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Virtual ANS – Simulator of a Russian musical synthesizer from the 1950s

45 points by rits 12y ago

rasur 12y ago
Oh now this looks fun! Thank you for posting!
jweir 12y ago
The voice recorder (I tried the iOS version) is pretty cool. The 80s UI in a 2014 app for a 1950s instrument is also great. Nice and weird. I like it.
keithpeter 12y ago
Pixilang looks interesting as well (its the language/environment used to program the application) http://www.warmplace.ru/soft/pixilang/ http://www.warmplace.ru/soft/pixilang/ Excellent find!
SpaceRaccoon 12y ago
my mind has been blown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GAJ9e8ifYU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GAJ9e8ifYU (same creator)
pdkl95 12y ago
I really like NightRadio's work. His main synthesizer, SunVox [1] is amazing. Innovative UI, very good analog-modeling, and a wide assortment of synthesis features. Oh, and it is available on almost any platform you want, most for free. Also, I suggest checking out the NightRadio's other project, PixiVisor. [2] It converts an image (progressive scan) to audio and back again. This lets you, for example, see an image processed by a reverb effect, resonant LPF or whatever. It does things with the Fourier transform that I would have guessed were impossible. [1] http://warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/ http://warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/ [2] http://warmplace.ru/soft/pixivisor/ http://warmplace.ru/soft/pixivisor/
- bane 12y ago
  I'd also recommend the Caustic softsynth, another very impressive Android/iOS/Windows tool. The Windows build is free. http://www.singlecellsoftware.com/ http://www.singlecellsoftware.com/
darsham 12y ago
This is very cool. The core of the code should be pretty simple, here's an article on how to play an image using windowed fft : http://www.ohmpie.com/imageencode/ http://www.ohmpie.com/imageencode/ Then just add some standard chorus+reverb processing, possibly a bit of distortion. There are other programs that do this kind of thing (Photosounder, MetaSynth), oddly not so much free software. As a side note, it's kind of odd that the coloring in this gui lays out the light spectrum with the low frequencies in violet and the high frequencies in red.
- erikschoster 12y ago
  > oddly not so much free software The Analysis & Resynthesis Sound Spectrograph is the closest thing I can think of: http://arss.sourceforge.net http://arss.sourceforge.net It hasn't been updated in a long time but it's still very useful! Michael Klingbeil's SPEAR is also open source, but a slightly different beast - focused on manipulation of analysis data as a set of partials - it's still insanely useful: http://www.klingbeil.com/spear/ http://www.klingbeil.com/spear/ Chris Penrose's excellent Hyperupic was the first tool of this kind I remember encountering, inspired by Xenakis' UPIC system: http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/MusicAndComputers/chapter5/05_07.php http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/MusicAndComputers/chapter5/05_... It died with OS9 to the best of my knowledge. EDIT: Just to say that Alexander Zolotov's work is blowing me away. I didn't realize he was behind SunVox until now, but the portfolio of his projects in this thread is really inspiring.

45 points by rits 12y ago

rasur 12y ago

Oh now this looks fun! Thank you for posting!

jweir 12y ago

The voice recorder (I tried the iOS version) is pretty cool. The 80s UI in a 2014 app for a 1950s instrument is also great. Nice and weird. I like it.

keithpeter 12y ago

Pixilang looks interesting as well (its the language/environment used to program the application) http://www.warmplace.ru/soft/pixilang/ http://www.warmplace.ru/soft/pixilang/ Excellent find!

SpaceRaccoon 12y ago

my mind has been blown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GAJ9e8ifYU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GAJ9e8ifYU (same creator)

pdkl95 12y ago

I really like NightRadio's work. His main synthesizer, SunVox [1] is amazing. Innovative UI, very good analog-modeling, and a wide assortment of synthesis features. Oh, and it is available on almost any platform you want, most for free. Also, I suggest checking out the NightRadio's other project, PixiVisor. [2] It converts an image (progressive scan) to audio and back again. This lets you, for example, see an image processed by a reverb effect, resonant LPF or whatever. It does things with the Fourier transform that I would have guessed were impossible. [1] http://warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/ http://warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/ [2] http://warmplace.ru/soft/pixivisor/ http://warmplace.ru/soft/pixivisor/

bane 12y ago
I'd also recommend the Caustic softsynth, another very impressive Android/iOS/Windows tool. The Windows build is free. http://www.singlecellsoftware.com/ http://www.singlecellsoftware.com/

darsham 12y ago

This is very cool. The core of the code should be pretty simple, here's an article on how to play an image using windowed fft : http://www.ohmpie.com/imageencode/ http://www.ohmpie.com/imageencode/ Then just add some standard chorus+reverb processing, possibly a bit of distortion. There are other programs that do this kind of thing (Photosounder, MetaSynth), oddly not so much free software. As a side note, it's kind of odd that the coloring in this gui lays out the light spectrum with the low frequencies in violet and the high frequencies in red.

erikschoster 12y ago
> oddly not so much free software The Analysis & Resynthesis Sound Spectrograph is the closest thing I can think of: http://arss.sourceforge.net http://arss.sourceforge.net It hasn't been updated in a long time but it's still very useful! Michael Klingbeil's SPEAR is also open source, but a slightly different beast - focused on manipulation of analysis data as a set of partials - it's still insanely useful: http://www.klingbeil.com/spear/ http://www.klingbeil.com/spear/ Chris Penrose's excellent Hyperupic was the first tool of this kind I remember encountering, inspired by Xenakis' UPIC system: http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/MusicAndComputers/chapter5/05_07.php http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/MusicAndComputers/chapter5/05_... It died with OS9 to the best of my knowledge. EDIT: Just to say that Alexander Zolotov's work is blowing me away. I didn't realize he was behind SunVox until now, but the portfolio of his projects in this thread is really inspiring.