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Since Flash doesn’t do MIDI I spent the last few months learning Java and rebuilt the pattern generator to add MIDI capabilities.
Euclidean MIDI Patterns
Posted in Java, MIDI Tagged algorithm, euclidean, java, midi, pattern, polyrhythms, rhythm 116 Comments
Euclidean rhythms update
E(5, 13) pattern
Here’s an updated version in which I rewrote the algorithm code. I checked it with several patterns and they all came out correct, so hopefully I have it right this time.
Posted in ActionScript Tagged actionscript, algorithm, audio, bug, euclidean, flash, pattern, rhythm, sequencer 2 Comments
Audio Editor 1.1
Audio Editor 1.1
Its new feature is the loop function. Toggle the loop button and playback loops between the start marker (S) and the end marker (E). Just like you’d expect.
Next to this single new feature there’s a new waveform display that I really like.
In the old version the waveform shape was rendered by drawing vertical lines next to each other for each pixel from left to right. The new version draws a much nicer vector shape that is less processor intensive as well.
Posted in ActionScript Tagged actionscript, audio, editor, flash, loop, snd, update, waveform 9 Comments
Euclidean rhythms
Euclidean patterns
Posted in ActionScript Tagged actionscript, algorithm, euclidean, flash, Godfried Toussaint, pattern, rhythm, sequencer 24 Comments
Audio Editor 1.0
A useful application!
I posted a lot of experimental stuff on this weblog over the past year. Or components that might have their use when built into proper applications. But this is my first web app that’s useful on it’s own.
This is a simple Flash audio editor that works in the browser. Everything it does is done by ActionScript code inside the application. There’s no backend that does the difficult work. So it would function just as well in the standalone Flash Player or exported as an Air application as it does in the browser.
Posted in ActionScript 4 Comments
Animation & audio synchronization
It’s not that easy to synchronize programmed animation and dynamic sound in Flash. To have something happen on screen at exactly the same time a sound starts to play.
I thought about it a bit and came up with two different scenarios where audio and visuals need to be synchronized:
- The first is where a sound plays and something visual on screen happens to accompany that audio event.
- The second is the other way around. Something happens on screen that should be accompanied by a sound.
In the first case the animation is the initiator, in the second case the sound. For the second case I included a Flash example here with the source code available.
Posted in ActionScript 5 Comments
Augmented reality and sound
Yes I know, it’s the hype of 2009 and we’re in 2010 now, but I haven’t seen anything yet where augmented reality is combined with sound. If you do know examples of augmented reality and audio, please leave a comment. I’d love to see what other people do with it.
This is a small experiment I started half a year ago but never finished. I looked it up again last week because I needed a Flash AR example for a project at work. Here I improved it a bit to make it more presentable.
Posted in ActionScript 12 Comments
MP3 Wave Display 2
MP3 wave display is orange.
Wave Display 2 is an improved version of the last one (in the previous post). A few things had to be rewritten in the code for waveform rendering, and there were some extra features I wanted to include to make the application a bit more interesting to use.
The new features in this version:
- Audio playback. You can now listen to the loaded MP3 file. Click ‘play mp3′ or press the SPACE bar to listen.
- Draggable start and end locators to select only part of the sound. Drag the ‘S’ and ‘E’ locators to set the start and end point.
- Reverse playback. Click the ‘reverse’ button to toggle reverse playback.
- Adjustable playback speed. Drag the ‘transpose’ slider to change the playback speed. The speed is adjusted so that the pitch changes from one octave down to one octave up in semitone steps.
- Drag to zoom. Press and drag the mouse on the display area for finer control: Drag vertical to zoom and horizontal to move the waveform. I always really liked this behaviour in Steinberg WaveLab where I first saw it, and where I now copied it from.
Posted in ActionScript 6 Comments
MP3 Wave Display
The waveform display
2010! A new year, a new decennium even! This year I want to be more consistent in publishing articles on this weblog. That’s my new year’s resolution.
The first one of the new year is more of a utility than a complete application. It’s a wave display; It loads an MP3 file and displays the sound as a graph of the waveform. It makes no sound. A simple waveform display like this might be a useful component in a larger application where audio needs to be edited. Here it’s on its own because I was figuring out how to best program such a component. So this application is more experimental than useful.
Posted in ActionScript 10 Comments
Euclidean Pattern Generator 1.1 – OSC support
Pure Data OSC test patch
The main new feature in this version is support for Open Sound Control (OSC). After the last version a great offer came from programmer Michael Heuer to collaborate and add OSC support to the application. So this part of the program is very much his work. You can view more of his projects on GitHub.
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