Minimal Lines is the quiet scene. A small stack of thin horizontal sine lines drifts and bends with the music, hinting at the audio without competing with it. It is the visual equivalent of a soft accompaniment — perfect for lo-fi, ambient, classical and chill genres.
Where Spectrum Bars and Waveform are direct and percussive, Minimal Lines is contemplative. The lines respond gently to total energy and bass, the drift is slow, the colours are subdued. This is the scene that lets your typography and album art lead — the visualizer becomes a subtle texture in the frame.
Configure 3 to 9 lines, change the phase offset between them for tighter or looser waves, raise the reactivity for slightly more punch, or kill the glow entirely for a paper-clean broadcast look.
Lo-fi creators reach for this scene first — paired with the Lo-fi Cafe palette, it produces the warm, beige, slightly-soft aesthetic that defines the genre on YouTube and Spotify.
What it does well
- Subdued, restrained motion
- 3 to 9 stacked sine lines
- Slow continuous drift
- Soft optional glow
- Phase offsets between lines for variety
- Designed to complement, not compete
Best for
- Genres
- Lo-fiAmbientChillClassicalSinger-songwriter
- Formats
- YouTube 16:9Spotify Canvas 9:161:1 album art
Key parameters
lineCount- Number of horizontal lines (3–9)
driftSpeed- Continuous drift speed
reactivity- Audio-driven amplitude boost
phaseOffset- Phase shift between adjacent lines
glow- Optional soft halo
Rendering
Canvas 2D renderer — the simplest scene in the library, with the lowest CPU footprint of any.