waveform
noun
wave·form
ˈwāv-ˌfȯrm 
: a usually graphic representation of the shape of a wave that indicates its characteristics (such as frequency and amplitude)
called also waveshape
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Thoughts on the visual appeal of musical waveforms.
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Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
Headlining the first of two nights at the Kia Forum going into the weekend, Musgraves played to a full house in Inglewood but, more importantly, to a house that valued being on her wavelength because there’s no one else in pop creating this exact waveform.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Oct. 2024
The main one at the bottom shows image frame previews and audio waveforms, while the solid blue one at the top is useful for navigation.
—PCMAG, 3 Oct. 2024
Certainly, there are clues: music and speech waveforms have distinct pitches (tones sounding high or low), timbres (qualities of sound), phonemes (speech sound units) and melodies.
—Andrew Chang, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2024
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Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
Headlining the first of two nights at the Kia Forum going into the weekend, Musgraves played to a full house in Inglewood but, more importantly, to a house that valued being on her wavelength because there’s no one else in pop creating this exact waveform.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Oct. 2024
The main one at the bottom shows image frame previews and audio waveforms, while the solid blue one at the top is useful for navigation.
—PCMAG, 3 Oct. 2024
Certainly, there are clues: music and speech waveforms have distinct pitches (tones sounding high or low), timbres (qualities of sound), phonemes (speech sound units) and melodies.
—Andrew Chang, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2024
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waveform
noun
wave·form
ˈwāv-ˌfȯrm
: a usually graphic representation of the shape of a wave that indicates its characteristics (as frequency and amplitude)
called also waveshape
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