Psychosynth: Free 3D Music Interface, as a Virtual Reactable

[Claudio]

Create Digital Music checks out an interesting piece of free software called Psychosynth.

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/12/1 ... reactable/

I might have to give this a whirl.

[raboof]

Amazing stuff.

The 3D doesn't seem very useful since the objects are still laid out on a plane. Showing the waveforms on the connections is a great touch.

Making/breaking connections by moving objects on and off other connections looks easy, but I wonder how that'll work when there are a lot of objects around.

Modifying parameters looks nice and intuitive, but I wonder how you specify *which* parameter you want to affect. Same goes for modifying parameters by attaching another object: how do you specify whether that sine you just added affects pitch, volume, tempo, etc?

[raboof]

when trying to install, i had to:

* apt-get install libceguiogre-dev
* mkdir m4
* export SOUNDTOUCH_CFLAGS="-I/usr/include/soundtouch"
* export SOUNDTOUCH_LIBS="-L/usr/lib -lSoundTouch"
* export CXX=g++-4.2 (looks like it's not compatible with g++ 4.3 yet)
* export CC=gcc-4.2

After that './configure', 'make', 'sudo make install' installed the application correctly.

Unfortunately, the 3D interface doesn't work nearly good enough on my machine - the mouse pointer lags enormously. I guess I should go look into 3D accelleration...

[khz]

i had to:

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emerge cegui
emerge ois
USE="cegui devil" emerge ogre
USE="+alsa +jack +psynth3d -oss +sndfile +vorbis +xml -osc" emerge  psychosynth

you must check by the first start from psynth3d that the configure in psynth3d/audio the same like in jack. maybe set the "FPS" configure in psynth3d/video down. http://www.psychosynth.com/index.php/User_manual#Video
i have no RT kernel http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt , build by my self.

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2.6.27-gentoo-r4-k8_kif #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 5 19:21:52 CET 2008 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) X2 Dual Core Processor BE-2350 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

and install the nvidia driver/modules.
psynth3d run here with ~30% cpu and it make fun to play .

hmm,

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-osc

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[raboof]

Unfortunately, the 3D interface doesn't work nearly good enough on my machine - the mouse pointer lags enormously. I guess I should go look into 3D accelleration...

I installed fglrx (i use an ATi card, followed this guide) and now the 3d stuff performs well. The audio is still weird (sines don't sound like sines), will look into that later.

[studio32]

Look at the linuxjournal article (give me 3 synths) by Dave Philips, there are some install notes

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/giv ... ths-part-3