Virtual ANS is a software simulator of the unique Russian synthesizer ANS - photoelectronic musical instrument created by Evgeny Murzin from 1938 to 1958. The ANS made it possible to draw music in the form of a spectrogram (sonogram).




spectrogram is described as 'This program can display waveforms and spectrograms for audio files, as well as the reverse process, converting spectrogram images back into audio' and is a Audio Editor in the audio & music category. There are three alternatives to spectrogram for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best spectrogram alternative is Virtual ANS, which is free. Other great apps like spectrogram are PhonoPaper and Photosounder.
Virtual ANS is a software simulator of the unique Russian synthesizer ANS - photoelectronic musical instrument created by Evgeny Murzin from 1938 to 1958. The ANS made it possible to draw music in the form of a spectrogram (sonogram).




PhonoPaper is a camera app for playing pictures with encoded sound (PhonoPaper-codes). With this app, you can also create your own codes: 10 seconds of sound can be recorded from a microphone and converted into an image.




Photosounder is the first audio editor/synthesizer to transform any sound as an image and to create any possible sound from an image. It have an entirely image-based approach to sound creation and editing.
