Chris@861: Chris@861: Sonic Visualiser Chris@861: ================ Chris@861: Chris@861: Sonic Visualiser is a program for viewing and analysing the contents Chris@861: of music audio files. Chris@861: Chris@861: With Sonic Visualiser you can: Chris@861: Chris@861: * Load audio files in various formats (WAV/AIFF, plus Ogg and mp3 Chris@861: if compiled in) and view their waveforms Chris@861: Chris@861: * Look at audio visualisations such as spectrogram views, with Chris@861: interactive adjustment of display parameters Chris@861: Chris@861: * Annotate audio data by adding labelled time points and defining Chris@861: segments, point values and curves Chris@861: Chris@861: * Run feature-extraction plugins to calculate annotations Chris@861: automatically, using algorithms such as beat trackers, pitch Chris@861: detectors and so on (see http://vamp-plugins.org/) Chris@861: Chris@861: * Import annotation data from various text formats and MIDI files Chris@861: Chris@861: * Play back the original audio with synthesised annotations, taking Chris@861: care to synchronise playback with the display position Chris@861: Chris@861: * Slow down and speed up playback and loop segments of interest, Chris@861: including seamless looping of complex non-contiguous areas Chris@861: Chris@861: * Export annotations and audio selections to external files. Chris@861: Chris@861: Sonic Visualiser can also be controlled remotely using the Open Sound Chris@861: Control (OSC) protocol (if support is compiled in). Chris@861: Chris@861: Chris@861: Credits Chris@861: ------- Chris@861: Chris@861: Sonic Visualiser was developed at the Centre for Digital Music, Chris@861: Queen Mary, University of London. Chris@861: Chris@861: http://c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/ Chris@861: Chris@861: Sonic Visualiser was written by Chris Cannam with contributions from Chris@861: Christian Landone, Mathieu Barthet, Dan Stowell, Jesus Corral Garcia, Chris@861: Matthias Mauch, and Craig Sapp. Chris@861: Chris@861: Code copyright 2005-2007 Chris Cannam and copyright 2006-2014 Queen Chris@861: Mary, University of London, except where indicated in the individual Chris@861: source files. Chris@861: Chris@861: This work was partially funded by the European Commission through the Chris@861: SIMAC project IST-FP6-507142 and the EASAIER project IST-FP6-033902. Chris@861: Chris@861: This work was partially funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Chris@861: Council through its Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Chris@861: Recorded Music (CHARM). Chris@861: Chris@861: This work was partially funded by the Engineering and Physical Chris@861: Sciences Research Council through the OMRAS2 project EP/E017614/1, the Chris@861: Musicology for the Masses project EP/I001832/1, and the Sound Software Chris@861: project EP/H043101/1. Chris@861: Chris@861: Sonic Visualiser is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify Chris@861: it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by Chris@861: the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at Chris@861: your option) any later version. See the file COPYING included with Chris@861: this distribution for more information. Chris@861: Chris@861: Sonic Visualiser may also make use of the following libraries: Chris@861: Chris@861: * Qt5 -- Copyright Digia Oyj, distributed under the LGPL Chris@861: * JACK -- Copyright Paul Davis, Jack O'Quin et al, under the LGPL Chris@861: * PortAudio -- Copyright Ross Bencina, Phil Burk et al, BSD license Chris@861: * Ogg decoder -- Copyright CSIRO Australia, BSD license Chris@861: * MAD mp3 decoder -- Copyright Underbit Technologies Inc, GPL Chris@861: * libsamplerate -- Copyright Erik de Castro Lopo, GPL Chris@861: * libsndfile -- Copyright Erik de Castro Lopo, LGPL Chris@861: * FFTW3 -- Copyright Matteo Frigo and MIT, GPL Chris@861: * Rubber Band -- Copyright Chris Cannam, GPL Chris@861: * Vamp plugin SDK -- Copyright Chris Cannam and QMUL, BSD license Chris@861: * LADSPA plugin SDK -- Copyright Richard Furse et al, LGPL Chris@861: * RtMIDI -- Copyright Gary P. Scavone, BSD license Chris@861: * Dataquay -- Copyright Breakfast Quay, BSD license Chris@861: * Sord and Serd -- Copyright David Robillard, BSD license Chris@861: * Redland -- Copyright Dave Beckett and the University of Bristol, LGPL/Apache license Chris@861: * liblo OSC library -- Copyright Steve Harris, GPL Chris@861: Chris@861: (Some distributions of Sonic Visualiser may have one or more of these Chris@861: libraries statically linked.) Many thanks to their authors. Chris@861: Chris@861: Chris@861: Compiling Sonic Visualiser Chris@861: -------------------------- Chris@861: Chris@861: If you are planning to compile Sonic Visualiser from source code, Chris@861: please read the file INSTALL.txt. Chris@861: Chris@861: Chris@861: More information Chris@861: ---------------- Chris@861: Chris@861: For more information about Sonic Visualiser, please go to Chris@861: Chris@861: http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/ Chris@861: