I made a software synth

[charlie656]

Hi all,

I am cheekily posting here to show off a flash software sythesizer that I have created.

You can view it here. http://www.blergo.com/games/play/blergo-beats

Nothing too serious, but it does dynamically calculate and feed 32bit samples to your sound card at 44.1khz. The melody notes are pure sine waves that decay linearly and the bass notes each comprise of 2 square waves an octave apart. As a musician/programmer i've wanted to get down to coding at the sample level ( outside of C ) and the new features in flash player 10 have let me do this.

The interesting feature I think is that you can share your session with your friend and see where their mouse is as you both update the grids.

Let me know if you like it or if you manage to get a peer to peer session working!

Thanks

Graeme

[stevebirss]

That was totally fun!! Simple, but fun.
2 suggestions if I may... Make a way to save the file if possible, and 2 make a way to change tempo, or key.
But that was a cool idea nonetheless, thanks for that!

[xenomorph313]

Nice work! I am into flash and desperately would like to know how to create my own softsynth as well. Was that written in Actionscript 2.0 or 3.0? Keep it up!

Holy.....I hope theres a tutorial on creating such a program somewhere.....

[space6oy]

stupid pop tarts video ad before it's annoying as h**l... but the ap's pretty neat.
edit: ok actually it's an awesome little ap, great subtle background noise. kinda reminds me of tenori-on.

[the_noodlemeister]

fair play to you mate. Simple, as you say, and fun. Had a great time messing with it. Keep it up

[Belaya]

nice and fun, great for clearing the head during work

suggestions for version 2:

- mute buttons for individual drum sounds
- some more sounds
- ability to create diferent note lengths
- ehm..more cowbell

[Electroluver]

Really nice little app. Kinda reminds me of the Tenori, but way better and easier to use.
Honestly, the Tenori was pretty pathetic.

[charlie656]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for your generous replies

This is written in AS3 and uses the new sampledata event available in flash player 10. The sampledata event fires when your soundcard is ready to accept a new block of samples. The nuts and bolts of that can be found here http://www.kaourantin.net/2008/05/adobe ... part-2.html. To target flash player 10 you will need Flash CS4 or better or you can set up FlashDevelop with the Flex SDK ( both free but a little tricky ).

I have done some more work on this adding bank buttons so you can store patterns for each of the grids. However I haven't though of the best way to add a save function yet. I should release an update soon.

Cheers

[cartesia]

Nice work!

have you seen audiotool?
http://www.audiotool.com/