Hey Sam, Have you got any Quil/Overtone examples for us to look at? Know of any projects that have used this yet?
On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 1:31:28 PM UTC-7, Sam Aaron wrote: > > Hi all, > > I just thought I'd give you a quick heads up that Overtone 0.7 has been > released. It represents around 6 months worth of solid work (~500 commits) > and we're really rather pleased with how far we've come. I'm especially > pleased to welcome our new committers. Without these people (and also all > the long-standing trench-dwelling committers) Overtone wouldn't be such an > exciting and fun project to hack on: > > * Damion Junk > * Jacob Lee > * Fabian Steeg > * Michael Bernstein > * Ian Davies > > > > Now, I thought I'd run you through some of the aspects I'm most thrilled > about: > > ## Tap into Quil > > Overtone now ships with the tap cgen. This little gem packs way above its > weight. It essentially gives you the ability to reach into any aspect of > the SuperCollider synth engine and tap the values flowing through. These > values are then magically swapped into an atom which you can then deref > from Clojure-land and do what you will with the contents. This is awesome > for hooking Overtone up with visualisation libraries such as Quil. > > ## Freesound trickery > > Overtone core hacker Kevin Neaton has been working wonders with our > Freesound support. For those not in the know, freesound.org is an > open-source sound sample database full of creative-commons licensed sound > snippets. Kevin has been working with these guys to improve their support > for large sample bundles, and as a result the sampled-piano samples are now > hosted on freesound.org. This should prove to be a lot more reliable than > the previous solution. Also, he's added search capability right into the > REPL - so no need to leave the comfort of your Clojure prompt in order to > explore the huge world of free samples out there. > > ## MIDI event stream > > On boot, Overtone now hooks up to any connected MIDI device and broadcasts > all events onto the global event stream. This makes working with your MIDI > keyboard and controllers easier than ever. We're really enjoying the event > stream and feel there's a lot more potential to discover with it. > > So, what are you waiting for? Create a new lein project, add "overtone > 0.7.0" as a dependency, start a REPL, and start making sounds. As always, > the cheatsheet is your honourable guide to the plethora of functionality at > your disposal: > > > http://cloud.github.com/downloads/overtone/overtone/overtone-cheat-sheet.pdf > > For those that like peering into the murky details, here's the more > lengthy changelog: > > https://github.com/overtone/overtone/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md > > Happy Hacking! > > Sam > > --- > http://sam.aaron.name > > > > > -- > http://sam.aaron.name > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
