Development Tool Pixelbender
April 24th, 2009
Bothering about the Pixel Bender Toolkit? It is just a pain in the ass to work with an code editor that even does not provide simplest text selecting features as textEdit.
Joa Ebert developed a very nice Eclipse Plugin for Pixelbender coding, which also compiles Pixelbender code before compiling and launching your SWF. This saves a LOT of time. There is no need to open the Pixel Bender Toolkit at all.
Last thing I am waiting for is a command line compiler from Adobe to allow one and two channel inputs. That would be great for audio processing. I am pretty sure, Joa would implement the compiler in no time.
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ToneMatrix arrived in Hobnox AudioTool
April 17th, 2009
Okay, we did it. The same simple ToneMatrix is now implemented in the Hobnox AudioTool. To be honest, I wish we had more time to add more features to it, but at least you can mix now the little cute toy with drumcomputers, the bassline and add a couple of effects. Furthermore, as a registered user of Hobnox you are able to record your session and upload it in the community.
Some new features besides:
- Better performance while scaling the desktop
- Autoconnect (Removing an effect device will connect the source and the target automatically
Alongside we have completely rewritten the audio engine form the scratch, which is not part of the update. This already allows us to add automation and modulation. The audio event system is running with its own garbage collection, pooling all events to reduce glitches from the real garbage collection.
Furthermore there is event postprocessing (Ever heard a super-mario midi file shuffling?). We are working hard to make 1.0 a serious application. I cannot wait to see, what you guys will do with all that new stuff.
Listen to what our team member Alan Ross did with it:
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Hobnox AudioTool update out of the oven
October 15th, 2008
Wheeeee! We are on. Excited!
DAMN!!! The latency is way off with the latest Flash Player 10. I am so disappointed!
Update
Well, this is a weird consequence of Adobe not informing developers when things have changed. I will make a detailed blog post on this next days. In fact, the latency is great somehow okay when you consider the new changes to the Sound API.
Audiotool requires Flash Player 10.
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Hobnox AudioTool Update ahead
October 13th, 2008
Hobnox announcement
The news have been floating within team Hobnox for some time now and we can finally announce the news about the update of the Audiotool Beta that we're about to roll out in the upcoming days. We're still waiting for Adobe to release the new Flash Player but will share the details with you anyway. Speaking of Adobe, it really looks like the 'Make Some Noise' campaign was successful as you'll read below and that Adobe finally managed to make some noise. Nice. Thanks to everyone who supported the developers.
New Features
- Java applet is removed. Entire signal flow including sound output done in Flash
- Complete refactoring of the CoreAudio programming
- Optimized all plugins DSP code
- Live session recording - Vorbis encoding - Hobnox Library upload
- Plugin Shelf - add/remove plugins at runtime
- New Plugins: Slope, Gate, Phaser, Merger, Splitter
- Short overview of all features on startup
The Future
- Sequencer (Notes, Automation, AudioTracks)
- Remix stuff - Collaboration
We are set
I am quite sure we can launch our update the same day the Flash Player 10 ships.
We are probably the first forcing the user to upgrade to Flash Player 10. But I am also sure nobody will refuse.
Rock'N'Roll
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Reminder – FDT World Roadshow Prelude
September 25th, 2008
Register now for the free (!!) FDT Roadshow 2008 Prelude in Boston. The first 30 attendees signing up will receive a free FDT 3.1 Basic license. The FDT guys will send you a confirmation and will keep you up to date regarding useful information on the event and the roadshow.
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Launching for Flashbelt in Minneapolis
June 4th, 2008
I am looking forward to this years Flashbelt 2008 in Minneapolis. This is the second time I attend the conference. Organizer Dave Schroeder is doing a great job and I am quite sure the conference and parties will be as extraordinary as last year. Besides Shawn Sheely will be organizing the Minneapolis bicycle tour again. Looking forward for this as well!
My session will be about dynamic sound in Flash, of course. I've added details briefing regarding the changes in FlashPlayer 10 in my slides. I hope to spare the sound system this time, so you will be able to get the full experience of our Hobnox AudioTool Demo, I am going to present more elaborately.
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Tinic Uro – You Rock!
May 15th, 2008
Tinic Uro implemented a low-level sound API to pass Actionscript generated audio data to the sound card in the FlashPlayer 10. Needless to say, that we are all celebrating the next big thing in Flash.
Read on at Adobe, MAKE SOME NOISE | Countless more delightful features in FP10
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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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