The sherman endwork project revealed...

[Harry Bissell]

Project Ideas ???

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"A Guitar Synth interface with Zero tracking delay ???"

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H^)

BTW you should check out Fractint (freeware fractal program) which has fractal
audio
capability. Use an internal sound card, up to 9 voices, user specifies scale,
tempo, synth parameters....

If any of you software wizzes could port the output to the sound card MIDI output
(or have it write std. midi to a file... I'd be happenin...

Roel Das wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I talked to one of the guys that did their endwork for Sherman today. Their
> assignement was: programming of a floating point DSP: videosynthesizer. The
> DSP should take video images and get some audio out of it. (The other way
> around is also possible, and would be a really cool show, I think...) They
> didn't had the hardware to get in the video images, so they only finished
> the software for the conversion of one still image, programmed in the DSP
> memory with the computer.
>
> The way it sortof works: the image is divided into pixels. There are 180
> lines. Each line represents a frequency, and the color sets the amplitude.
> For example, a black line (max amplitude) on the bottom of a white page (min
> amplitude) would result in a wave at the lowest frequency.
>
> >From what I understand, this means that the conversion goes from one side of
> the image to the other side, and each line is a momentary image of the
> frequency spectrum of the signal...
>
> It doesn't have alot of musical possibilities, but the sound could be very
> inspiring, said the man. Maybe a nice random noise source, but quite
> expensive, right?
>
> I've also moved the midiCV project site. The same address will now lead you
> to a more complete site of my work. However, it's still under construction,
> and there's nothing but a link to the midicv rpoject at the moment... One of
> these days, I'll be putting pictures on it... Next week maybe...
>
> I'm putting together a working version of the midiCV for my presentation
> next week. A working version of the software still has to be written. This
> shouldn't be much of a problem, I've had every bit of the board working,
> just need to put the parts together, and have the midi messages correctly
> handled...
>
> Anyway, now you all know what sherman is up to. Last year I talked to
> Sherman on the phone about a possible project for me, I could do the video
> synth in Java if I wanted. I'm really glad I did the MIDI CV. And ytou've
> all been a great help...
>
> And a good friend of mine is looking for an endwork project too (for next
> year)... If anyone of you has a great idea, a project he can do for you, or
> on his own, let me know!!
>
> Thanks,
> Roel