Fantastic Machine

[jiffy]

Don't know whether you've seen this!

www.atomfilms.com/film/animusic_pipedream.jsp

It's well worth a look.

There's a 10 second advert before the film starts.

Paul

[deweak]

Great. That sounds well, too. Maybe it comes out of a Fusion!

[falcon]

Highly enjoyable to watch, thanks for the link. They (animusic) have more examples on their site, but I like the one you posted best. There's a high 'state machine' factor in it. Especially in the beginning, when the same ball passes several 'instruments' in a row. I hope this becomes more of a common practice in audio synthesis. Using more tests and triggers in the control engine instead of concrete on/off signals to drive an envelope.

[Danimal]

That was quite cool. I dabbled with 3D animation for a while, and feel ashamed of my efforts after watching that

[markone]

What is interesting about the animusic guys is they do the virtual synthesis engine too. the way it works is they build a synth, and then the virtual controller (whether it be ball bearings shooting at tines or laser harps or whatever) and then they animate it.

So it really plays! (I.e. they don't animate the instrument and sync some stock sounds to it - if you changed the animation so a ball hit a wrong note, you'd get a bum not out of the rendering engine!) All pretty darn cool if you ask me!

[markone]

.. Oh and it helps that they are pretty cool musicians in their own right too!