Show HN: SoundViz – Your favorite sound as beautiful art
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Re: Show HN: SoundViz – Your favorite sound as beautiful art
#2Hey Hacker News,
I'm Tyler, one of the Co-Founders of SoundViz. Thanks for taking the time to check out SoundViz. We're very excited to get your feedback, so please don't hold back!
Re: Show HN: SoundViz – Your favorite sound as beautiful art
#3Hey Hacker News, I'm Tyler, one of the Co-Founders of SoundViz. Thanks for taking the time to check out SoundViz. We're very excited to get your feedback, so please don't hold back!
The link in the referrer detection note:
"Hello Hacker News friend! Thanks for stopping by. Once you're done checking out SoundViz, we'd love to get your feedback."
... leads to https://www.soundviz.com/ I was kind of expecting that it would bring me to this comment thread.
Re: Show HN: SoundViz – Your favorite sound as beautiful art
#4Hey Hacker News, I'm Tyler, one of the Co-Founders of SoundViz. Thanks for taking the time to check out SoundViz. We're very excited to get your feedback, so please don't hold back!
The link in the referrer detection note: "Hello Hacker News friend! Thanks for stopping by. Once you're done checking out SoundViz, we'd love to get your feedback." ... leads to https://www.soundviz.com/ I was kind of expecting that it would bring me to this comment thread.
Hey, thanks for pointing that out. It should be pointing to the correct location now.
Re: Show HN: SoundViz – Your favorite sound as beautiful art
#5Hey Hacker News, I'm Tyler, one of the Co-Founders of SoundViz. Thanks for taking the time to check out SoundViz. We're very excited to get your feedback, so please don't hold back!
As a proud Dad of an 11 month old chatter box I can see the appeal of this. I'll record some of her yabbering tonight and see what it looks like.
If I went through with the purchase I think I'd couple it with a "press a button and playback the original sound" setup, as that would be pretty easy to add to the rfid triggered music playback system I've got one of my R-Pi's rigged up for.
I just played around with a test file and was really impressed by the slider controls to allow modifications. Very neat stuff.
The only suggestion I could think of was perhaps an option for me to add my own colormap?
Re: Show HN: SoundViz – Your favorite sound as beautiful art
#6Please consider partnering with Fracture! I have no affiliation with them, I'm just a big fan and live in the same city.
Re: Show HN: SoundViz – Your favorite sound as beautiful art
#7This is OK Computer by Radiohead with the sprinkled donut theme: http://i.imgur.com/whVq5uE.png
Feedback:
- Overall really nice interface
- At first the messages you get while waiting for the wave are really nice, but then they get slightly annoying. Some kind of indicator of how long it takes would be better. Processing time was acceptable.
- Frankly I think the visualisation is uninteresting. I am not interested in having this hanging on the wall. I tried a wide variety of settings, but it remained uninteresting due to the basic form of the sound wave.
- Tried the record option afterwards. The wave was a little more interesting, and I preferred that experience much more. I would like to be able to play back the sound I recorded and listen to it while I can see the progress on the sound wave.
Re: Show HN: SoundViz – Your favorite sound as beautiful art
#8So it's basically the SoundCloud song visualizer, flipped across the x-axis, colored by amplitude, and printed for me. I feel like the visuals need quite a bit more "wow!" to make that worth it to me.
Re: Show HN: SoundViz – Your favorite sound as beautiful art
#9Hey Hacker News, I'm Tyler, one of the Co-Founders of SoundViz. Thanks for taking the time to check out SoundViz. We're very excited to get your feedback, so please don't hold back!
Really good stuff, really nicely done, I love it. And good pre-Christmas launch timing :)
Small issue: I grabbed an .m4a, uploaded it, and the screen just sat there. Console errors and whatnot. Didn't take a rocket scientist to guess that .mp3 might work better (it did). So I'm all good, but just reporting it.
Again, really good stuff, congrats.
Re: Show HN: SoundViz – Your favorite sound as beautiful art
#10This is OK Computer by Radiohead with the sprinkled donut theme: http://i.imgur.com/whVq5uE.png Feedback: - Overall really nice interface - At first the messages you get while waiting for the wave are really nice, but then they get slightly annoying. Some kind of indicator of how long it takes would be better. Processing time was acceptable. - Frankly I think the visualisation is uninteresting. I am not interested in…
First of all, thank you for the feedback.
Agreed on messaging/processing indicator.
The size of the bars is based on the amplitude of the sound you're processing, so your results will vary, depending on the dynamics of the sound. Have you tried In Rainbows? ;)
Recording - You are correct. I think a count down would also be useful. Currently, the recording starts as soon as you hit the button, which can produce some silence at the beginning of the recording if you're not on it. I like the playback idea a lot, though.
Thanks again!