This Sound Byte gives you sliders to control the parameters of a GranulateSteady UGen, which allows you chop up a sound as it plays. I’ve created a loop from the song Again and Again by The Bird and The Bee, which will hopefully get annoying enough that you’ll want to chop it into indiscernibility. The buttons along the side let you set the range of the sliders from quite small, to a full second.
From the pingbacks, a post about 3D Soundclash:
In February 2010, the Red Bull Music Academy prompted Warp Records and Ninja Tune for a Soundclash on a 3D sound system, staged in the Loading Bay of the Royal Albert Hall. FIELD developed a generative real-time application especially for this event, which motion designers Quayola and Thomas Traum used to design and perform soundreactive visuals for the sets of Plaid, Clark, Mira Calix and many more.
Further down in the article it mentions that the application was built with Processing and uses Minim for the “sound interaction”.
Eventually, we plan to add a UGen to Minim that will allow you to control the generating speed of any other UGen, but that got me thinking about how you might do something similar with existing components. So, I struck upon the idea of using an Oscil as a looping sampler by using an audio file as the Waveform and setting the frequency of the Oscil to be very low. The fun thing about this is that if you set the Oscil to a negative frequency, the sound will play in reverse. Additionally, I thought it’d be fun to be able to automate the changing of the frequency by having an LFO control the frequency of each Oscil (left and right channels of the original audio file). So here’s a sketch that lets you play with this setup:
I’m picking my way through Real Sound Synthesis for Interactive Applications by Perry R. Cook (one of the authors of the STK) and decided to start making small apps to demonstrate the different kinds of synthesis he covers in the book. This first one let’s you set the variables of a mass-spring-damper system and then trigger it, which is exactly the same as setting the coefficients of a two-pole IIR filter and sending an impulse into it (as it turns out). Check it:
I am happy to announce the arrival of Minim 2.1.0 BETA.
This is a beta build of the next release, which contains the new UGen framework developed by myself and Anderson Mills through his project at Numediart. There are still a few loose ends to clean up, primarily documentation related, but we expect to have everything wrapped by the end of June. Until then, feel free to give this build a whirl and see how you like the new real-time synthesis capabilities made possible by the UGen framework.
At this time, all of the documentation is in the form of Javadocs, which are included with the download. I hope that you find the docs for the UGen framework clear enough to get started. If not, there are also quite a few new examples included in the download that demonstrate how to use many of the UGens and how to programmatically sequence sound.
To install this release, you will simply unzip the archive into a folder named libraries in your sketch folder. This folder may already exist if you’ve installed other libraries not included with the Processing download; create the folder if it doesn’t exist. By installing this release in your sketchbook’s libraries folder, you will make Processing use this release instead of the release included with Processing. All of your existing sketches should still work. If you find one that doesn’t, please create an Issue on Github.
Have fun!
Things have been quiet around here, but hands have not been idle.
Anderson Mills has been hard at work on features for the next release of Minim. His project at Numediart to build a Unit Generator framework for Minim has made fantastic progress. On Tuesday, we plan to merge these changes back into the main Minim repository and release a Beta build. As usual, documenting is the hardest part of the job and we wanted to give people the chance to work with the new music programming features while we chew through that.
Meanwhile, I’ve created an app for the iPhone with Heather Kelley and Amanda Williams that is currently part of an art show in Hong Kong called Technosexual Bodies. The app is called Body Heat and I will be posting more news about that soon, I hope.
Finally, as hinted at in my previous post, I started work on a C++ port of Minim. It’s only in the beginning stages and it’s only functional enough to be useful for the iPhone app, but you are welcome to have a look at the repository. I’m making no promises about when the port will be finished, only saying that it will be finished at some point. If you’d like contribute to the port, make a fork at Github and have at it!
Minim on Github
The project with Numediart has gotten off to a great start. I’m excited about the additional music programming capabilities that will result from that work. However, the beginning of the project has already brought a much needed improvement to Minim: a better way for people to contribute to the project. I’ve been developing Minim pretty much solo and working in an undisclosed Subversion repository. My intent had been to eventually make that repository publicly known, but I had not figured out a good way to review changes that people might make before committing them. Github was suggested to me as a good site for managing this sort of thing and we decided to try the process out by using Github for the Numediart project. My initial experience with it has been fantastic, so I plan to keep Minim there. Visit the project page to see what it’s all about:
If you would like to contribute to the development of Minim, all you need to do is create a Github account and click the Fork button on the Minim project page. This will create a branch of the project that you can push to. When you’ve fixed a bug that’s been bothering you, or create a new feature that you think is worthy of being included, you simply send me a pull request and I will be able to review your patch and accept it or not. Totally sweet, I say.
Building Minim
I develop Minim in Eclipse, so the repository is structured such that you can clone it into your Eclipse workspace and then import it as an already existing project. Here are the instructions for acquiring and building Minim, if you fork the project, you’d follow these same instructions but use the “Your Clone URL” from the fork you create. Keep in mind that Eclipse doesn’t support two projects with the same name in the same workspace.
What you will need:
What you will do:
I am happy to announce the release of Minim 2.0.2! Download and installation instructions are available on the project page. Here’s what’s fixed and new, which you will also find in the changelog.txt file included with the distribution:
Fixed Bugs:
New Features:
I am close close close to releasing 2.0.2! Today I wrote a couple new examples to demonstrate a couple additional features that have been added and I made sure the javadocs all looked good. Then I got sidetracked by writing a song. Well, so it goes, one doesn’t say no to songwriting when inspiration strikes. So! I plan to do the release tomorrow. As mentioned, there won’t be a whole lot new in this release, but a number of nasty bugs have been fixed. A full run down of what’s been fixed and what’s new will be provided with the release.