The amazing ride of ToneMatrix
April 11th, 2009
This proofs it. The simpler the better.
I visited the Frankfurter Musikmesse 2 weeks ago and played with the Yamaha TENORI-ON. I thought, it would be much nicer when the triggered notes would force a wavemap to oscillate. It took me just a few hours to implement. The sound generation is basically a polyphone synthesizer with a simple delay with a variing read-offset to make the tones vibrating in the end. I am already addicted for myself to the cute sequences it always generates.
After uploading it on my laboratory the run began. I am counting more than 250.000 impressions, endless feedback, suggestions and even videos on Youtube. I will definitely put the sequencer in our AudioTool. But don't expect an update before autumn. We are trying to make 1.0 a serious music application with sequencing, automation, modulation, audio-tracks, synthesizers and what not. So there is no time to enhance this little toy. But I have added at least Clipboard support to let you save your pattern to sequence of numbers. Unfortunately the audio output is very glitchy when the context-menu is running.
Audio is the next big thing in Flash.
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AudioTool Win Flashforward Award 2008
August 28th, 2008
Hobnox AudioTool win the Flashforward Award in the Sound category. Great!
Meanwhile we are quite busy on our next update. Stay tuned.
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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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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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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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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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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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Umz tzz Buzz tzz Umz tzz Buzz
May 13th, 2007
Finally I found some time to start another dream project of mine. Remember 1984 where Roland released the TR-909 drum machine? Well, probably not, but I remember 1988, where the first tapes (remember, do ya?) from Detroit and Chicago arrived with some ass kicking beats. Truly, a lot of house and techno tracks to date are based on the sound of Rolands TR909.
More than 20 years later it is time to start X0X-emulation in flash. I just finished my first approach and too proud – I figured out the design on myself. The instruments from the emulation are all sample based. But the bassdrum and snaredrum have a special role. They are based on a very short waveform to provide the pitch envelope the original has. The snare drum noise is created by a noise algorithm I found somewhere and is modified by a highpass-filter. Actually to bring it more close to the original I need the original TR909 to analyse the sounds. My model was Rebirth and I think it sounds already different than the original.
Live should be enhanced in future. I would like to add a SH-101, MC-202 or a TB-303, also produced by Roland even earlier than the TR909. And of course, this could be an endless game with recording parameter modulation and so on. But we are still developing Splicemusic, where I hope to embed the emulation as a plugin.
You should read the instruction. There are some hints using the shift-key in certain situation and how the memory works. Though I know, the pixel font is hard to read. Not much text anyway.
Wait I forgot something important to say... It is great!!! I love it! ;)
update: digg it!
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Spectrum Meter
October 22nd, 2006
I've added a new experiment to my laboratory.
If anyones knows, which the title from the first track is, please contact me. I'm in love with that kind of music.
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desperados.tv
December 2nd, 2005
Months ago, I was invited by a berlin agency exozet coding a 3d isocube menu in flash7. Now it's finally online and looks very nice. Even though they work heavily with alpha blendings. So it could slow down your computer. The website also provides a video streaming system similar to normal tv program. check out 'bunchTV' (need to register). Congrats to the development team. Nice work!
Be transgressive. Like DESPERADOS.
It's in german, but most items are in english, so you won't get lost.
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