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DRAWSOUND

Draw a sound. Hear a picture.

DRAWSOUND8 s loop · A minor pentatonic · 7 moving strokes

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Draw it

Height is pitch, left to right is time. Brushes for tones, overtones, glides, grain, blur and smudge.

It moves

Ten motions bring strokes to life, and the speed of your hand shapes the ink and how it moves.

Translate anything

Pictures and video become sound, sound becomes moving pictures, and files hide inside songs.

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Recorded straight from DRAWSOUND 0.7. Picture and sound were captured together, so what you see is what you hear.

DRAWSOUND treats image and sound as one material. Anything you draw on its canvas becomes a frequency over time, and every sound you feed it becomes a picture you can edit and play back.

Drop in a video and it bakes the frames into audio whose spectrogram is the picture. Drop that audio back in and the video rebuilds itself. Feed it any other sound and it renders a living spectrogram film.

It runs locally. Nothing you make leaves your machine.

What it does

Live spectral drawing canvas you can play
Video to sound, with color carried through
Sound to video at true frame rate, exported as MP4 or WebM
Spectrogram films from any audio file
Lossless data modem: files to sound and back, byte for byte
Audio steganography: hide text or files inside a song

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