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Firstly, on Tab "3", change the amplitude range to 20dB by messing with the dial on the right edge of the "Sunset" color drop-down.To the right of the spectrogram are the property boxes, where you can further tweak the behavior of your spectrogram. The wheels can be hidden or revealed through the View menu, or by hitting Z on the keyboard. You can drag the spectrograph up to reveal lower ranges, and play with the vertical roller control until you get the range the way you like it. For analyzing bass response, I like to set the vertical range from roughly 10 Hz to 200 Hz. Incidentally, rolling the mouse wheel also changes the X axis, and you can double-click the wheels or the vertical range slider to enter values manually. The vertical wheel increases and decreases the frequency range on the Y axis, while the horizontal wheel changes the measures per inch, expanding and contracting the X axis. There are zoom controls in the lower right corner of the spectrogram. With an audio file loaded, you'll see the waveform pane and the melodic range spectrogram pane. You can load an audio file through the File menu, through the second toolbar button, or by dragging and dropping a file onto the window. Hit OK, and close and reopen the application for the settings to take effect. Before dismissing Preferences, go to the "Other" tab and uncheck "Show splash screen on startup" for faster loading. This template is a good starting point for creating your own template. Select "Waveform and Melodic Range Spectrogram", and hit Apply.
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As you scroll through one pane, the other panes move accordingly (at different speeds depending on their zoom levels) to remain aligned at the centre.After downloading the software and installing, you're ready to start making spectrograms immediately, although I'll suggest a few settings tweaks to make your spectrograms more easily readable.īefore loading up an audio track, go to the File menu -> Preferences. The three panes in this window are at quite different zoom levels the green overview at the bottom shows three rectangles corresponding to the regions shown in each of the three panes above. Sonic Visualiser 0.9 showing a waveform, beat locations detected by a Vamp plugin, an onset likelihood curve, a spectrogram with instantaneous frequency estimates and a "harmonic cursor" showing the relative locations of higher harmonics of a frequency, a waveform mapped to dB scale, and an amplitude measure shown using a colour shading. Here we see a log-frequency spectrogram and a waveform of part of Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right". The Russian translation is included in the standard program and should be used automatically if your locale is set appropriately. Sonic Visualiser 1.0 in Russian – translation thanks to the hard work of Alexandre Prokoudine.

The spectrogram pane below it shows estimated instantaneous frequencies for peak FFT bins. The waveform pane at the top is overlaid with a spectral centroid calculation (the coloured shading), the outputs of two note onset detection Vamp plugins (red and black vertical lines – neither of them seems to work very well on this sort of music) and the onset likelihood function from a third onset detection plugin (the blue curve). (In fact the whole final movement is loaded and may be scrolled through – see the green overview at the bottom of the window.)

Sonic Visualiser 1.0 showing about a minute of the final movement of Mahler's 9th symphony, performed by the Czech Philharmonic under Vaclav Neumann. The notes from the tracker are played using a piano sample, configured in the plugin dialog visible. Overlaid on the spectrogram is a note layer, showing the output of a note-tracker Vamp plugin that is being evaluated. (The music is "After the Pain" by Carlos Pino.) Sonic Visualiser 1.0 showing a waveform pane and a melodic range spectrogram pane. Sonic Visualiser 3.0, running on Windows, showing a waveform, a melodic range spectrogram, and a key analysis carried out by a Vamp plugin. It was developed at the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary, University of London.
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Sonic Visualiser is Free Software, distributed under the GNU General Public License (v2 or later) and available for Linux, OS/X, and Windows. We hope Sonic Visualiser will be of particular interest to musicologists, archivists, signal-processing researchers and anyone else looking for a friendly way to take a look at what lies inside the audio file. The aim of Sonic Visualiser is to be the first program you reach for when want to study a musical recording rather than simply listen to it. Sonic Visualiser is an application for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files.
