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Hi,

I've just released the first public version of my freeware program Sound Painter!

I thought I would tell the PureBasic community as it was developed in PB.

It is freeware and the program generates sound effects.

Find out more at my site here:

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/mmcvittie/painter/

All feedback is welcome.

Hi hagibaba,

Great and funny tool. But what about some pre-defined waveforms (rectangle, sine, saw, ramp, white-noise etc.)?

Kukulkan

Greatttt!!!

Very nice!

Just a suggestion, please make Octave Up / Down buttons, for both waves separately ...

Nice!
And the name: "Sound Painter" is exquisite in my opinion.

@hagibaba: would be cool, to see your program also listed in the Showcase on www.PureArea.net

Interesting idea !

Cool program though I only tested it on wine on Linux, I don't know wether this is a wine problem but it would be cool to have a marker running over the image to indicate what part is actually drawn, if you could also get it to save the sounds as wave files it's a perfect sound toy.

Hi, thanks for the replies guys.

Kukulkan wrote:Hi hagibaba,

Great and funny tool. But what about some pre-defined waveforms (rectangle, sine, saw, ramp, white-noise etc.)?

Hi Kukulkan, yes it definitely could do with predefined waveforms. I'm not sure what a ramp is sounds like a half-sawtooth shape? White noise would be just random positions? I'll add something to do that in the next version, maybe a window with a combobox for pre-defined standard waveforms. I would need something to modify them as well. I haven't decided how to do that yet.

Num3 wrote:Greatttt!!!

Very nice!

Just a suggestion, please make Octave Up / Down buttons, for both waves separately ...

Hi Num3, thanks. Sorry, I don't really understand your suggestion. There's not really such as thing as octaves with this, at least not yet.

Psychophanta wrote:Nice!
And the name: "Sound Painter" is exquisite in my opinion.

Hi Psychophanta, thanks. It was originally called something else but I can't remember what at the moment.

Andre wrote: @hagibaba: would be cool, to see your program also listed in the Showcase on www.PureArea.net

Hi Andre, ok I will submit it now then.

Fred wrote:Interesting idea !

Hi Fred, thanks. I am still wondering if it has been done before.

Nik wrote:Cool program though I only tested it on wine on Linux, I don't know wether this is a wine problem but it would be cool to have a marker running over the image to indicate what part is actually drawn, if you could also get it to save the sounds as wave files it's a perfect sound toy.

Hi Nik, I have not tested it on Wine. From your post it sounds like it isn't working right though. It is supposed to save a wave file when you press play or play all buttons and then uses PlaySound_() to play the file.

Finally got to play with this, this morning. This is ideal for me and my retro-styled games. It is also very easy for a dumb-ass like myself to use :roll: Very good job on this, I really like it and it will add a lot ot my games.

Loved it. Very funny to mess with.

hehe this is very unique idea!

sounds like super mario on drugs ;P

Crazy!

Never seen anything quite like it.

Very nice concept

Hi guys, thanks for the replies. Glad you all like it.

Nik wrote:Cool program though I only tested it on wine on Linux, I don't know wether this is a wine problem but it would be cool to have a marker running over the image to indicate what part is actually drawn, if you could also get it to save the sounds as wave files it's a perfect sound toy.

Nik, I have tested it in Wine today in Ubuntu 6.06 and apart from a few issues it worked as expected. The main issue was the toolbar, it was shrunk so you could hardly see it which is odd as it's just a standard PB toolbar. You can use the menu items however. The other main thing is it's very slow as all programs are in Wine.

Brice Manuel wrote:Finally got to play with this, this morning. This is ideal for me and my retro-styled games. It is also very easy for a dumb-ass like myself to use. Very good job on this, I really like it and it will add a lot ot my games.

Hi Brice Manuel, I'm glad you're considering actually using this for your games. That is the idea, something that is easy to pick up, fun to play with but also something a game developer could use for sound effects. It's still relatively basic in what you can do with it but I will be adding more tools and editors so that it will become more of a tool and less of a toy.

byo wrote:Loved it. Very funny to mess with.

Hi byo, thanks. I've had a lot of fun with it myself. The next version will have load and save options. I plan to add the ability to load wave files as waveform samples so that will be very interesting. Then there will be the option of loading images either pitch images or wave images. Then I will create a project file ".prj" which will be a text file format linking to images or wave files.

Pantcho!! wrote:hehe this is very unique idea!

sounds like super mario on drugs ;P

Hi Pantcho, thanks. The idea has a lot of potential. Hopefully it will get better and better.

rsts wrote:Crazy!

Never seen anything quite like it.

Very nice concept

Hi rsts, thanks. I came up with the idea when I was looking at sound effects programs like "Quack" and couldn't find anything that I liked so I started with this pitch graph idea and just added to that idea.

This is nifty. One thing that might help make it less of a 'toy' is the inclusion of some basic spline drawing tools.

Keep working on this one way or the other, though, it's a really novel idea!

Hi r_hyde, thanks.

Uh oh, someone said splines! Yes, that would be good. I'll add it to the todo list then. First I'll need to do a simple line tool.