Archive for the ‘Audio’ Category

A couple of days ago, a guy called Alfonso posted a comment on the Flash Midi Server page asking if the app could pass data from a midi controller to flash. FMS had always been designed to send out data – as I was originally interested in using Flash as the driving force for generative [...]

Another quick – post. I’ve been playing with the great SION AS3 sound library lately, but couldn’t find a list of all the instruments available. So here they are – all the ones that worked for me at least – ?View Code ACTIONSCRIPTvar waveArray:Array = ["sine","saw","triangle8","triangle","square","noise","snoise","konami","ma1","beep","ramp","valsound.bass1","valsound.bell1","valsound.brass1","valsound.guitar1","valsound.lead1","valsound.percus1","valsound.piano1","valsound.se1","valsound.special1","valsound.strpad1","valsound.wind1","valsound.world1","midi.piano1","midi.chrom1","midi.organ1","midi.guitar1","midi.bass1","midi.strings1","midi.ensemble1","midi.brass1","midi.reed1","midi.pipe1","midi.lead1","midi.pad1","midi.fx1","midi.world1","midi.percus1","midi.se1","midi.drum24"]; More details on SION here – http://sites.google.com/site/sioncenter/ And here’s [...]

For a couple of audio projects, I needed some nice musical scales, in midi note format (0-127). I couldn’t find a good list online, so had to knock together a quick script to trace some out. Here’s some that I’m using in a current project, and also the AS source to find any other ones [...]

Presenting my latest Flash Music Toy App Thing – Cellular AutoMidi! Cellular AutoMidi is a generative music app, making “music” based on a modified Cellular Automata algorithm. It’s an AIR app – YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT HERE FOR FREE! Check it out in action in the video below, first using Flash dynamic sounds, then using [...]

A few days ago I saw a sewing machine pedal in a charity shop, and wondered if I could turn it into a guitar effects pedal. Through a bit of re-wiring and few lines of Processing, it turns out you can. The hardest bit was getting the pedal apart! The pedal is basically a spring [...]


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  • Lawrie: Hi Dinaz, I'm not sure what's happening on your system I'm afraid. When you run the FlashMidiServer [...]
  • Dinaz Kardooni: Hi, I am having trouble with the Flash Midi Server. I downloaded it and it says it is connected, but [...]
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  • Anonymous: Yeah, had to do this first: var mc:MovieClip = MovieClip(this.parent); trace(map(mc.mouseY, 0, s [...]

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