From lwtcdi Sent Thu, Mar 19th 1998, 12:55
From lwtcdi Sent Thu, Mar 19th 1998, 12:55
Hi all,
To anyone who is interested, there's a nice piece of generative music
shareware called SoundRaider available on the web right now. It's been
covered in quite a few places, but I haven't heard it mentioned here
before. The download is about 1.5 MB as a .ZIP file, which is worth it
for what it does, IMO. You can download it from:
http://www.andyw.com/raider/
I've just managed to this evening. I've
been listening to what it produces for about half an hour and it's very
nice. If you listen carefully and are familiar with a lot of the sounds
on your hard drive then you can really hear quite a bit of what it's
doing. Mostly the bits that you can recognise seem to be slightly longer
snippets which are random and fade them in and out. A lot of the other
noise is more industrial style clicks and digital sounding effects like
digital distortion and that type of thing. The overall result is quite
subtle and not just random noise. Some sounds used before seem to come
back later on giving a continous feel.
To me it sounds a bit like Oval. The music generated by SoundRaider has
the
same random feel. As I heard here, Oval supposedly have been creating
their own peice of software which will essentially Oval-ise things, and
make themselves redundant. It hasn't come out yet as far as I know.
Looks like the guy who made this got there first!
It's quite strange hearing it mess with the normal Win 95 sounds.
Occasionally you'll hear the startup sound (rather ironic considering
Brian Eno created that) and the ta-da trumpet riff all twisted up in
some weird way which is fun. SoundRaider isn't as flexible as something
like Koan - you
can mute and lock (keep repeating whats currently playing) any of the
five channels and a few other things, but that's about all. It's
advantage over Koan of course is that you just double click and go,
compared to Koans fairly steep learning curve where you have to work
quite hard to get something that sounds good out of it. But then Koan is
not a toy. SoundRaider *is* more of a toy but still produces some
interesting effects. I'd like to see some other features
which let you have a little more control over which sounds it uses ie to
be able to specify your own directory for it too look it or whatever,
but no doubt this is in the pipeline, and the forthcoming Internet
version sounds
interesting.
Graham.
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