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Ircam has released Partiels, a free audio analyzer.

News: Ircam has released Partiels, a free audio analyzer.

Ircam Partiels, an audio analyzer software and plugins compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux, is now available for free download. Partiels is an audio analysis application that comes with a collection of plug-ins, enabling users to delve into the content and characteristics of sounds.

The latest version of Partiels and Ircam Vamp Plug-ins is 2.0.0, released on December 8, 2023. Previous versions include 1.3.1, released on November 16, 2023, and 1.3.0, released on October 31, 2023.

Partiels is a digital audio file analysis application designed for signal processing researchers, musicologists, composers, sound designers, and more. It provides a dynamic interface for exploring the content and characteristics of sounds.

Partiels allows the analysis of one or several audio files using Vamp plug-ins. It supports loading data files, visualizing, editing, organizing, and exporting the results as images or text files. These files can be used in other applications such as Max, Pure Data, Open Music, and more. The software supports Windows, Mac, and Linux, and offers multiformat, multichannel, and multiaudiofile support.



  • Analyzing audio with Vamp plug-ins
  • Visualizing results as spectrogram, lines, and markers
  • Textual and graphical editing of results
  • Organizing and ordering analyses in groups
  • Exporting results to PNG, JPEG, CSV, LAB, JSON, CUE, and SDIF formats
  • Loading results from CSV, LAB, JSON, CUE, and SDIF formats
  • Batch processing
  • Command line interface to analyze, export, and convert results
  • Consolidating documents for sharing

Alongside Partiels, a set of analyses based on the audio engines developed by the Ircam Analysis-Synthesis team are ported in the Ircam Vamp Plug-ins. These include SuperVP, IrcamBeat, IrcamDescriptor, PM2, and FCN. These plug-ins can be used to perform FFT, LPC, transient, fundamental, formant, tempo, and many other analyses. More analysis plug-ins can be found on the Vamp plug-in website.

To access these features, a free Ircam user account is required.

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