The sherman endwork project revealed...

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4 the Mac  try "Metasynth".

Harry Bissell wrote:
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> Project Ideas ???
> 
> <blonde mode on>
> 
> "A Guitar Synth interface with Zero tracking delay ???"
> 
> <blonde mode off>
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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:
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> > 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