Wormhole in Jamoma

Tim Place has posted a very interesting idea about handling presets and time: We both came up with what essentially the same idea expressed in different ways. An interface where the Z-axis represents the progression of time. In terms what the user sees at any given time, it is like a single frame of a movie. Each frame then would represent the state or algorithm representing the state of the relevant Max patches or Jamoma module....

January 26, 2007 · 1 min · 168 words · ARJ

NOVINT Falcon

{.imagelink}NOVINT has finally got around to release Falcon the much awaited first, cheap haptic controller. I have my doubts about how solid the thing is, at least when I know how fragile the many times more expensive Phantoms are. Nevertheless, Falcon will finally introduce haptics to everyone.

January 16, 2007 · 1 min · 47 words · ARJ

Tim Place on parameter control

Gregory Taylor has made an interview with Tim Place about Hipno. It is interesting how he comments about the Hipnoscope control: The Hipnoscope does something that I’m quite proud of, which is that it allows you to quickly audition a plug-in and some of its possibilities. But at the same time it really rewards those who are patient explorers that spend time really focusing on subtleties offers. I still find myself surprised at the results I get sometimes - the Hipnoscope creates this palette where there is an almost infinite range of subtlety with some of the plug-ins....

January 6, 2007 · 1 min · 188 words · ARJ

Music troll performance

{#image349}I performed with the music troll yesterday. It has been resting in the lab for a couple of months, and was a bit “rusty” to start up. What caused the biggest headache was to get my performance patches to work on my new MacBook. Last month I found that PeRColate was released as UB, but I hadn’t tested them. First I had problems making Max finding them, which seemed to be because of the source-folder resting in the path (thanks to mzed for the tip)....

December 8, 2006 · 2 min · 282 words · ARJ

v001

Vade has posted a system called v001 for Max/MSP: v001 is meant to help bring a structured method for building modular and reusable performance patches for Max/MSP and Jitter - it isnt a complete low level programming system like Jamoma (nor meant to replace it), rather an immediately useful set of pre-made objects and patching methodologies. I have found this architecure invaluable for rapidly creating new modules to expriment and integrate into my existing performance system, as well as being able to drastically alter the functionality of my performance patch while still being able to retain all of the previous effects ive generated, without having to re-code anything....

December 4, 2006 · 1 min · 166 words · ARJ

WiiMote used as a mouse on windows

This video shows WiiMote used as a mouse on windows.

December 4, 2006 · 1 min · 10 words · ARJ

YouOS: A Web Operating System

Jamie just pointed me to YouOS, an operating system running entirely within a web browser: YouOS and its applications run entirely within a web browser, but have the look and feel of desktop applications. An application’s code and data reside remotely but are executed and modified locally. This model allows for a great deal of freedom. You can edit a document at home in a text editor and then go to school or work and instantly access the same text editor and document....

December 4, 2006 · 1 min · 94 words · ARJ

Pd *is* a programming language!

Many people often question whether Max/MSP, PD and other graphical environments can be considered programming languages. Claude Heiland-Allen proves that PD is a full programming language by making an interpreter in vanilla Pd using no externals.

November 3, 2006 · 1 min · 36 words · ARJ

Tapestrea

TAPESTREA (or taps) is a unified framework for interactively analyzing, transforming and synthesizing complex sounds. Given one or more recordings, it provides well-defined means to: identify points of interest in the sound and extract them into reusable templates transform sound components independently of the background and/or other events continually resynthesize the background texture in a perceptually convincing manner controllably place event templates over backgrounds, using a novel graphical user interface and/or scripts written in the ChucK audio programming language leverage similarity based retrieval to locate other interesting sound components Taps provides a new way to completely transform a sound scene, dynamically generate soundscapes of unlimited length, and compose and design sound by combining elements from different recordings....

November 3, 2006 · 1 min · 134 words · ARJ

Arduino

Seems like the Arduino community is growing quickly. Arduino is an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple i/o board, and a development environment for writing Arduino software. The Arduino programming language is an implementation of Wiring, itself built on Processing. At the moment I am very happy with the Phidgets interfacekits for my electronics work, but as soon as I am done with my dissertation I will get into the Arduino/Wiring/Processing world....

November 2, 2006 · 1 min · 77 words · ARJ