Tachyon Sonics

Audio Editor - Manipulate audio files (musics, recordings, etc)

Alpha Version

Main Features

Load .mp3, .m4u (iTunes), .flac, .ogg, .wav, .aiff and .au files. Save as .wav, .aiff or .au
Cut, copy, paste, delete and insert arbitrary audio chunks; mix or join audio files; unlimited undo / redo
Zoom and play at arbitrary locations in the audio
"View" frequencies using the Spectrogram display
Various audio transformations:
- Amplify - Adjust the volume
- Headphonize - Transform intensity stereophony into delay stereophony
- Length Splitter - Decompose into short and long sounds
- Stability Splitter - Decompose into stable and unstable sounds
- Butterworth Filter - Simple band-pass filter. Can be used to simulate band-limited audio such as radio, telephone or talkie-walkie
- Equalizer - Adjust frequencies using 10 bands
- Half Tempo - Slow down at half speed without affecting the pitch
- Resample - Change the speed (affecting both pitch and tempo)
- Miserablize - A useless and 100% artistic effect that is difficult to describe
- Spectral Compander - Compress or expand the spectrum - alter the differences between soft and loud frequencies
- ...More to come... This is still an alpha version.
High speed or high quality processing - As you prefer - Most transformations allow you to choose from a wide range of speed / quality trade-offs
Multi-core processing - More than half of the transformations can exploit all the available CPU cores - even when processing a single monophonic audio file.

Screenshots

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Waveform display
"Resample" dialog box
Window 7

Spectrogram display
Mac OS X

Multiple files opened
"Equalizer" dialog box
Linux (Ubuntu)

Yes, it also runs on
your old computer!
(Windows 98)

The "Business"
cross-platform skin

You have a multi-core processor?
Tachyon Sonics uses them all!

Cepstrogram, Multi-selection,
Tooltips, Shortcuts...
Linux (Debian)

View the original analog signal
between the samples!

Multile files opened
Multiple transformations running
Windows 8 (Desktop)

Download Tachyon Sonics

Version 0.1.0.0 (alpha)

Download for	Size	Minimum requirements
Windows	38 MB	Windows 8 / 7 / Vista / XP / 2000; 512 MB RAM
Mac OS X	6.7 MB	Mac OS 10.6 or greater, 1 GB RAM
Linux / BSD	6.2 MB	OpenJDK JRE version 6 or greater; 512 MB RAM (Notes)

Alternative downloads

Alternative downloads for exotic and / or old operating systems

Download for	Size	Minimum requirements
Mac OS 10.4 / 10.5	6.7 MB	Mac OS 10.4.11 or 10.5 (including PPC-based Mac); 128 MB RAM
Windows 98	27 MB	Windows 98 / ME / NT 4; 64 MB RAM (96 MB on NT 4)
Windows (no JRE)	6.7 MB	Windows 98 or better; an OpenJDK JRE must be installed separately
Java (Generic)	6.2 MB	OpenJDK JRE version 5 or greater

Alpha Version

This is an alpha version. Many features have not yet been implemented, and many menus and buttons still do nothing.

Only a few audio transformations are implemented.
- Some transformations planned for the final version are: Fades, Normalize, Distort, Dynamics Compression (single / multi-band), Time Stretching, Pitch Shifting, Noise reduction, Echo, Reverbs, Flanger, Chorus, Vocoder, ...
Mixing controls are visible, but are not implemented yet.
Recording has not been implemented yet.
ASIO is not supported yet.
Saving is currently limited to .aiff, .wav and .au files.
Searching in the Toolbox is not implemented yet.
etc.