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    copied!<p>I am trying to create a graphical spectrum analyzer in python.</p> <p>I am currently reading 1024 bytes of a 16 bit dual channel 44,100 Hz sample rate audio stream and averaging the amplitude of the 2 channels together. So now I have an array of 256 signed shorts. I now want to preform a fft on that array, using a module like numpy, and use the result to create the graphical spectrum analyzer, which, to start will just be 32 bars.</p> <p>I have read the wikipedia articles on Fast Fourier Transform and Discrete Fourier Transform but I am still unclear of what the resulting array represents. This is what the array looks like after I preform an fft on my array using numpy:</p> <pre><code> [ -3.37260500e+05 +0.00000000e+00j 7.11787022e+05 +1.70667403e+04j 4.10040193e+05 +3.28653370e+05j 9.90933073e+04 +1.60555003e+05j 2.28787050e+05 +3.24141951e+05j 2.09781047e+04 +2.31063376e+05j -2.15941453e+05 +1.63773851e+05j -7.07833051e+04 +1.52467334e+05j -1.37440802e+05 +6.28107674e+04j -7.07536614e+03 +5.55634993e+03j -4.31009964e+04 -1.74891657e+05j 1.39384348e+05 +1.95956947e+04j 1.73613033e+05 +1.16883207e+05j 1.15610357e+05 -2.62619884e+04j -2.05469722e+05 +1.71343186e+05j -1.56779748e+04 +1.51258101e+05j -2.08639913e+05 +6.07372799e+04j -2.90623668e+05 -2.79550838e+05j -1.68112214e+05 +4.47877871e+04j -1.21289916e+03 +1.18397979e+05j -1.55779104e+05 +5.06852464e+04j 1.95309737e+05 +1.93876325e+04j -2.80400414e+05 +6.90079265e+04j 1.25892113e+04 -1.39293422e+05j 3.10709174e+04 -1.35248953e+05j 1.31003438e+05 +1.90799303e+05j... </code></pre> <p>I am wondering what exactly these numbers represent and how I would convert these numbers into a percentage of a height for each of the 32 bars. Also, should I be averaging the 2 channels together?</p>
 

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