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@jesusjodar jesusjodar released this 16 Oct 09:15
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v2.0.0
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Matriz 2.0.0 · First official release

Procedural background for macOS: waves of light, geometric sparkles and color that reacts to your music.

What's new

  • Six compositions with soft moving edges: full screen, lower wave, upper wave, center wave, orb and inverse orb (scalable from 20% to 600%).
  • Nine palettes and a custom four-pigment palette, with independent color variety, hue, brightness, saturation and contrast.
  • Sparkles with character: stars with adjustable concavity, circles or squares; depth-based size and particle displacement from 0 to 400% without clipping shapes.
  • Mac audio response (macOS 14.2+): bass, mids, treble and system output energy, without using the microphone. Audio is not recorded or sent anywhere.
  • Artwork colors: automatically follows Music and Spotify, extracts up to four dominant tones in OKLab and blends palettes with interruptible transitions.
  • Included screensaver that shares desktop background settings, with protection managed by macOS.
  • 20 complete languages, including Arabic and Hebrew with right-to-left layouts.
  • Careful performance: a single SDR pass, a 30 FPS energy-saving profile, and support for Reduce Motion and Low Power Mode.

Requirements

  • macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Audio response requires macOS 14.2 or later.
  • Apple Silicon Mac (the release is built for arm64).

Installation

  1. Download Matriz-2.0.0.zip and verify its integrity:
shasum -a 256 Matriz-2.0.0.zip
# 9066fa0a57ab41cdd6a55956bbede342ed3f9a9ee827c47c4e9af24d17d50d38
  1. Extract and remove macOS quarantine (the app is locally signed and not notarized by Apple):
unzip -q Matriz-2.0.0.zip
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine Matriz.app Matriz.saver
  1. Install and open:
mkdir -p ~/Applications "$HOME/Library/Screen Savers"
cp -R Matriz.app ~/Applications/
cp -R Matriz.saver "$HOME/Library/Screen Savers/"
open ~/Applications/Matriz.app

All in one command:

curl -L -o Matriz-2.0.0.zip https://github.com/jesusjodar/Matriz/releases/download/v2.0.0/Matriz-2.0.0.zip \
  && unzip -q Matriz-2.0.0.zip \
  && xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine Matriz.app Matriz.saver \
  && mkdir -p ~/Applications "$HOME/Library/Screen Savers" \
  && cp -R Matriz.app ~/Applications/ \
  && cp -R Matriz.saver "$HOME/Library/Screen Savers/" \
  && open ~/Applications/Matriz.app

If you see “cannot be opened” or “is damaged”, Gatekeeper quarantine is the cause: run the xattr command above and open the app again.

Privacy

Matriz does not record or transmit audio, activate the microphone, store artwork or titles, or include accounts, telemetry or analytics. All analysis happens on your Mac.

Made with ❤️ in Spain 🇪🇸

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