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Welcome to Sonic Visualiser!

Sonic Visualiser is a lbajardsilogic@0: complex application, but it's easy enough to get started with.

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Try importing an audio file and using the Pane menu to add some lbajardsilogic@0: different views of it.

Check out the links on the Help menu for lbajardsilogic@0: tutorials and other documentation!

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Sonic Visualiser's window is organised into "panes" and lbajardsilogic@0: "layers". To begin with, you have one pane. Import an audio lbajardsilogic@0: file to see it displayed in a waveform layer on that pane.

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Each pane can contain any number of layers, which appear stacked lbajardsilogic@0: from "front" to "back" on the same timeline. A layer can contain a lbajardsilogic@0: view of audio, or of points (time instants) or data plots (time-values).

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There's a "layer property box" to the right of each pane, with one lbajardsilogic@0: tab for each of the layers on that pane. Click on a layer's tab to lbajardsilogic@0: bring that layer to the front. You can then adjust its colour and lbajardsilogic@0: other display properties in the property box. lbajardsilogic@0: lbajardsilogic@0: The first tab is always for the pane itself, which has a few lbajardsilogic@0: adjustable properties of its own.

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If you have more than one pane, only one of them will be "current", lbajardsilogic@0: marked with a black bar at the left side. Just click on another pane lbajardsilogic@0: to make it current. Most editing operations affect the layer that's lbajardsilogic@0: at the front of the current pane.

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You can use different zoom levels for different panes by un-checking lbajardsilogic@0: the Global Zoom control for one of them. By default, all panes will lbajardsilogic@0: zoom and scroll together.

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You can speed up and slow down playback using the Playback Speedup lbajardsilogic@0: control in the bottom-right of the window.

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The Transforms menu lists things you can do to extract features from lbajardsilogic@0: or process your audio. The available outputs of any Vamp lbajardsilogic@0: feature-extraction plugins or LADSPA audio effects plugins you have lbajardsilogic@0: will show up here.

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