sonic-visualiser ☆

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Description:
Visualisation, analysis, and annotation of music audio recordings

Type: Cask | Latest Version: 5.2.1@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Multimedia

Tags: audio-analysis spectrogram music visualization vamp

Install: brew install --cask sonic-visualiser

About:
Sonic Visualiser is an open-source application for viewing and analyzing the contents of music audio files. It allows users to load audio tracks and layer various data visualizations, such as spectrograms, to inspect the signal in detail. The tool is widely used by researchers, musicians, and audio engineers for detailed annotation and feature extraction from sound recordings.

Key Features:

Layer-based visualization system for comparing different analyses
Extensive support for various audio file formats and plugin standards
Annotation capabilities for marking and describing specific audio events
Advanced spectral analysis including VAMP plugin integration

Use Cases:

Analyzing the spectral content and frequency distribution of musical recordings
Creating time-based annotations for musicological research or transcription
Comparing different signal processing analyses on a single audio file

Alternatives:

Audacity – Audacity is primarily a waveform editor for recording and editing audio, whereas Sonic Visualiser focuses on deep visual analysis and annotation.
SPEAR – SPEAR specializes in sinusoidal analysis and resynthesis, while Sonic Visualiser offers a broader suite of general-purpose visualization tools.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 15, 2025 1:04pm	5.2.1	0	VERSION_BUMP	ddbcd9e8
Jul 31, 2024 8:55pm	5.0.0,2861	0	VERSION_BUMP	ce32bd2f