Demonstration Video

Authors: Alberto Colucci, Davide Rizzotti, Guido Elli, Madhav Gopi

Team name: Fast Furries Transform

FloatFX

Singers, coding musicians, instrumentalists, sound technicians over the world face major challenges when having to control the tone of their sound/instruments in realtime. FloatFX adds an exciting flavour to live performances by enabling musicians/technicians to control various fx parameters of filters, distortion and delay with just simple motions of the hand. This would save them from the trouble of looking for knobs on their pedals in the dark, having to communicate between the stage and the console area, plus, it also makes for a cool trick for the audience. Finger-pinch locks have been implemented to avoid accidental parameter changes while playing.

The processing of the effects and GUI have been implemented on ’JUCE’, while the spectrum visualizer on ’Processing’. An Arduino board, paired with an accelerometer, is attached to the hand to capture movements. To demonstrate the viability of this product in a live music scene, we have made a live SuperCollider music performance, without the usage of any external audio files.

List of modules to compile and build the plugin:

juce_serialport can be found at https://github.com/cpr2323/juce_serialport

Spectrum visualizer:

To start the spectrum visualizer, open the project in Processing, install the "oscP5" library and run the project in Java Mode.