Today was a challenge. I downloaded the BETA of MINIM so that I could try the new UGEN api. It is interesting but not fully featured yet. I saw a Granulator in there and I got excited. I wasn’t able to make any good sounds and I ran into some troubles with controlP5 and MINIM where they both had Controller classes and Events.
There is a crazy solution where the name of a controlP5 object can be declared as a global and the slider will update the global. I have to look further into why this works but it certainly minimizes the amount of code I have to write to make a basic GUI.
This example does a simple mapping of the BitCrush UGEN with a slider. It also has a display for the audio output. I would love to have access to the audio input too. More work to be done. I am learning a lot here.
import ddf.minim.AudioOutput;
import ddf.minim.Minim;
import ddf.minim.ugens.*;
import controlP5.*;
ControlP5 controlP5;
Slider glmin, glmax, gfmin, gfmax, gsmin, gsmax;
public float grainLengthMin, grainLengthMax, grainFadeMin, grainFadeMax, grainSpaceMin, grainSpaceMax;
Minim minim;
LiveInput in;
AudioOutput out;
Constant controls[] = new Constant[6];
GranulateRandom fx1 = new GranulateRandom();
void setup(){
size(500, 400);
minim = new Minim(this);
out = minim.getLineOut();
in = new LiveInput( minim.getInputStream(out.getFormat().getChannels(), out.bufferSize(), out.sampleRate(), out.getFormat().getSampleSizeInBits()) );
controlP5 = new ControlP5(this);
glmin = controlP5.addSlider("grainLengthMin",1,100, 15,height/3-80 , width-100,30);
glmax = controlP5.addSlider("grainLengthMax",101,500, 15,height/3-40, width-100,30);
gsmin = controlP5.addSlider("grainSpaceMin", 0,10, 15,height/3 , width-100,30);
gsmax = controlP5.addSlider("grainSpaceMax", 11,500, 15,height/3+40, width-100,30);
gfmin = controlP5.addSlider("grainFadeMin", 1,10, 15,height/3+80, width-100,30);
gfmax = controlP5.addSlider("grainFadeMax", 11,50, 15,height/3+120, width-100,30);
glmin.setValue(4);
glmax.setValue(400);
gsmin.setValue(10);
gsmax.setValue(40);
gfmin.setValue(3);
gfmax.setValue(40);
for (int i = 0; i < controls.length; i++)
controls[i] = new Constant();
controls[0].patch (fx1.grainLenMin);
controls[1].patch (fx1.grainLenMax);
controls[2].patch (fx1.fadeLenMin);
controls[3].patch (fx1.fadeLenMax);
controls[4].patch (fx1.spaceLenMin);
controls[5].patch (fx1.spaceLenMax);
controls[0].setConstant (grainLengthMin);
controls[1].setConstant (grainLengthMax);
controls[2].setConstant (grainFadeMin);
controls[3].setConstant (grainFadeMax);
controls[4].setConstant (grainSpaceMin);
controls[5].setConstant (grainSpaceMax);
in.patch(fx1).patch(out);
}
void draw(){
background(50);
stroke( 255 );
controls[0].setConstant (grainLengthMin);
controls[1].setConstant (grainLengthMax);
controls[2].setConstant (grainFadeMin);
controls[3].setConstant (grainFadeMax);
controls[4].setConstant (grainSpaceMin);
controls[5].setConstant (grainSpaceMax);
for( int i = 0; i < out.bufferSize() - 1; i++ )
{
float x1 = map( i, 0, out.bufferSize(), 0, width );
float x2 = map( i+1, 0, out.bufferSize(), 0, width );
line( x1, height*.75 + out.left.get(i)*50, x2, height*.75 + out.left.get(i+1)*50);
line( x1, height*.75 + 50 + out.right.get(i)*50, x2, height*.75 + 50 + out.right.get(i+1)*50);
}
controlP5.draw();
}
void stop()
{
in.close();
out.close();
minim.stop();
super.stop();
}
