KVR Audio

Diego_C · Post by **Diego_C** » Mon Apr 01, 2013 5:29 pm

Hi,
as in the title I was asking myself if exists for PC any free or open source VST or standalone with audio spectral editing capabilities similar to Iris or the spectral editor of Alchemy?
Even better if it has also the ability to import, besides audio files, pictures to later edit as sounds?

Any info is welcome.
Thanks a lot
Greetings
D.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Mon Apr 01, 2013 5:34 pm

Use something like Audiopaint to convert images to sound files

http://www.nicolasfournel.com/audiopaint.htm

Mess with the partials or resynthesise sounds to your heart's content with Spear

http://www.klingbeil.com/spear/

Diego_C · Post by **Diego_C** » Mon Apr 01, 2013 6:17 pm

Thanks a lot for taking time to answer! And for the info and links.
They both will come very handy in some experimental stuff I want to do in the near future.
Many thanks again

VariKusBrainZ · Post by **VariKusBrainZ** » Mon Apr 01, 2013 6:59 pm

http://www.oli4.ch/laoe/home.html

Diego_C · Post by **Diego_C** » Mon Apr 01, 2013 7:55 pm

Thanks a lot again! Great, more than enough for my needs.
I hope to payback soon with something around here, as I'm always finding help in this forum!
Have a nice week you all.
Lots of gratitude.

Peace

Karmacomposer · Post by **Karmacomposer** » Mon Apr 01, 2013 8:46 pm

http://photosounder.com/

Not totally free, but I believe you can use it free indefinitely.

Mike

Krakatau · Post by **Krakatau** » Mon Apr 01, 2013 8:47 pm

isn't Spear a free spectral editor ?

http://www.klingbeil.com/spear/

Diego_C · Post by **Diego_C** » Tue Apr 02, 2013 2:38 pm

Karmacomposer wrote:http://photosounder.com/

Not totally free, but I believe you can use it free indefinitely.

Mike

Hi and thanks again, unluckily it has limitation as demo and I was looking for a free / open source one.

So AUDIO PAINT plus SPEAR and/or LAOE are the best solutions.

Many thanks again
Cheers

StudioDave · Post by **StudioDave** » Tue Apr 02, 2013 2:55 pm

Also free & open-source:

Ceres

http://www.notam02.no/web/2006/01/ceres-2/?lang=en

Mammut

http://www.notam02.no/web/2005/10/mammut-2/?lang=en

Just two off the top of my dome, but maybe not what you're looking for.

Best,

dp

Panphobia · Post by **Panphobia** » Tue Apr 02, 2013 3:12 pm

I remember that adobe was giving away an early version of audition a while back, idk if that is still around. Schwa also has a very cheap, and imo very versatile and useful spectral editor: http://www.stillwellaudio.com/plugins/s ... s/spectro/

Diego_C · Post by **Diego_C** » Tue Apr 02, 2013 4:13 pm

StudioDave wrote:Also free & open-source:

Ceres

http://www.notam02.no/web/2006/01/ceres-2/?lang=en

Mammut

http://www.notam02.no/web/2005/10/mammut-2/?lang=en

Just two off the top of my dome, but maybe not what you're looking for.

Best,

dp

I have already Mammut, thanks

(found on another page time ago..although I still have to understand how works the "Split Real/Imag" function...)

but I downloaded Ceres now and found many interesting other tools in the Notam website thanks to you

Now my arsenal of audio editing and sound design software is really full! I am looking forward using it in a good and creative way.
Bests

Diego_C · Post by **Diego_C** » Tue Apr 02, 2013 4:19 pm

Panphobia wrote:I remember that adobe was giving away an early version of audition a while back, idk if that is still around. Schwa also has a very cheap, and imo very versatile and useful spectral editor: http://www.stillwellaudio.com/plugins/s ... s/spectro/

Adobe gave the download link and serial weeks ago in a kinda "free" way, but it turned out to be legal just for who was already owning it and needed the download link.

It has been discussed here an there, I guess adobe had some wrong manner of dealing with the server and were not able to close it in time just for the legal owners, or something like this, so it happened that everyone was able to download it, but as my computer is in a studio I have to have all legal license or freeware stuff, so I'll use other software, I found really plenty in this thread.

Anyway I'll give a try to Spectro too, but now I have even too much of them

Thanks a lot really to all of you.

Bests.
D.

Diego_C · Post by **Diego_C** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:45 pm

just to add for the interested, I found this too (I mean it was already in my vst folder but forgot it

):

http://thepiz.org/plugins/?p=Harsh%20Digital%20Nose

this is not for spectral editing obviously, but it's interesting you can drag and drop images that in some way run oscillators..so the image is causing the sound.
Cheers

Gone soft · Post by **Gone soft** » Thu Apr 04, 2013 1:13 am

Should you suddenly decide you haven't got enough options allready (and others might be interested in another tool)..:
Coagula takes a slightly different approach to turn pictures into sound, and can also make or alter pictures for your listening pleasure.

What is it?
Coagula is an image synth. This means that it is both a simple image editor, and a program for making sound from those images.
How: Coagula uses one sinewave (beep) per image line, one short blip per point (pixel) on the line.
Red is left, Green is right, Yellow is green+red, so it's in the middle.
Blue makes each sine into a narrow noise-band, so you can create hard noise or organ-like sounds.

Get started: Make some marks on the black canvas. Rotate, zoom and multiply the parts. Hit F5 and hear the light.

Tools: Use Filter images to shape areas. Use Echo tool to copy pixels several times. The brush has lots of options.
Coagula is freeware.

There's also an option for noise bandwidth, more or less noise in there among the sinewaves..

Diego_C · Post by **Diego_C** » Thu Apr 04, 2013 11:05 am

Hi V-Ger
ok, I'll surely download it too and have a look, plenty of good stuff over here now.
Thanks again

any free or open source software / vst for spectral editing?