Hobnox AudioTool Update
May 8th, 2008
We finally released an update on our cute Flash audio application - AudioTool Demo.
As promised we've added an emulation of the famous Roland TR808. Besides you'll find a new bitcrusher effect and a compressor with optional sidechain input.
For a better workflow we've added new buttons in the controlbar as undo/redo, three zoom states and a lock button to avoid accidental displacement of the editors.
It is still a demo, which means you cannot save your set. This is the most wanted feature we will address in the next update. A timeline to arrange modulation and pattern changes over time is in development too. Stay tuned!
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Interview and a nice video introduction about the Hobnox AudioTool
April 18th, 2008
Moritz Sauer from phlow asked me for an interview about the Hobnox AudioTool.
I was pleased to answer all his questions. Furthermore he recorded a video introducing the application. It is in German, however you may get the point anyway.
Hobnox Audiotool im Test from Phlow on Vimeo.
Read the full interview (in German)
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Official feature request - audio synthesis in Flash - Vote for it!
April 17th, 2008
We created an official feature request on the new Adobe public bugbase.
Please register and vote for the request. They will listen!
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/ASC-3298
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Hobnox Livestream re:publica Berlin
April 2nd, 2008
Hobnox is broadcasting the re:publica conference live from Berlin all three days.
Tune in - it has started already
http://www.hobnox.com/re-publica08
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Hobnox Audio Party - Flashforum Konferenz 08
March 31st, 2008
Ever joined a party, where the DJ is a FlashPlayer?
Joa Ebert, Kai-Philipp Schöllmann and I will have a live session with the Hobnox AudioTool on Mai, 22th in the Barracuda Bar (Cologne, Germany). I will also spin some old techno/house vinyls of mine. The first drinks are served by Hobnox for free.
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Hobnox AudioTool
March 29th, 2008
Finally you won't need an invitation or register anymore to play with the Hobnox AudioTool Demo. The next update is scheduled in 2 weeks, bringing the TR-808 and some new effect devices to the stage. Also good news: Martin Heidegger has joined the team. You may remember the opensource framework a2lib he was working on with Simon Wacker. Joining forces for the greatest Flash application I can imagine. If you havn't tested it yet give it a try now!
As a side note. We needed to change the domain name of our campaign Adobe, MAKE SOME NOISE. If you linked to our website please update the URL to http://www.make-some-noise.info.
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FDT 3.0 Enterprise released
March 29th, 2008
Powerflasher is proud to announce the final release of FDT 3.0! It took many months of hard work, tons of caffeine, red-rimmed eyes and some heated discussions to get there. With FDT 3.0 Enterprise you can debug your source-code like you might know it from your Java environment and the JDT. FDT’s debugger allows you to set breakpoints and analyse your code step-by-step. The second huge enhancement is the advanced refactoring. Tools like change method signature, extract interface or extract method helps you to easily alter your code.
Sounds great. It is no secret, that I support FDT, cause I really like developing with it instead of the FlexBuilder. Fortunately we all have an Enterprise version at Hobnox already ;)
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Adobe, MAKE SOME NOISE
March 16th, 2008
We do care!
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Hobnox AudioTool Guided Tour (Video)
March 12th, 2008
Finally we released our first video tutorial for the Hobnox AudioTool. You get a basic introduction of all devices and the desktop, where all comes together.
At this very moment I can spread around 25 invitation. So leave a comment with a valid email address and get started! And be so kind and fill out your profile, I like to know who you are.
Registration or invitation isn't required anymore!
Related posts:
Adobe - Make some noise!
Hobnox Audio Teaser - Come and register for private beta
The silent death of onSoundComplete event - a petition
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Flashbelt 08 - Envolving Flash Audio
March 12th, 2008
I am happy to announce my attendance on the Flashbelt 08 in Minneapolis as last year.
Thanks Dave Schroeder to invite me again.
I will continue my mission convincing Adobe to add dynamic audio features to the FlashPlayer. We are currently thinking loud to move our music application to the Java platform entirely since there is no feedback from Adobe yet and we can't wait much longer for a meaningful statement.
Adobe, make some noise!
I get used to Flash over the years, but that doesn't prevent me to switch.
