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Video: YouTube: Drancing accelerometer music with Wiimotes: 3D variable frequency oscillators + amplitude variation + triggered "air drum" samples

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Demonstrates combined oscillator frequency variation, amplitude variation, and triggered Drum sample ("Drumming by Dancing") modes along with DrancelRGB monitor visuals projected onto the "Drancer" performer.

For this demonstration two hand-held WiiTM Remotes on a MacBook Pro were used. (The original Drancing accelerometer suit (since 1997) used 5 triaxial accelerometers in a "body star" pattern").

Pure Data example: The Ethical eMarket logo animation

[book] Submitted by webel on Thu, 18/06/2009 - 18:58
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The Ethical eMarket logo was animated by Webel using the GEM visual synthesis extensions for the PureData synthesis environment:

PLAYlogo.pd: synthesised PLAY logo together with top-level Puredata patch

'The 8 circles of the logo on the left correspond with the 8 audio chain channels on the right. In addition, there are some pragmatic controls for visual elements such width of the "disc circles" and the scale of the visuals, and global audio controls, as well as monitors for the state of each channel. There is a big fat RESET bang that sends a 'RESET' signal throughout the system to restore sensible defaults, and a GO! button on each ramp. On completion the 1st ramp bangs the 2nd ramp, a simple form of sequencing.

In the next image we examine the top-level patch PLAYlogo.pd in more detail.

PLAYlogo.pd

There are 8 sound channels, corresponding to each of the 8 circles in the logo. In addition, there are some pragmatic controls for visual elements such width of the "disc circles" and the scale of the visuals, and global audio controls. There are two ramps, the first is used to drive the sound swell and the brightening of the line and 8 circles, the second is used to brighten the 'PLAY' text and fade out the entire sound. And there is a stereo output block with some echo and feedback FX, a compressor, and some audio monitors, as well as a Fourier analysis block.

Quite a bit for one simple logo with short sound ! And well worth it, as it was always conceived as an educational demonstration for posting online here as a gallery tutorial. And many of the abstraction are reusable. Let's look briefly now at some of the subpatches, starting with the visual ones ..

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$dr$ of Webel is a Pure Data (PD) enthusiast. A PureData-based audio synthesis version of the DranceWare software for The Drancing accelerometer music "air instrument" uses GEM to synthesis rich visuals in real-time from accelerometer signals (such as WiiTM Remote signals), synchronised with the accelerometer music. The PLAY music project "sound circles" animated logo is synthesised using PureData/GEM, as described in this mini-tutorial

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[book] Submitted by webel on Tue, 16/12/2008 - 14:54
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