Is there a way to extract the soundwave of a song as a vector image?
I’m looking for a program/plugin/anything that would allow me to input a songfile and get a vector image of its soundwave in return?
The only way I would know how is to open the song in a sound editor then screenshot the wave and trace it in illustrator but that seems a bit tedious.
Any ideas or recommendations?
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Silly questions that might help…
Why does it have to match the song?
Does it need to be generated on the fly? For example are you showing a vector of the playing song or something like that or would it only be generated beforehand?
Do you have an example of what you want the final product to look like?
here‘s an article that might be somewhat relevant. Even if it doesn’t fully answer your question, it’s pretty damn interesting.
@funkdaddy
The final output will be a series of posters. Being printed it does not have to be generated ‘live’ for any type of video output. All that matters is getting a clean image of the wave that I can then import into illustrator.
@shockvalue
I’m currently not on my computer to check the link but thank you. I’ll definitely check it out later.
Look up Fast Fourier Transfer analysis, and also a program (for Mac) called Metasynth. Both will generate waveforms along those lines.
hmm sounds like you need a generator, like a plugin. I will keep watching to see if anyone knows of it. I’ve seen a video tutorial that uses adobe premier to generate the actual waves from an audio sample, but can’t find it right now.
There’s a programming language called Processing that was written specifically to handle audio, video and graphics. You could probably do it with that.
Of course you would have to write the program yourself.
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