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360Flex: Talking About Audio

I’ve been working all weekend on next Monday’s presentation at 360 Flex: the focus is on audio synthesis in Flash. I think this will be a fun one: I’ll be unveiling an open source version of Noteflight’s StandingWave audio library, at long last. This should make it much easier for folks to create Flash or Flex apps that do real-time audio synthesis, since it provides a set of useful building blocks on top of the raw Flash Player 10 API. StandingWave has a bunch of useful concepts in it like audio sources, filters/transformations and sequenced “performances” of timed events, and I’m hopeful that others will find it useful. I’ll post again when it’s actually ready for consumption — that is to say, next week!

I’m showing a few cool demos of this technology at the conference, including a Moccasin-based visual editor for a “musical shapes” world in which shapes represent tones, and a set of data entry forms that progress smoothly through an accompanying musical form as the user navigates. It’s been loads of fun working on this stuff, which is to say it’s not anything like work at all.

I guess I have to go back to work now.

Gosh darn it.

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