Category Archives: Visual

audioMotion ~ Player & Realtime Spectrum Analyzer

Posted by tom2tec on

audioMotion is a media player and high-resolution real-time audio spectrum analyzer that allows you to SEE your music! ♪♫🤩

It is completely free, open-source software, created out of my passion for the graphic spectrum analyzers of hi-fi systems from the 1980s.

Features:

Dual channel high-resolution real-time audio spectrum analyzer

  • Media player with subtitles support for audio and video files
  • Fullscreen and Picture-In-Picture display at 60fps, ready for Retina / HiDPI screens
  • Logarithmic, linear and perceptual (Bark and Mel) frequency scales, with customizable range
  • Visualization of discrete FFT frequencies or up to 240 frequency bands (supports ANSI and equal-tempered octave bands)
  • Decibel and linear amplitude scales, with customizable sensitivity
  • Optional A, B, C, D and ITU-R 468 weighting filters
  • Optional effects: vintage LEDs, variable opacity, mirroring and reflection, radial spectrum
  • 17 beautiful color gradients, plus a visual editor to easily create your own gradients
  • Support for M3U playlists (.m3u and .m3u8 file extensions)
  • Visualize audio from your microphone (or “stereo mix”, if your soundcard supports it)

audiomotion.app
github.com/hvianna/audioMotion.js

Resources:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_analyzer

GLava ~ OpenGL Audio Spectrum Visualizer

Posted by tom2tec on

GLava is a general-purpose, highly configurable OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer for X11.

github.com/jarcode-foss/glava

Cava ~ Cross-platform Audio Visualizer

Posted by tom2tec on

Cava is a bar spectrum audio visualizer for terminal or desktop (SDL).

Cava works on:

  • Linux
  • FreeBSD
  • macOS
  • Windows

This program is not intended for scientific use. It’s written to look responsive and aesthetic when used to visualize music.

github.com/karlstav/cava
Cavalier ~ Visualize Audio With CAVA

Modern Flyouts ~ Windows Volume Flyout

Posted by tom2tec on

This application aims to provide a Fluent Design System based replacement for the old, built-in, Metro Design based Audio/Airplane mode/Brightness flyouts in Windows which are shown while pressing the media or volume keys or even the brightness keys or when airplane/flight mode is toggled.

In case of Windows 11, this application will have the same UI but will provide additional features and customizability compared to the built-in redesigned flyouts.

github.com/ModernFlyouts-Community/ModernFlyouts
modernflyouts-community.github.io

Nestdrop ~ Music Visualization

Posted by tom2tec on

NestDrop allows you to perform with high-resolution high-fps visuals which react in realtime to the music and then broadcast the video via Spout. Since the Milkdrop engine is at the core you can easily bring in your own Milkdrop presets. Use any audio source to drive the visuals, even live audio. We know that your attention bandwidth is already in high demand and so we’ve streamlined NestDrop to be simple and fast to use.

Key features:

⇒ Up to 4 video decks with Spout at the same time
⇒ High rez output: > 4k @ 60fps
⇒ Live preview and static thumbnails of presets
⇒ Auto-change presets based on beat detection
⇒ Search for presets by name
⇒ Easily map your own hotkeys
⇒ Mark your favorites with 5 colors of stars
⇒ Create multiple queue windows
⇒ Includes curated library of 1900 presets

nestimmersion.ca/nestdrop
www.facebook.com/nestdome

ButterChurn ~ Online Milkdrop 2 Visualizer

Posted by tom2tec on

ButterChurn is a WebGL2 implementation of the Milkdrop 2 visualizer.

butterchurnviz.com
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/audiovisualizer
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/butterchurn-music-visuali
github.com/free-music-by-eatme/Milkdrop-Butterchurn-for-Web

J-Scope ~ Oscilloscope VST Plugin

Posted by tom2tec on

J-Scope is a VST oscilloscope plugin, which can prove invaluable to anyone who develops audio software and has a need to diagnose problems or visualise waveforms.

