Original Audiovisual Synthesizer 1981-1982

Written on a TRS-80 Color Computer in the early 1980's, this is one of VIR-AND's earliest demonstrations of digital sound, one that contains only 26 bytes and led to the discovery of omni-musical numbers such as 0.12345678910111213... which predict all future sounds within a known mersenne prime number of digits.

In plain english, if you can do long division, you can calculate any and all digital sounds for free. This is public domain.

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[jarblewarble]

@gamesDAMNED This video also seems similar to viznut's computer generated music.

[gamesDAMNED]

You should have a look at the Atari Visual Music, from 1976. You'll be impressed. Nice video!

[doctorx0079]

He put it on instructables.

[jarblewarble]

This actually sounds a lot like some of Aphex Twin's music.

[philiptwood]

@VironCybernet Where can I found source codes to the open source program you described?

[tomfoyfx]

This is really cool, I'd love to hear more about the algorithm. By the way, why do you keep going on about being able to make every digital sound? I can read through a dictionary, and say every word in the English language, but that doesn't mean I've written a novel. A piece of music is more than the sum of digital sounds; the order in which the sounds play is really what makes a song.

I agree with you, though, that digital copy protection is absurd.

[stevencartel23]

no, circuit-bending resembles IT

[genesisplan]

The sounds remind me so much of the band Autechre. I wonder if they've gotten inspired by this?

[Freebird101st]

NICE

[xXKariBananaXx]

These would make great video game graphics!