Comments on: New Silhouette Eins Synthesizer Blurs The Line Between Sound & Image (Sneak Preview) https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2021/08/31/new-silhouette-eins-synthesizer-blurs-the-line-between-sound-image-sneak-preview/ Synthesizer and electronic music news, synth and music software reviews and more! Sat, 08 Jan 2022 18:37:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Ed https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2021/08/31/new-silhouette-eins-synthesizer-blurs-the-line-between-sound-image-sneak-preview/#comment-1447117 Sat, 08 Jan 2022 18:37:13 +0000 https://www.synthtopia.com/?p=125507#comment-1447117 In reply to kurtfaasse.

Lol, it’s okay if you don’t get it. Appreciating experimental methods and devices requires at least some degree of imagination.

]]> By: Richard https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2021/08/31/new-silhouette-eins-synthesizer-blurs-the-line-between-sound-image-sneak-preview/#comment-1442855 Wed, 08 Sep 2021 08:33:13 +0000 https://www.synthtopia.com/?p=125507#comment-1442855 In reply to kurtfaasse.

Nowhere as good, passive & require a touch-sensitive screen, I’ve used things like this before and they don’t work well. I think the idea of overlying physical encoder knobs is in a different league.

]]> By: khan https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2021/08/31/new-silhouette-eins-synthesizer-blurs-the-line-between-sound-image-sneak-preview/#comment-1442800 Tue, 07 Sep 2021 05:26:58 +0000 https://www.synthtopia.com/?p=125507#comment-1442800 What the fuuuuuck dude. Mindblowing! Really incredible stuff. Imagine being too cynical to think this is incredible… ahem… kurtfaasse… ahem.

]]> By: ja https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2021/08/31/new-silhouette-eins-synthesizer-blurs-the-line-between-sound-image-sneak-preview/#comment-1442778 Mon, 06 Sep 2021 02:46:22 +0000 https://www.synthtopia.com/?p=125507#comment-1442778 In reply to kurtfaasse.

Does DAWless ring any bell?

]]> By: kurtfaasse https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2021/08/31/new-silhouette-eins-synthesizer-blurs-the-line-between-sound-image-sneak-preview/#comment-1442754 Sat, 04 Sep 2021 23:38:47 +0000 https://www.synthtopia.com/?p=125507#comment-1442754 In reply to Richard.

Pepperdecks make Tuna Knobs, physical knobs that work on any touch screen. It’s already been done.

]]> By: kurtfaasse https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2021/08/31/new-silhouette-eins-synthesizer-blurs-the-line-between-sound-image-sneak-preview/#comment-1442744 Sat, 04 Sep 2021 13:55:28 +0000 https://www.synthtopia.com/?p=125507#comment-1442744 Also, all the sound it generates are mechanistically ugly. This is not ‘music’ I would want to listen to for very long.

]]> By: kurtfaasse https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2021/08/31/new-silhouette-eins-synthesizer-blurs-the-line-between-sound-image-sneak-preview/#comment-1442743 Sat, 04 Sep 2021 13:49:13 +0000 https://www.synthtopia.com/?p=125507#comment-1442743 Been there, done that. Image-Line Harmor can make sound from images. So can Coagula Lite, which is free. So can a couple of others I can’t quite recall at the moment. A hardware synth with a built in scanner is hardly necessary.

]]> By: Dustbunnies https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2021/08/31/new-silhouette-eins-synthesizer-blurs-the-line-between-sound-image-sneak-preview/#comment-1442733 Sat, 04 Sep 2021 07:01:24 +0000 https://www.synthtopia.com/?p=125507#comment-1442733 In reply to Richard.

Agreed! I scrolled down here just to make this exact same comment. His plexiglass controller innovation is just brilliant!

]]> By: Richard https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2021/08/31/new-silhouette-eins-synthesizer-blurs-the-line-between-sound-image-sneak-preview/#comment-1442707 Fri, 03 Sep 2021 17:15:11 +0000 https://www.synthtopia.com/?p=125507#comment-1442707 That plexiglass controller is an entire invention of its own – you can now overlay physical controls over any screen!!! This is pure magic!!

]]> By: Richard https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2021/08/31/new-silhouette-eins-synthesizer-blurs-the-line-between-sound-image-sneak-preview/#comment-1442705 Fri, 03 Sep 2021 17:07:31 +0000 https://www.synthtopia.com/?p=125507#comment-1442705 I love this – it’s opens lots of avenues for happenstance & serendipity, and I really enjoy that.

An issue however might be predictability & reproducibility. Can the user anticipate the type of sound they’ll get from a given image or hand motion? Or does it remain a bit like some synths with macros where you twist a knob and you’re never too sure what’s going to happen?

Anyway, would love to play it and experiment!!

]]> By: Richard https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2021/08/31/new-silhouette-eins-synthesizer-blurs-the-line-between-sound-image-sneak-preview/#comment-1442703 Fri, 03 Sep 2021 16:50:13 +0000 https://www.synthtopia.com/?p=125507#comment-1442703 In reply to Torgood.

I’m a lefty, but of course have had to play melodies with my right hand since I was a kid – so really not much of a bother at all.

]]> By: Ja https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2021/08/31/new-silhouette-eins-synthesizer-blurs-the-line-between-sound-image-sneak-preview/#comment-1442693 Fri, 03 Sep 2021 10:16:33 +0000 https://www.synthtopia.com/?p=125507#comment-1442693 Coolest synth since Virus

]]> By: vjonexx https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2021/08/31/new-silhouette-eins-synthesizer-blurs-the-line-between-sound-image-sneak-preview/#comment-1442682 Thu, 02 Sep 2021 20:50:43 +0000 https://www.synthtopia.com/?p=125507#comment-1442682 Check these out if you like to play with Image to Sound:

Pixel Synth is a browser-based synthesizer that can read images and convert the information into sound.
https://ojack.xyz/PIXELSYNTH/

Image to Sound Mapping
https://www.seeingwithsound.com/im2sound.htm

Photo Sounder is the first audio editor/synthesizer
https://photosounder.com/

Sonic Photo is an audio program to convert from pictures to sound
https://www.skytopia.com/software/sonicphoto/

Create music and visuals not possible with other tools
https://uisoftware.com/

Audio Paint generates sounds from pictures
http://www.nicolasfournel.com/?page_id=125

Beep Map generates sound based on an image
https://www.image-line.com/fl-studio-learning/fl-studio-online-manual/html/plugins/BeepMap.htm

]]> By: Anthony https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2021/08/31/new-silhouette-eins-synthesizer-blurs-the-line-between-sound-image-sneak-preview/#comment-1442663 Thu, 02 Sep 2021 07:56:40 +0000 https://www.synthtopia.com/?p=125507#comment-1442663 Wow! love it

]]> By: Johnny Carson https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2021/08/31/new-silhouette-eins-synthesizer-blurs-the-line-between-sound-image-sneak-preview/#comment-1442659 Thu, 02 Sep 2021 02:33:18 +0000 https://www.synthtopia.com/?p=125507#comment-1442659 That’s some wild and wacky stuff.

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