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Michel Rouzic has announced version 1.8 of Photosounder, a tool for graphical sound design by spectral editing.

Photosounder allows you to graphically manipulate sound files to directly adjust, create and shape sounds with surgical precision.

Changes in Photosounder v1.8

• Stereo support to edit and create stereo sounds less painfully.
• Layer support for more powerful editing.
• New options and modifications to improve your workflow and results.

VSTi integration and multi-platform support are planned for future updates.

Photosounder is available to purchase priced at $32 USD / €25 EUR for a non-commercial license and $127 USD / €99 EUR for a commercial license, with a free upgrade to version 1.8 (available on June 1, 2010). After the release of v1.8 Photosounder’s price will increase to $59 USD / €46 EUR for a non-commercial license and $175 USD / €138 EUR for a commercial license.

More information: Photosounder

Some interesting things I found recently:

# Famous people who use the APC 40

Seriously funny APC40 photoshopping thread on the Ableton forum. link via CDM

# little-scale: X-EDX Tuning Synth

Sebastian Tomczak:

I made a very basic synth to explore equal division by ratio tuning a little more easily. The name comes from the fact that it can play any tuning of the form "x equal divisions of ratio a is to b". It's basically a patch with a sine / pulse / triangle wave, with a MIDI input.

Michel Rouzic has released Photosounder, a one-of-a-kind image-sound editing program.

It is unique in that it opens images and sounds indiscriminately, treats and processes them as images, and synthesizes them as sounds. Sounds, once turned into images, can be powerfully modified to achieve effects and results that couldn’t be obtained in any other way, while images of all sorts reveal the infinite kinds of otherworldly sounds they contain. Ultimately, knowing how sounds look and how images sound, you’ll be able to create images that sound like what you want to hear, or like what you couldn’t imagine to hear.

Photosounder features

• Loads nearly all image formats
• Loads OGG and WAV sounds
• Can save the resulting sound into a WAV file
• Analyses sounds into images for processing
• Features spray tools to edit the image-sound by hand
• Can adjust the frequency range, frequency scale, tempo (playback rate),
  gamma
• Can rotate and flip the image-sound

Photosounder is available for Windows PC (Mac OS and Linux versions coming soon) for 99 EUR. A demo version is available, with the ability to save the resulting sound to file disabled, and a small noise inserted every 3 seconds.

Visit the Photosounder website for more information and some audio & video demos.

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on March 14th, 2008:

• The HAptic GUidance System – A device for "recording" and "playing back" drumstick motions involved in percussion performance. It is being used in a series of experiments designed to test the effect of physical guidance on motor learning.

HAGUS – the drumstick, gearing, and optical encoder.

• Five great auditory illusions – Daniel Levitin has written The Music Illusion, which looks at auditory illusions and how they can help us understand the workings of the human brain. New Scientist has compiled five of the most striking auditory illusions discovered so far.
• Photoshop Disasters – Image manipulations gone horribly wrong.
• 100 (Legal) Sources for Free Stock Images – You want to make sure you don’t end up doing something like this (from Photoshop Disasters mentioned above).

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on October 23rd, 2007:

• Home-made helicopters hit northern Nigeria – Mubarak Muhammed Abdullahi, a 24-year-old undergraduate from Nigeria, is building helicopters out of old car and bike parts.
• Looza in the mix – Non Stop Beat – 70 minutes with (partly jazzed-up) original funk and disco tracks from the GDR, Poland, the CSSR and the USSR.

• Bob Truby’s Brand Name Pencils – Bob is an art teacher and a pencil collector. Enter the incredibly diverse world of brand name pencils.
• The Do it Yourself Optimus Prime Halloween Costume – You still have a few days to build one…
• Invisible Bookshelf by Miron Lior – This floating bookshelf becomes invisible behind a stack of books. This larger version can hold books up to 10″ depth, with a 20lb maximum load. Powder-coated steel. Mounting hardware included.
• Charts And Graphs: Modern Solutions – Some nice Server-based solutions and Ajax- and JavaScript-frameworks.
• Fauxto – Online application similar to Photoshop, but free.

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on August 29th, 2007:

• Day of the Daleks – A bid to break the world record of the most Daleks in one place.
• Time lapse lunar image – Done in Photoshop.
• Free Spirit Spheres – Suspended Spherical Tree Houses.
• Felt Underwood Typewriter – It took several weeks of non stop sewing to finish. The felt is hand dyed and the details are embroidered.
• Endangered Machinery – Industrial and industrial heritage photography by Haiko Hebig.
• Front Mission 4 Paper Model – Paper model of a character from the Front Mission game series.