I'm looking around for a free tool that allows you to make a song spectrum video, speifically the vertical bar kind. I'm looking to edit it in my video using Chroma Key. The bars also have to be one color.
… a song spectrum video, speifically the vertical bar kind
Could you please explain what exactly you mean by this … have you got an example that you can post to show what you are looking for?
… a song spectrum video, speifically the vertical bar kind
Could you please explain what exactly you mean by this … have you got an example that you can post to show what you are looking for?
I'm looking for something like this: 
But with a white colour and a chroma keyable background. Also the smoothing is a bit too much.
Well, not sure about getting something "Free", but here's a link for doing a video using visual-audio spectrum analyzer(s). Good Luck! To me, sometimes you do have to pay for things, as not everything in life is free. From what this YouTuber does, as well as others I follow that do tutorials with HitFilm Pro or Express, I have found no issue doing the ones I need and incorporating either as a rendered out HitFilm video, or in Vegas Pro or Movie Studio Platinum (both ver. 15).
HitFilm recently had a tutorial which looks like it could do what you are wanting to achieve:
The tutorial uses HitFilm Express (free) but does require the add-on Motion: Audio Visual Pack ($24.99 according to HitFilm's website).
HitFilm recently had a tutorial which looks like it could do what you are wanting to achieve:
The tutorial uses HitFilm Express (free) but does require the add-on Motion: Audio Visual Pack ($24.99 according to HitFilm's website).
Hm, is there a free alternative?
Hm, is there a free alternative?
There are tons of free visualizers, from simple scatter plots to Milkdrop and beyond.
Any of them can be captured and overdubbed in post.
So the answer is yes there is, when you've designed it.
Please DO share your results here.
Hm, is there a free alternative?
There are tons of free visualizers, from simple scatter plots to Milkdrop and beyond.
Any of them can be captured and overdubbed in post.
So the answer is yes there is, when you've designed it.
Please DO share your results here.
A simple request. Just a bar music visualiser whose colors can be changed.
And it's ^$#@&$ harder to find than a unicorn.
Has NOBODY thought of this before?
E: Sorry, I just spent the past hour looking for what I need. I even installed Winamp 5.8 just to check MilkDrop (which turned out to be useless for my purposes). Why? Why something as simple as this doesn't exist?
Type Free Audio Spectrum Analyzer into Google, click the Images tab, and pick one you like.
That was almost too much thinking for me, think I'll go to bed.
In the late 1990s, every Acid Jazz lounge and many discos used Milkdrop, which should be still available and had thousands of presets. If it's not suitable for your needs, it was a staple of my adult social experience.
There was a free programmable software module for radio stations (not a visualizer) with voiceover and editable playlists from NCH and I'll look for it also on an old drive.
I honestly wonder if you need to start scripting something for you own specific purpose. This stuff has been available for a couple of decades.
List of electronic music visualizers
Atari Video Music, designed by the initiator of the home version of Pong, Robert Brown, and introduced by Atari Inc. in 1976.
Pixelmusic 3000,[8] open source music visualizer on a microcontroller, made by Uncommon Projects in 2008.
List of music visualization software
OpenCubic Player, PC/DOS Module file player with real-time STFT based music visualization from 1994.
Psychedelia (1984, Jeff Minter), an early "light synthesizer", did not use audio input but was designed to create visualizations in accompaniment to music.
Virtual Light Machine (1990, Jeff Minter) (Platform: Atari Jaguar)
Cthugha (1993, Kevin "Zaph" Burfitt) (Platform: DOS)
Advanced Visualization Studio (Justin Frankel) (Platform: Windows)
MilkDrop (2001–2012, Ryan Geiss) reimplemented as projectM (Platforms: Windows, Linux, Android)
Music Animation Machine (1985–2013, Stephen Malinowski) visualizes MIDI, rather than waveforms.[9]
Neon (2004, Jeff Minter and Ivan Zorzin) (Platform: Xbox 360)
Visual Music Tone Painter (1992–2004, Stephen Nachmanovitch)[10]
Vsxu (2003–2014, Vovoid) (Platforms: Windows, Linux)
Magic Music Visuals (2012–2019, Color & Music, LLC) (Platforms: Windows, macOS/OSX)
List of media players supporting visualization
AIMP (AIMP DevTeam) (Platform: Windows)
Foobar2000 (Platform: Windows)
MediaPortal (OpenSource, Team MediaPortal) (Platform: Windows)
iTunes (2001, Apple) (Platforms: Mac OS X, Windows)
Winamp (Nullsoft/Radionomy) (Platforms: Windows)
Windows Media Player (Microsoft) (Platforms: Windows)
MediaMonkey (Ventis Media Inc.) (Platform: Windows)
Kodi (formerly XBMC) (Team XBMC) (Platform: Cross-Platform)
MusicBee (Steven Mayall) (Platforms: Windows)
K-Multimedia Player (Pandora.TV) (Platform: Windows)
Amarok (Open Source, KDE) (Platform: Cross-platform)
Totem (Open Source, Gnome) (Platform: Linux)
Clementine (Open Source) (Platform: Cross-platform)
Audacious Media Player (Audacious Team) (Platforms: POSIX)
VLC media player (VideoLAN Project) (Platforms: Cross-platform)
Xine player