2008-07-10: A PureData audio and GEM video rapid prototype of DranceWare for use with
Wii Remotes as wireless accelerometers has been developed for Mac OS-X.

The signal-processing and control software for the Drancing gestural synthesis system is called DranceWare.

DranceWare is not yet available for download, although eventually it will be released under an open source licence. It is not designed as a generic gestural control system; it has a specific function and meets my particular requirements for real-time synthesis of music, video, and controls from accelerometer signals. It currently runs on Linux (only), although it could easily be migrated to other operating systems since it is Java-based (except for the C-driven data acquisition with COMEDILIB, and the underlying CSyn audio synthesis engine).

Drancing with JSyn real-time audio synthesis

The Java synthesis version of DranceWare uses the JSyn real-time audio synthesis system, a convenient Java^TM layer over the CSyn synthesis engine in C. It was developed and modelled using the Unified Modelling Language (UML)^TM and Java^TM, and is built on the webel.com.au API for signal processing and animation with Java^TM.

2005-09-15: The webel.com.au API for Java^TM and DranceWare using JSyn are being migrated to consistent UML2.0^TM as an educational test case of port-based systems engineering with UML2.0^TM, using MagicDraw UML^TM. Stay tuned !

Drancing with MIDI

The earlier versions of DranceWare used MIDI. The current version does not use MIDI for either modulation or triggering of sound (although it can produce MIDI signals as a side-effect, which is useful for triggering lights). To find out why I do not use MIDI anymore for sound read "Did you know ?".