Soundemote has announced the release of PrettyScope, an effect plugin that captures the beauty of analog oscilloscopes and offers a wide range of aesthetic options.
Hello, sonic explorer. I hope you find PrettyScope to be a great tool for studying waveforms as well as for painting with sound. The main reason I created PrettyScope was to make it easier to see waveforms on YouTube. The 1-pixel-thick lines of most software oscilloscopes is very bad for video. Also, I needed an oscilloscope to include in my future software synthesizers.
There is more work to do especially in the area of depicting 1D mono/stereo waveforms and capturing more of an “old hardware” analog look. I hope PrettyScope is a popular product so that I have the funds to implement all my ideas as well as the feature requests you may undoubtedly have. We are just scratching the surface with this technology.
PrettyScope features
- Take total control over the look of the scope. One can make it look colorful or creepy for artistic endeavors, flat and monochrome for teaching purposes, or anything in-between.
- Hi-resolution 32-bit color waveform traces are great for videos.
- Fully automatable parameters.
- Low CPU usage (most of the work done on your graphics hardware via OpenGL).
- Heatmap mode, laser mode, paint mode, and a handful of other color blending options.
- Fully-customizeable colormaps.
PrettyScope is currently available for Windows (32/64-bit VST), priced at $20 USD. You have a chance to win a free copy at KVR Audio.
More information: Soundemote / PrettyScope
