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Partiels

Partiels is an application for the analysis of digital audio files intended for researchers in signal processing, musicologists, composers, and sound designers. It offers a dynamic and ergonomic interface in order to explore the content and the characteristics of sounds.

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Partiels allows analysis one or several audio files using Vamp plugins (1), loading data files, organizing and visualizing the analyses inside groups, and exporting the results as images or text files (in order to be used in other applications such as Max, Pure Data, Open Music, etc.).

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Main features and characteristics:
* Versions for Windows, Mac & Linux
* Multiformat & multichannel support
* Multifile support (useful to compare audio files)
* Analyzing audio with Vamp plugins
* Visualizing results as spectrogram, lines, and markers
* Organizing and ordering analyses in groups
* Exporting results to PNG, JPEG, CSV, JSON, CUE & SDIF file formats
* Loading results from CSV, JSON, CUE & SDIF file formats
* Converting results from SDIF to JSON file formats and inversely
* Batch processing (useful to apply the same set of analyses on several audio files)
* Command line interface to analyze, export and convert results
* Consolidating documents (useful to share documents/analysis with other users across different platforms)
* Audio playback with loop

Partiels is compatible with Windows 10 (64 bit), macOS (universal binary: Intel 64 bit and M1) and Linux (64 bit - tested on Debian 10.9, Ubuntu 20.04, 20.10 & 21.04).

(1) Vamp is an audio processing plugin system for plugins that extract descriptive information from audio data developed at the Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary, University of London.

Alongside Partiels, a set of analyses present in the AudioSculpt 3 application and based on the audio engines developed by the Ircam Analysis-Synthesis team are ported as Vamp plugins: SuperVP Vamp Plugin & IrcamBeat Vamp Plugin.

Partiels: created and developed by Pierre Guillot at Ircam
Vamp: developed at the Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary, University of London: www.vamp-plugins.org