Oscilloscope VST in Sonar?

[carlo]

Hi,

Is there some kind of Oscilloscope plugin in Sonar or same kind of Spectral Sound Analyser available?

THX

[mettelus]

Melda's MOscilloscope is part of their Free FX Bundle and one of the better ones out there. One of the best free spectrum analyzer's out there is Voxengo's SPAN. Both are free and have been around for years; and being 3rd party, they are not bound to any DAW or video editor so can be freely used in anything that can host VSTs.

[Chaps]

56 minutes ago, mettelus said:

Melda's MOscilloscope is part of their Free FX Bundle and one of the better ones out there. One of the best free spectrum analyzer's out there is Voxengo's SPAN. Both are free and have been around for years; and being 3rd party, they are not bound to any DAW or video editor so can be freely used in anything that can host VSTs.

The only one of those I've used is Voxengo's Span. I have found it very useful over the years. I particularly like that you can hold down the  Ctrl key and scrub across the audio and only hear the frequencies you are scrubbing.

[carlo]

Really thank you very much! 

[Amberwolf]

9 minutes ago, Chaps said:

The only one of those I've used is Voxengo's Span. I have found it very useful over the years. I particularly like that you can hold down the  Ctrl key and scrub across the audio and only hear the frequencies you are scrubbing.

There's a feature I didn't know about, even using SPAN for ages!   I will have to try that out, because I often have troulbe with things in mixes and don't know where they're coming from, and my actual hearing is messed up by severe tinnitus, etc., so sometimes I can't even tell where something is amiss, and visually it looks ok.

 

Edited 5 hours ago by Amberwolf

[Chaps]

3 minutes ago, Amberwolf said:

There's a feature I didn't know about, even using SPAN for ages!   I will have to try that out, because I often have troulbe with things in mixes and don't know where they're coming from, and my actual hearing is messed up by severe tinnitus, etc., so sometimes I can't even tell where something is amiss, and visually it looks ok.

 

I cheated and read the manual.  Equalizer – Narrow-Band Sweeping. Also, the higher the mouse cursor is to the top, the louder that audio will be, so it's like a volume control.

[mettelus]

1 hour ago, Chaps said:

I cheated and read the manual.

Shame on you!  In all seriousness, there are a lot of "hidden" features built into the free SPAN that not many use or even know about. I cheat even more to an extent by Googling "Can [this app] to [this detailed task]" quite often. Even simple things like overlapping tracks to visually see frequency collisions the free version can do just fine. I posted a gif analyzing a phase switch I installed in my guitar on the the old forums here (hard to believe that was over 10 years ago already). I inserted the SPAN gif from that post below.