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Away3D - A 3d demo convinces entirely
March 4th, 2008
We all know the current hype on papervision3d and I really admire the effort the whole team put into it. However I spend a lot of time talking to Fabrice Closier on the last Flash conferences and he pointed me to their latest demo. He almost let me forget, that we all still need to deal with linear texture mapping in Flash. The perspective texture correction is so convincing, I am really impressed. It is actually very difficult to keep control of it, while moving the camera close to polygons. So keep an eye on this engine as well. Great work, Fabrice!
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Adobe - Make some noise!
February 28th, 2008
I am back from FITC, a great conference first time organized in Amsterdam. Thanks for all the feedback regarding our new audio application. I think you all get the point, that we are very serious about doing a reasonable online music software with Flash. So everyone who was lucky to get one of the t-shirts: Please do us a favour. Make a picture of yours wearing the shirt, post it in the comments or even better send directly an email to Adobe attaching your message.
Adobe - Make some noise! We need native sound support as soon as possible!
Check out Joa Eberts first RMX, recorded live with our AudioTool!
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Hobnox Audio Teaser - Come and register for private beta
February 21st, 2008
We are about to launch a private beta of a new online audio application. Feel free to register at Hobnox. You should receive an invitation within a couple of days. We appreciate your feedback!
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WHITEVOID - havn’t seen good flash 3d work lately?
February 20th, 2008
Andre Stubbe is currently our designer on the hobnox audio application, we will launch in a couple of days. Is it possible, that a designer can do good programming as well? Check this out! This is recently launched work Andre did before joining our team. WHITEVOID is a nice example, that 3D navigation approaches can be a very intuitive experience.
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Colin Moock Tour in Germany
February 12th, 2008
Colin Moock comes to Germany to present some insights on AS3 and AIR. It is called From The Ground Up Tour, participating is free. His session in Germany is scheduled on the 20th Feb. If you can make it, don't miss it.
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I am Singularity
January 26th, 2008
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No freelance work anymore - as long as I hope to
January 10th, 2008
I have given up my freelance status right now. I have been employed at hobnox, where we are currently building an audio application, which definitely is the most ass-kicking stuff, I could ever build. I said that before? Well, you can test it for yourself in the end of february. We will launch a teaser application to have some fun without all features we have in mind. Damm - I wish I could show you right now. Amazing graphics, great dynamic signal flow with cables, awesome sound. Enough superlatives. Unfortunately, we still have issues with the onSoundComplete event, which really troubles me. Some of you won't have the experience, we have. However, this project is reliable for a long period, where we consistently add new features. Hopefully we will get some reliable sound features within an upcoming flashplayer version.
Another part of my new job is to lead the flash development team. It's a great team working on several projects and I feel very comfortable with the new responsebilities knowing the skill of all developers. I am a lucky guy!
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The silent death of onSoundComplete event - a petition
December 10th, 2007
History
Back in the year 2002, where FlashMX was introduced, I was pleased to see the new event 'onSoundComplete'. I had access to the beta version these days (cannot say where, cause I wasn't in the beta group). I found out, that it simply did not work as expected. The event should be triggered, when a sound was completely played, but starting a new sound on the very same event caused a small gap in playback. What was the point? The 'onSoundComplete' event was only triggered at the beginning of a certain minimal timeframe (2048 samples on a PC ~ 46ms / 44.1KHz). Macromedia didn't take my report seriously - more - they demanded that everything worked as expected. Well, no musicians worked at Macromedia those days.
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sMACs sMACs sMAC!
November 30th, 2007
Oh my, even I wanted to have a cute looking computer sometime and an os, which doesn't remind of its existence consistently. And after one day having Vista installed, the Windows world was crumbling and I was seriously looking for alternatives. And now it has happened. After 9 years of looking on Windows desktops, I have a brand-new MacBook Pro running Leopard. All I say is I'm pleased. It is good - and yes - maybe much better than I expected from a computer before seen by me as a toy.
One thing though. Does anyone know how to get aliased fonts in my eclipse environment without changing it for the whole OS ?
