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Uploaded a few more sounds and re-organized my packs:

Dare-26 Processed Sounds (Loops)
Loops created from sound-to-image or data-bending sounds OR by processing sounds in an image editor.
http://www.freesound.org/people/AlienXXX/packs/14099/

Dare-26 Processed sounds (drumkit)
Here I will compile a drumkit created from manipulations of sounds created from copyc4t's logo.
http://www.freesound.org/people/AlienXXX/packs/14106/

Dare-26 Examples and New sounds
For sounds I have created myself. Often these sounds are meant to illustrate a specific technique.
http://www.freesound.org/people/AlienXXX/packs/14193/

I have to say, I'm enjoying this immensely and good to see lots of different sounds being uploaded all with individualist approaches. But, the variable outcomes in my own processes are bending my mind; so many sounds. Help, I'm drowning in sounds! Only joking, it's great.

toiletrolltube wrote:
Copyc4t, it sounds great and you can still see part of the original image in the spectrum. You've immortalised my avatar in sound, I'm honoured

Now, since the harmonic side of this Dare is a little behind...
http://www.freesound.org/people/copyc4t/sounds/231766/
a.k.a. LuckyLittleHarshLead (I can haz wobblez!)

Being so rich in high frequencies, it works well even with drastic cutoff, so it's quite wobble-friendly.
If you keep it cut down, try adding a phaser and a chorus for a quite powerful sound

copyc4t wrote:
Now, since the harmonic side of this Dare is a little behind...

Thus I created a new pack where I will be posting my mellodic sounds.
At the moment all there is in the pack are some modified versions of sounds others created. http://www.freesound.org/people/AlienXXX/packs/14212/
In time I will add some more sounds, created from scratch with he techniques we have been discussing.

Di-di-dinnnnng!

more variations on the previous Ding! sound; the 2 second long ones come from a longer rendering in AudioPaint, so the hit sound is a bit stretched compared to the original "Ding!"; the others come from a rendering of the grid alone with only the first beat, and 8 seconds duration.

http://www.freesound.org/people/copyc4t/sounds/231969/
http://www.freesound.org/people/copyc4t/sounds/231970/
http://www.freesound.org/people/copyc4t/sounds/231971/
http://www.freesound.org/people/copyc4t/sounds/231972/
http://www.freesound.org/people/copyc4t/sounds/231973/

Last but not least, a version of the 8 seconds sustained one without the initial hit, but if you try to play melodies with this, you'll find something more proper for Halloween than for April Fool
http://www.freesound.org/people/copyc4t/sounds/231974/

EDIT: fresh from the oven and already available:
http://www.freesound.org/people/copyc4t/sounds/232000/
A mysterious ambience from http://www.freesound.org/people/luckylittleraven/sounds/223070/
processed with Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch with prominently tonal setting at 8.04x

...of the same stretching kind:
http://www.freesound.org/people/copyc4t/sounds/232025/
http://www.freesound.org/people/copyc4t/sounds/232026/

Recently I've been making music tracks comprised entirely of hand-drawn waveforms in Soundforge.

Headphaze wrote:
Recently I've been making music tracks comprised entirely of hand-drawn waveforms in Soundforge.

AlienXXX wrote:Would you like to provide links? I am sure we would all be delighted to listen to these

I haven't finished a track yet, but I can export a snippet for you later.

[Its abstract electronic dance music by the way]

I'm actually thinking about releasing a sample pack on Freesound all hand drawn. Perhaps percussive drum sounds (because these are the simplest to create).

copyc4t wrote:
processed with Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch with prominently tonal setting at 8.04x

Image-to-sound programs convert the brightness of points on the image to intensity values, vertical axis to frequency and horizontal axis to time. Since the user can specify the duration of the sound, you can effectively produce stretched (or shortened) versions of a sound.
The problem with Audiopaint is that it does not convert sound-to-image, it only does image-to-sound.

I have used Photosounder very sucessfully to stretch sounds (before I had Paulstretch). But Photosounder is not a free program.

Of course, you can do it with just Audiopaint and Audacity:
Select spectrum display mode in Audacity. Do a screen grab. Clip the sound spectrum to an image and ajust colours (e.g. convert to grayscale). Import this image to Audiopaint - make sur eto use the same frequency settings as from Audacity: top and bottom frequencies on the display and the correct scale (linear or logarithmic).

'Metasynth' is another great program. It's got a number of really quirky experimental sound creation/manipulation techniques. Its pretty comprehensive sound design tool, but it cost quite a bit of money. The down side is that it's MAC OSX only.

