MAX Bongos

I am simply loving the cv.jit library for Max. It is really interesting to make simple interfaces and interactions much like that of the recently released Kinect, minus the animal petting games.

 

The Musical Bongo Interface which is being explored by my team should be an interesting experience as we will attempt to not just call pre-recorded sound files but to use some scaled down algorithms to create sound in our program. We are hoping to achieve this by detecting the speed and placement of each hit. Speed controlling the volume output level and placement more controlling the pitch and envelope of the sound. Even if these calculations don't create a perfect representation of the actual instrument I hope it will come close enough to not sound like any old sine wave. It'll be helpful using my bongos to do fine tuning on the pitch and timbre algorithms.