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Adobe is awesome

Adobe released today the beta of the Flash Player 10 on its labs website. Among a couple of really great features is also one that made my day.

Dynamic Sound Generation — Dynamic sound generation extends the Sound class to play back dynamically created audio content through the use of an event listener on the Sound object.

If you do not know what this means: Flash is now finally capable of doing real dynamic audio streaming. I am so happy that Adobe was listening to the community and implemented this feature. A special thanks goes out to Tinic Uro for implementing it. He has also very detailed information about this feature on his blog.

I will post soon some example about how you can use Adobe Pixel Bender (Hydra) to synthesize sound in Flash. Think of it — its fantastic!

WIRED

Yay, the AudioTool made it on the WIRED blog. Read the article here. I am also happy that the author is mentioning the Adobe, MAKE SOME NOISE campaign. It means people begin to understand how important it is to include dynamic audio capabilities in Flash so that we can get rid of our Java server.

Update: Eliot Van Buskirk from WIRED wrote another article covering Adobe, MAKE SOME NOISE. Although I do not completly agree with the quote from Scott Gilbertson that it is very difficult to stream audio to the soundcard. It is not a question about open standards or proprietary technology (like FLV, which has just been opened). Streaming audio to the soundcard is usually done with raw amplitudes in a certain format — we do not need anything else than that and it is actually really simple if you have ever done it yourself.

Adobe, MAKE SOME NOISE

Adobe, MAKE SOME NOISE

Please support our campaign Adobe, MAKE SOME NOISE! if you love Flash and music.

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