There is a demo available which has slightly reduced functionality

http://www.uisoftware.com/MetaSynth/index.php

Headphaze wrote:
'Metasynth' is another great program. It's got a number of really quirky experimental sound creation/manipulation techniques. Its pretty comprehensive sound design tool, but it cost quite a bit of money. The down side is that it's MAC OSX only.

There is a demo available which has slightly reduced functionality

http://www.uisoftware.com/MetaSynth/index.php

Thanks Headphaze, which reminds me, might be time for a tinker with this -

http://www.camelaudio.com/cameleon5000.php

Could be the Windows equivalent of MetaSynth, but I can't say for sure as I don't know enough about either, except that one is a plug in, the other more like a workstation.

toiletrolltube wrote:

Thanks Headphaze, which reminds me, might be time for a tinker with this -

http://www.camelaudio.com/cameleon5000.php

Could be the Windows equivalent of MetaSynth, but I can't say for sure as I don't know enough about either, except that one is a plug in, the other more like a workstation.

Thanks for the suggestion. Although, I actually purchased Alchemy quite a while back. It can do everything Chameleon can, and much much more.

Alchemy really is my 'go to' sound creation tool.

Hi folks, I'm posting for the first time in this forum, and the sounds I created for this dare are the first I've ever uploaded though I've been a member of Freesound since 2007 or 2008. Thanks to AlienXXX for the invite. I've never used Audio Paint before, but I used to play around with The VOICE, Seeing with Sound, which is a program that sonifies images and camera feeds for the blind. I am myself totally blind, but as I only fooled around with it here at my desktop, I don't have a portable device with a camera capable of running the program, I never really got the hang of "seeing" much with it, though it was great for lining up my webcam before I got on Skype. But it was fun to play around with. Here's a link to a piece I created with Musinum, a 16-bit program that makes fractal music by plugging in values into a mathematical function the program uses. As a background I used sound from the VOICE as I randomly pointed the camera at stuff in front of me. Actually I used that sound 3 times. Looped at normal speed, half speed, and quarter speed. You hear my screen reader spouting some stuff during the recording because I was using What You Hear. I thought it sounded cool so I left it that way.
Scanning for Lifeforms on Reverbnation

And here are my sounds for the dare which are my first uploaded sounds. I used 3 images to create 9 sounds, I sonified the Rainbow and Rainbow Lace images with both Audio Paint and Goldwave. With Rainbow João I used one of the scales from the scale library suggested in Audio Paint. I wish there was a quicker way to find out what these scales are than opening them up one by one in notepad to read the description.

Welcome to the dare kb7clx !
It is a pleasure to have you with us.

I have a USB camera (somewhere) and plan to do some crazy-camera-feedback-sonification with VOICE.
Gosh... I will run out of days to life long before I run out of (crazy) ideas.

Stick around if you have a chance and listen to the sounds uploaded by others.
These techniques can produce some really unusual results. Plus everyone is encouraged to manipulate the sounds further and to take sounds uploaded by others and create something with them.

Thanks for the welcome AlienXXX! Actually I did go through most of the sounds here, some great stuff. And I'm impressed with the drum kits and loops, especially the toms.
Hmm sonification feedback, that would be interesting. Set VOICE to instantaneous sonification rather than scan, run the sound from VOICE through a spectrum analyzer/software oscilloscope, point the camera at the output of the spectrum analyzer. That would be some crazy feedback I'll bet.

Scanning for Lifeforms is mesmerizing, like recursively getting lost into oneself.
Well done kb7clx !!
And thanks for pointing out Musinum, it's quite interesting!

copyc4t wrote:
Scanning for Lifeforms is mesmerizing, like recursively getting lost into oneself.
Well done kb7clx !!
And thanks for pointing out Musinum, it's quite interesting!

I realize it's a quite convoluted workaround, but since Musinum works well on Linux via Wine, you could install a Linux virtual machine (with Virtualbox or VMWare for instance) and install Musinum onto it.

At least the main Linux distributions take accessibility into account, so the only thing to verify would be how accessible the virtual machine handlers are.

Thanks, that's certainly something to think about. I have debated over the years about trying Blinux the Linux distribution for the blind that loads with Orca.

I am sure some of you are following this thread. Here is a little Dare 26 spin-off:
http://www.freesound.org/forum/dare-the-community/34991/
Would appreciate your participation in this experiment! - Thanks