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02-25-2024, 04:19 PM
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simple Media Browser that sorts by spectrum
Hey all, just posting a concept that's maybe interesting and just curious what others think.
For auditioning samples/folders, a simple file browser that sorts sounds by spectrum. some basic things like "how bassy", "how midrangey", "how top-endy" would be the spectrum.
And I imagine a slider that lets you "sweep" through the sounds, where it previews a fixed-window snippet representing each sound for a second or two.
Basically sliding would act as a crossfader through every track in the current folder. In the spirit of XO by XLN, but Reaper-y, some basic sliders but super functional.
Is this kind of thing possible to script?
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02-25-2024, 04:57 PM
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Great concept.
Im sure its somehow possible to script, i just hope its doable in way that can easily integrate most, or at least some workflows.
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02-25-2024, 10:29 PM
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How it might work:
-you have objects for every song in the folder you're browsing
-every object is analysed for spectral energy -- is it statistically more bassy than it is anything else? tag it bassy. mostly mids? tag it. high-end? etc.
-the objects are organized according to their dominant spectral energy
I imagine, while dragging the slider :
-you hear a window of audio from some particular location in the spectrum, with some spread control that includes/excludes some % of surrounding audio files playing at the same time. It's self-looping, so you essentially get a "texture" from some location in the spectrum.
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02-25-2024, 10:30 PM
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It'd be like XLN XO, but for textures instead of one-shots. Easiest way to put it.
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02-25-2024, 10:33 PM
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Extra thoughts : determine the dominant energy (notes-wise) in the analysis, and make a reasonable guess as to the "root key" of the audio file, and then a "tuning" slider that "pulls the tuning towards the same root" for every sound. So if a sound was determined to be in G based on its spectral stats, the "tuning" slider at 100% would pitch-shift that sound down 7 semitones, to a c.
Essentially it would become a synth this way, where you design the patch by swiping around on the spectral slider. And the tuning slider would make it more or less atonal/colourful.
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02-26-2024, 12:51 AM
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I've long wanted something like this, but basically for guitar speaker cab IRs... dunno if it would really work how I imagine it, but would be cool if someone made something like that.
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02-26-2024, 01:11 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dom64
I've long wanted something like this, but basically for guitar speaker cab IRs... dunno if it would really work how I imagine it, but would be cool if someone made something like that.
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Maybe these are destined for max/msp? where all the FFT and related routines are already native to the environment.
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02-26-2024, 02:20 PM
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