27 February 2008

Slightly out of the Loop

I made a bunch of audio loops yesterday, none of which sound very good together. They all seem to have different beats and tempos and feels and so on. I suppose it would have been slightly more congruous had I figured out how to get csound to work and made my own stuff, but perhaps that is for another time.

Pretty much half the class have been trying to figure out how to manipulate sound in real time (again not following conglomerate LeeChrisPerrySpector's advice to "demo or die"), including us. Processing doesn't have methods for sound written into it, so several people wrote mostly incomplete libraries to ameliorate this, with varying degrees of success. Minim almost never has volume control, which is what we need. Brian apparently is using Ess to control the volume, but according to Lee (and the fact that I couldn't get the library to even load properly) its very unstable. Again we are walking the line.

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