Two Steps from hell ;D
Two Steps from hell ;D
A developer colleague has put me onto ‘Front Line Assembly’ and their album ‘Airmech’ has been on heavy rotation of late.
A developer colleague has put me onto ‘Front Line Assembly’ and their album ‘Airmech’ has been on heavy rotation of late.
This might work as a nice aural space for programming: peaceful brook (fountain?) and windchimes (music?).
http://hexara.com/peaceful.jar
[s]There is NO visual interface yet, no GUI. To stop it, you have to kill the process.
It wouldn’t be too hard to make an interface to allow settings for volumes, chime activity level and even picking the notes for the chimes.[/s]
[EDIT: now has simple GUI]
The non-looping brook uses a granular process, stringing together 1/4 second fragments from a 4.5 second source recording of a nearby stream in El Cerrito, recorded two nights ago at midnight. The bells are FM synthesis done on the fly, the randomization provided by moving through Perlin/Simplex space.
Almost all the cpu overhead comes from the FM synthesis (allowing up to 20 chimes to be sounding at the same time). The brook running on its own registers 0% cpu on my Windows Task Manager.
I absolutely love it … though I’d want to be able to tweak the chimes (quieter, less frequent) … any chance you could include the source?
Awesome, although customization would be cool, like sproingie said.
I have an unusual playlist. I listen to a loop of the non lyrical part of final countdown, rocky, fun, and the campfire song song.
This might work as a nice aural space for programming: peaceful brook (fountain?) and windchimes (music?).
http://hexara.com/peaceful.jar
[s]There is NO visual interface yet, no GUI. To stop it, you have to kill the process.
It wouldn’t be too hard to make an interface to allow settings for volumes, chime activity level and even picking the notes for the chimes.[/s]
[EDIT: now has simple GUI]
The non-looping brook uses a granular process, stringing together 1/4 second fragments from a 4.5 second source recording of a nearby stream in El Cerrito, recorded two nights ago at midnight. The bells are FM synthesis done on the fly, the randomization provided by moving through Perlin/Simplex space.
Almost all the cpu overhead comes from the FM synthesis (allowing up to 20 chimes to be sounding at the same time). The brook running on its own registers 0% cpu on my Windows Task Manager.
I absolutely love it … though I’d want to be able to tweak the chimes (quieter, less frequent) … any chance you could include the source?
Awesome, although customization would be cool, like sproingie said.
I have an unusual playlist. I listen to a loop of the non lyrical part of final countdown, rocky, fun, and the campfire song song.
I mostly listen to Star Wars sound track, Katy Perry, Muse or Five steps from hell;D but if I get stuck on something …silence is the only way…
I mostly listen to Star Wars sound track, Katy Perry, Muse or Five steps from hell;D but if I get stuck on something …silence is the only way…
50’s rock, metal, classic rock, some techno, euro dance, and hands up. The funny thing is one genre will play right after the other, and anyone around me looks at me like I’m crazy.
Now I’m just wondering, is this the longest posts on the forum yet?
God dang, people love music!
50’s rock, metal, classic rock, some techno, euro dance, and hands up. The funny thing is one genre will play right after the other, and anyone around me looks at me like I’m crazy.
Now I’m just wondering, is this the longest posts on the forum yet?
God dang, people love music!
Not by a long shot. I suspect the TUER thread still gets that, uh, honor.
Not by a long shot. I suspect the TUER thread still gets that, uh, honor.