Chris@392: Chris@392: Sonic Visualiser Chris@392: ================ Chris@392: Chris@392: Sonic Visualiser is a program for viewing and analysing the contents Chris@392: of music audio files. 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@392: detectors and so on 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@392: http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/digitalmusic/ Chris@392: Chris@392: The main program is by Chris Cannam, with additional DSP and program Chris@392: design work by Christian Landone. Thanks also to Craig Sapp for his Chris@392: suggestions and useful feedback. Chris@392: Chris@392: Code copyright 2005-2007 Chris Cannam and copyright 2006-2011 Queen Chris@392: Mary, University of London, except where indicated in the individual Chris@392: source files. Chris@392: 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@392: Sciences Research Council through the OMRAS2 project EP/E017614/1. Chris@392: Chris@394: This work was partially funded by the Engineering and Physical Chris@394: Sciences Research Council through the Musicology for the Masses Chris@394: project EP/I001832/1. 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@392: * Qt4 -- Copyright Nokia Corporation, distributed under the Lesser GPL Chris@392: * JACK -- Copyright Paul Davis, Jack O'Quin et al, under the Lesser GPL 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@392: * libsamplerate -- Copyright Erik de Castro Lopo, GPL Chris@392: * libsndfile -- Copyright Erik de Castro Lopo, LGPL Chris@392: * FFTW3 -- Copyright Matteo Frigo and MIT, GPL Chris@392: * Rubber Band -- Copyright Chris Cannam, GPL Chris@392: * Vamp plugin SDK -- Copyright Chris Cannam, BSD license Chris@392: * LADSPA plugin SDK -- Copyright Richard Furse et al, LGPL Chris@392: * Redland RDF libraries -- Copyright Dave Beckett and the University of Bristol, LGPL/Apache license Chris@392: * RtMIDI -- Copyright Gary P. Scavone, BSD license Chris@392: * liblo OSC library -- Copyright Steve Harris, GPL 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: Sonic Visualiser can also use QuickTime for audio file import on OS/X. Chris@392: For licensing reasons, you may not distribute binaries of Sonic Chris@392: Visualiser with QuickTime support included for any platform that does Chris@392: not include QuickTime as part of the platform itself (see section 3 of Chris@392: version 2 of the GNU General Public License). 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@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: