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Tone generator
Test tones and beeps, as WAV.
What it does
Makes a test sound, plays it and downloads it as a WAV file (24-bit, lossless), ready for Premiere, Resolve, Final Cut or a DAW.
The sounds
- Tone: a pure sine, 1 kHz by default; or a square, sawtooth or triangle wave (no harmonics above half the sample rate: no aliasing). At −20 dBFS (SMPTE) or −18 dBFS (EBU), it’s the reference tone at the head of a master, with the bars of the Test pattern tool.
- Sync beep (2-pop): 1 kHz for one single frame, at your frame rate. Put it 2 seconds before the first image to line up sound and picture.
- Bleep: the beep that covers a swear word.
- Sweep: from 20 Hz to 20 kHz, to hear what speakers or headphones really play, and find what rattles.
- Noise: pink (the reference to match levels, it sounds even to the ear) or white (brighter).
Good to know
- dBFS: 0 is the loudest a file can go. The level is the peak of the tone; noise has the same power.
- 48 kHz for video, 44.1 kHz for music.
- Why WAV rather than MP3: MP3 alters test sounds and adds a short silence at the start, which breaks a sync beep.
- On a computer, Space plays or stops.
Free, no account, nothing is sent: it runs in your browser, even offline.
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