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.

Sonic Visualiser is a program for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files.

A musicologist's guide to Sonic Visualiser – and other tutorial material from CHARM (the Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music). Also of great interest is Daniel Leech-Wilkinson's online …

Sonic Visualiser is a program for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files.

Matthias Mauch from the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary, University of London talks us through a simple example of loading an audio file and some associated data into Sonic Visualiser and looking …

Sonic Visualiser allows you to cut and paste between layers of different types, preserving as much information as can be reconciled with the layer types. To cut and paste between two layers, select …

Tony is a program for high quality scientific pitch and note transcription.

Although a selection is just a temporary thing -- when you select a region, any previous selection is forgotten -- Sonic Visualiser is able to refer to annotated time instants when making a selection, so …

Export Finally, you can export pitch track and note track in .csv (comma-separated values) format, or simply save a session file to continue annotating another time. Tony is one of the Sonic Visualiser …

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 …