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Sonic Visualiser

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Sonic Visualiser is a 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...

Sonic Visualiser 1.0 showing a waveform pane and a melodic range spectrogram pane.

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  • Free • Open Source

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
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. (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 in Russian – translation thanks to the hard work of Alexandre Prokoudine. The Russian translation is included in the standard program and should be used automatically if your locale is set appropriately.
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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.
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  • Developed by

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  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.

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  • Alternatives

    16 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Audio & Music

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  •  667 Stars
  •  59 Forks
  •  68 Open Issues
  •   Updated Apr 24, 2025 
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What is Sonic Visualiser?

Sonic Visualiser is a 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 for a friendly way to look at what lies inside the audio file.

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