outlier wrote:
b9: I enjoyed watching that. What did you use to generate the music; a digital piano, or keyboard?
ermm the music was not randomly generated by an electronic instrument. i composed it.
i played it with my fingers on just a keyboard. it is a casio ctk 800 which is a cheap keyboard. but i have it plugged in to my sound card in my main computer which has impressive hardware in the card that can produce a very realistic piano sound. i bypass all the hardware trinketry of the keyboard sounds and use my sound card to render the tones of the instrument i want to play.
a ctk800 played by itself is like a cheap organ grinder sound.
but if you plug the keyboard into a superior renderer, you can get very good representations of real world instruments.
so i used a flute and 3 piano tracks to do the song.
i have a 16 track mixer which means i can lay tracks over my previous performances to add illustration. i switched off the tympanic tracks near the end which i should not have done.
whatever.
outlier wrote:
I'm curious about viewing the same figure again with a very rapid drill; it would add to my sense of how the various scales relate to the whole.
i did not conceive the music for the purpose of marrying with the animation. i conceived it on a quiet night with no visual reference. there is no relation except
accidental ones.
i am glad you gave me honest feedback. i can do a drill much faster than the one i portrayed. i do not know the speed of peoples concentration and i underestimate it.
i will drill into the design next time without the spinning spiral effect (i added that for someone who wanted it).
i like to have it totally symmetrical and not to change its horizontal symmetry in any way.
thanks for replying and sorry i am severely autistic at the moment and can not think of anything smart to say.