![]() ![]() Here again, the Time box corresponds to the audio file analysis on Sonic Visualiser. The Time, Stanza:Line, and Word boxes at the bottom give extra information on where you are in the song. The durations of words, lines, and stanzas have been extracted from the open source software Sonic Visualiser, which allows us to annotate audio files. Similarly, the vertical lines have different heights showing the sung duration of words. The horizontal lines for poetic lines and stanzas have different lengths showing the different sung duration of the poetic lines and stanzas. Light grey sticks in the vertical line section for words correspond to rests in the vocal melody. Lines in grey are lines that have not been set to music and were omitted by the composer. This rainbow colour code allows us to match the position of the words within lines and stanzas (for example, a vertical dark blue line is a word appearing in the dark blue part of the poetic lines and of the stanzas). The poem lines, stanzas, and words all follow a rainbow colour code showing the chronological development of the song (blue being near the start of the song and red/purple near the end). The song is visualised through 4 main elements: the poem lines (short horizontal lines at the top), the stanzas (long horizontal lines), the waveform (corresponding to vocal and instrumental audio parts together), and words (vertical lines at the bottom). The ‘Phrase’ box also highlights which word is being looked at. The relevant line in the poem and translation is brought into view in the Urtext box, in the translation box, and in the ‘Phrase’ box when you slide the ‘Position’ slider. A marker shows where you are in the song when ‘Position’ is slid. Use the orange ‘Position’ cursor to navigate within the song. The navigation in the song viewer follows two parallel paths: the original poem and the chronological development of the song. The audio files are not integrated to the song viewers, however you can find them on our Spotify playlists. The song viewers display the poetic text, the chronological development of the song, and the music scores if they are available. It aims to show in a succinct and interactive way the changes wrought upon poetic texts when they are set to music. Sonic Visualiser is an impressive free tool for musicians that will aid music learning and analysis of audio files.The song viewers offer a visualisation of song structures in order to give an overview of how composers re-work poems as songs. Unfortunately though, Sonic Visualiser cannot support VST plugins directly because Steinberg's VST license is incompatible with Sonic Visualiser's GPL license although both Mac and Windows users can get support using the Audacity VST Enabler. ![]() ![]() It can load audio files in WAV, Ogg and MP3 formats, view their waveforms in spectrograms and allows you to annotate audio data by adding time points and markers. Although its free, Sonic Visualiser is very powerfu. Sonic Visualiser can use LADSPA and DSSI effects plugins and Windows users are at a slight advantage over Mac users as they can download some LADSPA plugins from the Audacity plugin page. ![]()
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