Making Audio Waves That Look and Sound Like Things 

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This scratches the same itch as "turning a sphere inside out." Absolutely magical.

the fact this has less than 10k views after 4 years is so disappointing, this is such an awesome video! glad it’s getting recommended to new faces like me, loved the video bro :)

1.5 Million views in the past 9 days and I gotta say, definitely deserved. There is just something magical about seeing a cow shaped sound wave that actually sounds just like a cow.

I thank the internet, without it, I couldn’t imagine bumping into something as creative and imaginative like this!

I'm quite thankful for the algorithm for recommending me this video. This was very fascinating!

This is much more commonly used with Spectrographs, which use the fourier transform of the sound. Nine Inch Nails had a song that contained an image of a giant hand reaching down and touching earth. Aphex Twin even had a selfie.

This is amazing, I've always had the idea of hiding Easter Eggs in the audio of a movie or similar and this would be a perfect way to do it while still having applicable audio.

Why is this now blowing up?

This feels like one of those easter eggs you can find in some old audio abandonware. Which means it feels like an old memory, especially since the cow moo sounded a little low quality. I love it.

I thought you had made a program that automatically converts images to soundwave samples, but it was actually quite simple as in a "you're able to recreate it at home" kind of simple. Nice!

1.7M views in 10 days after 10K in 4 years, wow

That’s actually so creative. My only regret is not finding this sooner.

It may have been years, but RU-vid finally showed this masterpiece to us 😌

I saw this and thought it had a million views! The actual view count shocked me. Hugely underrated!

imagine your heart monitor literally making a circle

This is amazing Your gradual showing of the process just makes it feel like we're right along for the ride The editing, the narrating, the steps you took... THIS is a quality RU-vid video! Bravo to you, sir

Why isn't this popular, it's actually a pretty cool idea lol

I don't know why I'm watching this at 3am but i think it's worth it.

this is a good way to understand functions. waves are functions, which follow the rules described in the beginning. It must always move in one X direction (usually positive) There is no breakage per one function, and can move essentially infinitely positive or negatively in the Y direction. Functions CANNOT have multiple X values per Y values (i.e., moving backwards, like trying to draw a circle), which can be tested by the vertical line test (if any X point on the graph contains more than 1 Y value, where a vertical line can hit two points on the graph), where it fails as a function if applicable.

"Hey, Doctor, Is my heartbeat OK?" The doctor showing me what my heartbeat looks like:

*Movie Piracy ad music* “You wouldn’t download a fish” 2:31

Your voice is so calming, i like the straight to the point and calm nature of this video, im so glad the algorithm picked this back up again.

This is the type of stuff I have always loved watching, and I’m glad that it was talked about from this perspective. Very good coverage on the topic!

Late to the party, but on the off chance you see this, I wanted to say that this video immediately made me think of a 2002 CG animation called Tim Tom. They use sound waves in there in a way that could easily be gamified. It's the animation that got me interested in CG animation (as opposed to Claymation which is what I was studying at the time) as well as the music of Django Reinhardt. Only a few minutes long, and definitely worth a watch.

Glad to see that the views on this video are suddenly increasing, this was really well made

What a neat little video. Nice to see simple experiments like these get algorithmed to thousands of people.

Love your practical approach to getting this done, great problem solving skills!

It may have taken 4 years but i'm glad it got to me in the end, keep up the super creative work man. The cow wave really was magic haha

oh looks like i found the origin of the cow in FL studio meme

This video got reccomended to everyone after 4 years, but im glad it eventually did because this is really interesting! I could see something like this eventually be used in some game as either some fun easter egg or maybe somehow in some sort of puzzle. It's just an interesting concept to see soundwaves that look like things we know.

