Reminder - Hobnox AudioTool Party Live
May 15th, 2008
Associated with the Flashkonferenz08 in Cologne, Hobnox is inviting for a come-together next week. We will play some music live with the Hobnox AudioTool and I will also spin some records. First drinks are free for conference attendees - however everyone is welcome to join us!
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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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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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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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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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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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1000 comments can’t be wrong
July 11th, 2007
Thank You!
1000 comments in 163 posts since March 2005. Congratulation 'Mario Klingemann' for being the thousandth! Good to see, that we have some serious discussions going on here. Stay tuned.
Coming soon:
Splicemusic beta online (And this time I mean it) - My AS3 AudioHack goes open source
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OpenMoko Neo 1973: Free Your Phone.
July 11th, 2007
Finally a mobile, that makes sense. An open source mobile!
OpenMoko is a GNU / Linux based open software development platform. Developers have full access to OpenMoko source and they can tailor their implementations to underlying hardware platforms.
And it is a beautiy...
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Thou Shalt always Kill
July 2nd, 2007
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What the Flashbelt!
June 22nd, 2007
I am back in Germany - tired - but with a lot of memories of an awesome conference. I had a great time in Minneapolis and I felt welcome. All credits and a big thank you to Dave Schroeder, who has accomplished that. Everything ran so smoothly and he took great care of all of us. I hope you enjoyed my session - the feedback was great anyway. Hopefully to see you next year again!
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FlashZXSpectrum48k Flashemulator
June 14th, 2007
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Safari on Windows
June 11th, 2007
Short note...
Actually nothing works on Safari Beta. So you better wait until they have released a serious version.
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Flashbelt around the corner
June 10th, 2007
Only a few days left towards Flashbeltconference in Minneapolis. And still, we are heavily developing splicemusic - launch date is just around the corner! I will talk about audio programming in flex2, showing a lot of audio experiments and of course giving a depth inside view on the new version of splicemusic. In any case I am sure, that Flashbelt will be an outstanding conference and it is for me the first time visiting the states at all. I still wonder if they let me in...
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Lack of information about Flex Compiler
April 25th, 2007
Maybe I should calm down a bit, but it is really annoying not to find any adequate resources about flex compiler arguments or even how flex actually works. This time I wonder, if I am able to write compiler arguments into an Application class (like the SWF tag). Otherwise if I want to export a project with slightly different export settings, I had to create a new projects with slightly different compiler arguments and link the source folder to them. What a mess in my workspace!
Please Adobe:
Create more documents on the compiler settings and show AS3 examples as well. MXML is a pain to read.
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Generate Accessible SWF does not generate a SWF
April 25th, 2007
I am trying for hours to tell Flex, that I need an accessible SWF of my Flex-Library(There is a checkbox in the Actionscript Compiler options panel). But I only get a SWC file. So what is the deal ? Is there no solution to load a Flex Library at runtime without creating a new Project, where I merge the library into code ? The background is, that I want to exclude various classes with dependencies from my current project and export them into one SWF (without dependent classes) and load them in runtime. I want a simple solution without having XML exclude files or similar attacks on the compiler.
Joa pointed out, that the SWC is actually just a ZIP-file, where the SWF and a XML is included. So I tried to load the unpacked SWF and it seems to be possible, but no Event.COMPLETE or Event.INIT is fired. Now the magic: If I try to get my class after a setTimeout (to be sure the SWF is loaded), I effectively get the class. Furthermore both Events are fired after using getDefinition. How weird is that?
Any suggestions are welcome.
Here were my lovely code (as an Application class) to create a SWF with just one class (unfortunately not possible).
package { import flash.display.Sprite; [Compiler(include com.domain.package.ClassName)] public class LoaderSatisfier extends Sprite { public function LoaderSatisfier() { } } }
The goal were to have an Application class with some Meta-Tags to keep all classes except the certain classes from export into the SWF. What a timesaver!
