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'''Yalp''' - Fun with Audio
Ben will add stuff to this page!

'''Features'''
*Record your voice - or anything - and play it at various speeds
*Reverse it, mix it, warp it. Without having any experience editing audio.
*Play a song - with your sound effect as the instrument
*Write a list of notes (a b c) and play your own song
*Combine several of these "songs" into a cacaphonus masterpiece


'''Concepts:'''

Encourage Creativity

*Experimentation!
*It should be designed so that a user can just start clicking stuff, fun stuff will happen, and
*The user should not have to know what they are doing.
*Stimulate thinking of how to specify notes to make a tune.


Simple, organic interface

*-It's a toy, make it fun
*-Shouldn't have menus/lists/boring stuff
*-Visual



'''Notes:'''
*The XOs have mics, which is cool.
*I have written much of the audio-processing code. It just needs a good interface.
*It is currently written in Python. If necessary, the core engine can be written as an extension in C.
*Collaboration and/or sending sounds to friends? (Think about this later)

Revision as of 08:33, 21 October 2007

Yalp - Fun with Audio

Features

  • Record your voice - or anything - and play it at various speeds
  • Reverse it, mix it, warp it. Without having any experience editing audio.
  • Play a song - with your sound effect as the instrument
  • Write a list of notes (a b c) and play your own song
  • Combine several of these "songs" into a cacaphonus masterpiece


Concepts:

Encourage Creativity

  • Experimentation!
  • It should be designed so that a user can just start clicking stuff, fun stuff will happen, and
  • The user should not have to know what they are doing.
  • Stimulate thinking of how to specify notes to make a tune.


Simple, organic interface

  • -It's a toy, make it fun
  • -Shouldn't have menus/lists/boring stuff
  • -Visual


Notes:

  • The XOs have mics, which is cool.
  • I have written much of the audio-processing code. It just needs a good interface.
  • It is currently written in Python. If necessary, the core engine can be written as an extension in C.
  • Collaboration and/or sending sounds to friends? (Think about this later)