Re: looped music/web

[Kim Flint <kflint@chromatic.com>]

I believe that is right. The authoring tools are only mac-based now, with
plans to release pc-based tools later. The end user plug-ins are available
on all platforms. 

I am glad to see that the coolest stuff on the net is available for macs
before pc's for a change,  heh heh......

kim
 


At 01:25 PM 4/28/97 -0700, you wrote:
>>From what I've understood the encoder is still Mac-based, though they've
>got plans to make a PC encoder sometime this year.  Being a PC-based
>person, this is alas, only encouraging. :)
>
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>> From: Kim Flint <kflint@chromatic.com>
>> To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
>> Subject: Re: looped music/web
>> Date: Monday, April 28, 1997 1:12 PM
>> 
>> At 03:47 PM 4/28/97 -0400, you wrote:
>> >Hi all,
>> >
>> >I recently possed the following question to Headspace about their new
>audio
>> >Netscape plug-in called Beatnik.
>> >
>> [interesting beatnik stuff]
>> >
>> >Has anyone tried playing back seamless loops from a PC using this
>plug-in?
>> >
>> 
>> Just install it and go to the Headspace site. Thomas Dolby's 
>walk-through
>> examples include several looped audio parts. Also good examples of
>> interactive audio on a web page. They also have links to demonstration
>sites
>> with more interesting stuff. I went to one created by a trip-hop dj that
>let
>> you control four parts of a mix, with the ability to change the audio
>> samples in different parts, as well as mixing and muting the different
>> channels. It was a blast! Another page let you essentially compose an
>> ambient piece interactively by starting up various audio samples and
>letting
>> them loop or go in and out, or whatever., all by interacting with a
>graphic
>> on the page. It was all incredibly cool.
>> 
>> Another thing my girlfriend noticed, is that midi files from the web
>sound
>> fantastic through beatnik. I think they have their own sample library,
>which
>> replaces the crappy gm sounds we had through quicktime. I'm using it for
>all
>> web based audio now, and highly recommend it.
>> 
>> kim
>> _______________________________________________________
>> Kim Flint                    408-752-9284
>> VLSI Systems Engineering        kflint@chromatic.com
>> Chromatic Research
>> 
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Kim Flint                       408-752-9284
VLSI Systems Engineering        kflint@chromatic.com
Chromatic Research