Comments on: Software Auralization

By: XBox Hacker

XBox Hacker — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:43:59 +0000

Verrry nice.

By: Th3_uN1Qu3

Th3_uN1Qu3 — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:20:34 +0000

cat > /dev/dsp I used to do this all the time when i was messing around with Linux.

Or under Windows use Audacity to import, and set format to u-Law, 8000Hz, Mono. Explorer.exe sounds cool. Oh and if there are actual audio samples inside you’ll hear them played back between the noise bursts. Freaky.

By: Anders von Tinkelhosen

Anders von Tinkelhosen — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:43:51 +0000

This reminds me of something I would do with my Amiga and an Audiomaster 12-bit audio sampler (http://aadb.amiga.me/data/audiomasteriv31.html). There was a menu function called “RAM scan” that would scan the contents of memory and load them into the editor. You could change the speed and pitch. I would spend hours making techno-industrial sounding music.

By: F7

F7 — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:04:52 +0000

Aghh my deep structures

By: Dennis Booth

Dennis Booth — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:07:34 +0000

Post the codes? Pweese?

By: David P.

David P. — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:47:27 +0000

That was amazing! A few months ago a did something similar where I wrote a Java app to play back the “audio” of log files. It was spooky how similar mine sounded to the post.

I just might dust off my old code for that project and bring it to the next step. I had pondered about being able to parse a body of text like a log file into a midi file. Then having some tool that could allow you to play back the log until you here something interesting. At which point you could read the log to learn more about the anomaly or in my case the stack trace.

By: bjonnh

bjonnh — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:49:22 +0000

I remember of my first MSX program
something like that (don’t remember exactly the msx-basic instructions):

for i=1 to 65535
a=peak i
sound a
end

With this, I was able to hear the sound of the computer memory (sound takes an argument from 0 to 255 and peak reads the memory at indicated position).

It made a great music (I found at this time) especially in the beginning of the memory.

I didn’t remember if I did some cosine loops to slow the things down.

Should try this in an emulator.

By: angrydroid

angrydroid — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:13:48 +0000

haha @amd. I did that too!

By: amd

amd — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:09:03 +0000

In my youth this was pretty easy to do – simply tune an AM radio and set it next to the TRS-80 :-)

By: The Moogle

The Moogle — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:54:38 +0000

still better then some of the songs we hear on those “Make your own instrument” hacks

By: Grant Muller

Grant Muller — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:44:17 +0000

I used to load executable files into Wavelab and time stretch them back in my younger years. I recently looked at an old notebook and found an entry with some pseudo code for how I could do this with software now. Some kind of synchronicity to see someone has done almost exactly what I was planning.

By: kevin mcguigan

kevin mcguigan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:37:59 +0000

i remember in high school i had a good friend who owned an occiliscope. we hooked it up to his stereo and played pink floyd dark side of the moon through the scope. i remeber looking at the patterns during on particular cut from the album and……….. well anyway it was early 1973 or so and we were young and having fun. seeing this article and others about occiliscopes and running different sounds and stuff through it brought bqack memories.

By: babble

babble — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:31:17 +0000

I reverse engineer win32 applications, more so some years ago but occasionally still do today.

The looping sequences of audio are familiar to me. lol.