Level meters come in all shapes and sizes from basic scale levels you find in mixer windows through to analogue inspired VU meters with bouncing needles. Level meters are the second bread and butter way of visualising and interpreting audio, which you find throughout any DAW. This section may seem somewhat obvious but we felt it was important to include this essential audio display to start this topic to remind us all how important waveform displays are in audio production. We would also struggle to line up duplicate clips and edit out unwanted noise. Without detailed waveform views we would find it almost impossible to slip out of time sections within a performance into the pocket. Waveforms can also show us basic discrepancies in a performance such as small knocks and thump sounds between vocal takes or clipping if a signal was recorded too hot and help us to get clips in time or in sync.īeside being an essential means of visually interpreting audio, waveforms also enable us to be able to edit, move and remove sections in seconds. With a quick glance of a waveforms, we can get a sense of the performance style and dynamic range, which is useful for a number of things such as working out where we are in terms of time in a song. Without waveforms, we would find it much more difficult to perform the most basic of audio edits, which is a mainstay of any DAW. You most likely stare at these for hours, perhaps taking them for granted as you chop them about on your timeline.
Waveform views are the bread and butter of any DAW.
We are going to kick off this article with two of the most basic forms of how audio is displayed in the digital domain followed by some more complex displays: Waveforms This article isn’t a deep physics lesson in audio, instead we try to explain each of these points as practically as possible.
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In this article we explain several different ways that audio is graphically represented in DAWs and a number of different tools from a range of developers to help you understand not only what these visuals tell us but to show you what they are for and how to interpret these graphics and displays to help you. Without us having the ability to see audio we would find it near impossible to tune a vocal, conform a complex drum pattern to the grid, surgically remove an unwanted sound from a dialog recording and more. Besides being immensely instinctive environments in which to work quickly in they also make it very easy for us to be able to visually interpret what audio is doing in certain audio applications and processes. DAWs provide many great advantages in audio production over old school analogue workflows.
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