Re: [fonc] Beats

2011-05-20 Thread Craig Latta
Hi all-- ...live-coding is very boring to watch and there is little connection between what is seen (the source code in a text editor) and what is heard. I'll chime in with my take on this... :) http://netjam.org/quoth -C -- Craig Latta www.netjam.org/resume +31 06 2757 7177 +

Re: [fonc] Beats

2011-05-18 Thread Chris Warburton
Somewhat similar to this discussion, but more focused on live-coding performances rather than studio production, is Text which was presented at a local computer meetup recently by its author[1]. It's a drag 'n' drop interface where component names and parameters are typed in and connected

Re: [fonc] Beats

2011-05-17 Thread Alan Kay
: [fonc] Beats - Josh McDonald j...@joshmcdonald.info wrote: Thought you guys would get a kick out of this YAML-WAV sequencer written in Ruby: https://github.com/jstrait/beats Hey, I made a little drum machine at some point of my life: http://sed.free.fr/vdm You write something like

Re: [fonc] Beats

2011-05-17 Thread BGB
On 5/16/2011 9:22 PM, Ian Piumarta wrote: Dear Josh, Thanks for posting this! Thought you guys would get a kick out of this YAML-WAV sequencer written in Ruby: https://github.com/jstrait/beats I think this is pretty cool. (It puts us well on the way to archiving the entire output of

Re: [fonc] Beats

2011-05-17 Thread Casey Ransberger
Cool! I've been hoping to see some more multimedia stuff happen for Ruby, and I actually like the little DSL they've got going there: it's very visual, and a grid is perfect when what you're emulating is a drum machine which usually has a grid interface or some such, and doesn't know about inexact

Re: [fonc] Beats

2011-05-17 Thread shaun gilchrist
I really liked the idea mentioned on hacker news of using a numeric value in place of the x to indicate velocity. I am going to mess around with a really simple web interface for this over the weekend. On 5/17/11, Casey Ransberger casey.obrie...@gmail.com wrote: Cool! I've been hoping to see

Re: [fonc] Beats

2011-05-17 Thread Julian Leviston
On 18/05/2011, at 8:06 AM, Casey Ransberger wrote: Here's something ironic: we've instead focused on ways to *correct* human error in music. Pitch correction for your vocals, but don't use too much, or you'll sound like a fax machine (unless that's what you're going for, in which case you

Re: [fonc] Beats

2011-05-16 Thread Ian Piumarta
Dear Josh, Thanks for posting this! Thought you guys would get a kick out of this YAML-WAV sequencer written in Ruby: https://github.com/jstrait/beats I think this is pretty cool. (It puts us well on the way to archiving the entire output of Kraftkwerk as ASCII files. ;-) However...