f     i     el d    e     r

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a sound file playback and stereo field display for macintosh

traditionally, the music software industry has approached stereo (and most recently "surround") sound by its data [as a grouping of mono channels or "tracks"] rather than by what its data represents [a stereo (or surround) "image" of a partial (or complete) sound environment - or "field"].  as an example, many commercial sound applications contain left/right amplitude meters which display the sound intensity contained on each channel, rather than display the actual perceived stereo image

however, it is often helpful during a mixing or post-production process to visualize the imaging of sounds within the stereo field of both recorded and synthesized stereo sounds - this imaging in the very least is comprised of both direction and breadth.  (with verisimiliar sound fields, all elements have some width, there are no point sources in the real world) - hence: f  i    el d    e   r !
 
 
 

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sound manager playback of 16-bit AIFF and Sound Designer II Files, stereo and mono

playback controls for scrubbing and looping with playback time displayed in hundredths of a second

graphic display of stereo image that features:

analysis and display of spatial vectors in the stereo field

4 display modes [azimuth, circular, triangular inward, and triangular outward]

analysis/display resolution slider

anti-phase vector display

rms and peak amplitude display modes

planar and spherical speaker analysis modes

reference grid lines [in dB] display over or under vector lines

intensity mapped to color and stereo vector length

intensity "zoom" slider for softer sounds

user specified color of vectors, grid lines, and anti-phase vectors

space bar and return hot keys for play/stop and rewind, respectively

partial drag and drop support (finder icons)

graphic display of mono file waveform

 
 
 
 

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remove any older preference file from system folder

download package[365k]: http://www.sonomatics.com/fielder.sit

 
 
 
 

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f  i    el d    e   r  is manufactured and maintained by matt ingalls with lloyd anderson

as we have limited resources, this application has only been tested on two machines:
8500/132 and G3(B&W)/300 running OS8.6 through the internal sound output as well
as an AudioMedia III and MOTU 2408 cards accessed through the "old" sound control panel
version 8.0.5

please email u s @ s o n o m a t i c s . c o m for any problems, comments, questions, and found bugs

although f i    el d    e   r  is free, we would greatly appreciate any $$$ [or other]
donations to help us manufacture future [and repair existing] sound tools

click here:



 
 
 

known bugs

• small window sizes may make grid line dB labels print over one another
• we have had reports of crashing at the end of playback of certain AIFF files, yet we have not been able to replicate this.  if this happens to you, and the file is small, it would really help us out for you to email us the file for debugging purposes.
• display quality may degrade when system memory becomes full or processor-intensive applications are running at the same time.


thanks to scott looney, todd ingalls, ned bouhalassa, tae hong park, and =cw4t7abs, for thier comments and testing assistance!
 
 
 
 
 

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zoom and rotation image editing
name change on view modes
perceptual-based image display
greater file format support
     (float/24bit/WAV/sample rates/multichannel/CD tracks/etc)
split stereo in/out
input file type selection (ms/lr)
sound file info
mac sound input support
color change panel/background in prefs
drag&drop from finder onto display window
navigation services
display optimization
mono file imaging (bl shfl)
multiple window option
plugin versions
UI improvements
BeOS port

if you have any feature requests not included in the list above, please feel free to email u s @ s o n o m a t i c s . c o m
 
 
 
 
 
 

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