AudioPaint

Music and sound accompany us everywhere we go, be it in the form of songs or other forms of multimedia, such as feedback from the press of a button. These are all created using specialized applications. AudioPaint offers an alternative to conventional methods of generating sound and uses images to transform colors into sound waves.

With a simple, yet highly intuitive interface the application is sure to successfully put its spell on you. Once in its grasp, you most likely spend a significant amount of time experimenting with every image you find on your hard disk drive or download from the web.

Creation possibilities are further expanded by the abundance of highly-customizable effects you can apply to images. Found in the “Image” menu, effects range from simple grayscale and negative, or rotation and color adjustment, to smoothing, several types of blur, emboss, pixelate and more.

Regardless of your choice, a small window prompts for a value that indicates the strength of effect. Further options completely transform your image into lines, curves, dots conglomeration or doodles. Unfortunately, there are no drawing tools, but the amount of effects and customization options already provide unlimited options from a single image.

Generating sound is easily done at the press of a button. A preview automatically starts once the process is done, and you can even play it over and over again with a loop option. Probably the biggest advantage is a small feature which determines the length of your audio file. Thus, you can get ahold of a WAV file of customizable length, specified in seconds.

Exporting options are limited to the WAV audio format, and popular image types. With this in mind and available image processing tools, you can simply use the application to enhance an image and export it with applied effects, without even generating sound.

All things considered, AudioPaint fully lives up to expectation in providing a simple, yet incredibly powerful method of obtaining a wide array of sounds from any picture. The customizable length option gives you the possibility to use generated files for sound effects or even instruments to include in advanced audio processing applications.