# Settings

hyperwave is configured entirely from its menu-bar item — there is no
settings window. What the menu controls:

## Appearance

Six visualisers render the same audio: **Bars** (the default), **Mirror**
(thinner bars grown from the centre line, with a spring-driven overshoot),
and four more. Switch any time; the strip re-renders in place.

## Source

What the visualiser listens to — the system's global audio mix by default,
or a specific application when you want to isolate one app's output.

## The notch panel

On notched MacBooks the menu bar can push status items underneath the camera
housing. hyperwave detects this and offers a **notch panel**: clicking the
strip (what little of it shows) or the panel opens a fuller view of the same
visualisation.

## Menu items worth knowing

- **"System Audio Access…"** — always present; grants the CoreAudio capture
  permission. If the bars are flat while audio plays, start here
- **Open at Login** — hyperwave registers itself at login by default
- **Quit** — the strip removes itself immediately

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From https://hypernuclear.com/docs/hyperwave/settings/