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builtwithprocessing.org
April 25th, 2007
builtwithprocessing.org is a meta-sketchbook of online sketches which were built with processing.
As far as I can see, we are still far away from the performance, that Java provides. However Flash simply works, while Java's initialisation procedure is a pain. Nice browsing amusement anyway!
via eskimoblood
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Tomate oder Blut
April 12th, 2007
We finally got a new mixer for our flat. So I needed to turn the tables ;)
My recordcase is very old and a long time not updated, but however, there are some tracks, I still like.
Tomate oder Blut (tomato or blood)
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The Winstons - Amen Brother
March 11th, 2007
Did you know, that almost every a lot of drum'n'bass tracks are based on a single break in a funk song recorded 1969 by The Winstons ? Unbelievable, that I didn't know that before. A brilliant video explains the history of the 'Amen Break'. Thanks Mikko for the pointer :)
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The calm before the storm
March 6th, 2007
This is the obligatory “why I am not writing in my blog” post with the obligatory answer “cause I am very busy”. But this is for good. For almost 4 months now, we are coding the next generation (complete new approach) of splicemusic.com, an online music application tool for flash9player.
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Bytearray.org
January 4th, 2007
Thibault Imbert has launched his website bytearray.org with initially a few, but very interesting AS3 stuff. Actually I didn't expect, that a own written line draw algorithm is faster than the native ones. Good to know. Keep it up, Thibault :)
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New Audio Experiments added to laboratory
December 30th, 2006
Wavepole Synthesizer | EQ Filter | Playing with pulse harmonics | Synthesized Drumsounds
Mp3 examples:
Wavepole | Drums
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BumpTop 3D Desktop Prototype
September 14th, 2006
Nice idea, nice implementation. Awesome.
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Dynamic Sound - How to ?
August 2nd, 2006
The guys from flashcodersbrighton explain the technic, how you can replay your own waveforms in flash. Sources enclosed.
related posts:
blog.andre-michelle.com/2006/supermario-modplayer
blog.andre-michelle.com/2006/how-cool-is-audioprogramming
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How cool is Audioprogramming ?
July 26th, 2006
I'am a sound junkey. I can listen to a short sequence for hours, if there are slight modification over time. If you know Phuture "Acid Trax", than you know, what I am talking about. Now I have my own little toy. My first synthesizer with a random pattern creator and enough knobs to play a long time.
Yes! ...drums would be cool... effects and all that stuff... but for me, its complete... just engage in simple waveforms :)
Synthesizer (F9Player and fast computer are required)
update:
I noticed, that this posting has a lot of hits, so why not mentioning, that there are some new toys to play with?
live@popforge | lab audio category | preview of my synthesized 303 (mp3)
update2: audio sources are now open source
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AS3 - AudioCycleBuffer
July 22nd, 2006
After lots of crashes and frailties, I got today the solution for an audio-cycle-buffer (2047 samples). That means, it is possible to synthesize custom sounds and effects nearly in runtime (delay about 47ms). I have no *BIG* example here right now. Just the first running engine. It has a simple SWF embedded, where an empty wavfile is exported. This SWF will be parsed, modified and reloaded to create the sync- and the permanently changing cycle-buffer-sound. The class Cycle provides switching mono/stereo and 8bit/16bit, yet.
Sidenote to Frank: It's on you to bring the Roland TB-303 to Flash :-) And I have to mention e-phonic and david. They also tried to find a solution on dynamic sound synthesis in flash with pretty cool results.
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AS3 physics engine found on flashkit
July 18th, 2006
ozmic66 posted an AS3 physics engine, which seems to be rock solid.
Awesome work !
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Papervision - Great flash8 3d-engine
July 17th, 2006
Carlos Ulloa compiles some examples of his 3d-engine Papervision. The quality and the stage dimension of his examples are awesome. Even he works with linear-texture-mapping by the flash.geom.Matrix, the unfavorable distorsion is quite missing.
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