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      <h1 id="header"><span>Vamp Plugins</span></h1>

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      <li class="first"><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
      <li><a href="rationale.html">Rationale</a></li>
      <li><a href="download.html">Download Plugins</a></li>
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      <h2 id="firstpara">The Vamp audio analysis plugin system</h2>

      <p >Vamp is an audio processing plugin system for
      plugins that extract descriptive information from audio data
      &mdash; typically referred to as <i>audio analysis plugins</i>
      or <i>audio feature extraction plugins</i>.</p>

      <img style="float:right;padding-left:1em;padding-top:0em" src="images/vamp-overview-webscale.png" alt="Freehand sketch of a Vamp plugin in its natural habitat">

      <p><b>9th July 2008:</b> Version 1.3 of the Vamp plugin SDK is now
      available.<br>See the <a
      href="develop.html">developers</a> page for more
      information.</p>

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      <li><b>Get some plugins!</b><br><a href="download.html">Find links to downloadable Vamp plugins here</a>.</li>

      <li><b>Do something with them!</b><br>  Vamp plugins are used for audio analysis in <a href="http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/">Sonic Visualiser</a> and <a href="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/">Audacity beta releases</a>, and may be run from a command line with the host included with the Vamp SDK.</li>

      <li><b>Developers and DSP researchers!</b><br>Vamp is a nice API to develop with.  <a href="develop.html">Read more and get the SDK here</a>.</li>
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      <p>Just like an audio effects plugin (such as a VST), a Vamp
      plugin is a binary module that can be loaded up by a host
      application and fed audio data.  However, unlike an effects
      plugin, a Vamp plugin outputs not processed audio but some sort
      of symbolic information.  Typical things that a Vamp plugin
      might calculate include the locations of moments such as note onset
      times, visual representations of the audio such as histograms,
      or curve data such as power or fundamental frequency.  <a
      href="rationale.html">Read more about the rationale for Vamp</a>.</p>

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	<td><a href="http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/digitalmusic/"><img src="images/qm-logo.png" width="224" height="95" alt="Queen Mary logo" border=0/></a></td>
	<td><a href="http://www.semanticaudio.org/"><img src="images/simac-logo.png" width="232" height="96" alt="SIMAC logo" border=0/></a></td>
	<td><a href="http://www.easaier.org/"><img src="images/easaier-logo.png" width="232" height="71" alt="EASAIER logo" border=0/></a></td>
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	<tr><td>Developed at the Centre for Digital
	    Music, Queen Mary, University of London.</td>
	<td>Partially funded
	    by the European Commission through the SIMAC project
	    IST-FP6-507142.</td>
	<td>Partially funded
	    by the European Commission through the EASAIER project
	    IST-FP6-033902.</td>
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author	cannam
date	Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:27:18 +0000
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