On Wednesday 01 July 2015 01:28:15 David Wright wrote: > Quoting Lisi Reisz (lisi.re...@gmail.com): > > On Tuesday 30 June 2015 22:20:12 David Wright wrote: > > > Quoting Lisi Reisz (lisi.re...@gmail.com): > > > > On Tuesday 30 June 2015 21:42:16 David Wright wrote: > > > > > Quoting Lisi Reisz (lisi.re...@gmail.com): > > > > > > On Monday 29 June 2015 02:28:20 Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > > > Dan Hitt wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Could somebody please point me to a sound waveform viewer? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm aware of audacity, which is of course a very fine piece > > > > > > > > of software. But its function is more to edit than just to > > > > > > > > view. So, e.g., if you open a sound file, then it wants to > > > > > > > > create a project, and when you want to exit you have to tell > > > > > > > > it not to save the project that it created. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I would like to just have something that shows the waveform. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ideally it would do other tasks connected with viewing, such > > > > > > > > as being able to zoom to the sample level, give actual data > > > > > > > > readouts [sample value, time, etc], and play nice with other > > > > > > > > software. So it would be nice, e.g., if you could pop it > > > > > > > > open at the command line and maybe even have it scroll to > > > > > > > > some interesting point. (It would also be nice if it could > > > > > > > > play the wave form, but if it can't that's no deal breaker.) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > My vague recollection is that there used to be more than a > > > > > > > > dozen such viewers, but i can't seem to track any down now. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > TIA for any leads! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > dan > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Unlikely what you were recalling but I would recommend > > > > > > > investigating scilab, scioslab, and gnuplot > > > > > > > > > > > > > > They are EXPLICITLY tools rather than SOLUTIONS. > > > > > > > > > > > > And there are the answer to the question how? He explicitly > > > > > > wanted a SOUND waveform viewer, with playing the sound a bonus. > > > > > > I know Maths and sound are linked, but this seems going a bit > > > > > > far. > > > > > > > > > > Well, it's in the list at > > > > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Waveform_Viewers-Plotting_Large_Analog_Data > > > > > which might be worth perusing (third hit when googling > > > > > interactive waveform plotting ) > > > > > > > > From there: > > > > ----------------------------- > > > > A situation often occurs, where the user ends up with some sort of a > > > > large dataset that needs to be visualised and analysed. Examples of > > > > this include: [snip] > > > > data from statistical or mathematical analysis (using, say, R or > > > > scilab); -------------------------------------- > > > > That is not sound. > > > > > > > > Lisi > > > > PS though the page does indeed also include sound wave plotters. > > > > > > Scilab appears in section 2 as a generator of large datasets. Many > > > authors of such a page wouldn't have bothered with section 2 at all, > > > but happily this author generated a batch of data to test the software > > > listed in section 3 (making it easier to try out other ideas we might > > > have). > > > > > > Were one to play the waveform generated, it might not be very > > > pleasant. It looks to me vaguely like someone trying to tune a > > > superhet radio while simultaneously turning up the volume to annoy > > > the neighbours. > > > > > > The meat of the page is section 3 which contains, amongst the > > > competition, scilab. > > > > > > Scilab was a legitimate suggestion given that the OP wasn't very > > > specific about the problem area. For example, what is an "interesting > > > point"? However, a deal breaker might be the reviewer's inability to > > > perform synchronous zooms on multichannel data in scilab. > > > > "Sound" seems to me to be pretty specific. > > Yes, and "sound" is specifically mentioned on that page, but you > snipped it in your quotation above. It says: > > ----------------------------- > A situation often occurs, where the user ends up with some sort of a > large dataset that needs to be visualised and analysed. Examples of this > include: > > typical audio files ←---------- [snipped] > > data from statistical or mathematical analysis (using, say, R or > scilab); -------------------------------------- > > Why do "typical audio files" fail your "sound" check? > Or are you philosophising? :) > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_a_tree_falls_in_a_forest
They don't. scilab doesn't handle sound. The page does. scilab doesn't. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201507010827.20864.lisi.re...@gmail.com
