Photosounder

Photosounder: Audio Editor Visualizing Sound as Images

An intuitive audio editor that lets you edit audio by painting and modifying images, supporting popular audio formats.

What is Photosounder?

Photosounder is an innovative audio editing software that takes a visual approach to editing audio files. Instead of showing the usual waveforms, Photosounder converts audio into a spectrogram image with time on the X-axis, frequency on the Y-axis, and color representing amplitude.

This visual interface allows you to 'paint' and modify the audio just like an image. You can draw directly on the spectrogram to adjust frequencies, paste in new sounds, apply filters visually, and more. Underneath, Photosounder is performing the necessary audio processing to make your image edits sound good.

Despite the unusual interface, Photosounder supports editing common audio formats like WAV, MP3, OGG and more. You can open up an existing song, tweak the harmonics and frequencies visually, then export as an audio file. Photosounder runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.

The visual approach makes some audio editing tasks intuitive, like isolating vocals by deleting other colored sections. But it also has a learning curve for users familiar with traditional waveforms. Overall, Photosounder brings a fresh approach to audio editing that can feel more natural for visual creative tasks.

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