Dad often gets fidgety - physically as you saw in previous time lapse vid - but also creatively. It get's quite frustrating always teaching other people how to be creative and how to build interactive media, but rarely getting a chance to do it yourself anymore.
When M got a Ukulele, but found that most of the online Ukulele tuning devices were not quite what was needed, Dad finally got inspiration (and because of holidays finally had the time) to produce something interactive - Uke Tuner
You can download Uke Tuner 0.92 (Beta) here free >
If you have any feedback or suggestions, please feel free to leave comments or email me direct.
Dad says "The problem with the online tuning system M was using, was that it only gave audio samples of a Ukulele string being plucked. However it is much easier to tune an instrument to a continuous tone. In Uke Tuner I gave the option, plucked note, or continuous tone, so the user can choose their preferred method. Then of course I went overboard on graphics and interactivity."
Dad is pretty pleased with the result, and M likes it too - after all it was made with her feedback, and what we have here is not the first design option. Hopefully others will like it too.
For the more technically minded, graphics were produced in Fireworks then exported as PNG 32 to preserve alpha channels or SWF, for use in Flash. Audio was recorded from a Yamaha PSR-240 keyboard via a line-in cable from the keyboard's headphone socket. Sound was recorded and processed with Audacity then exported as WAV 32-bit for use in Flash. Interactivity was produced in Flash, with ActionScript 2. Flash Audio settings were set to export sound at 22Khz stereo and 128kbps. Playback speed is 30 fps to make it animate more smoothly. The application was compiled with MDM Flash Studio because it has a faster projector engine than the Flash Standalone Player, extends the ActionScript classes available in Flash with some additional functionality, and allows the creator to tweak the display options (such as turning off the blue bar at the top).
Enjoy.
When M got a Ukulele, but found that most of the online Ukulele tuning devices were not quite what was needed, Dad finally got inspiration (and because of holidays finally had the time) to produce something interactive - Uke Tuner
You can download Uke Tuner 0.92 (Beta) here free >
If you have any feedback or suggestions, please feel free to leave comments or email me direct.
Dad says "The problem with the online tuning system M was using, was that it only gave audio samples of a Ukulele string being plucked. However it is much easier to tune an instrument to a continuous tone. In Uke Tuner I gave the option, plucked note, or continuous tone, so the user can choose their preferred method. Then of course I went overboard on graphics and interactivity."
Dad is pretty pleased with the result, and M likes it too - after all it was made with her feedback, and what we have here is not the first design option. Hopefully others will like it too.
For the more technically minded, graphics were produced in Fireworks then exported as PNG 32 to preserve alpha channels or SWF, for use in Flash. Audio was recorded from a Yamaha PSR-240 keyboard via a line-in cable from the keyboard's headphone socket. Sound was recorded and processed with Audacity then exported as WAV 32-bit for use in Flash. Interactivity was produced in Flash, with ActionScript 2. Flash Audio settings were set to export sound at 22Khz stereo and 128kbps. Playback speed is 30 fps to make it animate more smoothly. The application was compiled with MDM Flash Studio because it has a faster projector engine than the Flash Standalone Player, extends the ActionScript classes available in Flash with some additional functionality, and allows the creator to tweak the display options (such as turning off the blue bar at the top).
Enjoy.
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