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Draw waveforms and hear them

Posted eleven 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

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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zelukai

eight months 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

seven 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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Michael

eight years ago

Your mother's.

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Greg

nine years ago

Which audio engine did you use?

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