Super cool that this video took off for you! Insanely cool idea brother 🔥

I used to do audio production. This video was interesting, brought me back to those days. When I did audio, I found shapes in them as they came. And that included evergreen trees laid down, jet engines and funky clouds. I sometimes had a figure in front of me that I looked at for a moment and played with to see what I could do with it. I never did as you did, but it was sometimes like looking for shapes in the clouds and being able to build onto them or cut into new shapes. Of course changing the shape meant changing the audio, not much time to make new files and do that when doing an article. Thanks for posting this video. 😊

It's nice to know this has gotten the attention it deserved after so long.

2:52 So that's how the sharks are made

That was wonderful. I especially like the cow. Subscribed :-) Also, apparently a few days ago this only had 10k views after 4 years. Now it's got 1.7 million. It just shows that you don't know when a video is going to blow up. Hope you get millions of subscribers out of this

3.1m now! After 5years! Well deserved, Japhy!!!

After over ten years of using it, i had no idea Audacity could do this. Very cool video, glad it hit my feed!

This would be really interesting for a band to do this to their music so that a wave form of their audio would create a series of images

And we're at a million views, beautiful! The algorithm truly did right once again! On the note of the video, this is adjacent to something I have had in mind since my teen years, but sort of the converse. Correlating images with sound, are there functions that sufficiently map images to, not just sound, but pleasant sound (music) and one that's somewhat discernible. Thanks for sharing your musings and talents with us!

This is phenomenal dude, the kind of content I am craving for when I can't sleep at 3am. Spectacular.

Must be weird having a 4 year old video suddenly blow up like this. Congrats btw, great video!

This is such a cool idea! It has some awesome implications for things like ARGs, too. Hiding images or even stylized text in an audio file would be incredible

It’s weird how this video blew up 4 years after being uploaded. God Bless the RU-vid algorithm, it brought me here!

I don't know why RU-vid took so damn long to show me this video but it's AWESOME and I am glad you shared it with us! Thanks!

Oh. OH, OH THIS IS BRILLIANT! I think using the WAV format should be relatively easy to translate the concepts into a simple program! The only intervention needed is to prepare the two halves of the image, but the rest should be possible to mechanize

I love this. Simple video, fun idea. With so many things in the internet this days, some times you just wana see what a fish sound wave sounds like

So glad this is getting attention now! No idea why the algorithm does what it does, but I'm happy for you! Very creative work.

1 week ago this video had less than 10k for 4 years, and in less than 1 week it reached 1M, you do your job properly at some point it pays back, never be disappointed !!

2:13 hidden swear top middle :O

Such a cool video, I might try to make this into a program to make the process automatic

It's genuinely amazing how youtube can wait so long to realize that a video deserves to blow up. Congrats bro 💯 💪

Congrats on this blowing up

you can use the drop-down menu arrow next to the track label to split an audio channel into two mono channels, and then recombine them. much easier than using dc offset and inversion to align your two wave halves.

just got recommended this - awesome vid man !!

This is wonderful work! I have thought about these matters a bit, because I wrote some Java code to generate wavetables for Arturia Pigments, and some of them involved things like rotating shapes. Thank you for the inspiration... now I have various idea on things I can do in my music as well :)

great video, i feel like more people should take this style of editing specifically, where i'm allowed to enjoy the video because im drawn in by actually interesting content, rather than the big flashy elements, but i suppose thats off-topic, again, very interesting exploration here, cool stuff! :)

Looks like this just got a push from the algorithm! It definitely deserves it. I find stuff like this really interesting, and you explain it really well.

The way you explain things scratches an itch in my brain

Lots of fun. I've generated all kinds of waveforms adding sin waves of differing frequencies/amplitudes/phases with raw code I wrote in Python and exported as data, loaded into Audacity (using "sample data import" and had a listen. Great fun for a synth nerd on a rainy day! Love your work and cheers from Sydney - Dave

Fascinating combination of your eclectic skills and creativity. When you were talking about the constraints of the wave, you reminded me of that video about turning a sphere inside out. It evoked that same feeling.

finally, my biggest question has been answered. thank you for this prosperous knowledge.

