SynthMaker

BioMobius or Eyesweb Open Software Platform

Archive · 2012 8 old posts

From the original SynthMaker forum (2004–2014), with its members’ names and dates.

jjs ·

Hi, replied this on an other topic, but i thought it might be of bigger interest to some people, so i copied it here, after all it is free *** Really GRATIS *** software to make software... 🙂

Maybe this is of interest, founfd it when i searched for an alternative for flowstone wich is biomobius wich is totally free http://biomobius.trilcentre.org (also GUI design etc.) what is based on the eyesweb platform http://www.infomus.org/eyesweb_eng.php and supports a few things:

EyesWeb is an open platform to support the design and development of real-time multimodal systems and interfaces. It supports a wide number of input devices including motion capture systems, various types of professional and low cost videocameras, game interfaces (e.g., Kinect, Wii), multichiannel audio input (e.g. microphones), analog inputs (e.g. for physiological signals). Supported outputs include multichannel audio, video, analog devices, robotic platforms. Various standards are supported, including OSC, MIDI, FreeFrame and VST plugins, ASIO, Motion Capture standards and systems (Qualisys), Matlab. EyesWeb supports real-time synchronized recordings of multimodal channels, and includes a number of software libraries, including the Non-Verbal Expressive Gesture Analysis and the Non-Verbal Social Signals Analysis libs. Users can develop proprietary software libs using the EyesWeb development environment. The EyesWeb software includes a development environment, a distributed run-time system (supporting Windows, Linux, and mobile platforms) to create distributed or networked real-time applications, and an open set of libraries of reusable software components. The development environment supports the design process of multimodal interactive systems, enabling users to build systems by means of a visual programming language, which presents some analogies with computer music languages inspired to analog synthesizers or to software systems like Simulink. EyesWeb is conceived, designed and developed by InfoMus Lab. The EyesWeb project started in 1997, as a natural evolution of the HARP Project. The current release of the open software platform is EyesWeb XMI (eXtended Multimodal Interaction). The EyesWeb software platform has been adopted in EU projects in the 5th, 6th and 7th Framework Programme (ICT), and by thousands of users worldwide for scientific research, education, and industry applications. For example, EyesWeb was selected by INTEL in 2008 for their hardware for "independent living", and was adopted at the New York University Summer Program on "Music, dance and new technologies" (2004 - 2006).

So i'm investigating a few things if it is possible to use it like synthmaker. Maybe it is useable for some people how can't wait any longer and want to try new possibilities.

It is developed on universities so more people behind it.

jjs ·

I started the gui designer, it just looks like Maize Sampler, or maybe where Maize sampler is made?

Very strange, or maybe not. 😕

I don't know about you, but i'm getting excited here!!

trogluddite ·

Thanks for the links - on first glance, that does look interesting indeed. 🙂 The range of support for different sensing capabilities looks really intriguing.- already gives me some thoughts about some 'improved' forms of control. MIDI has always felt hampered to me by the use of keyboards, knobs etc. - comes from being a bass player and long-ago trombonist, I suppose. The kind of kinematic and 'biological' sensors they mention could be just the thing to breath some life and expression into controlling sounds - and even to give control of music to folks with physical handicaps that make the usual controllers impossible for them to use.

Nu Audio Science ·

Very interested to hear more about this, can it create VST/VSTi or just load them as part of a design No time to experiment for the next week or so, but i will join in when i get chance 😉

jjs ·

Nu Audio Science wrote: Very interested to hear more about this, can it create VST/VSTi or just load them as part of a design No time to experiment for the next week or so, but i will join in when i get chance 😉

Don't know yet exactly, at least you can use it as part of your design. I don't know if that would bring some new unlimited possibilities.

I looking into it if a design can be exported to a dll or exe, but did not discover it yet. On Eyesweb there are also SDK's available for windows, linux and mobile.

So have to explore some more.

Dj_Tays ·

hey ! eyesweb looks great ! im downloading it ...

Its possible to open a SM project with this ??

Looks interesting i will test it soon as possible

Regards

CoreStyler ·

Seems good for prototypes.. i find no way to export in exe. Just "patches".

jjs ·

CoreStyler wrote: Seems good for prototypes.. i find no way to export in exe. Just "patches".

Same here, that would be a pitty. Whats the use if no executable can be made, only for testing then. But maybe we've not seen yet what we need.

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