Chris@392: Chris@392: Sonic Visualiser Chris@392: ================ Chris@392: Chris@1738: #### A program for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files Chris@1738: Chris@1738: ![Sonic Visualiser small screenshot](http://sonicvisualiser.org/images/sv-3.0-win-thumb.png) Chris@1738: Chris@1738: * Home page and downloads: http://sonicvisualiser.org/ Chris@1738: * Code project: https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/sonic-visualiser Chris@392: Chris@392: With Sonic Visualiser you can: Chris@392: Chris@392: * Load audio files in various formats (WAV/AIFF, plus Ogg and mp3 Chris@392: if compiled in) and view their waveforms Chris@392: Chris@392: * Look at audio visualisations such as spectrogram views, with Chris@392: interactive adjustment of display parameters Chris@392: Chris@392: * Annotate audio data by adding labelled time points and defining Chris@392: segments, point values and curves Chris@392: Chris@392: * Run feature-extraction plugins to calculate annotations Chris@392: automatically, using algorithms such as beat trackers, pitch Chris@848: detectors and so on (see http://vamp-plugins.org/) Chris@392: Chris@392: * Import annotation data from various text formats and MIDI files Chris@392: Chris@392: * Play back the original audio with synthesised annotations, taking Chris@392: care to synchronise playback with the display position Chris@392: Chris@392: * Slow down and speed up playback and loop segments of interest, Chris@392: including seamless looping of complex non-contiguous areas Chris@392: Chris@392: * Export annotations and audio selections to external files. Chris@392: Chris@392: Sonic Visualiser can also be controlled remotely using the Open Sound Chris@392: Control (OSC) protocol (if support is compiled in). Chris@392: Chris@392: Chris@392: Credits Chris@392: ------- Chris@392: Chris@392: Sonic Visualiser was developed at the Centre for Digital Music, Chris@392: Queen Mary, University of London. Chris@392: Chris@848: http://c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/ Chris@392: Chris@848: Sonic Visualiser was written by Chris Cannam with contributions from Chris@848: Christian Landone, Mathieu Barthet, Dan Stowell, Jesus Corral Garcia, Chris@848: Matthias Mauch, and Craig Sapp. Chris@392: Chris@2594: Code copyright 2005-2007 Chris Cannam and copyright 2006-2020 Queen Chris@392: Mary, University of London, except where indicated in the individual Chris@392: source files. Chris@392: Chris@1666: Russian translation provided by Alexandre Prokoudine, copyright Chris@2178: 2006-2019 Alexandre Prokoudine. Chris@1666: Chris@2178: Czech translation provided by Pavel Fric, copyright 2010-2019 Pavel Chris@1666: Fric. Chris@1666: Chris@392: This work was partially funded by the European Commission through the Chris@392: SIMAC project IST-FP6-507142 and the EASAIER project IST-FP6-033902. Chris@392: Chris@392: This work was partially funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Chris@392: Council through its Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Chris@392: Recorded Music (CHARM). Chris@392: Chris@392: This work was partially funded by the Engineering and Physical Chris@848: Sciences Research Council through the OMRAS2 project EP/E017614/1, the Chris@848: Musicology for the Masses project EP/I001832/1, and the Sound Software Chris@848: project EP/H043101/1. Chris@394: Chris@392: Sonic Visualiser is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify Chris@392: it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by Chris@392: the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at Chris@392: your option) any later version. See the file COPYING included with Chris@392: this distribution for more information. Chris@392: Chris@392: Sonic Visualiser may also make use of the following libraries: Chris@392: Chris@1672: * Qt5 -- Copyright The Qt Company, distributed under the LGPL Chris@549: * JACK -- Copyright Paul Davis, Jack O'Quin et al, under the LGPL Chris@392: * PortAudio -- Copyright Ross Bencina, Phil Burk et al, BSD license Chris@392: * Ogg decoder -- Copyright CSIRO Australia, BSD license Chris@392: * MAD mp3 decoder -- Copyright Underbit Technologies Inc, GPL Chris@1672: * libsamplerate -- Copyright Erik de Castro Lopo, BSD license Chris@392: * libsndfile -- Copyright Erik de Castro Lopo, LGPL Chris@392: * FFTW3 -- Copyright Matteo Frigo and MIT, GPL Chris@1672: * Rubber Band -- Copyright Particular Programs Ltd, GPL Chris@549: * Vamp plugin SDK -- Copyright Chris Cannam and QMUL, BSD license Chris@392: * LADSPA plugin SDK -- Copyright Richard Furse et al, LGPL Chris@392: * RtMIDI -- Copyright Gary P. Scavone, BSD license Chris@1672: * Dataquay -- Copyright Particular Programs Ltd, BSD license Chris@549: * Sord and Serd -- Copyright David Robillard, BSD license Chris@549: * Redland -- Copyright Dave Beckett and the University of Bristol, LGPL/Apache license Chris@392: * liblo OSC library -- Copyright Steve Harris, GPL Chris@1672: * Cap'n Proto -- Copyright Sandstorm Development Group, Inc, BSD license Chris@392: Chris@392: (Some distributions of Sonic Visualiser may have one or more of these Chris@392: libraries statically linked.) Many thanks to their authors. Chris@392: Chris@392: Chris@392: Compiling Sonic Visualiser Chris@392: -------------------------- Chris@392: Chris@392: If you are planning to compile Sonic Visualiser from source code, Chris@392: please read the file INSTALL.txt. Chris@392: Chris@1736: * Linux and macOS CI build: [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/sonic-visualiser/sonic-visualiser.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/sonic-visualiser/sonic-visualiser) Chris@1736: * Windows CI build: [![Build status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/26pygienkigw39p7?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/cannam/sonic-visualiser) Chris@1735: Chris@392: Chris@392: More information Chris@392: ---------------- Chris@392: Chris@392: For more information about Sonic Visualiser, please go to Chris@392: Chris@392: http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/ Chris@392: