In order to make the code so far a little more reusable, I moved it over into its own class, called Tone. I also implemented some optimizations and other little tricks. The most important is that instead of calculating the next batch of samples along with the envelope on every SAMPLE_DATA event, I precalculate all [...]
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In Part I and Part II of this series, we learned how to utilize the Sound object to synthesize sound, and how to create sounds of various frequencies. This post will just be a quick detour onto a couple of tricks you can implement. The first one is visualizing the wave you are playing. In [...]
This post will show you how to generate sine waves for specific frequencies using the AS3 Sound object. It assumes you have read, or are familiar with the data in Part I of this series. Basics of Sound Sound itself is essentially a change in the pressure of the air. Extremely simple layman’s terms here. [...]
I’ve been meaning to write something up on this for quite a while. It recently struck me that there still wasn’t a whole lot of good material on this out there already. So I figured I’d throw something together. We’ll start by looking at the basic mechanics of the Sound object, how to code it [...]
In the June 2010 issue of Scientific American, on page 58, there is an article entitled, “Is Time an Illusion?” by Craig Callender. You can see it here: The large artwork on the first and last pages of the story, and a bit more subtly in some of the in between pages, is by yours [...]
A few people have noticed and a few people have asked me about it, so to clear the air, no, I am not speaking at Flash on the Beach this year. But yes, I will most likely be attending. No bad blood anywhere. In fact I was hanging out with Mr. John Davey extensively last [...]
I’m a bit behind on my conference reports, so a quick recap so far. In April I went to FiTC Toronto. This was my 5th time speaking at TO. I skipped last year to do Amsterdam instead. I have to say that this was one of the most enjoyable FiTC’s I’ve been to in quite [...]
If you’ve installed the latest version of Google Chrome, and you are having a problem debugging your Flash in it, there’s a reason. As you may have heard, Chrome now comes pre-installed with the Flash player. For good reasons, this is not the debug version of the player. All well and good, you go over [...]
It’s not a Mac! It’s a Sony! A Sony Vaio E-Series to be exact. Yes, I’ve gone back to the dark side. But it doesn’t feel that way anymore. I’ll make a long story short, since I’ve started out to write a long explanation of why I’m going back to Windows, and I think the [...]
Addressed all reported bugs and added a few graphical goodies. First is grids. The Panel now has a few new properties. Panel.showGrid turns on or off a grid drawn in the background. Panel.gridColor and Panel.gridSize let you control the color of the grid lines and how far [...]