AVSynthesis version 9_05_08

This is a more stabilized version, with some new features

• fullscreen mode implementation for the jogl version
• quit button for the jogl version
• fix a weird behaviour in the OpenGL code

The documentation with download link is here

AVSynthesis version 8_05_08

Logic design change in the csound rendering engine for better stability
Minor UI change in the lwjgl version (sound parameter description label)
Documentation is here

AVSynthesis version 7_05_08

Save button animation added to the JOGL version
Documentation is here

AVSynthesis version 6_05_08

Csound thread handling correction (JOGL version)
See here

AVSynthesis version 5_05_08

GUI correction (JOGL version)
Updated Documentation
Fix (pitch.dll)

See here

AVSynthesis version 4_05_08

Cosmetic change only. Documentation is here

AVSynthesis version 3_05_08

This a technical update. Documentation is here

AVSynthesis version 1_05_08 Video Introduction

AVSynthesis version 1_05_08 Introduction from jean-pierre lemoine on Vimeo.

AVSynthesis version 1_05_08

A new version has been uploaded. This version is synchronized with csound 5.08 and requires it. The major improvement is in the sound quality.
Instructions are here

AVSynthesis on Linux

Dave Phillips has made AVSynthesis working on Linux. This is not a trivial task as AVSynthesis is using third party libraries, like LWJGL and Csound. Great job Dave!

He has also produced some video demos that sounds great at http://linux-sound.org/avs-examples/

Here is a thread in the Linux audio mailing list http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2007-December/049803.html

AVSynthesis Version 1_03_07

I have just uploaded a first public version of AVSynthesis for those who want to experiment.

Instructions are here.

AVSynthesis Introduction

Here is a short video tour to AVSynthesis.

AVSynthesis Tour 1
envoyé par HplanKjp

AVsynthesis Composition TerraFusionScape

Here is a compostion made with the last version of AVSynthesis. Sound and Visuals are rendered in real time. Csound is entirely used for sound synthesis and no samples has been used. Video quality is reduced of course for Web publishing.

TerraFusionScape
envoyé par HplanKjp

AVSynthesis

Some news after a long period.

I have been busy after my PC refused to boot, and I had to quickly replace it with a laptop, pre loaded with Vista. It was in March, and XP was not an option at this time (and this is no so widely available these days). The transition was not easy as the ATI display driver for the x1700 card that equips my new laptop has no OpenGL support!

Waiting for an update, I have done some tests with Ogre3D (a C++ 3D engine) and csound (worked fine together), as well as using vvvv and OSC protocol with csound (ok too). After a while, an updated driver supporting OpenGL was released by the laptop vendor and I was pleased to use again HPKComposer. The performance are right (sufficient). Core 2 duo (1.66) and X1700 class GPU have enough power for displaying three simultaneous layers of image transformation, and for running csound in real time.

After recovering my previous environnement, I have started the development of a new software derived from HPKComposer, AVSynthesis, with the following design points in mind:

• No dependency on the Eclipse frameworks, for facilitating cross-plaform distribution.
• Simple and multimedia like User Interface.
• Random generation of composition made of Audio Visual layers (maximum of three at any time), for ever changing runtime interpretation . The software becomes part of the composition process.
  

Here is a link to a document that shows some screenshots of AVSynthesis.

Generator.X has an article on Thorsten Fleisch. He is a a musician as well as a filmmaker, and is using sound effects and 4D Fractal for this film Gelstat

Csound Journal article

I have written an article on HPKComposer and its concept in the Winter 2007 Csound Journal.

The Csound Journal is great source of information on Csound use and users. To read them, go here

Serdar Camlica

I have just discovered Serdar Camlica works via Videoart.net, so organic and synthetic!
awaken 2006 aug release animation of the year award at the 2006 digifestival.net italy.
His Web site 3dfiction.com

Das apokalyptische weib

The vvvv site has some pictures on the project das apokalyptische weib. I put this information in this blog for two reasons: vvvv is a toolkit for real time video synthesis, thus it is another tool to consider, and I had with my colleague of HplanK the same performance experience several years ago. For the celebration of Manessier, Didier Debril made a composition (computer and syntheizers) and I created 3D scenes (VRML97) that were projected inside a church. Projectors were also used to light stained glass windows made by Manessier in this church.
mp3 and pictures are on line here (in French)

Reactable improvisation

The reactable again. A Long improvisation that sounds like an analog modular synthetizer.

NeoFormation

NeoFormation
AudioVideoPainting made with HPKComposer, no samples, no score, csound audio generators only.