Comments on: StandingWave: Live Musical Audio Synthesis in AS3

By: joe

joe — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:05:14 +0000

I have a number of other higher-priority projects going on, but I hope to release StandingWave by the end of the year.

By: Jonas Nyström

Jonas Nyström — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:38:56 +0000

Hi Joe!

Any plans for releasing the code of StandingWave?

Regards / Jonas

By: Fnk » Developer diaries » An audio synthesis primer

Fnk » Developer diaries » An audio synthesis primer — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:09:19 +0000

[...] of dynamically-generated sound, but also some experiments that show how it can still be done). This framework also looks promising and has a nice sample-based example to show what the guy wants to do. [...]

By: Andre Michelle

Andre Michelle — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:09:28 +0000

I never came across this post before I read your comment at createdigitalmusic.com
It is good to see, that other people are also putting research on this subject even you have to take a lot of unusual efforts to it. If you are interested to collaborate with our team, please contact me.

By: William

William — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:30:55 +0000

This is awesome Joe. I’ve done a bit of work on tempo detection in AS3 and was very dismayed with the lack of support for waveform manipulation and especially synthesis. I’d love to have a chance to play with StandingWave - please release it!

By: joe

joe — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:27:37 +0000

I guess it would be possible, but MP3 would have to be decoded in non-native AS3 code which I suspect would probably be unacceptable in terms of performance. You are right, all the internal audio in StandingWave is PCM — it’s the only way to go for raw speed.

By: Jai

Jai — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:29:19 +0000

Would it be possible to use some of your work to maybe feed an MP3 stream to sound?

Basically, avoid the flash streaming memory leak by doing the streaming manually and pumping the bytecode into the audio stream?

I’m guessing at the end of the chain we’re down to PCM and MP3 would have to be decoded by its own class?

By: » as3 audio synthesis

» as3 audio synthesis — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:50:20 +0000

[...] Berkovitz is working on an audio processing engine in AS3. Looks like it’s in the very early stages, but it’s interesting … [...]

By: Joshua Mostafa

Joshua Mostafa — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:46:46 +0000

This sounds fascinating. I will be checking back to see how you go.

Where do you want to take this, eventually? Are you aiming for an AS3 audio library, or to build a specific application?

It would be great to have an app that is extensible and allows plugins to be built - something like Max/MSP or Reactor. (Of course, that’s way in the future…)

By: David Coletta

David Coletta — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:14:46 +0000

Joe, this is really cool! I have to admit that I was only dimly aware that there was no built in API for music synthesis in the Flash world, so it’s great to know that people are working on it. I’m jealous, though — I was just complaining to my officemate last week that I had always wanted to work on music software and never really gotten the chance. I am also envious that you can find time for midnight projects!

Slip me the code and I’ll hack in some old-fashioned typewriter sounds into Buzzword… :-)