Just in time for the presentation tommorrow the PunchKit website has been put live. On the website you can download the latest release of the applet as well as watch the promotional video showing what PunchKit is all about! Presently the website is solely there for publicity but in the future, if the project gets carried on, it would be developed to provide more detailed information and support [...]
A week or so ago I re-read the brief for the second part of the sound module to make sure I had fulfilled as much as possible in order to maximise possible marks. Obviously you don’t need to do everything listed but I thought It might help my cause if I do more than just one. Here’s the brief: [...]
So I know that in this second part of the sound module we are not marked on any of technology side of things, but I have taken the time to completely rebuild the software of PunchKit in MaxMSP. This is due to a number of reasons – the main of which is that in release 1 (v177) there was a syncing issue which meant after 30 seconds or so of recording and everything had fully dropped out of sync – a major issue for a product that is meant to be a live compositional tool [...]
I have recently finished my first release (v1.1) of the Grooveshark Search extension for Expression Engine. This a little something I have been developing to aid and benefit my final year project – The ISDB (Internet Soundtrack Database) – making it easy for moderators to quickly add music to new database entries. The ‘Custom Field’ [...]
So after my previous post and having talked to Dan about wanting to head in a new direction with PunchKit we kind of went full circle and agreed I sould solider on and continue developing it as a compositional instrument. With little time to go to the hand-in it really isn’t feasible to start something else now so I just have to work with what I’ve got and try as hard as possible to make adjustments in order to improve the sound output [...]
For the second part of my sound module project, ‘PunchKit’, I was hoping (and trying) to develop the concept into more of a live installation/compositional instrument where a user could layer up a complex track, using the built in overdub functionality, to create detailed musical pieces[...]
