http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/ Engadget Comments for One man band rocks the iPod touch, rescues the MIDI clarinet from obscurity http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/Mar 12th 2010 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/
Yeah, but whats with this ornage bowl in the background?]]>Mar 12th 2010 9:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/
His long coding hours.

Coders have to have something to eat....

Like Fritos. Or Tab and Mountain Dew.]]>Mar 12th 2010 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/
Pretty sick, but looks like it might be a little fake. i'm skeptical.
I have a hard enough time orienting from potrait to landscape keyboard, let alone changing various pitches of tones on the fly...]]>Mar 12th 2010 10:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/
Perhaps he increased the sensitivity of the accelerometer?

I'm pretty sure Apple doesn't want the iPhone to do something every time the axis slightly changes - That's what this is for.

Example - I can write a script to make my joystick function as a mouse, but when I move it on the X axis I need to know how far I want to move my joystick before it actually starts moving the mouse. Without touching the joystick - the x axis is 0. Move it to the left, and it goes all the way to 50. Move it to the right, and it moves to -50.
To compare this to the iPhone - The screen rotation would be like me setting the values to start moving my mouse cursor once the joystick goes past an x axis of 30 or below -30. That's the way the iPhone works - It doesn't immediately make changes, it has to notice a BIG change in the axis.

Now to compare what he did to my example. What he did would be like taking my joystick and writing a script to slowly move the mouse faster as I move my joystick 1 up or down on the x axis. It could even be used to play a specific note @ X axis 1, 2, 3, 0, -1, -2, -3, etc.

Too long; Didn't read version

The accelerometer is highly sensitive, the reason you don't notice it is because it's currently programmed for the screen rotation to only rotate once it hits a certain value. ]]>Mar 12th 2010 10:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/Is that why games like Labyrinth are able to work on the iPhone?]]>Mar 12th 2010 10:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/
Yes. The difference is the developer of labyrinth is actually tracking all accelerometer data and using it, rather than having the iPhone have a set variable to perform a function(If x/y axis goes past NUMBER, then rotate screen to Portrait/Landscape.) ]]>Mar 12th 2010 11:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/
Yeah.. right around 1:16 he makes this wild flying movement with the touch, and it appears to have no effect...]]>Mar 13th 2010 6:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/Mar 14th 2010 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/Mar 15th 2010 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/Mar 12th 2010 9:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/Mar 12th 2010 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/
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Second, he's not playing the darned instrument at all. You have to move your fingers! Near as I can tell from the video, he's only using the breath controller.

Seems to me that he's got the equivalent of two or perhaps three dials here - one breath control, and an x-y from tilting his little device on his wrist. A $50 Korg Nanokontrol would give you 18 such controllers and you could control at least eight of them at one time...

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:) +1 for a chuckle .]]>Mar 13th 2010 6:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/
And -1 for that picture... *shudders*]]>Mar 13th 2010 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/I've got an old toaster somewhere I could batter until it was wedge shaped to use as a doorstop. Oh...I know! I'll use this doorstop instead.]]>Mar 13th 2010 6:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/
in general, the iphone has a tri axis accelerometer that sends x(left/right), y(forward/back) and z(from 90degrees to upside down).touchOSC interprets each axis and sends it to pure data. the creation argument for its OSC object is /accxyz. the data is really shaky and unstable so some parameters dont "latch"well. for instance, when i make that "flick" motion with my hand (the thing mentioned at 1:16), i am using the furthest extreme of the z axis as a switch to turn on/off an effect,so i had to delay that data to make it not read the 3 or 4 signals it gets in the short time its at that extreme. any non-interpreted wild fingermovements are bad programming, not subterfuge (i can show you the Pd patch to prove it).

why am i telling you this?! so you will know that i'm not full of shit and that all i did is interpret raw acceleromter data and map it to filter cuttoff and resonance. i used to iphone because (a) it was there and (b) in a club it is wireless and does the job so i dont have to play with the laptop mouse all night. nothing gets a crowd going more than tweaking filters out of thin air.

and lastly, i am most definitely not triggering loops. i am creating loops. i created a style of music called beatjazz and it is a blend of live looping, sound design and jazz improvisation. here is a simplified demonstration http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWRBopM-og4( and my iphone attached to my arm instead of my hand back in the stone age of sept 2009)

cheers all. and thanks for taking the time to peep the video. being called fake here, to me, means i'm doing something right! thanks!

onyx
http://onyxashanti.bandcamp.com/album/the-nomadic-diary-of-onyx-ashanti-recursive-artifacts-vol-1 (all improv/allbeatjazz)
http://www.youtube.com/onyxashanti (visual proof)


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Fucking awesome, music sounds like Baris Manco. I like it. ]]>Mar 13th 2010 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA]]>Mar 13th 2010 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/
If you're interested in this sort of thing, try http://infusionsystems.com/catalog/ (disclaimer: I only know what iv'e read on their website and have no involvement with them) - you wouldn't have to have any visible sensors and do exactly what you're doing now, and they're pretty cheap (their most basic system is less than $100, though I don't think it's quite enough for what you're doing, and you can buy sensors one at a time...)

So you could do what you're doing now - with no visible controller at all! How cool is that?

Regarding the music - it's rather a lot straighter than what I like, which is probably good; but the production and sound of your beats leaves them not-punchy and that's not as good.

The drum sounds themselves are somewhat dated and also not rich enough - you should be thinking in terms of internal modulation for the sounds to give them more richness. They need more punch, which you can do with EQ and perhaps some compression - that's really the most significant tip I can give you... and you could do with a little more "stuff" in your drum lines perhaps (though who knows how it'd sound if you EQ'ed it sweetly?)

Heh, hope you take this all in good spirits, it doesn't mean I disapprove. Heck, you should see the comments I make about my own material, it is to weep!

(Send me offline if you like to tom (at) swirly (dot) com.)]]>Mar 13th 2010 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/Mar 13th 2010 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/:|]]>Mar 14th 2010 7:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/one-man-band-rocks-the-ipod-touch-rescues-the-midi-clarinet-fro/Mar 16th 2010 7:40PM