Category Archives: Visualization

Visualiztion applications or plugins

BeatRoot ~ Beat Tracking & Visualization

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BeatRoot is an interactive beat tracking and visualisation system.

code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/beatroot
www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~simond/beatroot
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeatRoot

AstroFox ~ Amazing Audio Videos

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Astrofox is a free, open-source motion graphics program that lets you turn your audio into custom, shareable videos. Combine text, images, animations and effects to create stunning, unique visuals. Then generate high-definition videos to share with your fans on social media.

astrofox.io
github.com/astrofox-io/astrofox

Audible-Visuals ~ Archimedean Spiral Web Visualizers

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soniaboller.github.io/audible-visuals

AlsaPlayer ~ Linux PCM Player

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AlsaPlayer for Linux is a new kind of player that effectively runs pulse-code modulation or .PCM files. The player uses multithreading pretty heavily and was written specifically for giving some good exercise to the new Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) driver and the library system. If you look closely, you’ll observe that AlsaPlayer has some highly interesting features that can be found only in the UNIX-based or Linux-based players. The main goal of the people who created AlsaPlayer for Linux was to develop a completely pluggable framework that could playback every type of media file, with majority of focus on the PCM audio data.

alsaplayer.sourceforge.net

www.alsaplayer.org

Deep Audio Visualization ~ Visual Music Perceptions

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Audio visualization usually relies on hand-crafted features, like intensity, timbre or pitch. These metrics are defined by humans and are biased towards our cultural representation of sound. In this project, we have trained a Neural Net to generate these features directly from spectrograms, in an unsupervised way. We thus get rid of this bias and hope the resulting visualizations can help us perceive music in different ways.

https://br-g.github.io/Deep-Audio-Visualization/web-app/

projectM ~ Modern Milkdrop Visualizations

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projectM is an open-source project that reimplements the esteemed Winamp Milkdrop by Geiss in a more modern, cross-platform reusable library. Its purpose in life is to read an audio input and to produce mesmerizing visuals, detecting tempo, and rendering advanced equations into a limitless array of user-contributed visualizations.

projectm-visualizer.org
github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm
github.com/OfficialIncubo/milk-fk/tree/master/milk
github.com/OfficialIncubo/projectm
sourceforge.net/projects/projectm (2012)

Foobar2000 components:

www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_vis_projectM
foo_uie_vis_projectM

Android

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.psperl.prjM

Steam

store.steampowered.com/app/1358800/projectM_Music_Visualizer

Tuniac ~ iTunes Styled Windows Player

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Tuniac is an iTunes style media player / manager for Windows, with an advanced playlist editor, search as you type and queue support.

Features:

  • Search as you type
  • Advanced queueing
  • Supports many audio formats
  • OpenGL Sonique Visual Plugin renderer
  • Small cpu and memory footprint

Supports:

  • MPEG-1 Audio (mp3, mp2, mp1)
  • FLAC (flac, fla, oga, ogg)
  • Advanced Audio Coding (aac, m4a, m4b, mp4)
  • Apple Lossless Audio Codec aka ALAC (m4a)
  • Windows Media Audio (wma)
  • Vorbis (ogg)
  • Opus (opus)
  • WavPack (wv)
  • TAK Audio (tak)
  • TrueAudio (tta)
  • Monkeys Audio (ape, mac)
  • Musepack (mpc, mp+, mpp)
  • OptimFrog (ofr, ofs)
  • Shorten (shn)
  • Dolby Digital (ac3)
  • DSD (dff, dfs)
  • PCM (wav, aif)
  • CD Audio (cda)
  • Speex (spx)
  • MOD Formats (mod, mo3, xm, it, s3m, mtm)
  • Game Audio Formats (adx, umx)
  • MIDI (mid)
  • radio streaming of most the above formats.

