A Closer Look at Resonic Player
Resonic Player is a fast audio and music player, directory player, and sample browser, built around a big waveform view, a frequency analyzer, and a musical spectrum.
The Player version is free for non-commercial and non-profit use.
Meet the Waveform
The Resonic user interface is built around a big waveform seek bar for a visual representation of the audio content.
A custom browser and file list provides quick access to your folders and files.
You can jump to any position in your audio or music files with a click into the waveform.
Look here if you're interested in advanced features of the Pro version.
Find out how the Pro features compare to Player features in the Product Comparison Chart.
Planned features for future versions can be found here: Development Road Map
Player Features
Ridiculously Fast
Resonic makes extensive use of multi-core processing. Every important part is optimized for speed, which results in extremely fast browsing, seeking, and playback.
Lightweight
A couple of files, a few megabytes, low memory footprint, and tidy use of disk space.
No bloated runtime packages are required.
DLL files are not loaded on startup, but whenever they are required, which tailors memory usage to your behavior.
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Single-Click Interface
A single Left-Click navigates folders, plays files, seeks in audio, changes volume. No need to double-click just for the sake of it, but optionally available.
No-Click Scrolling
Move the mouse over controls and use the wheel to scroll lists, or to change volume. No need to click them first.
Embrace your Keyboard
Once you know the basic shortcuts you'll see how fast and comfortable keyboard-supported operation of Resonic really is.
Play your folders instantly
Resonic plays all your music and sound files directly out of existing folder structures.
While library support will be part of Resonic you are never forced to use any kind of library system. Since music libraries usually rely on tags they can easily end up being a confusing mess unless these tags are maintained properly.
Many users do actually prefer to organize their music into folder structures, most commonly on external drives.
Browse your samples
For audio professionals, it is vital to have a powerful preview tool at hand. Sample CD/DVD structures can be tedious to browse through. Even more so are sample libraries and collections as they tend to become huge fast.
Resonic has its origins in this particular field of work and will certainly become an invaluable asset when it comes to your everyday work.
Also, see Resonic Pro.
Fully Portable
Resonic was developed with full portability in mind:
Put the portable version on a thumb drive or USB disk, take it with you, and have it remember separate settings for the computers it is run on — no configuration mix-ups.
Full Drag & Drop
Drag & Drop the playing file into Windows Explorer, or into most other applications that accept audio files,
which includes popular DAWs, audio editors, or video editing software.
Professional Version
An advanced version of Resonic specifically aimed towards audio professionals and enthusiasts is also available.
Learn more: Exclusive Pro Features
Optimized for Windows 10
Resonic supports Windows 10, 8, 8.1, 7, and Vista, but is highly optimized for the latest version of the operating system.
Command-Line Support
Resonic supports several command-line options that make clever use of running instances.
Learn more: Command Line
Visualization Types
Waveform
A visual representation of the audio content in various styles. Here's the three main styles (solid, gradient, outline):
Frequency Analyzer
The real-time analyzers in Resonic are optimized for a very musical display of the playing audio material. And despite the fact that the free version's analyzers are very basic, they are always nice to look at.
The logarithmic analyzer represents mainly low and mid frequencies. Watch the bass wobble.
The linear analyzer represents mainly the higher frequencies.
Other Features
Playback Modes
Play your files sequentially, randomly, stop after the current file, or loop the current file.
A-B Repeat
Mark and repeat parts of tracks.
Great for musicians, music students, vocalists, e.g. when learning certain parts of a piece.
Sleep Timer
Close the player, put your computer to sleep (standby) or into hibernation, log you off, lock your workstation, or stop playback after a certain time has passed.
Taskbar Integration
Quick controls and a playback progress bar in the taskbar on Windows 10, 8.1, 8, and 7.
Looping Short Files
Resonic is capable of looping extremely short files, down to single-cycle waveforms, seamlessly.
Maintaining Playback Position
Continue playing another file at the current file's playback position.
Great for quickly previewing a lot of music, or for comparing various versions of mixes and masters.
Playing MIDI Files
Resonic supports playback of Standard MIDI files (.mid .rmi, .kar) and comes with the built-in ResonicGM sound bank and an integrated soft synth which provides good quality in a lightweight package and is optimized for quick auditioning.
External Soundfonts (.sf2) can be used, with live switching during playback.
DSD Stream Files (Sony DSF).
DSD Interchange File Format (Philips DSDIFF)
Advanced Audio Coding (MPEG-4)
Windows Media Audio Professional
Windows Media Audio Lossless
rendered through integrated software synthesizer using our ResonicGM sound bank
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