[LAU] Text-based sound visualisation?

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:56:09AM +0200, Julien Claassen wrote:

>   I could see something, which wouldn't be realtime, but perhaps 
> workable. You might operate with 200 bands and then finally print the 
> bands, that had clipping, very loud peaks or something of the sort. I 
> think it could be done. You analyse, log each of the volumes in one 
> variable, incrementing it, when necessary and then you compare them and 
> print out the 10 highest bands. Probably the criterion should be more 
> like: print all above xDB. Or xDB above average. Nevger having used 
> something like it, I wouldn't know by what to go. Well I think a good 
> deal of users might not know the citerion behind it, but just pick the 
> peaks out.

And then ? What are you going to do with e.g. a list of the ten
highest bands ? Do you really think that doing some filtering on
those frequencies is going to improve your mix or levels ?

Ciao,

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FA