Spectrafoomanual

™ Operations Guide Copyright © 1998, Metric Halo Laboratories, Inc. All rights reserved. SpectraFoo Operation Guide 1 Congratulations! You are now the owner of the most powerful audio analysis and metering system on the planet. SpectraFoo is capable of monitoring up to 24 separate channels simultaneously (depending on the speed of your Mac and your input hardware). You may be asking 24 channels all at once? How is this possible? The answer is that SpectraFoo uses Metric Halo Lab’s patent-pending high-resolution analysis engine. This technology uses the power of your Macintosh RISC Processor in conjunction with your audio hardware to provide blazingly fast and incredibly detailed sample-accurate Analysis and Metering of any channel or an entire mix. SpectraFoo technology is unique in its ability to provide you, the engineer, spectral, power, and phase analysis which is truly useful to your production tasks. About This Guide This guide is divided into three sections 1.The SpectraFoo analysis engine - This is an introduction to the underly- ing technology behind SpectraFoo and how it differs from other Audio Analysis techniques. 2. SpectraFoo instru- ments - This is an overview of the 12 types of track assignable Analysis instruments available in SpectraFoo. 3. Using SpectraFoo - This section explains how you interact with SpectraFoo. SpectraFoo utilizes Metric Halo’s innovative multi-window multi-channel audio routing technology to allow you to create multiple resizable instrument windows that always remain active Introduction – The SpectraFoo Analysis Engine Welcome to the SpectraFoo Visual Audio Monitoring System – the world’s first audio analysis environment that actually lets you see music. SpectraFoo is a high–precision, low–latency, fully realtime audio visualization and analysis system. SpectraFoo takes advantage of the phenomenon known as synesthesia. The word synesthesia, meaning “joined sen- sation,” denotes the rare capacity to see sounds, taste shapes, or experience other equally startling sensory blendings whose quality seems difficult for most of us to imagine. Very few people experience natural synesthesia. Those who do usually possess distinct cognitive advantages over the rest of us. For example, many people with perfect pitch associate particular pitches with particular colors. They see sound as well as hear it. The interaction of vision and hearing helps these people maintain an absolute point of reference with regard to pitch. This allows them to discern absolute pitch values without the need for a reference tone. SpectraFoo allows anyone to experience the benefits of synesthetic sensation. In order for the human brain to properly integrate multiple se…