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Moan (sound synthesis for löve)

Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 3:22 pm
by vrld
The last week I spent coding stuff with löve (it has been a long time since I was that obsessed writing code - thank you guys, it is a great feeling!). The months before that I looked into sound synthesis. I thought it would be a good idea to combine löve and sound synthesis and thus Moan was created.

Moan lets you create samples in Lua which can then be played back by using an audio source. I used this technique to create sound effects for my version of Pong, but that is another story. Moan is just a single .lua file which is available at my git repo: http://www.github.com/vrld/Moan.

I have assembled three demos - a virtual keyboard, a sequencer and a weird thing with colored circles - so you can see what YOU can do using Moan. I was to lazy to write a reference and/or introduction yet, but you can look at the examples to see how things work (I suggest to start with the keyboard demo).

Let me know what you think about it :megagrin:
vrld

Edit2: Since no one will read the readme on github, I included a help button. (attachment updated)

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Re: Moan (sound synthesis for löve)

Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 3:31 pm
by zachwlewis
Oh god, how do I save? I composed the business!

Re: Moan (sound synthesis for löve)

Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 3:40 pm
by vrld
zachwlewis wrote:Oh god, how do I save? I composed the business!
Not entirely sure what you mean, but saving would be against my principle that art should be temporary. Also, I am to lazy to implement a save function...

Re: Moan (sound synthesis for löve)

Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 3:44 pm
by zachwlewis
I implemented my own save function... In Fraps!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXypNSgC1BE

Re: Moan (sound synthesis for löve)

Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 3:46 pm
by vrld
damn, you're fast! :ultrahappy:

Re: Moan (sound synthesis for löve)

Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 10:36 pm
by zachwlewis
It's my skills. :P

Re: Moan (sound synthesis for löve)

Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 10:44 am
by arquivista
Only discovered now Moan. Since attachment is gone I download the one from repository. I believe in sequencer there is a kind of problem since it's possible to have negative bpm (it's a bit ironical that negative bmp are faster than hell! ;) )

I understand the "arty" concept of "ephmerous" one-time music but I also would like to see an save/load option. :)

Also the blue in black keys aren't well readable...

Very nice piece of audioware!

Re: Moan (sound synthesis for löve)

Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 10:53 am
by Thursdaybloom
This project still makes me weep. I'd love to be able to create sounds with Lovem but the source code makes me :| and vrld explaining it to me would make me :|.

I still want to learn though :(

Re: Moan (sound synthesis for löve)

Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 10:56 am
by Tesselode
Why did you have to name this suggestively?

Re: Moan (sound synthesis for löve)

Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 12:09 pm
by Luca
Thursdaybloom wrote:This project still makes me weep. I'd love to be able to create sounds with Lovem but the source code makes me :| and vrld explaining it to me would make me :|.

I still want to learn though :(
I'd like to see a menu to alter the sound patches wired up to that sequencer.