KES Transactions on Innovation in Music

Publisher Future Technology Press
Vol. 1 No. 1 Special Edition - Innovation in Music 2013
 
Article TitleWavefondler - a multi-touch interface for iPad to control audio on a host computer via a visualization of the waveform
Primary AuthorJustin Paterson, London College of Music, University of West london
Pages 67 - 78
Article ID im13bk-006
Publication Date 17-May-15
AbstractIt has long been a dream of those involved in audio manipulation to interact directly with a visualization of the target audio. In recent times, the mouse has been giving way to multi-touch interfaces, allowing a more tactile, immediate and intuitive interaction with the audio, and importantly offering more than one point of parametric contact. New modes of manipulation and performance are increasingly possible through a number of systems. This paper will document the trajectory of recent developments in such multi-touch applications, and investigate workflow and its implications via a number of case studies. Further, using a hybrid of emergent software platforms, it will demonstrate a custom interface design that allows the operator to access a visualization of an audio waveform on one or more iPads, and using multi-touch gestural control applied to the waveform, manipulate the sound via processing on a host computer.
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