HighC

Found this cool program, called HighC. It lets you create sound by drawing in different sounds (e.g. sine, square, pulse, saw ect.) like MS paint or something across a piano roll. Its more involved than that but is pretty neat. Check it.

HighC

sick, thanks for the link

Its written in javas, means I don't need to install windows to get this running.

EDIT: so far ive run into a few bugs and I can't see the whole gui.

  Bubba69 said:

Its written in javas, means I don't need to install windows to get this running.

 

EDIT: so far ive run into a few bugs and I can't see the whole gui.

That's odd everything for me works fine. Maybe its the Java?

Kind of cool.

  cuubjan said:

  Bubba69 said:

Its written in javas, means I don't need to install windows to get this running.

 

EDIT: so far ive run into a few bugs and I can't see the whole gui.

 

That's odd everything for me works fine. Maybe its the Java?

or you have better screen resolution than me, or it could have been that beryl was running and screwing up

  cuubjan said:

Found this cool program, called HighC. It lets you create sound by drawing in different sounds (e.g. sine, square, pulse, saw ect.) like MS paint or something across a piano roll. Its more involved than that but is pretty neat. Check it.

There are a bunch of "AudioPaint" systems, such as Metasynth, Coagula, AudioPaint... Their common ancestor is HyperUpic (http://silvertone.princeton.edu/winham/PPSK/hyper.html).

However, HighC and UPIC (HyperUpic's ancestor) share a common trait: they are symbolic systems; instead of relying on some "inverse FFT" transform. Makes them more versatile, albeit less precise in a way...

As a side note, Aphex Twin, in this Future Music interview, praises UPIC, although it's not clear he actually used it in his albums (he's rather a Metasynth type).

BTW, the newest version (2.1) includes many more examples of use, and more synthesis techniques, such as FM synthesis, ring modulation, granular synthesis...

see and hear it at http://highc.org.

This HighC thing sounds really cool, I can't try it out at the moment because I'm away from home - has anyone here tried it, and what was it like?

I like it! It's really easy to learn, especially when you read the short tutorial.

I messed around a bit, came up with this

i'm also a fan of highC! it's a fun way to make sounds/tracks and keeps on getting better with each release. I remember reading that the creator of highC said that he eventually wants turn highC into a vst plug-in 8-)

its supposed to emulate a upic system. I made some epic noise drones with it.

i could only get it to do this

Best waveform ever Ludd.

  LUDD said:

i could only get it to do this

 

Impressive, but what does it sound like?

PS: for the VST plugin for HighC, there's a year or more to wait... unless I get swamped by sales...

wtf i haven't tried it yet but you make music by drawing lines?

  Berk said:

http://highc.org/forum/comments.php?Discus...p;page=1#Item_0

FYI: Version 2.5 was released yesterday. it targets educational uses.

it is becoming easier to enter chords and melodies like on a piano roll...

random noise for the win

thanks for this

should be called "epic" ;-)

anyone had problems with audio output in mac os x? I can't even find a setting for it in this program

  On 7/28/2009 at 9:59 AM, spraaaa said:

anyone had problems with audio output in mac os x? I can't even find a setting for it in this program

are you a registered user? Have you tried e-mailing the creator or posting on their forum? You can choose your preferred format in the properties window.

  On 7/28/2009 at 9:59 AM, spraaaa said:

anyone had problems with audio output in mac os x? I can't even find a setting for it in this program

There's no settings for audio output in HighC because it uses the default settings from your system preferences.

Now, no one has ever mentioned an issue with audio output. Can you enter a description of your issue in the support forum?

I'll try that, already emailed. just don't hear anything no matter what I load or do.

sounds like an option to rout it somewhere different would be nice. So you could use it w/ sound flower or some such something.