And That’s A Wrap!

by freshfunkee

Done and dusted! I have just completed the looping features for the project where is where I’ve decided to draw the line for completion. There is one small bug with looping, however, in that the timeline cannot distinguish the varying start and end points of loops which causes it to reset to zero anytime a new loop begins. I’ve tried a few workarounds, but nothing has been successful so far. So I’ll be leaving it as a minor bug for now.

I’ll be uploading 2 videos today. One of a track running without loops and one running with loops. The first video without loops will demonstrate the functionality of effects on the tracks, the beat counter, the timeline and tempo control. This video is intended to display most of the features available without restrictions of loops determining what area of the track you are in. The second video will solely demonstrate looping controls, such as breaking thresholds to end loops and new loops beginning once the previous loop ends.

Although this application, as a whole, is complete, I will be conducting and experiment to determine the usefulness of Kinect applications as an instrument, rather than a controller. To do this, I will implement a basic MIDI generator into a Kinect interface to play a MIDI instrument and contrast the user capabilities between using a live instrument and controlling music in real-time. This application should be completed at the end of this weekend.