software that will allow me to draw the music?

[BJ]

A few years ago, I had a chance to experiment with a program that would
input pictures-- spectrograms, etc and then play music from it. I could
also edit the pictures to make the sounds change. Then last year I
noticed that Sony Spectralayers Pro has a function that allows one to
draw a line to represent a frequency. Problem is that the program
really isn't designed for that and that single line represents only a
single frequency-- it would be nearly impossible to draw in all the
harmonics wanted. So I pose the question here: What software allows me
to draw in the desired fundamental frequency, choose the harmonics
wanted, and then manipulate the sound? I recently obtained a scratch
pad for such a purpose so I have better control than with the mouse.

Thanks.

[Rasta Robert]

On 2014-11-21, BJ > wrote:
> A few years ago, I had a chance to experiment with a program that would
> input pictures-- spectrograms, etc and then play music from it. I could
> also edit the pictures to make the sounds change. Then last year I
> noticed that Sony Spectralayers Pro has a function that allows one to
> draw a line to represent a frequency. Problem is that the program
> really isn't designed for that and that single line represents only a
> single frequency-- it would be nearly impossible to draw in all the
> harmonics wanted. So I pose the question here: What software allows me
> to draw in the desired fundamental frequency, choose the harmonics
> wanted, and then manipulate the sound? I recently obtained a scratch
> pad for such a purpose so I have better control than with the mouse.
>
> Thanks.

AudioPaint: http://www.nicolasfournel.com/audiopaint.htm
Bitmaps and Waves: http://victorx.eu/BitmapPlayer.htm
Bitmaps and Waves basics tutorial:
http://www.elisanet.fi/victorx/steps/basics.html

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[Tobiah]

On 11/21/2014 04:38 AM, BJ wrote:
> A few years ago, I had a chance to experiment with a program that
> would input pictures-- spectrograms, etc and then play music from it.
> I could also edit the pictures to make the sounds change. Then last
> year I noticed that Sony Spectralayers Pro has a function that allows
> one to draw a line to represent a frequency. Problem is that the
> program really isn't designed for that and that single line
> represents only a single frequency-- it would be nearly impossible to
> draw in all the harmonics wanted. So I pose the question here: What
> software allows me to draw in the desired fundamental frequency,
> choose the harmonics wanted, and then manipulate the sound? I
> recently obtained a scratch pad for such a purpose so I have better
> control than with the mouse.
>
> Thanks.

I could see this being entertaining and musically useful, as long as
you could hear the pitches along with previous strokes as they were
made.