#Sonic visualiser export spectrogram how to#
#Sonic visualiser export spectrogram manual#

In front of you in the Sonic Visualiser window: the current layout of panes, the set Sessions and UndoĪ Sonic Visualiser 'session' is a record of almost everything you see The Follow Playback control allows you to choose whether the pane will track playback using a playback cursor, paging when it reaches the edge of the pane (Page) or whether it will scroll along with the playback (Scroll) or neither. The Global Scroll and Global Zoom settings (both on by default) make the pane follow any horizontal scrolling and zooming that happens in other panes that also have these settings on, so that when you scroll or zoom in one of them, they all scroll or zoom. There is also a tab corresponding to the pane itself, which canīe used to control the way the pane tracks during playback and its Properties for the different layer types are discussed in the sections Layer to the front of the pane and adjust its properties. See the name of its property in a tooltip.Ĭlick on the numbered tab for a layer in this stack to 'raise' that Properties are shown you can hold the mouse pointer over a control to To save space, not all of the names of the These are shown in a corresponding stack to the

You can also add a new layer by importing an existing set of annotation data from a file.Įach layer, whether editable or not, has a set of adjustableĭisplay properties. Transforms include applying audio effects plugins to produce differentĪudio data, and applying feature extraction plugins to extract other To your audio in order to produce new layers with data in them.

The Transform menu lists things you can do.

Slice of an existing colour 3D plot layer.

Values, notes, regions, text, and images.Īnother pane, thus displaying the same thing more than once, or add a Invoked from the Layer menu, they add a new layer to the current paneįunctions to add empty layers of each of the editable layer types: time instants, time

The Layer menu contains the same functions as the Pane menu.

With a spectrogram layer with a particularĪlso add an empty pane and add layers to it afterwards. Use one of the three Add Spectrogram functions to add a pane

The Pane menu contains several functions to add new panesįunctions to add a new pane containing a waveform or spectrum.

To the display, with various kinds of data in them: There are then three menus dedicated to adding new panes and layers Waveform layers to that pane, displaying the Import an audio file, it adds time ruler and Sonic Visualiser starts with a single visible pane. Itself, layers corresponding directly to audio data (such as waveformĪnd spectrogram layers) are not. Of the annotation layer types are interactively editable on the pane Any menu operation in Sonic Visualiser that works on a single layer The front layer on that pane is theĪctive layer. One pane is always the 'active' pane, and this one is marked with aīlack vertical bar to its left. Not have to have identical scales on the y axis – although Sonic Visualiser willĪttempt to align them by default if their scale units match. Magnification and alignment on the x (time) axis. Layers that are stacked on the same pane will always share the same They can represent: instants, curves (time-value plots), and soĪ pane with four layers: waveform in black, time ruler in grey, time values in purple and time instants in blue. Several different kinds of layer, which differ in the types of data So for example, you may have a spectrogram layer 'at theīack', with line data, onset positions and notes displayed in Horizontal axis of each pane corresponds to time in audio sampleįrames, and all of the stacked panes will be aligned to the sameĮach pane can then display any number of layers, which areĬonceptually stacked on top of one another like layers in a graphicsĪpplication. Scrollbar will appear if you have too many to fit in the window. You can stack any number of panes above one another vertically: a Or a subdivision of the horizontal axis into differently coloured segments. Shown on a pane, such as a waveform, a line graph of measurements, Like a drawing canvas a layer is one of a set of things that can be A pane is a horizontally scrollable area of window Sonic Visualiser's user interface is structured around panesĪnd layers. Please report errors and omissions using the Sonic Visualiser bugġ. Terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License. You may modify and redistribute it under the This document is Copyright 2006-2011 Chris Cannam and Queen Mary,

#Sonic visualiser export spectrogram manual#

This manual describes Sonic Visualiser version 1.8.

#Sonic visualiser export spectrogram how to#

This is a brief reference manualĮxplaining the concepts used in Sonic Visualiser and how to use it.

Sonic Visualiser is an application for viewing and analysing theĬontents of music audio files.