The Loudspeaker Explorer ~ Colaboratory Notebook

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A speaker measurement visualization, analysis and comparison tool.

colab.research.google.com/github/dechamps/LoudspeakerExplorer-rendered/blob/master/Loudspeaker_Explorer

glBars ~ OpenGL Visualisation Plugin

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This is an OpenGL bars visualization plugin (as seen in XMMS and XBMC/Kodi). It’s adapted from the jack_glbars project by Nedko Arnaudov. glBars works as a JACK standalone and audio plugin (LV2 or VST).

glbars

github.com/DISTRHO/glBars
distrho.sourceforge.io/plugins
github.com/DISTRHO/DPF-Plugins

foo_vis_shpeck ~ Foobar MilkDrop Visualizations

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The foo_vis_shpeck component runs Winamp visualization plugins in a stand-alone window, a Columns UI panel or Default UI element.

Documentation
Download
Hydrogen Audio Topic
Download Winamp

Shpeck enables Foobar2000 to display dynamic graphics that react to the beat. It’s possible to toggle between fullscreen and windowed modes.

Install the foo_vis_shpeck plugin, combined with Winamp’s MilkDrop visualizations.

  1. Download and install Winamp (or at least the folder structure for the plugins)
  2. Download and install foo_vis_shpeck
  3. Download some visualizations
  4. Uncompress visualizations and copy to System > Program Files > Winamp > Plugins
  5. Create a new foobar DUI panel or tab and add the new UI element Playback Visualisation > Shpeck
  6. Configure the plugin at Preferences > Visualisations > Shpeck
  7. Configure visualizations
Preferences: Shpeck

Resources:
www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_vis_shpeck
www.winamparchive.org
archive.org/details/tucows_193563_Winamp
www.mediafire.com/download/8hxarja92q9q99c/foobar2000-milkdrop-2.25c.7z
forums.winamp.com/forum/winamp/winamp-discussion/4615655-winamp-5-9-2-released

Guides:
Milkdrop in Foobar on Windows 8 ~ vault-tec.info/post/51743506694/milkdrop-in-foobar2000-on-windows-8

Additional Presets:
sourceforge.net/projects/mdpresetpack/
www.thefreewindows.com/21777/download-free-milkdrop2-50000-presets-megapack/
archive.org/details/Milkdrop252kPresetCollection.7z

… some archives from this milkdrop contest thread on Winamp forum and put everything into a single archive. Some of the presets are nice and quite original, but most of them are variations. The ones that seemed nice to me I copied and added exclamation mark to their names. ~ hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,59388.msg914054.html#msg914054

XMPlay ~ Extensible Windows Player

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XMPlay is an audio player, supporting the OGG / MP3 / MP2 / MP1 / WMA / AAC / MP4 / WAV / AIFF / CDA / MO3 / IT / XM / S3M / MTM / MOD / UMX audio formats, PLS / M3U / ASX / WAX / CUE playlists, and ZIP archives. A load more audio and archive file formats are also supported via plugins.

When XMPlay was first released in 1998, only the XM file format was supported, hence the name “XMPlay”.

www.xmplay.com
support.xmplay.com
ssz.bitbucket.io (Input & Archive plugins)

Common Music ~ Algorithmic Music Composition

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Common Music (CM) is a real-time music composition system implemented in JUCE/C++ and Scheme. It generates musical output via MIDI, OSC, CLM, FOMUS and CSOUND. Its user application is called GRACE (Graphical Real-time Algorithmic Composition Environment)

Features:

  • Algorithmic music composition environment
  • Runs on Mac, Windows and Linux
  • Real time scheduling of musical algorithms
  • Two coding languages for designing algorithms: S7 Scheme and SAL (an easy-to-learn alternate)
  • MIDI input/output
  • CLM/Sndlib audio system built in (Scottstaedt)
  • CCRMA digital audio instrument definitions built in (Scottstaedt)
  • Open Sound Control input/output
  • Metronomes and running algorithm redefinition for live coding
  • Data visualization
  • Music pattern definitions
  • Fomus system built in for computing music notations (Psenicka)

commonmusic.sourceforge.net
sourceforge.net/projects/commonmusic