Color Sounds: Generative music
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About Color Sounds: Generative music
Color Sounds is an experimental generative music app that translates color into sound. There are two main modes: manual mode and camera mode.
The camera mode picks up colors from the environment to generate sound.
The manual mode is a step sequencer, similar to grid sequencers like the Tenori-on or Monome but based on colors.
Both modes can be recorded, the camera mode to FLV video, and the songs you create in manual mode to FLV video or WAV audio. The video files can be edited or converted afterwards using an app like Video Toolbox editor.
The sounds are somewhat 8-bit sounding (sine wave, triangle wave, square wave) and useful to create chiptune style musik, music for games, etc. If you're an amateur game creator or musician you may want to try it to produce simple music for your game or to stir inspiration for a future song.
This app will likely be interesting to musicians, digital artists, makers, and many sorts of computer/music/art nerds.
Please email me at ken@androidideas.org if you have any suggestions or problems. If you use the comments for this I can't easily correspond or ask questions to clarify. Thanks.
The camera mode picks up colors from the environment to generate sound.
The manual mode is a step sequencer, similar to grid sequencers like the Tenori-on or Monome but based on colors.
Both modes can be recorded, the camera mode to FLV video, and the songs you create in manual mode to FLV video or WAV audio. The video files can be edited or converted afterwards using an app like Video Toolbox editor.
The sounds are somewhat 8-bit sounding (sine wave, triangle wave, square wave) and useful to create chiptune style musik, music for games, etc. If you're an amateur game creator or musician you may want to try it to produce simple music for your game or to stir inspiration for a future song.
This app will likely be interesting to musicians, digital artists, makers, and many sorts of computer/music/art nerds.
Please email me at ken@androidideas.org if you have any suggestions or problems. If you use the comments for this I can't easily correspond or ask questions to clarify. Thanks.
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
Changes in 2.1:
- UI is now optimized for larger screens
Color Sounds has been rewritten completely from scratch! Some improvements in version 2.0:
- Recording manual mode to a WAV or FLV file
- Ability to change scale (major, minor, pentatonic, etc.)
- Ability to change note range of each color
- Greatly improved camera record mode
- Improved color analysis
An APK of the original version is available from the website.
Changes in 2.1:
- UI is now optimized for larger screens
Color Sounds has been rewritten completely from scratch! Some improvements in version 2.0:
- Recording manual mode to a WAV or FLV file
- Ability to change scale (major, minor, pentatonic, etc.)
- Ability to change note range of each color
- Greatly improved camera record mode
- Improved color analysis
An APK of the original version is available from the website.
More downloads Color Sounds: Generative music reached 100 000 - 500 000 downloads
More downloads Color Sounds: Generative music reached 50 000 - 100 000 downloads
Version update Color Sounds: Generative music was updated to version 2.1.1
Name changed Name changed! Color Sounds now is known as Color Sounds: Generative music.
What are users saying about Color Sounds: Generative music
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Stupiddddddd
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As a visual artist I love this app and would love to see it developed further. I'd really like to incorporate it into my next exhibit.
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I love the simplicity of this app and the awsome tunes I can make. Has lots of potential keep it up
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Lovely
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Awesome! Thanks for adding the download feature. Now it's possible to have the songs I compose in my music- great app.
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I really like this idea and I've got some interesting results with it. The problem is that the interface is very laggy and difficult to use because of this. I would like if it had more options, maybe a waveform drawing function?
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This is the best musical squencer app for android, but there are some things that need fixing. The ability to save instead of just exporting is a must, exporting to MIDI would be great too. Board size configuration would be great. More sounds to choose from would be cool, but most of all, the code needs optimization. Whole intervals are skipped if the board is full enough, even on my beefy phone. Keeping this app for a long time regardless.
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This app is, by far, the most AWESOMEST app I've ever got!!!
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Just heavenly
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This is pretty cool.
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Cute.
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Very heavy commitment (12mb) - and additional commitments (get player now) - A great investment in an otherwise simple task. Just sayin
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I really like where this app is heading)
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Very heavy commitment (12mb) - and additional commitments (get player now) - A great investment in an otherwise simple task. Just sayin
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It got me and I'm a professional
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Really an awesome way to create music and experiment with it! That said i'd love to see further improvements, like the ability to resize the grid, horizontally and vertically, or some way to change colors without having to switch the screen.
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I can make great music and save it to edit it into a song
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Also good for kid
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This app is, by far, the most AWESOMEST app I've ever got!!!
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If this app was made of ice it would NEVER defrost! THAT is why I am giving it one star.
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I love the simplicity of this app and the awsome tunes I can make. Has lots of potential keep it up
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Took forever to download when you first press accept but it is OK rather than that.
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Love its concept , keep up the good work.
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I been looking at this for a while now
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Fun
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Sweet holy potato
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I love it
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Reminds me of Neil Harbison! !!!
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It's really fun I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)
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Of course still a lot to do...a lot of possibilities...etc, but so far pretty entertaining!
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This is the closest I could probably get to synaesthesia, great app!
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This is pretty cool.
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this is awesome really <3
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FUN!!!
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I can make great music and save it to edit it into a song