Monthly Archive for March, 2008

Audiotool Liveact

Published on Mar 31, 2008 in Flash, news, personal and projects. 6 Comments Tags: , , , , .

This year Hobnox is sponsoring the party at the Flashforum conference (FFK08). This means you will be able to listen to some electronic music synthesized with AS3. I do not know if that is completly geeky or absolutely cool — probably both.

André, Kai-Philipp and me will do a performance with the audio tool. I think I should add rough MIDI support pretty quickly. André will also spin the turntables so prepare for some techno and house music.

By the way the Audiotool has opened its doors. You can try it out without even having an invite now. And besides that we added a bunch of Facebook applications to sex-up your profile.

Photoshop Express Released

Published on Mar 27, 2008 in Flash and news. 5 Comments Tags: , .

Back in March 2007 I was writing about Photoshop Express and they finally released it.

So they have been developing this for a year. Which means they had enough time to perfectly screw up the @ sign when trying to register? People from the US will not notice this but if you try logging in with a German keyboard layout on Windows your basicaly screwed (or you can copy-past your e-mail address all the time because the @ sign is not working).

I am a little bit disappointed :)

Adobe, MAKE SOME NOISE

Published on Mar 16, 2008 in Flash, news, personal and projects. 2 Comments Tags: , , , .
Adobe, MAKE SOME NOISE

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Hobnox Audiotool Basics

Published on Mar 12, 2008 in Flash and projects. 1 Comment Tags: .

Did not get an invite for Hobnox yet? Well then suffer! The first video tutorial for the Hobnox Audiotool has been released. Have fun watching …

FlashHunter

Published on Mar 7, 2008 in c++ and others, Flash, projects and tools. 15 Comments Tags: , , , , .
FlashHunter

FlashHunter is a neat Eclipse plug-in I wrote that allows you to kill all running Flash player instances with a single click. Two days ago I was implementing the fast Fourier transformation in Flash and I had a stupid error that caused an endless loop. Since I am testing with the standalone player the only way to get rid of it was Ctrl+Alt+Del and killing it. This is not really a nice workflow so I wrote the plug-in.

I am not a Java developer and definitly not an Eclpise platform developer so the plugin itself is very basic. I experimented a little bit with JNI and wrote most of the plugin in C++ because it still is my language of choice.

The plugin is Windows only. I think you could also do something like that as an external tool for OS X (“killall Flash\ Player”).

I am a FlexSDK contributor

Published on Mar 6, 2008 in apollo, news and projects. 3 Comments Tags: , , , .

Today I submitted my first patch to the FlexSDK after becomming a contributor. Lets see how this all will work in the future. It feels like I am working for free and fixing bugs that Adobe should work on but in several cases it is so much easier to just do the stuff and fix it yourself in 5min instead of writing 2h emails. Although I am not so happy about it.

Getting the Flex SDK to work is pretty easy if you manage several hurdles. It is quite cool to debug the ActionScript compiler while compiling your project.

The next thing I want to fix is the Bindable meta tag. [Bindable] in ActionScript projects is a pain if you do not compile with the flex.swc library and there is no reason for the compiler to embed the overhead of creating event dispatchers all over the place.

We are here already using “our” new compiler. Again it will be quite interesting to see how all this works out with Adobe and how they will judge about feature submissions.

Confusion (AS3 Remix)

Published on Mar 3, 2008 in as3, Flash and personal. 7 Comments Tags: , , , , .

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This little remix has been created using the Hobnox AudioTool. For the recording I used Audacity which is the reason why it does not sound very saturated — there is something wrong with my settings.

The mix itself is quiet simple but the 303 pattern is not 100% accurate I think. Anyways I love that sound. Remember the whole audio data is calculated realtime in AS3 (44.1khz, 16bit, stereo) …and I had to use my crappy laptop touch-pad while performing ;-)

The original song is “New Order – Confusion (Rave Mix)” which is also part of the soundtrack from the first Blade movie.

Back from FITC and Hobnox Evolution Festival

Published on Mar 1, 2008 in news, personal and projects. 2 Comments Tags: , .

I am finally back home and feel sort of alive. Thanks to Shawn for a great event in Amsterdam. I had a lot of fun at FITC and took a lot of new ideas with me. The FITC in Europe was a total success in my opinion. I hope that I will be able to attend it next year as well.

After the FITC we went from Amsterdam to Berlin and celebrated the launch of the Hobnox platform and the winners of the Evolution contest.

If you were able to register at www.hobnox.com you are now finally able to try out our latest baby. I am looking forward to get some feedback.