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2 Sonic Visualiser
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3 ================
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4
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5 Sonic Visualiser is a program for viewing and analysing the contents
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6 of music audio files.
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7
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8 With Sonic Visualiser you can:
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10 * Load audio files in various formats (WAV/AIFF, plus Ogg and mp3
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11 if compiled in) and view their waveforms
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12
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13 * Look at audio visualisations such as spectrogram views, with
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14 interactive adjustment of display parameters
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15
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16 * Annotate audio data by adding labelled time points and defining
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17 segments, point values and curves
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19 * Run feature-extraction plugins to calculate annotations
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20 automatically, using algorithms such as beat trackers, pitch
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21 detectors and so on
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22
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23 * Import annotation data from various text formats and MIDI files
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24
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25 * Play back the original audio with synthesised annotations, taking
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26 care to synchronise playback with the display position
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27
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28 * Slow down and speed up playback and loop segments of interest,
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29 including seamless looping of complex non-contiguous areas
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30
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31 * Export annotations and audio selections to external files.
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33 Sonic Visualiser can also be controlled remotely using the Open Sound
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34 Control (OSC) protocol (if support is compiled in).
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36
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37 Credits
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38 -------
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39
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40 Sonic Visualiser was developed at the Centre for Digital Music,
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41 Queen Mary, University of London.
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42
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43 http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/digitalmusic/
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44
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45 The main program is by Chris Cannam, with additional DSP and program
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46 design work by Christian Landone. Thanks also to Craig Sapp for his
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47 suggestions and useful feedback.
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48
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49 Code copyright 2005-2007 Chris Cannam and copyright 2006-2011 Queen
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50 Mary, University of London, except where indicated in the individual
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51 source files.
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52
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53 This work was partially funded by the European Commission through the
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54 SIMAC project IST-FP6-507142 and the EASAIER project IST-FP6-033902.
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55
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56 This work was partially funded by the Arts and Humanities Research
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57 Council through its Research Centre for the History and Analysis of
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58 Recorded Music (CHARM).
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59
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60 This work was partially funded by the Engineering and Physical
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61 Sciences Research Council through the OMRAS2 project EP/E017614/1.
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63 This work was partially funded by the Engineering and Physical
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64 Sciences Research Council through the Musicology for the Masses
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65 project EP/I001832/1.
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66
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67 Sonic Visualiser is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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68 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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69 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
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70 your option) any later version. See the file COPYING included with
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71 this distribution for more information.
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72
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73 Sonic Visualiser may also make use of the following libraries:
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74
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75 * Qt4 -- Copyright Nokia Corporation, distributed under the Lesser GPL
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76 * JACK -- Copyright Paul Davis, Jack O'Quin et al, under the Lesser GPL
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77 * PortAudio -- Copyright Ross Bencina, Phil Burk et al, BSD license
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78 * Ogg decoder -- Copyright CSIRO Australia, BSD license
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79 * MAD mp3 decoder -- Copyright Underbit Technologies Inc, GPL
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80 * libsamplerate -- Copyright Erik de Castro Lopo, GPL
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81 * libsndfile -- Copyright Erik de Castro Lopo, LGPL
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82 * FFTW3 -- Copyright Matteo Frigo and MIT, GPL
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83 * Rubber Band -- Copyright Chris Cannam, GPL
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84 * Vamp plugin SDK -- Copyright Chris Cannam, BSD license
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85 * LADSPA plugin SDK -- Copyright Richard Furse et al, LGPL
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86 * Redland RDF libraries -- Copyright Dave Beckett and the University of Bristol, LGPL/Apache license
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87 * RtMIDI -- Copyright Gary P. Scavone, BSD license
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88 * liblo OSC library -- Copyright Steve Harris, GPL
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89
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90 (Some distributions of Sonic Visualiser may have one or more of these
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91 libraries statically linked.) Many thanks to their authors.
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93 Sonic Visualiser can also use QuickTime for audio file import on OS/X.
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94 For licensing reasons, you may not distribute binaries of Sonic
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95 Visualiser with QuickTime support included for any platform that does
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96 not include QuickTime as part of the platform itself (see section 3 of
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97 version 2 of the GNU General Public License).
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99
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100 Compiling Sonic Visualiser
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101 --------------------------
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103 If you are planning to compile Sonic Visualiser from source code,
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104 please read the file INSTALL.txt.
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107 More information
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108 ----------------
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109
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110 For more information about Sonic Visualiser, please go to
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112 http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/
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