Sonic visualiser

Category Tools / Analyzers & Meters
Version 2.0
Format App
Compatibility Sonic visualiserMacOS X UB
Licence Freeware
Price Free
Rating
Updated On Jul 19, 2012
Total Downloads 9,882
Mac Downloads 5,298
Category Tools / Analyzers & Meters
Version 2.0
Format App
Compatibility Sonic visualiserWindows XP
Licence Freeware
Price Free
Rating
Updated On Jul 19, 2012
Total Downloads 9,882
PC Downloads 4,584

Viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files.

Sonic Visualiser is an application for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files.

The aim of Sonic Visualiser is to be the first program you reach for when want to study a musical recording rather than simply listen to it.

As well as a number of features designed to make exploring audio data as revealing and fun as possible, Sonic Visualiser also has powerful annotation capabilities to help you to describe what you find, and the ability to run automated annotation and analysis plugins in the Vamp analysis plugin format – as well as applying standard audio effects.

We hope Sonic Visualiser will be of particular interest to musicologists, archivists, signal-processing researchers and anyone else looking for a friendly way to take a look at what lies inside the audio file.
For OS/X 10.4 or newer
Sonic visualiser Sonic visualiser v 2.0 Jul 19, 2012 MacOS X UB
  • Support 64-bit builds on OS/X (using CoreAudio instead of obsolete QuickTime audio file reader)

  • Simplify RDF reading and fix some bugs. Now requires Dataquay

  • (http://breakfastquay.com/dataquay/) rather than using Redland
    directly. Release builds use Sord/Serd rather than Redland
  • Add a fullscreen mode on the F11 key
  • Centre for Digital Music Sonic visualiser Sonic visualiser v 1.9 Oct 12, 2011 MacOS X UB
  • Add session templates; save session as template; apply template to session

  • Tidy up the file open logic so as to remove the dialog asking how to open a file, where possible

  • Various bug fixes.
  • Centre for Digital Music Sonic visualiser v 1.8 Apr 16, 2011 MacOS X UB
  • Sonic Visualiser now registers as a file type handler on OS/X,

  • providing better integration with the desktop generally (Dan Stowell)

    - There is a new function to toggle all Time Rulers at once (key #)

    - The CSV import dialog has been overhauled, allowing more flexible
    selection of purpose for each column

    - Text overlays are now easier to read on dark backgrounds

    - Hidden layers are now ignored when exporting an image (Dan Stowell)

    - A crash when starting a new session or exiting the application
    after loading a session with saved alignment data has been fixed

    - The duplication of right-button menu functions when multiple files
    were loaded has been fixed

    - The layer-add menu functions now have shortcuts (Dan Stowell)

    - The codebase has been reorganised into libraries and a configure
    step added. It should be easier to build and maintain on OS/X and
    Linux than previously, although it won't make much difference on
    Windows.

    - A Czech translation is now included (thanks to Pavel Fric).
    audio Sonic visualiser v 1.7.1 Oct 29, 2009 MacOS X UB
  • The RDF importer does a better job of assigning labels to layers,

  • layers to panes, and values to labelled regions

    - Interactive editing in the Text layer benefits from the same
    improvements as made in 1.7 to Note and Region layers

    - The layer data editor window has a text search feature

    - The main window status bar now shows the last label to have passed
    the playback position in the current layer, at the right end of the
    status bar

    - The Russian translation has been updated (thanks Alexandre)
    sonic Sonic visualiser v 1.7 Oct 7, 2009 MacOS X UB
  • A new "Insert Item At Selection" function on the Edit menu

  • can be used to create Note and Region layer items whose time
    extents correspond to the current selection(s)

    - Interactively editing points in the Note and Region layers
    now works much more smoothly

    - SV can now import MIDI files that use SMPTE timecode for event
    timing (importing MIDI files using with the more common
    timebase-based timing was already supported)

    - Time values throughout the display may optionally be shown in
    seconds and frames at various frame rates

    - A crash on exit in Windows has been fixed

    - A very unobtrusive user survey is now included

    - Various other bug fixes.
    visualiser Sonic visualiser v 1.6 Jul 6, 2009 MacOS X UB
  • The Colour 3D Plot layer now supports logarithmic vertical

  • scale and linear interpolation options.

    - A new colour scheme (High Gain) has been added for spectrogram
    and Colour 3D Plot, which improves readability for some data.

    - Further performance improvements have been made to Colour 3D
    Plot.

    - Various other bug fixes.
    annotation Sonic visualiser v 1.5 Mar 18, 2009 MacOS X UB
    Changes in Sonic Visualiser 1.5 since the previous version 1.4:

    - You can now insert time instants, time values, and notes using
    a MIDI device during playback. If a time value or note layer is
    current it will be used for insertion (giving a value equal to
    the pitch class, or the played note, respectively); otherwise an
    existing or new time instants layer will be used just as it is
    when inserting instants using the PC keyboard. Using a MIDI
    device should give better timing than using the PC keyboard.

    - There is a new Activity Log window with a (purely informative) list
    of events and user interactions that happen while SV is running.

    - The spectrogram has somewhat improved graphical scaling, and
    this is now the default (being much faster than the 4x oversampled
    method). The previous default is still available as a preference.

    - Visualisation of very dense colour plots (such as spectrograms
    calculated by plugins) is substantially faster in this release.

    - Spectrogram display is now faster in many circumstances.

