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By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:14:46 +0000

Nothing beats the sounds of custom drums, but this thing is awesome!

By: Andre Michelle » Blog Archive » Air909 – First Air Application

Andre Michelle » Blog Archive » Air909 – First Air Application — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:35:45 +0000

[...] 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 [...]

By: Sherloq

Sherloq — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:33:28 +0000

Andre this is amazing. Thank you! any plans for making it VST?… would much rather use this than Drumazon…
But keep up the excellent work!!! Nuff Respect.

By: Grant

Grant — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 02:16:03 +0000

Amazing!!! Is there a link to the SWF file so it can be embedded or linked to on MySpace pages? I would love to have it there on my page (with a link to yours of course) so visitors could play with it.

By: nonnus

nonnus — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 04:46:31 +0000

hello
congrats on your amazing experiments

i have a tr 606 (sorry no 808 or 909) and tb 303 available for sampling if you wish ;)

in the meanwhile i have been conducting my own experiments with as3 and although they are not generating sound related they have todo with expanding sound capabilities, maybe you can point a solution :)

so here is my issue:

i have loaded a mp3 file data in a custom class item
but as i cannot get it to play as it is not a Sound class element…
neither can i load it into a Sound instance as the Sound class does not have a loadBytes method, only the load one that expects a URLRequest

i suppose nowadays pretty much is possible with as3, after seeing all kind of parsers, and expecially your tapping into the flash sound engine

i have tried a couple of possible solutions with no success:
i tried to cast my item as Sound trying the old __proto__, the new as3 casting methods, ApplicationDomain.getDefinition …, but got all sort of of coercion errors , etc…

the other solution was to try to implement a custom sound class with a loadBytes method like the Loader class has, but i could not get a way for this to work by trying to get it from a Loader instance, neither could i found the loadBytes method code anywhere on the net, probably adobe does not disclose all the as3 trickery that easily…

so i am still left with an element that has the mp3 data loaded but cannot do anything with it…

how do you think this can be done ?
is it even possible ?

at this time this does not seem so hi tech or farfetched that is impossible to do… expecially seeing the amazing stuff some people are doing with as3

once again thanks alot !

nonnus

By: Acid

Acid — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 06:29:35 +0000

Great stuff!! respect!! Can’t wait for the 303 and so on…

By: Jeff Johnson

Jeff Johnson — Mon, 28 May 2007 14:25:18 +0000

OMFG – i owned a 909 for 10 years. The Dudes in the studio here now cant believe how close you came to the real thing. They wont stop playing with it.

By: André Michelle

André Michelle — Sun, 27 May 2007 17:49:05 +0000

@Tek: Actually not, but it gets very unstable on high resonance. I think at the end I need to oversample the filter unit.

By: Tek

Tek — Sun, 27 May 2007 17:46:07 +0000

The TB303 sounds seems to be 16bit at 22050hz, right ?

By: ratty

ratty — Sun, 27 May 2007 16:25:21 +0000

this is beginings of acid house mmorpg!

By: André Michelle

André Michelle — Sun, 27 May 2007 10:21:19 +0000

@Freddy: I think an Apollo version would be better. But I don’t know, when I will have some time for.

Cause actually, I am rather looking forward to get a girl-friend for the 909. I found some hours yesterday to build a prototype. Since all parameters are controlled by code yet, I rendered out a preview as a Mp3. All 303 typical controls as Cutoff, Resonance, Envelope-Modulation, Decay and Accent are implemented and it runs already in sync with the 909.

preview

By: Freddy

Freddy — Sun, 27 May 2007 04:01:54 +0000

hey André, let it run on desktop please!! on Safari every 2 or 3 loops it starts to sutter a little :(

By: Rafeo

Rafeo — Fri, 25 May 2007 01:24:39 +0000

OMG!! It’s amazing!. Does Flash CS3 supports MIDIs too?.

By: holymoly

holymoly — Tue, 22 May 2007 12:32:33 +0000

wicked man!!!
sounds better than drumazon loool

By: ram

ram — Tue, 22 May 2007 08:27:25 +0000

aaah! sorry, my mistake! of course no bug! :)

thx
ram.

ps: i am having a party right now! bounce, bounce!

By: André Michelle

André Michelle — Tue, 22 May 2007 07:58:24 +0000

ram: don’t get it. You cannot hold SHIFT and click a step button to create an accent?

By: ram

ram — Tue, 22 May 2007 07:55:09 +0000

he andre, very nice! at some point, i cannot trigger the red led anymore (full punch)… only the yellows continue to work (half punch). is this a bug or a feature?

cheers!
ram

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 19 May 2007 14:20:18 +0000

I love watching your progress as you push the forefront of sound with in flash.

About those early house tapes from Detroit and Chicago, what tape are you talking about, i love to know the titles so i could try and find them?

Also Andre have you been to Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Muisc, It’s almost a college cousre of material and song samples.
http://www.di.fm/edmguide/edmguide.html

By: Castillo

Castillo — Wed, 16 May 2007 23:25:15 +0000

Yesss!
I luv what you created here! Respecte as the mann above said.

By: Andre

Andre — Wed, 16 May 2007 16:32:44 +0000

Wie immer. Respekt!