http://JHHL.NET/nucleus/InHope.php iPhone development blog en-us Nucleus v3.0 ? Weblog http://backend.userland.com/rss http://JHHL.NET/nucleus/InHope.php/nucleus/nucleus2.gif http://JHHL.NET/nucleus/InHope.php http://JHHL.NET/nucleus/InHope.php?itemid=311 ]]> General http://JHHL.NET/nucleus/InHope.php?itemid=311 Sat, 12 May 2012 07:27:10 -0700 http://JHHL.NET/nucleus/InHope.php?itemid=310
I'm trying to get some more of them out the door and push a few updates as well:
Meanwhile, I'm also writing a few apps for other people that you should be seeing ... when they are done.

things with some kind of updates:
Droneo - I'm mostly working on the new doc file and getting some of the evolving stuff to behave again.
Enumero: more kinds of counting, and I hope better phonetic synth.
Tondo: I haven't been thinking about it too much, but the new version is Universal.
synthicity itself: a few more kinds of sounds
things that oughta get released sometime:
Ellipsynth: the granular synth which is like synthicity.
Sonoctopus: is getting a major rethink to help organize your sonic material better.
Tines: this may not come out, but it's a sample player based on my little music box, and it also can play by itself (and act as a MIDI receiver)
an as-yet-unnamed super cheezy General Midi synth.
Oradaio: plays internet radio streams like an instrument (tip o' the hat to John Cage)
Synaestesia: turns live video into audio in a number of ways
Cake Clock: the worst clock app you've ever seen.
]]> General http://JHHL.NET/nucleus/InHope.php?itemid=310 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:06:36 -0700 http://JHHL.NET/nucleus/InHope.php?itemid=309
the new program will be much more generalized: it may, however, read both srutibox and Droneo export files!
- mirrors, evolving, churning, counting, and patterns, and consorts will go away because they are all specific implementations of a more generic concept of timed timbre creation.
the new system replaces the old such that each "reed" has:
- a ratio specification. the display mayl also display the Hz, cents, and std versions of that ratio/pitch simultaneously.
the ratio spec, which currently allows cents, ratios and equal temperaments, will also allow Hz (irrespective of base frequency) and maybe Std too.
- an optional label
- the possibility of being perturbed (the way it was via the "rand" button)
- maybe some other ratio-related features in the future.
and a list of these timbre specs, which are advanced per "pulse"
- continue flag (play the same as the last timbre spec)
- source waveform
- target volume
- target pan
- resolution speed (as percent of pulse or as static milliseconds, and curve type (linear/log)
- harmonic choices bitmap (0-31) 0 - silence, 1 - first harmonic, 2 - second harmonic , etc, and we randomly chose among these. thus, "0,4-8"
- harmonic choice percentage (the chance that a new harmonic will be chosen on this pulse)

the idea is to allow up to 16 or maybe more reeds, too, depending on how fast I can make it and what the sample rate is.
the pulse is specified in either seconds/pulse or, when it's fast, pulses per minute.

please email me drone at jhhl dot net with your critiques!
]]> Droneo http://JHHL.NET/nucleus/InHope.php?itemid=309 Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:32:13 -0700 http://JHHL.NET/nucleus/InHope.php?itemid=308 so: take something off the clipboard, trim it a little, paste it to Sonoma Copy/Paste and mail it out as an AAC. (I don't know about making an MP3, that's a license issue I think).
It works pretty well so far - I'm going to add in the ability to post to SoundCloud and BandCamp and other sound posting places, once I get the authentication for them. It'll also screen scrape web pages for their mp3s, import from iTunes and podcasts, and serve the files via iTunes documents and its own Bonjour-discoverable website and maybe FTP if I'm that insane.

email me with pricing suggestions: I'm thinking this is a pretty useful $4-$5 app.
]]> Sonoctopus http://JHHL.NET/nucleus/InHope.php?itemid=308 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:51:02 -0700 http://JHHL.NET/nucleus/InHope.php?itemid=307 SOme of this is in there. I don't really want to mess with the simplicity, but a little more oomph would be nice!
]]> synthicity http://JHHL.NET/nucleus/InHope.php?itemid=307 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:45:39 -0700 http://JHHL.NET/nucleus/InHope.php?itemid=306 Each reed gets not only an interval, but also a specially coded pattern string of harmonics of that interval (or 0). this pattern is played in a loop.
so, play three against two:
reed 1: 1/1 10 length is 2
reed 2: 3/2 100 length is 3 ...

play a harmonically based scale:
reed 1: 1/8 89abcdef
( I use hex digits for harmonics, but extend it 16 more places up to w)

now I can build up polyrhythms in a sensible manner, using an pitches I like, and explore micro melodies and phasing.
Also, I can simulate hammered dulcimer patterns like
1: 1/1 20003000
2: 9/8 02000300
3: 5/4 00200030
4: 4/3 00020003

and then I can change the "string's" tuning the same way.

Although a little tough to type in on the phone, droneo voices can handle them fine, and you could make something pretty impressive and long playing using just these 8 reeds.
]]> Droneo http://JHHL.NET/nucleus/InHope.php?itemid=306 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:27:28 -0700 http://JHHL.NET/nucleus/InHope.php?itemid=305

Tondo- a remarkable app for making remarkable sounds

Well, it has to be said: There are a lot of apps out there, especially music ones. Many are great, and a lot, not so great. Most do the same things but just look different.

It was about time I found one that looked and sounds different!

Henry Lowengard has made quite a few apps and this one stands out as being truly one of a kind. Tondo is basically a reactive kind of app in the sense that you can tweak in different way and see harmony and disharmony occur by ever so slight adjustments. It is visually appealing as it doesn't look like a normal music app, and it's likely because it isn't.

And that is why it's so great!

I feel like I'm traveling back in time to the days of early sonic experimentation, like I'm watching greats such as Luc Ferrari or Brian Eno messing with the early synths and theramins. Things were not predictable then, but they are now. I don't want predictability in apps anymore,I have enough apps that do that.

Tondo is a work of art, a masterpiece of an app that I am sure I'm going to use a lot. I beg the developer to add AUDIOCOPY so that the more distinguished and experimental of us iOS producers can export our experiments to other apps and use these unique sound sculpting possibilities for many other projects. As a standalone app it's also great and one can spend hours just tweaking and being immersed in true sonic sculpture!

Well done Henry!

]]> Tondo http://JHHL.NET/nucleus/InHope.php?itemid=305 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:53:33 -0700 http://JHHL.NET/nucleus/InHope.php?itemid=304 Yes Session is an interesting experiment in self assertion (well, for me at least - it's in my own voice as shipped.)
it listens to your ideas, and then responds with encouragement when you pause.
You can also put your own audio in via the iTunes Document interface.

Future enhancements - if any - will be the ability to record your idea and mail it out (sans encouragements...), more voices, nicer graphics.

]]> Yes Session http://JHHL.NET/nucleus/InHope.php?itemid=304 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:56:07 -0700 http://JHHL.NET/nucleus/InHope.php?itemid=303 ]]> Yes Session http://JHHL.NET/nucleus/InHope.php?itemid=303 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:53:01 -0700 http://JHHL.NET/nucleus/InHope.php?itemid=302 It's called Yes Session, and what it does is rather simple. Turn it on, and tell it your idea.
When it finds a bit of quiet , it will encourage you and egg you on for more ideas.

This version is all audio, but I'm thinking of getting y talented actor wife and her friends to record some video for me that I'll dynamically play in the same way .


]]> Yes Session http://JHHL.NET/nucleus/InHope.php?itemid=302 Sun, 29 May 2011 18:10:48 -0700