Thats so cool! I love the idea of making forms out of audios

Very glad you finally got the recognition deserved for this video :)

Hey. Im glad the algorithm has just decided to bless you, you deserve it dude. I have a question. Do you mind sharing how you made the demonstrations? the animated drawing of the audiowaves? They look great btw, nicely done. Im literally in the process of creating my first video-essay type video. I've been a video editor for over 10 years, but im useless when it comes to the animated stuff, so it would be a huge help for the future. Thanks and enjoy your new found reach!

This really reminds me of those two guys that made music videos using oscilloscopes where the sound and video were both the oscilloscope readout and it sounded great too.

This is something that has always been in my mind and now you’ve done it thank you

The lightbulb moment filament waveform 2:02. Genius.

I'm so glad that the algorithm realises how much of a banger this video is. It may be 4 years later but still. Would love to see more content from you, keep it up! :)

For some reason I expected this video to have way more than 74k views for being over 4 years old, this is such an amazing video! Whenever I use FL Studio I always think what shapes are even possible on audio waves, and now I know!

Nice, I'm glad someone is also thinking about that, I've wondered about this a long time ago and never dug further into it

this randomly came up in my recommended and you seem like a cool dude, glad your finally getting recognized!

You really know how to grab peoples attention, so it sucks that this is only getting recognition now. This should be one of those videos that has millions of views, then stops getting recommended as much, and then suddenly pops up in my recommended and find a new amazing video Oh my god

this is so fun and I never new about that audacity sculpting feature. It's been 4 years so i'll be surprised if you aren't familiar, but you might really like the work of Jerobeam Fenderson and Hansi Raber. They specialize in oscilloscope music using XY projections, still very much in this vein of creating pieces that are as much visual as audio

3 million views, last year when i saw this it had 15k, good job man!!

Short, enterrtainning and educational, I subbed you

I have no idea how you aren’t more recognized, you have incredible talent

Im sure this vid gonna reachs 1Mil soon

I've seen hour long videos that failed to be this detailed and well explained

Continuity is a beast. It do be like that. Great stuff 👍

At last the Algorithm has found you.

Yo. Just stopping by to say that the video was amazing and I was surprised it got only a couple of thousand views. It deserves more! Btw, did you name your project "fucc you"? 1:52

This is one of the most original and brilliant videos I have ever seen!

Geeze, thanks RU-vid for telling me about this cool video way late in the game. Any way, this was brilliant! I enjoyed the concept the the solutions!

Not magic, but a highly creative way of working with the technicalities of the system. Highly enjoyed this little video. Big ups!

seems like people are getting this recommended, so am i, great video i allways see people make these shapes using sounds without making them sound like the thing that they made so this is way better than any of that

a MILLION views within a week after 4 years of no attention, absolutely mind blowing

this was genuinely enjoyable to watch

dude you're genius

FL Studio has a built in VST that lets you import images as waveforms called Harmor. It's a little weird, and doesn't always work right, but it's the only example I can think of that lets you do this.

I bumped into your vedio 4 yrs later but it is so interesting. Thanks to the internet and to you

Over a million views in a matter of days, good for you!

this video should've been viral

oh man this is SOOO Cool! I always wanted to do something similar by drawing the waveforms in spectral analyzer "somehow" and seeing if any shapes patterns or imagery turned into cool sounds! totally awesome.

words cannot describe how much I love that insert of the squirrel munching

This basically went viral

I'm fairly certain it would be better to do this via first applying a symmetric envelope according to the net height of the image, and then applying a time-varying DC offset to align everything. You'd need to do this programmatically rather than in Audacity, though, as far as I know. By applying two separate envelopes for the positive/negative sides of the waveform, you're creating a discontinuity in the slope of the wave at the zero-crossing, which will result in harmonic artifacts.

Thank you youtube reccomendations, i needed this.

Epic stuff - keep up the good work!

Question. Will you be able to record these audio files and have the shapes show up again? If so maybe there are some interesting use cases. It could be used for an Easter egg in a game etc.