Dude, something I tried doing a while ago but never really got beyond some lines of code, seeing a pile of other work and moved on :) Visualizing music (or patterns) is something I'm very much interested in (especially combined with typography, then again, I'm a designer 1st so shapes and graphics always interest me). Also, you mentioned tracker music.. hehe I was a major "demo" freak back in the day with Future Crew etc. and ScreamTracker, Impulse Tracker or FastTracker are names I will never forgot.
Aaaaanyway... Will check out your project in a few hours. Can't wait. Rolf On Oct 27, 3:24 pm, Barry van Oudtshoorn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just pushed my latest pet project, TrackPerformer up to GitHub. To > quote my blog post on the project, "TrackPerformer provides a visual stage > for your music, using HTML5 canvas and audio. On that stage, performers > “play” the instruments in the music visually. In other words, it’s a > visualisation system for music, but based on the notation (the abstract) > rather than the audio (the manifestation)." It's written with MooTools (of > course!), and, at this initial stage, will allow users to write their own > "performers" to perform the music. > > As yet, I've not added support for multiple audio fallbacks, so you'll need > to take a look in an OGG-supporting browser -- I developed it in Firefox, so > your mileage may vary in other browsers, at least until I clean it up a bit > and do some proper cross-browser testing. > > The format of the music is a JSON-representation of "tracker" music -- you > can read up on it on Wikipedia > athttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracker_%28music_software%29. Basically, once > the "notation" has been converted into JSON, you then assign "performers" to > each of the instruments (as many performers per instrument as you like), and > away you go! > > Blog post:http://www.barryvan.com.au/2011/10/trackperformer/ > GitHub:http://barryvan.github.com/trackPerformer/ > > Let me know what you think! > > Barry van Oudtshoornhttp://barryvan.com.au/ > [email protected]
