Welcome to Sonic Visualiser!
- -Sonic Visualiser is pretty complex, but you can use it for simple -things very easily. Try importing an audio file and using the Pane -menu to add some different views of it.
- -Check out the links on the Help menu for tutorials and other -documentation!
- - -Sonic Visualiser's window is organised into panes and -layers. To begin with, you have one pane. Import an audio -file to see it displayed in a waveform layer on that pane.
- - -Each pane can contain any number of layers, which appear stacked -from "front" to "back" on the same timeline. A layer can contain a -view of audio, or of points (time instants) or data plots (time-values).
- - -There's a layer property box shown to the right of each -layer, with one tab for each of the layers on that pane. Click on a -layer's tab to bring that layer to the front. You can then adjust its -colour and other display properties in the property box.
- -The first tab is always for the pane itself, which has a few -adjustable properties of its own.
- - -If you have more than one pane, only one of them will be "current", -marked with a black bar at the left side. Just click on another pane -to make it current. Most editing operations affect the layer that's -at the front of the current pane.
- - -You can use different zoom levels for different panes by un-checking -the Global Zoom control for one of them. By default, all panes will -zoom and scroll together.
- - -You can speed up and slow down playback using the Playback Speedup -control in the bottom-right of the window.
- - -The Transforms menu lists things you can do to extract features from -or process your audio. The available outputs of any Vamp -feature-extraction plugins or LADSPA audio effects plugins you have -will show up here.
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