Sonic Visualiser for Mac
Inspect and analyze contents of music files.
Free
In English
Version 5.2.0When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
Sonic Visualiser overview
Sonic Visualiser is an application for inspecting and analysing the contents of music audio files. It combines powerful waveform and spectral visualisation tools with automated feature extraction plugins and annotation capabilities.
What’s new in version 5.2.0
- On the Mac, substantially improve responsiveness during scrolling and zooming, with threaded paint and various perceptual changes. If threaded paint causes instability, it can be disabled by setting the SV_NO_THREADED_PAINT environment variable (to anything). (Sonic Visualiser was previously perceptually more sluggish on the Mac than on other platforms, where this change was not necessary).
- Fix habit of holding open the device microphone after recording.
- Improve compatibility with Vamp plugins that return unexpectedly many values in features.
- Improve compatibility with Vamp plugins that express units in variant forms such as "Hertz”.
- Fix incorrect choice of UI language on systems with more than one of the supported languages configured, and on which English (that is not explicitly regionalised to en_US or en_GB) has a higher priority than any other supported language. Previously the first other matching language would have been used; now it will be English.
- Fix tendency to pop up a progress dialog over the top of any user input needed when opening a file.
Sonic Visualiser for Mac
Free
In English
Version 5.2.0
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Jan 9 2018
Version: 3.0.1
v3.0.3 is available on http://sonicvisualiser.org/download.html
More trouble than I care to bother with since it's not ready-to-use.
From the dev's site:
"Don't forget your plugins!
Analysis plugins: Oh yes, you'll want some of those. Go to the Vamp plugin download page.
No plugins are included with Sonic Visualiser itself."
More trouble than I care to bother with since it's not ready-to-use.
From the dev's site:
"Don't forget your plugins!
Analysis plugins: Oh yes, you'll want some of those. Go to the Vamp plugin download page.
No plugins are included with Sonic Visualiser itself."
Mar 7 2014
Version: 2.3.0
A superb application for the musician. It will do everything that the paid music analysis apps do - and for free. Very powerful. And with the available plug-ins permits such procedures as chord analysis, beat and bar tracking, as well as slow-down, pitch change...in fact it really can do most anything a musician wants
Nov 18 2012
Version: 1.9
Sonic Visualizer 2.0 (which is just a maintenance release, despite it’s major version increment) has been available since July. You can download it from here: http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/download.html .
Nov 1 2011
Version: 1.9
This is a must have bit of software for any music theorist that wants to indulge in some of the same sonic analysis of music that Robert Cogan came up with some years ago.
Being freeware is also remarkable too
