Sonic Visualiser Alternatives

Sonic Visualiser is described as 'Free, open-source application for Windows, Linux, and Mac, designed to be the first program you reach for when want to study a music recording closely. It's designed for musicologists, archivists, signal-processing researchers, and anyone else looking' and is an app in the audio & music category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Sonic Visualiser for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Android Tablet and iPad apps. The best Sonic Visualiser alternative is Transcribe!. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Praat or Amazing Slow Downer. Other great apps like Sonic Visualiser are Capo, AudioRetoucher, Audioalter and Audiophile TuneLite.

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  1. Transcribe! icon
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    The Transcribe! application is an assistant for people who sometimes want to work out a piece of music from a recording, in order to write it out, or play it themselves, or both. It doesn't do the transcribing for you, but it is essentially a specialised player program which...

    18 Transcribe! alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Transcribe! is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Sonic Visualiser.

    • Transcribe! is the most popular commercial alternative to Sonic Visualiser.

    • Transcribe! is Paid and ProprietarySonic Visualiser is Free and Open Source
  2. Praat icon
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    Praat is a speech analysis tool used for doing phonetics by computer. Praat can analyse, synthesize, and manipulate speech, and create high-quality pictures for your publications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
     
    • Praat is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Sonic Visualiser.

    • Praat is Free and Open SourceSonic Visualiser is also Free and Open Source
  3. Capo icon
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    Capo is a revolutionary tool for all musicians who want to get better at playing the music they love!

    16 Capo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
    • Capo is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to Sonic Visualiser.

    • Capo is Paid and ProprietarySonic Visualiser is Free and Open Source
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    AudioRetoucher is an audio effects processor that allows you to change the key of a song. In addition, it allows you to slow down the music to get the right tempo. With AudioRetoucher the sound of an instrument or voice might be modified slightly, to make a vocalist or...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Change the speed of the music - from 20% (one fifth speed) to 200% (double speed) without changing the pitch.

    20 Amazing Slow Downer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Kindle Fire
     
    • Amazing Slow Downer is the most popular Android & Android Tablet alternative to Sonic Visualiser.

    • Amazing Slow Downer is Freemium and ProprietarySonic Visualiser is Free and Open Source
  6. Audioalter icon
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    Audioalter is a collection of web tools that you can use to add effects to your audio files. It allows you change speed, volume, pitch, duration and much more.

    23 Audioalter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Audioalter is the most popular SaaS alternative to Sonic Visualiser.

    • Audioalter is Free and ProprietarySonic Visualiser is Free and Open Source
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    TuneLite is the perfect music practice app for singers, dancers and musicians of all kinds. Learn to play, transcribe and practice songs by slowing down the tempo, adjusting pitch, repeating loops using your favourite tracks.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Sonic Atom icon
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    Multi-instrument, audio analysis and metering software for Post and Broadcast Engineers, Music Engineers, Video Editors, Sound Designers and Composers and everyone else that works with audio.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. MusicTrans icon
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    MusicTrans is a powerful learning tool for playing any song. Take your favorite instrument, open your song and start learning it at your own pace.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  10. SPEAR icon
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    Sinusoidal Partial Editing Analysis and Resynthesis

    SPEAR is an application for audio analysis, editing and synthesis. The analysis procedure (which is based on the traditional McAulay-Quatieri technique) attempts to represent a sound with many individual sinusoidal tracks (part.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  11. MuDic icon
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    muDic is the tool which is most suitable for dictation of the ad lib solo phrase.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    The SPT-667 Phrase Trainer makes learning riffs by ear really simple. Say you want to copy a guitar solo. The Phrase Trainer lets you to load the song (wav,mp3,wma etc...) slow down the playback speed to as little as 50% (or speed it up to double-speed,why not?

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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