Yalp

Yalp - Fun with Audio Sampling

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)
• For the curious, YALP is play backwards