new sounds (b)

67 samples. created with bitmaps and waves.

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new sounds (a)

74 samples. created with bitmaps and waves.

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raw sounds

80 samples. created with Bitmaps and waves.

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highlights: bitmaps and waves (program)

one of my favourite programs at the moment. it is turning jpg- and bmp-files into crazy sounds (and vice versa). you can change the pitch / length and do lots of other funny things. lots of different parameters to change. you can load pictures of buildings, crosswords, punched cards or jose mourinho running on the pitch after the match - the result may sound like krautrock ambient stuff. check it out.

 

you can download this programm here.

 

i can also offer you some selfmade preset images of drum loops and a pack of crazy sounds.

 

paint2sound (program)

when i was reading about this program i had to try it. you can load pictures or draw on a black canvas and the program is creating sounds. great idea. but after trying that program i am really disappointed. all you can do with this program is: to draw (or load a file), to listen to the result, to change some parameters (frequency stuff, bitrate, blah) AFTER listening to the full playback and you can save your picture (bmp or jpg). that´s all! you can´t save the audio. you can change the "sound duration" but there is no bpm counter. you can change the bitrate but you never know what is the current bitrate. there is no bpm grid on the canvas...

great idea but bad product. who needs a program like this?

paul breitner beats (vsti) and loops (or: how does a world cup winner sound like?)

my second journey into abstract sound. i took some pictures of german legendary soccer player paul breitner and wanted to create sounds with these files. i knew that this picture synth of "fl studio" is boring - it really doesn´t matter what picture you´re putting in there it always sounds the same. i tried the "spectrobits" vsti and it was also like this (but at least i was able to save a funny snapshot). this "harsh digital nose" vsti is creating wavs from jpegs but the size is always the same and the sound not so different - more interesting the way i was doing it last time: wav to picture and this picture to wav again. but i still needed the wavs. i knew that lots of really simple audio editors are creating audio files from all kinds of other files. i used a demo of "goldwave" and it worked. i saved the files as 16-bit stereo and saw that it is also possible to create txt files.

there are some vst instruments you can load txt files as waveform presets. "wave stone" or "waveform" for example. i was doing this. recorded some loops. i used the "harsh digital nose". recorded some more loops. at the end i was creating a vsti rompler with "maize sampler".

vsti "paul breitner beats" (in 2 versions)

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43 loops, the 23 original wav samples and 23 txt files

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computer generated noise loops (or: audio loop to picture data to audio loop?)





with the harsh digital nose 2.0 vsti you can load (for example) jpegs and convert them to audio wavs. a few weeks ago i already found out that the size of the saved wav is always the same. i tried images of different sizes but the wavs always had the same size, the same length and just sounded slightly different to me.
so this time my idea was: when i´m loading drumloops and saving them as picture datas - what is the result when i´m changing these pictures back to audio datas?
i took some 85 bpm drumloops (with a lot of silence between the beats) and at the end i was really surprised: noisy loops (like using a bitcrusher with a low bit rate) as you can hear them in modern post-industrial tracks. rather rhythmic drones than distorted beats.

the original sounds are already really good but i wanted to create variation. this is why i used the grapheed beatslicer. for this i had to change the wav format (stereo instead of mono and 24-bit instead of 32-bit-float). enjoy!

639 loops.

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the 6 original loops:

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