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Creative Computing IIIB – Week 2 – Semester 2, 2008: “Graphical User Interfaces (2)”

I have opted to stick with the EZ range of sliders for this week, to discover more about their limitations – there are many. As you can see from the image, the EZRange slider is an ugly looking thing which cannot be altered for visual enhancement. That being said, it is nice to have such a practically useful tool on hand. It was particularly well suited to adjusting ‘mul’ and ‘add’ values for a SinOsc that was modulating the frequency of a Resonant LPF. If the SinOsc started feeding the RLPF large negative values I would be greeted with a 150 dB banshee shrieking through the headphones – painful stuff. Mapping the range slider to control these values helped to alleviate this to a large extent as the device does not allow the high value to be less than the low value. This means that the SinOsc values could never dip further into the negative range than the current low value’s negative equivalent at the most.

There was a bit of messing round with the layout before I worked out where to place the decorator message. I like the speed with which this system allows one to create an interface, but I think developing templates for fast creation with a more flexible foundation is the way of the future…


Click here to link to online folder containing SC.rtf file and audio example.


Reference:

Haines, Christian. “Creative Computing IIIB – Week 2 – Semester 2, 2008: Graphical User Interfaces (2).” Lecture presented at tutorial room 408, level 4 Schultz building, University of Adelaide, 7th of August 2008.

Labels: Creative Computing IIIB

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