Who doesn’t enjoy looking at spectrograms? In your DAW or specialised audio software plugin, good spectrogram’s can make it easy to identify sounds and noise in an audio file you might wish to work on. Plus a 3D spectrogram like the one below is truly easy on the eye, which always helps.
But, for this to work you don’t need expensive audio editing software. You just need the Chrome web browser (though this all works in Safari on El Capitan OS X 10.11.4 for me except for the microphone input), and a link to Spectrogram.
It’s quite simple. simply visit this page on the Chrome Music Lab site to start playing with it. Click the greay circular buttons at the bottom of the screen to switch between different sounds. There's even a drum machine pattern in there. Click on the microphone to play yoru own custom sounds or you voice and get a visual representation of them.
Here’s what the creators have to say about Spectrogram:
A spectrogram is a picture of sound. A spectrogram shows the frequencies that make up the sound, from low to high, and how they change over time, from left to right. With this experiment you can compare spectrograms of different sounds, or use the mic to see what your own sounds look like.
Built by Jeramy Morrill and Boris Smus. Source code available here.
OK. So you might not be using this Spectrogram for yoru professional mixing or editing processes any time now, but it provides a glimpse into a future where the humble web browser is the platform used for music production and audio editing.
Web: https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Spectrogram
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