Waveform
An accurate audio visualizer that turns pitch, timing, and loudness into an orb of dots.
Choose a sound to see its pitch, timing, and loudness move through the orb. Turn sound on to hear it.
The Problem
A flat meter tells you how loud sound is, while a spectrogram can be hard to read at a glance. Waveform makes pitch, timing, and loudness visible together, so you can see what a voice or sound is doing.
The Solution
A Swift audio engine and React visualizer for turning live audio or prepared signals into clear, time-aligned waveforms, spectra, and an orb.
What it does
- Visualize pitch, time, and loudness in an animated field of dots
- Capture live microphone audio on iPhone and Mac with Swift
- Explore the same visual language in React with an interactive explainer
- Switch between an orb, a scrolling waveform, and a flat spectrum map
What took work
- Keep each visual frame aligned to the audio clock
- Measure exact sample windows and log-spaced frequency bands
- Move audio through the capture and render pipeline without allocating on the audio thread