beatbox without bumping buttons

This lovely diagram is actually the "code" of a program in Pd (http://puredata.info/). Using your mouse initially to tap out the tempo of the song your are listening to, you can begin to make silly noises into the microphone which will be recorded an looped in sync with the track over and over until it detects you are trying to lay down a new loop. Edit: In a newer version you can tap out the tempo on the laptop case and the temporal mask is adaptive. Its... funny... how it seems to pick up and record the last funny thing said in the room.

Notes: "an array", "he like... parts the waters", "a comment", "a boolean state variable thinger", "analog to digital converter (input from the mic)", "digital to analog converter (output to headphones)", "messy "code"", "controls the flow"

Comments (5):

And where can this lovely patch be downloaded? I started to write a tap tempo thing myself, and then thought "surely this has been done before". Silly Flickr came up in the Google search.

2006-05-12 18:11:10 · endolith

It IS the patch!

2006-05-12 23:03:47 · Adam Smith

Oh... I didn't realize how simple it was. But did you make it or download it? Are there more where this came from? I'm trying to find the ultimate tap tempo beat synchronizer type thing.

2006-05-13 14:41:11 · endolith

I made it from scratch. It's certainly not the most sophisticated beat synchronizer... I dont know what is. There are good Pd examples in the manual that comes with Pd though.

2006-05-13 20:51:05 · Adam Smith

Yeah, I know. My attempt is based on one of the example loopers.

2006-05-14 00:11:09 · endolith