    - Alignment using the MATCH plugin is faster on OS/X than before.

    - SV will take into account RDF plugin descriptions, if available,
    in order to make somewhat better decisions about display of plugin
    outputs (for example, placing segmentation data into a layer with
    segmentation plot type).

    - You can now switch layers by clicking on the spare area at the left
    end of the pane that is also used for the current pane indicator.

    - The vertical black lines dividing segments in the time value
    layer's segmentation plot style are now optional.

    - Several widget layout bugs on OS/X have been fixed.

    - Several serious crashing, deadlock, and data corruption bugs have
    been fixed.
    Sonic visualiser Sonic visualiser v 2.0 Jul 19, 2012 Windows XP
  • Support 64-bit builds on OS/X (using CoreAudio instead of obsolete QuickTime audio file reader)

  • Simplify RDF reading and fix some bugs. Now requires Dataquay

  • (http://breakfastquay.com/dataquay/) rather than using Redland
    directly. Release builds use Sord/Serd rather than Redland
  • Add a fullscreen mode on the F11 key
  • Centre for Digital Music Sonic visualiser Sonic visualiser v 1.9 Oct 12, 2011 Windows XP
  • Add session templates; save session as template; apply template to session

  • Tidy up the file open logic so as to remove the dialog asking how to open a file, where possible

  • Various bug fixes.
  • Centre for Digital Music Sonic visualiser v 1.8 Apr 16, 2011 Windows XP
  • Sonic Visualiser now registers as a file type handler on OS/X,

  • providing better integration with the desktop generally (Dan Stowell)

    - There is a new function to toggle all Time Rulers at once (key #)

    - The CSV import dialog has been overhauled, allowing more flexible
    selection of purpose for each column

    - Text overlays are now easier to read on dark backgrounds

    - Hidden layers are now ignored when exporting an image (Dan Stowell)

    - A crash when starting a new session or exiting the application
    after loading a session with saved alignment data has been fixed

    - The duplication of right-button menu functions when multiple files
    were loaded has been fixed

    - The layer-add menu functions now have shortcuts (Dan Stowell)

    - The codebase has been reorganised into libraries and a configure
    step added. It should be easier to build and maintain on OS/X and
    Linux than previously, although it won't make much difference on
    Windows.

    - A Czech translation is now included (thanks to Pavel Fric).
    audio Sonic visualiser v 1.7.1 Oct 29, 2009 Windows XP
  • The RDF importer does a better job of assigning labels to layers,

  • layers to panes, and values to labelled regions

    - Interactive editing in the Text layer benefits from the same
    improvements as made in 1.7 to Note and Region layers

    - The layer data editor window has a text search feature

    - The main window status bar now shows the last label to have passed
    the playback position in the current layer, at the right end of the
    status bar

    - The Russian translation has been updated (thanks Alexandre)
    sonic Sonic visualiser v 1.7 Oct 7, 2009 Windows XP
  • A new "Insert Item At Selection" function on the Edit menu

  • can be used to create Note and Region layer items whose time
    extents correspond to the current selection(s)

    - Interactively editing points in the Note and Region layers
    now works much more smoothly

    - SV can now import MIDI files that use SMPTE timecode for event
    timing (importing MIDI files using with the more common
    timebase-based timing was already supported)

    - Time values throughout the display may optionally be shown in
    seconds and frames at various frame rates

    - A crash on exit in Windows has been fixed

    - A very unobtrusive user survey is now included

    - Various other bug fixes.
    visualiser Sonic visualiser v 1.6 Jul 6, 2009 Windows XP
  • The Colour 3D Plot layer now supports logarithmic vertical

  • scale and linear interpolation options.

    - A new colour scheme (High Gain) has been added for spectrogram
    and Colour 3D Plot, which improves readability for some data.

    - Further performance improvements have been made to Colour 3D
    Plot.

    - Various other bug fixes.
    annotation Sonic visualiser v 1.5 Mar 18, 2009 Windows XP
    Changes in Sonic Visualiser 1.5 since the previous version 1.4:

    - You can now insert time instants, time values, and notes using
    a MIDI device during playback. If a time value or note layer is
    current it will be used for insertion (giving a value equal to
    the pitch class, or the played note, respectively); otherwise an
    existing or new time instants layer will be used just as it is
    when inserting instants using the PC keyboard. Using a MIDI
    device should give better timing than using the PC keyboard.

    - There is a new Activity Log window with a (purely informative) list
    of events and user interactions that happen while SV is running.

    - The spectrogram has somewhat improved graphical scaling, and
    this is now the default (being much faster than the 4x oversampled
    method). The previous default is still available as a preference.

    - Visualisation of very dense colour plots (such as spectrograms
    calculated by plugins) is substantially faster in this release.

    - Spectrogram display is now faster in many circumstances.

    - Alignment using the MATCH plugin is faster on OS/X than before.

    - SV will take into account RDF plugin descriptions, if available,
    in order to make somewhat better decisions about display of plugin
    outputs (for example, placing segmentation data into a layer with
    segmentation plot type).

    - You can now switch layers by clicking on the spare area at the left
    end of the pane that is also used for the current pane indicator.

    - The vertical black lines dividing segments in the time value
    layer's segmentation plot style are now optional.

    - Several widget layout bugs on OS/X have been fixed.

    - Several serious crashing, deadlock, and data corruption bugs have
    been fixed.
    Centre for Digital Music

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