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Synthesize sound.


Synthesize sound.

Postby Guest » Mar 25, 2003 @ 2:57am

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Postby SmarterThanSam » Mar 25, 2003 @ 4:17am

You know i searched long and hard for something like that about a year ago, but after about 6 hours straight of digging on the net, I had come up with nothing. I suppose the main reason for a lack of software like this is the fact that most, if not all, of the current PPC's lack any sort of MIDI hardware. I guess it would be possible to write a software only sythesizer but I'm sure sound quality would be lacking and it might suck up too much processor speed.

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I sat down with my mic and guitar and spent an hour recording each note and each basic chord and saved them all as separate .wav files. It was a pain but really the only way I could find to make the program I was trying to make. Of course, this was a year ago and i haven't done any hardcore searching since then, so maybe something popped up, but i doubt it.
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Postby zinger » Mar 25, 2003 @ 4:46am

Sad to hear. I got to the point last night where I was ready to start recording notes off my guitar too. What a daunting task. I was thinking I could plug right into the mic jack though. What was the resulting size of all the wave files? Thanks for the reply!
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Postby Velo » Mar 25, 2003 @ 5:09am



You don't have to have a sample per note at all - you can get away with one sample per octave very nicely for a lot of instruments. Of course, YMMV depending on what exactly you're trying to synthesize.
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Postby Dave H » Mar 25, 2003 @ 1:24pm

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Postby refractor » Mar 25, 2003 @ 1:32pm

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Postby SmarterThanSam » Mar 26, 2003 @ 5:25am

Well what's up with that? Why couldn't I find this before my I recorded all of that stuff. Oh well i guess i can use that stuff now.

As For zinger's question, not that he cares anymore after these discoveries...

the files were each about 5 kb i think , but i have since reformated my hd time and time agian, and replaced that PPC with a shiny new Dell Axim, so i really dont remember.
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Postby sponge » Mar 26, 2003 @ 2:24pm

holy internets batman.
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Postby James S » Mar 26, 2003 @ 5:39pm

I thought that gamefreak had MIDI working on gfDoom. I could be wildly mistaken, but I was almost sure of it.
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Postby sponge » Mar 26, 2003 @ 10:53pm

I can say without a doubt that the PocketPC does not have any built in hardware or software synths.
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Postby SmarterThanSam » Mar 26, 2003 @ 11:11pm

Yes sponge you are correct about hardware but im not sure about the software.
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Postby James S » Mar 26, 2003 @ 11:57pm

Yes, I know that... but I just recalled someone making a player for MIDI files and that a version of Doom was able to play the music, which is in MIDI. Again, I could be way off, but my memory usually serves me well and I trust it enough to post under the chance of looking like a fool.
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