Each one is very effective with regard to the purpose it was developed for, but turns out to be limited when I want to work in different ways or when I want to have the best features of 2 software at the same time. Hence the second objective of EAnalysis: fewer tools but tools that are developed to be useful for the analyst. Of course this piece software cannot be considered as panacea but it will propose new tools to work with drawing and analysis.

Traditional software propose various drawing tools and sometimes some shapes that refer to analytical units but they do not offer any help to use them. The people who analyse electroacoustic music are varied. They may be musicians who want to create an analysis of mixed music interpretation, specialists of electroacoustic music who want to create their own analytical method, students who use such software to learn how music is organised or structured, or teachers who want to use them to work on listening with their students. These different types of people need intuitive software to work in different ways.

Based on that, I imagined a new piece of software that can be used in different ways. Here are some of its features:

1. You can work with different types of views: time/frequency, animation (e.g. to represent motions in space, installations, or soundwalk), map of sounds/representations (e.g. to create a mind map with sounds, or a paradigmatic table), image view (to show score of mixed music or any image), chart view (to represent the variation of some parameters from various data).
2. You can analyse one or several audio or video files in each project, thus allowing multitracks works or comparative analysis.
3. You have at your disposal all the drawing tools that you need to create representations or to modify all shapes without having to redraw your whole representation.
4. You have access to 4 work modes: “normal mode” to add graphic shapes like in any other software or analytical events, “text mode” to annotate while listening to music, “drawing mode” to use a graphic tablet or an interactive whiteboard to draw your ideas, and “play mode” to use during a presentation of your analysis with interactive events.
5. You can add graphic events or analytic events. Graphic events are very common shapes like text, rectangle, ellipse, line, polygon, etc. Analytic events are graphic events with analytic parameters to analyse music with different methods like sound objects, spectromorphologies, functions, temporal semiotic units, etc. Each analytic event contains a help file (text, sound examples, web page) to guide your analyse work.
6. You can attach analytic parameters to any event to analyse specific criteria like gain, gait, morphology, space position or motion, etc. Analytic parameters can modify the representation like with a style sheet. This system allows the user to try various types of representations.
7. The release version will contain an expert system to guide the user through the various types of analytic events.
8. You can edit your own analytic events and share them with other users.
9. Of course, you can export your work in different formats: image, PDF, movie with one or several views, text file, XML file. You also can export in EAnalysis format without audio/video files and sonogram images if you do not own the rights of the media.
10. Links to other software like Audiosculpt, Acousmographe, or Sonic Visualiser are also planned.