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.
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Version 1.9 |
MacOS X UB |
(App) |
Oct 12, 2011 |
- 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.
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Version 1.8 |
MacOS X UB |
(App) |
Apr 16, 2011 |
- 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).
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Version 1.7.1 |
MacOS X UB |
(App) |
Oct 29, 2009 |
- 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)
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Version 1.7 |
MacOS X UB |
(App) |
Oct 7, 2009 |
- 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.
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Version 1.6 |
MacOS X UB |
(App) |
Jul 6, 2009 |
- 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.
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Version 1.5 |
MacOS X UB |
(App) |
Mar 18, 2009 |
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.