Akaneko

I forgot to upload the two small tracks made for the Nordik Impakt. Since this website will fade away one of these days, I’ve uploaded them here.

After reading Tinic Uro and Kevin Goldsmith’s posts, I decided to try PixelBender for audio processing.
Mixing several sounds is nice, but it would be cool to process real time effects. Here is a first try. A very very simple distorion, still not a wave shaper (wich should sound better).
This PixelBender filter uses two parameters : [...]

I’ve just seen this announcement : Introducing Adobe Flash Player 10.1

There are several interesting features, but the one I’m the most interested in is the microphone access API. I often perform music live, and use loopers such as loopstation or jam-station. The problem is that I only have a mono signal in such pedals. I had the idea to build my own looper using AIR, but it was not possible to get the incoming sound.
But now, I should be able to build my own looper, in stereo, with the features I want. (fade out, overdubs, pitch shifting, EQs, several loops in memory with live switching) I just have now to think about the interface to control such an application. I’m a guitar player, so , I have to control it with my foots. I have to see if any MIDI class for AIR can be found, or done.

If I make this looper in AIR, I’ll propably give it for free. That won’t be a big software, but software loopers are, most of the time, expensive, and not really user friendly, or need to run into an audio sequencer to work. Stereo hardware loopers are very expensive.

I can’t wait Flash CS5 now, beetween Iphone, WinMobile, and this audio feature, lot of nice think to do.

We’ve been working on this website last few days.
I had true fun to making musics with 8-bits synths (Commodore).
http://www.nordik.org/
We’ll also be on the event for video projection.
If you ever come to Caen at the end of october, don’t miss this event ! Lots of great perfomers and musicians to play here !
(on the website, click [...]

I got it few months ago, but hadn’t time yet to really work on it.

I’m pretty pleased with the sound it produces.
This tune is made with only one amp model, Fender Twin, and live with the onboard looper.

Let’s generate sounds now.
This is a simple synthesis module.Basic arpegiator, Two voices. the first one generates a sine and a square signal, the second one, a sine plus harmonics and a random noise signal.
Moving the mouse along the x axis set the mix between both oscillators of both channels, along the y axis, changes the release envelope length.

Andy Hulstkamp made a light and lovely module to create music. I found it nice and wanted to share it
http://www.hulstkamp.com/2008/09/15/rmp/40

I recently met this nice guy. You don’t care about the fact he is a nice guy, but, he made some ActionScript experiments I really like ! (Even if some makes my old computer hot like hell)
http://www.nicoptere.net/blog/
This is a french speaking blog, but check out his last experiments
I really enjoyed this one : Squeletiser une [...]

Ok.

I was exited about this new feature of Flash Player 10. Actually, I’ve been waiting for this for years.
This is my first attempt. That’s not so efficient than André Michelle’s work or other things you could find at Adobe, MAKE SOME NOISE. But here it is.

Once again, nothing realy new.
I just tried to improve the fireflies module to make it react with sound.

You can choose from one of my tunes, and change the color themes (4)