sndpeek is a real-time audio visualization tool (animated, 3D).
This program is useful for audio/multimedia researchers, developers, composers, and performers.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Real-time 3D animated display/playback.
- Use mic-input or wav/aiff/snd/raw/mat file (with playback).
- Time-domain waveform.
- FFT magnitude spectrum.
- 3D waterfall plot.
- Lissajous (interchannel correlation).
- Rotatable and scalable display.
- Freeze frame! (for didactic purposes).
- Real-time spectral feature extraction (centroid, rms, flux, rolloff).
- Part of the sndtools distribution.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
Website: www.gewang.com/software/sndpeek
Support:
Developer: Ge Wang, Perry Cook, Ananya Misra
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

sndpeek is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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