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It’s incredible how much sound is part of our world, sometimes in ways so profound we actually somehow miss them.
Tech site The Verge wanted to spice up a story on the anniversary of IBM’s Model M keyboard, a product for which sound was an integral part of the experience. (That’s so true, in fact, that people will pay a premium for products like Das Keyboard that emulate it.)
The result will come as beautiful music to touch typists everywhere, an etude in spacebars performed on a dizzying array of gadgets of the past.
Producer John Lagomarsino goes into the how-to — the project involved extracting typing noises, then playing them back on Apple’s EXS24 sampler in Logic.
How we turned 12 clicky keyboards into a music video
That workflow falls apart when it comes time to add the videos back – the effect is beautiful, but the process is quite a lot of manual labor. My answer to this would have been Sony’s Vegas; that editor treats audio and video on level playing field and has thus been a tool of choice for AV mashups for the likes of Eclectic Method. (There’s a reason for this: Vegas was originally created by audio folks.)
There’s a deeper issue here: too many creative apps treat visuals and sonic as unrelated entities. (They’re distinct, but very often you want to do something … well, like make music out of people typing.) I’m curious if readers have other ideas for how to accomplish this? Regardless, fun to feast on this.
the most advanced machine is the first one, the only one where you actually print at the same time you are typing
the most advanced machine is the first one, the only one where you actually print at the same time you are typing
the most advanced machine is the first one, the only one where you actually print at the same time you are typing
Pink Floyd: Money https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkhX5W7JoWI,
Leroy Anderson: typwriter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW8dGwa2zRw
Pink Floyd: Money https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkhX5W7JoWI,
Leroy Anderson: typwriter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW8dGwa2zRw
Pink Floyd: Money https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkhX5W7JoWI,
Leroy Anderson: typwriter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW8dGwa2zRw
So many articles all over the web lately about mechanical keyboards, I wasn’t expecting to see one here.
(And I recently picked up one myself, though it’s a new keyboard with Cherry MX Browns rather than buckling springs. I love it.)
So many articles all over the web lately about mechanical keyboards, I wasn’t expecting to see one here.
(And I recently picked up one myself, though it’s a new keyboard with Cherry MX Browns rather than buckling springs. I love it.)
So many articles all over the web lately about mechanical keyboards, I wasn’t expecting to see one here.
(And I recently picked up one myself, though it’s a new keyboard with Cherry MX Browns rather than buckling springs. I love it.)
sequencing MIDI a DAW into Resolume can do the video part of the job
sequencing MIDI a DAW into Resolume can do the video part of the job
sequencing MIDI a DAW into Resolume can do the video part of the job
I made a crude audio-visual sampler a few years ago: http://www.mrkbrz.com/captureav/ It’s very simple, but lets you do polyphony by splitting the screen of crossfading the images etc. It’s open source: https://github.com/mazbox/CaptureAV
I made a crude audio-visual sampler a few years ago: http://www.mrkbrz.com/captureav/ It’s very simple, but lets you do polyphony by splitting the screen of crossfading the images etc. It’s open source: https://github.com/mazbox/CaptureAV
I made a crude audio-visual sampler a few years ago: http://www.mrkbrz.com/captureav/ It’s very simple, but lets you do polyphony by splitting the screen of crossfading the images etc. It’s open source: https://github.com/mazbox/CaptureAV