Recently I used sonogram in a post and got ridiculled. I used the word like it's used in Melda plugins. But why is it used there? Spectrograms seems to me now the proper word for the type of visualization [1].
Masi
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrogram
sonogram vs spectrogram
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- KVRAF
- 4818 posts since 25 Jan, 2014 from The End of The World as We Knowit
Well, "a sonogram is an image of the organs inside of the human body" produced by ultrasound and Melda says the sonogram in its MMultiAnalyzer "also lets you look into your material in ways not previously possible" so it looks into your body of work to see if your music has heart, or a beat, or the sounds are organ-ic, and that was never possible previously!
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MeldaProduction MeldaProduction https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=176122 - KVRAF
- 14019 posts since 15 Mar, 2008 from Czech republic
Hehe yeah! 
Well, Masi, don't worry, people that are making fun of you just because of this are probably those guys with low self esteem enjoying being hidden behind the computer, classic
. As for the name, it's sort of sporadic, it seems that it is changing in time 
). Anyways, spectrogram sounds good to me, so I'll check, but that's a lot of changes for just a single word with poor definition, so I don't promise anything.
Well, Masi, don't worry, people that are making fun of you just because of this are probably those guys with low self esteem enjoying being hidden behind the computer, classic
. As for the name, it's sort of sporadic, it seems that it is changing in time ). Anyways, spectrogram sounds good to me, so I'll check, but that's a lot of changes for just a single word with poor definition, so I don't promise anything.
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Chandlerhimself Chandlerhimself https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=318799
- KVRAF
- 1702 posts since 19 Dec, 2013 from Japan
To be honest I don't think it is really even a mistake. Sono is a prefix meaning sound. Gram is a suffix meaning drawing or recording. If you think of the actual meaning of the word it makes perfect sense. Sonograms are associated with pregnancy, but technically anything the draws sound graphically could be called a sonogram. Although it may not be the common word for it I don't see how it is a mistake.
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- KVRist
- 243 posts since 17 Sep, 2006
By the way, I love the sonogram view in the melda plugins. Quite often it is the reason why I choose MAutoDynamicEQ over Pro-Q2, which I also own. The other thing is the easy hipass / lopass filters. Sure I could set them up in Pro-Q too, but its so much more convenient to just drag them from the side. Couldn't you put that function into all EQs?
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Codex
Cheers,
Codex
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- KVRist
- 205 posts since 17 Mar, 2013
A sonogram is a spectrogram of sound waves specifically. You will never be ridiculed if you use it in a scientific setting, especially in non-English countries, as it is not wrong.
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MeldaProduction MeldaProduction https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=176122
- KVRAF
- 14019 posts since 15 Mar, 2008 from Czech republic
Ha! Good points folks!!
