Audioshop
Creative
glitch art tool
SHOW HN2017
How HN took it
10 positive, 17 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 28 comments about the project. Thread score +0.30.
Idea: 6 for, 0 againstExecution: 2 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun and original glitch-art idea
From 4 comments
This is a very strange and fun idea. Good job!
NIL8 on HNThat's a really neat idea. Good job!
runnr_az on HNI always love glitchart, this is pretty rad. Good job!
tuxxy on HNI like the overdrive effect!
anentropic on HN
Overdrive effect liked
From 1 comment
I like the overdrive effect!
anentropic on HN
Objections
Explanation page crashes mobile browsers
From 1 comment
The explanation page seems to crash every browser on my phone I can throw at it. Very weird...
epse on HN
Requests
Progress indicator and fix for cleanup errors
From 1 comment
This is fantastic. For folks wanting to play around with this on OSX: brew install ffmpeg lame brew install sox --with-lame The --with-lame is important if you want to process…
fluxsauce on HN
Different pixel-to-sample mappings such as Hilbert or spiral
From 3 comments
Might be interesting to experiment with different mappings of pixel location to audio sample number, rather than just having a row by row linear scan from corner to corner.
besselheim on HNE.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_curve
arnarbi on HNAny permutation could be used, but I suppose you'd want to use ones that form some sort of visually recognisable pattern. For example, a spiral emerging from the centre of the…
besselheim on HN
Audio support and interfacing with external audio gear
From 2 comments
That looks like a fantastic tool. Being able to do interface with external off the shelf audio gear with an otherwise software only solution would be the goal of all this.
robert_foss on HNHi HN, I just finished adding video support (and stubbed out audio support). Due to already using ffmpeg for image manipulations, this turned out to be rather easy. Give it a try…
robert_foss on HN
Questions
Can audio be processed with image effects in reverse?
From 1 comment
Neat. I assume it would be possible to do the same thing in reverse then? As in, use image editing effects on audio clips?
ekglimmer on HN
Alternatives named
PixiVisor
From 1 comment
The author of the modular synth "SunVox" made a live tool called "PixiVisor" that does something similar. http://www.warmplace.ru/soft/pixivisor/ The last two videos on the page…
pdkl95 on HN
MetaSynth
From 2 comments
Is that something like metasynth (http://www.metasynth.com) ? You import a picture and use it through FFT to generate sound ?
FraKtus on HNYes. http://photosounder.com/ http://www.uisoftware.com/MetaSynth/index.php
Optimal_Persona on HN
Audacity
From 1 comment
You can use Audacity to open and edit images using musical effects too (and sometime destroy image metadata)
MUCHZER on HN
Photosounder
From 1 comment
Yes. http://photosounder.com/ http://www.uisoftware.com/MetaSynth/index.php
Optimal_Persona on HN
fsynth
From 1 comment
https://www.fsynth.com is a web synthesizer which is just doing that, a canvas content is generated by the GPU and converted to sounds in real-time, there will be a feature to…
onirom on HN