In operation it is very similar to a real oscilloscope, and most controls will be familiar to anybody who has used a hardware ‘scope. The addition of a control for phosphor decay time allows the examination of rapidly changing waveforms as well as slowly evolving sound envelopes.

J-Scope accepts a stereo signal, and can display it in several modes:

  • Two separate traces, L and R
  • Single trace, sum of L and R
  • Single trace, difference between L and R
  • X/Y (Lissajous) plot, L vs R
  • X/Y (Lissajous) plot, Sum(L+R) vs Diff(L-R)

jaggedplanet.com/vst/jscope

SoundScapeExplorer ~ Process, Visualize & Explore

Posted by tom2tec on

SSE is a powerful and versatile software environment designed for soundscape visualisation and quantification. It provides a robust platform for processing audio files, generating useful metrics, and presenting data through intuitive visualisation interfaces. Catering to bioacousticians and data scientists alike, 

SoundScapeExplorer Icon

SSE encompasses an extensive range of tools and capabilities to fulfil diverse user requirements.

sound-scape-explorer.github.io
github.com/sound-scape-explorer

FluentFlyout ~ Windows Audio Flyout

Posted by tom2tec on

FluentFlyout is a simple and modern audio flyout for Windows, built with Fluent 2 Design principles. The UI seemingly blends in with Windows 10/11, providing you an uninterrupted, clean, and native-like experience when controlling your media.

FluentFlyout features smooth animations, blends with your system’s color themes, includes multiple layout positions and a suite of personalization settings while providing media controls and information in a nice and modern looking popup flyout.

Features:

  • Native Windows-like design
  • Uses Fluent 2 components
  • Utilises Windows Mica blur
  • Supports Light and Dark mode
  • Matches your device color theme
  • Smooth animations
  • Customizable flyout positions
  • Includes Repeat All, Repeat One and Shuffle
  • Listens to both volume and media inputs
  • Sits unobtrusively in system tray
  • Audio flyout: Displays Cover, Title, Artist and media controls
  • “Up Next” flyout: shows what’s next when a song ends
  • Lock Keys flyout: displays the status of lock keys at a glance

github.com/unchihugo/FluentFlyout

Foobar2000 ~ Installing Analog VU Meters

Posted by tom2tec on

Adding an analog VU meter to the Foobar2000 2.x Default User Interface

Required component: foo_vis_vumeter

Directions:

  1. Download foo_vis_vumeter
  2. Click on foo_vis_vumeter which should install the component
  3. Click Apply and then Ok to restart Foobar
  4. Copy some .bin skin files to the …\AppData\Roaming\foobar2000-v2\vumeter folder (Shift+File>Browse configuration folder)
  5. Select View > Layout > Enable layout editing mode
  6. Right click the tab area in a panel and select Add New Tab
  7. Right click the new tab and rename it “Analog VU Meter” or whatever
  8. Right click the new tab display area and select Add New UI Element
  9. Select ‘Analog VU Meter (DirectX 12)’ from the list (Playback Visualization)
  10. Disable layout editing mode

Parameters:

Right mouse click on the meter display:

  • submenus – Layout / Mode / Levels / Decay / Tuning / Options
  • Fullscreen
  • Skin Selection

Mouse wheel (hover over meters)

  • Adjusts current Tuning selection

Resources:
Analog VU Meter Skin Gallery
Foobar2000 1.x ~ Installing Analog VU Meters

Sources:
www.hydrogenaud.io/forums/index.php?showtopic=33939
www.hydrogenaud.io/forums/index.php?showtopic=106793
www.head-fi.org/t/616963/the-foobar2000-resource-thread/45#post_9382013
foobar2000.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5012 (Russian)

Discogs Album Art Visualizer

Posted by tom2tec on

An album art visualizer for your Discogs collection.

discovers.antisound.net

Online Multichannel Peakmeter Using AudioWorklet

Posted by tom2tec on

hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,126685