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Flash on the Beach
November 13th, 2007
I am back from Flash on the Beach in Brighton and also completed my move to cologne. Thanks to John Davey, who accomplished a wonderfull conference with an ingredible line-up and also invited me to present my latest audio stuff in Flash. I had a lot of nice discussions about my session with several people and the sound system was great to show the sound quality of the different audio processors, I've developed yet. Loud! I hope to be invited next year as well. I had a great time.
Get ready for classic Acid Tunes in spring 2008 and an incredible new audio application providing all the stuff I have shown somewhere in 2008 within your browser.
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Short video section from the Flashkonferenz in Cologne 07
October 30th, 2007
Rexel put together some example videos from the Flashkonferenz07 - DVD, including a lot of sessions of various speakers. Even you don't speak german you nevertheless get the chance to listen to some acid tunes I made inside the Flashplayer. You can see the continuation of my sound experiments at Flash on the Beach in Brighton in a few days.
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FDT 3.0 released
October 16th, 2007
Powerflasher released a brandnew AS3 version of their flash development tool FDT. I am already working with FDT3.0 in my current project and it is - as FDT1.5 - a huge timesaver in writing and debugging code. Lots of new features! No more Flex curiosities. Give it a try and install the try version.
We surely took our time but now we proudly present the most sophisticated Flash IDE you can think of. "Enjoy pure coding comfort" - that's what we had in mind when we first decided to put our efforts in developing the Eclipse plug-in for Flashcoders and that's still what we're aiming for. We're very happy to provide you with FDT 3.0 which is - in our view - the best FDT you've ever worked with. We enhanced some of the features you already love about FDT 1.5. Then we took this FDT version and amplified its advantages by adding some really cool new features.
AS3 support, individually configurable formatter, semantic highlighting and improved auto completion are only a few of them. The table at the end of this e-mail gives you the best impression on what has changed radically from 1.5 to 3.
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New project and my new TB-303
September 28th, 2007
Today my TB-303 arrived and I cannot wait to analyse this amazing little device, that changed the way of listen to music in my opinion. There is a good reason why I am doing this. I started a new project at hobnox in cologne (germany), designing a new audio engine mixing up old and new ways of synthesizing sounds together. The TB-303 obviously is my favorite. Just in time for the flashconference in cologne (it was great by the way) I could enhance the quality of my flash 303 clone highly. Thanks to Mike from Audiorealism for his valued hints.
Remember 1992 when Hardfloor released one of their best Acidtechno track "Acperience 1" ? Listen to that demonstration, I recorded live from the flashplayer. 3 TB-303 with a TR-909 (just one pattern) playing well together at 10 (in words ten) percent CPU!
I am sorry to tell you, that you have to wait until the new application will launch (summer 08).
Acid will revive - in your browser!
Here is another oldschool 303 pattern with some effects
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Free workshop at Extrajetzt (Berlin)
August 21st, 2007
Extrajetzt bietet am Freitag, den 24.8 einen kostenlosen AS3 Workshop an. Während sich die jungen Damen und Herren von Extrajetzt um euer Wohl kümmern werden wir einen Tag lang AS3 aus diversen Blickwinkeln betrachten. Das Programm macht ihr - ich improvisiere.
Bis Freitag!
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8Bitboy finally has a home
August 16th, 2007
Our cute Modplayer 8Bitboy has a new home at Kim's Lemon Amiga website dedicated to Amiga computers and games. You can browse through games and listen to their tunes. A perfect match. The actual 8Bitboy homebase has only a few visitors. I think most people still think it is a MP3Player with weird music. Well, you know better.
Lemon Amiga | Browse all games with music
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Popforge Updates
August 12th, 2007
Joa & I are very busy at the moment contributing more stuff to our little open source project PopForge. There are lots of new stuff in the line. For now, I recoded the 909 from the scratch - hopefully less CPU intensive and with better sound quality. The sound samples and grains are now stored into a single file, introducing Joa's compressing FurnaceFormat. Quite elegant!
Source code 909 GUI | Source code Popforge package (including 909 processor)
Furthermore I have updated the AIR version of the 909. You can now stream a Wavefile to disk while playing your session. If AIR will be some day as distributed as the FlashPlayer, we will have good times. I like it. Joa is also preparing FUI, a smart and simple GUI Creationset to build UIs in actually no time. This will be a huge timesaver for creating and debugging synthesizer and effect devices.
