Wave Visualiser
Watch sound waves dance across your screen! See how different instruments create unique patterns and frequencies.
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Volume Metre
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🔊 About Volume
- • Volume measures how much the air moves
- • Bigger movements = louder sounds
- • Your ears detect these air movements
- • Whispers move air very little, shouts move it a lot!
🌊 Understanding Sound Waves
• Watch how sound waves travel through the air!
• The wave moves from left to right like real sound
• Higher frequencies create tighter, faster waves
🎯 How to Use the Visualiser
- 1 Make some sound: Use the floating audio interface or visit the Instruments page to activate audio.
- 2 Watch the waves: See how different notes create different wave patterns. High notes make fast waves, low notes make slow waves.
- 3 Try different views: Waveform shows the wave shape. Spectrum shows what frequencies are in the sound. Travelling shows how waves move!
- 4 Experiment: Compare different instruments. What makes a guitar wave different from a violin wave?
🎸 Guitar Fun Facts!
- • The thickest string (Low E) makes the lowest sound
- • Guitar strings are made of steel or nylon
- • You can play chords by pressing multiple strings!
- • The guitar body amplifies the string vibrations
🔬 String Science!
Notice how the frequencies double when you go up exactly 12 frets (one octave):
Try clicking both E strings and watch how their waves look different!
🎯 Try This!
- 1. Click the Low E string and watch the wave pattern
- 2. Now click the High E string - see the difference?
- 3. Try clicking strings from lowest to highest
- 4. Can you hear the pitch getting higher?
🎓 Learn About guitar!
Guitars have six strings tuned to different pitches. Longer strings vibrate slower and make lower sounds! The guitar body amplifies the string vibrations to create the sound we hear.
Try clicking different strings and notice how the wave patterns change in the visualiser above!
🔍 Compare the Instruments
🎸 Guitar
- • 6 strings (thickest to thinnest)
- • Frequency range: 82-330 Hz
- • Steel or nylon strings
- • Plucked with fingers or pick
🎻 Violin
- • 4 strings (tuned in fifths)
- • Frequency range: 196-659 Hz
- • Steel strings with wound G
- • Played with bow (usually)
🏝️ Ukulele
- • 4 strings (re-entrant tuning)
- • Frequency range: 262-440 Hz
- • Nylon or fluorocarbon strings
- • Plucked with fingers
🎯 Try These Activities!
🎵 Pitch Exploration
- 1. Play the lowest string on each instrument
- 2. Play the highest string on each instrument
- 3. Which instrument can play the highest notes?
- 4. Which has the deepest, lowest sounds?
🌊 Wave Watching
- 1. Play a guitar string and watch the wave
- 2. Play a similar note on violin
- 3. Do the waves look the same or different?
- 4. Try comparing all three instruments!
🧪 Quick Experiments
🎸 High vs Low
Play a guitar's low E string, then the high E string. Watch how the wave frequency changes - high notes have faster waves!
🔊 Loud vs Quiet
If using live mode, play your instrument softly, then loudly. See how the wave height (amplitude) changes with volume!
🎻 Different Instruments
Compare guitar, violin, and ukulele playing the same note. Notice how each instrument creates slightly different wave patterns!