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.

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David Rowald captured me while playing around with the 909 and put it on youtube. Damm you ;)

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12 Responses to “Air909 - First Air Application”

  1. ohwhen Says:
    August 10th, 2007 at 1:44 pm

    Really nice. There goes my productivity down the drain…addictive. Any plans for an 808 version ( my favorite in the x0x series next to the 303 )

  2. André Michelle Says:
    August 10th, 2007 at 2:50 pm

    The 808 will be next. I have done several approaches on the TB-303, but I need the original one for analyzing the output. However, I already have the internal sequencer of the 303 perfectly emulated. The most difficult parts are the filters and their envelopes.

  3. J Says:
    August 10th, 2007 at 2:52 pm

    Great stuff. What’s the file extension to save out with? It doesn’t default to anything, and then won’t open the saved file.

  4. André Michelle Says:
    August 10th, 2007 at 3:00 pm

    @J: Make sure you save the file with the *.909 extension. I will fix this later.

  5. André Michelle Says:
    August 12th, 2007 at 3:18 pm

    Please update to the latest version. There was a serious playback bug, that causes clicks.

  6. Lars Says:
    August 15th, 2007 at 10:43 am

    Würde die 909 auch auf osx laufen

  7. Pedro Says:
    August 22nd, 2007 at 2:40 am

    This is getting better and better. And i’m so happy your also making a 303 :) wooohooo!! If you can also sync the 2 that would be perfect! Let me know how we can contribute!! even through donations cause your work is great and very much appreciated!

  8. Jonathan Says:
    December 31st, 2007 at 1:05 am

    Hey Andre I have to say I am amazed at everything you have done. You seem to have a talent for coding I wish I was half as good as you. These are the types of things I aspire to do myself one day but I fear I am a long way off being quite so good as yourself. May I ask how long you have been involved in programming in Flash?

  9. CJ Says:
    January 30th, 2008 at 6:27 pm

    This is so awesome!!!
    Please release source code so we can learn from you :)

  10. Tom Says:
    April 19th, 2008 at 6:10 pm

    Please update to the latest version.

  11. bertz Says:
    April 21st, 2008 at 12:39 pm

    As I try to install the air version of popforge, i get the following:

    This application requires a version of Adobe AIR which is no longer supported. Please contact the application author for an updated version.

  12. Kirb Says:
    July 12th, 2008 at 7:19 am

    Same as Bertz. I really would like to use this, but AIR won’t run it. If anyone does an update or finds a way to make it work, email me at kjohnst 91 @ yahoo (dot) com

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