Draw waveforms and hear them
Posted 16 years ago
A while back I thought it would be interesting to be able to draw arbitrary waveforms and then listen to how they sound. I had an audio engine just laying around, so I whipped up a quick application to do that.
download WaveStudio.exe
download WaveStudio.exe
Results
In theory, you can make any sound that you want. The results aren't very interesting. You can draw a sine wave and it sounds muffled. Add some jagged edges and the sound starts to sound more raw and high pitched. But it's okay to demonstrate what a sawtooth vs. sine vs. square wave sound like.
Future work
It would be a better to be able to draw in the time vs. frequency domain, using standard brush painting tools. Thay way you could come up with more interesting waveforms.
Steve Hanov makes a living working on
Rhymebrain.com,
PriceMonkey.ca,
www.websequencediagrams.com,
and Zwibbler.com. He lives in
Waterloo, Canada.
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ProDigit
three years ago
Nice!
It's very hard to get a good timbre out of these basic sounds.
It would be nice to have the sound pulse (attack, and lower volume sustain), and select between pingpong or looping the sustain part.
I would love to see a similar program, that allows for more timbre. I wouldn't know how to implement it though...
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Jaïr
three years ago
Really interesting! Would love to see a drawing feature, or have this turned into a phone application. Very useful for learning purposes.
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zelukai
five years ago
umm when I click "new" it doesn't do anything, the only other option is a sawtooth, and then I have to put all of the points on the left side and copy them a bunch to actually make a customized waveform... is this normal? Kevin's recommendation is pretty good too.
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Kevin
twelve years ago
If you could turn that into an iPad app, with frequency controls, volume controls and a few basic effects like reverb/flange that would kick ass!
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