Player Scopes

Real-time scopes for the Player — waveform and spectrum

Windows into your sound. Each scope shows the same audio from a different angle — as a waveform, a frequency chart, a heatmap, or a 3D terrain. Switch between them to see what your ears are hearing.

Player Scopes

Live visualizations fed directly from the audio playback engine. These react in real time as sound plays.

Real-time Waveform

What it shows The raw amplitude of your audio over time, drawn as a continuous line that scrolls as playback runs.

When you’d switch to it You want to see transient shapes, check stereo balance at a glance, or lock the display to your beat grid so waveform cycles stay still on screen.

Quick example

Start playback on any pattern or audio track.
Switch the scope to Real-time Waveform.
Set Sync Mode to Beat Sync — the waveform now aligns to your tempo.
Toggle Show Right off to isolate the left channel.
Raise Amplitude Scale to zoom into quiet passages.

Controls

Control	What it does	Options/Range	Default
Sync Mode	How the display window aligns to incoming audio	Free Run, Beat Sync, Trigger	Free Run
Trigger Threshold	In Trigger mode, the signal level that starts a new sweep	0.0 — 1.0	0.1
Display Samples	Number of samples shown per sweep (Free Run mode)	256 — 8192	2048
Amplitude Scale	Vertical zoom on the waveform	0.1 — 10.0	1.0
Layout	How left and right channels are drawn	Overlaid, Split	Overlaid
Show Left	Display the left channel	On / Off	On
Show Right	Display the right channel	On / Off	On
Show Grid	Display amplitude reference lines behind the waveform	On / Off	On

Real-time Spectrum

What it shows A frequency chart updated every frame, showing how much energy sits at each pitch across the audible range.

When you’d switch to it You need to spot frequency buildups, compare left and right channel spectra side by side, or watch peak levels settle after a transient.

Quick example

Start playback.
Switch the scope to Real-time Spectrum.
Set Channel Mode to Stereo Mirror — left grows upward, right grows downward from a center line.
Turn on Show Peaks to see a held outline that slowly decays after each hit.
Switch Display Style to Curve for a smooth filled shape instead of individual bars.

Controls

Control	What it does	Options/Range	Default
Channel Mode	How stereo channels are arranged	Mono, Stereo Mirror	Stereo Mirror
Display Style	Shape of the frequency readout	Bars, Curve	Bars
Attack	How fast bars rise toward a new value	0.0 — 1.0	1.0
Release	How fast bars fall after the signal drops	0.0 — 1.0	0.20
Show Peaks	Draw a held peak line above each bar that decays over time	On / Off	On
Peak Hold Time	How long peak markers stay pinned before they start falling	0.0 — 2.0 s	0.1 s
Peak Decay	Speed at which peak markers fall once hold time expires	0.0 — 1.0	0.02
dB Floor	Lowest level shown on the display	-96 — 0 dB	-60 dB
dB Ceiling	Highest level shown on the display	-12 — 0 dB	0 dB
Blur (Horizontal)	Soft glow spread sideways in Curve mode	0 — 16 px	8 px
Blur (Vertical)	Soft glow spread up/down in Curve mode	0 — 16 px	12 px
Show Grid	Display frequency reference lines	On / Off	On
Show dB Labels	Display decibel markings on the side	On / Off	On
Show Freq Labels	Display frequency markings along the bottom	On / Off	On

Real-time Spectrogram

What it shows A scrolling heatmap where time moves downward and color intensity represents loudness at each frequency — painting a picture of your sound as it plays.

When you’d switch to it You want to watch how a sound evolves over several seconds, spot harmonic patterns or noise floors, or compare left and right channels as colored layers.

Quick example

Start playback.
Switch the scope to Real-time Spectrogram.
Both channels paint together by default — left and right appear as tinted layers.
Adjust Smoothing to soften or sharpen the scrolling image.
Change Colormap to Magma or Inferno for a different palette.

Controls

Control	What it does	Options/Range	Default
Colormap	Color palette used to map loudness to color	Viridis, Magma, Inferno, Plasma, Grayscale, Jet	Viridis
Smoothing	Temporal smoothing between consecutive rows — higher values give a softer scroll	0.0 — 1.0	0.3
Show Left	Display the left channel layer	On / Off	On
Show Right	Display the right channel layer	On / Off	On
Show Gradient	Fade the bottom edge to black for a cleaner look	On / Off	On
Show Grid	Display frequency reference lines over the heatmap	On / Off	On
Show Freq Labels	Display frequency markings at the top	On / Off	On