Scoping for Ideas

iPassenger · Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:40 pm Post subject: Scoping for Ideas

Any recommendations for decent software oscilloscopes for looking at the signals generated by the Nord (or other equipment for that matter)?

Ideally it would run both within music prog (VSTi etc) and as a stand alone (on Windows pc).

Even more ideal would be the ability to run in both stereo (allowing the monitor of phase) and mono modes (seeing actual waveforms), even, even more ideal would be one which doesn't hammer the pc's cpu.

Many thanks

iP

X-Electric · Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 5:55 pm Post subject:

Some time ago I used TFD Scope , although as far as I remember it was a bit CPU expensive. Easy and user friendly one though.

iPassenger · Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:47 am Post subject:

Cheers fella, I'll give it a go.

R.

ian-s · Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:54 am Post subject:

I like Visual Analyser 8, it is free.

(sorry, link is on old PC, try Google)

iPassenger · Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:47 pm Post subject:

Also thanks will try that one too.

Smile

Funky40 · Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 4:59 pm Post subject:

tryed it today for looking the Waves of my analog VCOs.
It's a cool tool

http://www.electronics-lab.com/downloads/pc/016/Visual_Analyzer/index.html

( hope it works. I had it allready on my Drive. That must be spoken about here some month bevore..................... )

Kassen · Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:38 am Post subject:

There's a good free (as in beer) VST one called "inspector", I forgot where I got it.

This one looks nice as well;
http://soundlab.cs.princeton.edu/software/sndpeek/
(free as in freedom as well as form)

Afro88 · Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:10 am Post subject:

Found it: http://www.rogernicholsdigital.com/inspector.htm

Looks quite decent, cheers Kassen

Kassen · Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:07 am Post subject:

That's it! That's the one I use most of the time for actual work. It's not so clear on the phase-corelation side, at least not compared to one of those 2d shapes, IMHO but in return it does have a very clear RMS meter.

Sndpeek is still quite cool (and a version is also built into the Audicle ChucK editor). It's realy good for showing off visualisation of sound to people because you can rotate the 3d visualisation in real time and so on. Would be good for presentations and classes, I think.

jima · Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:45 pm Post subject:

I'm with g2ian - I can certainly put a tick in the box for VA8. thumleft

Jim