaxy
A tall black sound wave silhouette mirrored above and below the center line, spanning the full width of a plain off-white background.
Waveform
A vintage CRT television set in a dark room displaying wavy, rainbow-colored vertical stripes of distortion, with similar TVs partially visible around it.
Static

Logo & icon

Vibralizer V icon
Icon (SVG)
Vibralizer logo lockup
Logo lockup (SVG)

High-resolution PNG variants (lockup, transparent lockup, bordered icon) are included in the press kit zip.

Photos

Portrait of Kate Snyder
Kate Snyder, PhD — co-founder
Portrait of Nick Pettit
Nick Pettit — co-founder
Kate playing guitar in front of the Vibralizer development environment
Kate tuning a Vibe by ear (and guitar)
Nick and Kate at the Deep Tropics music festival
The founders at Deep Tropics, Nashville
A paint-covered hand held over colorful artwork
Hand-crafted, literally

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About Vibralizer LLC

Vibralizer LLC is a two-person independent software studio in Nashville, Tennessee, founded September 30, 2025 by Kate Snyder, PhD (audio analysis researcher) and Nick Pettit (veteran game developer). Its first product, Vibralizer, is a real-time music visualizer built by humans, for humanity.