Rock'N'Roll!
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Guru Meditation Error (A history of the Amiga)
August 12th, 2007
Jeremy Reimer has written an exciting article about the history of the Commodore Amiga. The birth of this computer truly had some extraordinary attributes. This is also a story about Jay Glenn Miner, who made significant contribution to the Amiga chipset.
Read the article | Listen to Paula (Amiga Soundchip) with the 8Bitboy
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Air909 - First Air Application
August 10th, 2007
I decided to give AIR a try building my 909 as an AIR application. It comes now with a chromeless, shaped window and save/load functionality to store the whole content (including the parameter values) of the 909 permanently to your harddrive. I have rewritten the 909 engine for making it open source in the next time. Everything should sound as before, even better and less CPU intensive.
Make sure you have the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) installed.
Install Air909 and share your beats!
Please update to the latest version. There was a serious playback bug, that causes clicks.
NEW: Hold SHIFT while clicking START to save a WAV - stream directly to your harddrive!
Note: Make sure you save the file with the *.909 extension.
David Rowald captured me while playing around with the 909 and put it on youtube. Damm you ;)
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Splicemusic is online - DSP Audio with Flashplayer 9
August 6th, 2007
I admit, I am a bit late, but I needed some rest after 8 months of development. Splice is finally online! Truly Splicemusic is an awesome Web2.0 application. The audio gap is closed. However this could only be a start. Splice is extendable, working with a Plugin API developed by Bram de Jong. Yes, its true - unfortunately I didn't have my hand on the audio core engine (except the 404, hehe), but believe me, Bram was and is the best man for this. He has a huge background in DSP programming, developing professional VST plugins. He learnt AS3 in three days!
So then, I was alone responsible for the whole UI and this was the worst trip I ever had. Starting as an actual newbie in complex design patterns and even AS3 was young, this application was my baby beneath my nightmares. There are nice things implemented as a liquid layout engine (try resizing) and an Action design pattern (thanks to Carsten Müller for this one), editors and device views for almost everything controllable (don't forget to try the modulations!). Together with Bram, we wired all that stuff together into an application with more than 800 classes and countless lines. Thanks to version control, I could still work in chilly Berlin, while they was making party in Barcelona ;)
Splice has some ass-kicking new features, that you never saw in your browser. Based on the famous audio hack we provide realtime synthesizer, realtime effect plugins, realtime time-stretching and what not. A lot of small helpers are integrated everywhere and the team is still posting the features in our blog. Give it a try and let us know.
A big Thank You for Extrajetzt in Berlin, who supplied the whole graphic design in actual no time! Guido and David did an awesome job here. And I thank Bram, Mikko, Antti, Amiee, Ingrid and the rest of the team for giving me support in wicked times.
related external entries
create digital music | artswom | brokenfunction | jvm-neckar
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Speaking at Flash on the Beach 07
August 4th, 2007
John Davey invited me today to speak at Flash on the Beach in Brighton. I am excited to join this amazing line-up, he put together this year. Still I will speak about dynamic audio programming with AS3, introducing some new examples made with Joa's and my open-source package popforge. I will care about a good sound system! First time in UK...is it possible?
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Flashforum Konferenz 2007 (Germany)
July 18th, 2007
Wunderbar. Wie jedes Jahr freue ich mich auf die Flashforum Konferenz, diesmal in Kölle. Ich werde einen Vortrag über Dynamic Audio Programmierung halten, passend zum Launch unseres Open Source Projektes. Es gibt natürlich eine Menge mehr zu erzählen als letztes Jahr.
Vorschläge für Vorträge und Workshops könnte ihr hier anmelden.
Wir sehen uns!
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Popforge Opensouce Project
July 18th, 2007
Acronym POP
Joa Ebert and I started a new code.google.com project to have a better organization of our open sources.
Popforge is an Actionscript 3 code sandbox started by Andre Michelle and Joa Ebert.
Not all of our projects made it to here. We have a lot in the pipe we want to share with the community but still want to assure high quality content. Currently you will find the audio library sources online.
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Little Planets
July 14th, 2007
So cute
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