Looking for SPEAR Spectral Editor
Can someone please help me locate a copy of SPEAR?
All hyperlinks seem to be dead ends. There's not much on its author, Michael Klingbell either. Feedback about using it with Max/MSP would also help.
Your assistance would be much appreciated.
it hasnt changed http://www.klingbeil.com/spear/
I was finally able to connect after using a different browser with my VPN disabled. Thank you for confirming that I had the correct address.
Export the SPEAR analysis file in 'text - partials' format. Read that file into a Max text object. Read the lines out. The first few lines give the format, point-type and number of partials. After that there are two lines for each partial: 1. the partial number, number of points, start time, and end time. 2. the partial data in the form of time/frequency/amplitude triplets. Use zl objects to parse all of this into a dict. The only limitation to this scheme is the maximum characters per line allowed in the text object. It will truncate the data if there are too many points in a partial. You could adjust the analysis parameters in SPEAR to limit the number of points in a partial.