True, but as I recall, KeyKit does have the ability to scan
charactoristics of images in a particular format and produce
interesting "sound" in MIDI format, using the term "sound" loosely here,
as it does not produce audio. He should also check out KeyKit.

Phil J.



On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 18:53 -0700, Tim Thompson wrote:
> Keykit deals only with midi, not audio samples.
>
> A little google searching should easily find image-to-sound converters
> of various types, here’s the first one I found:
> http://www.webcenter.ru/~vsoft/BitmapPlayer.htm
>
> …Tim…
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> From: cnfractal_music@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:cnfractal_music@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of PhilJackson
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 6:32 PM
> To: cnfractal_music@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [cnfractal_music] Converting the Mandelbrot set into
> sound
>
> I think KeyKit may do something like this, and there are I think a
> number of others that do some kind of image to sound transformation.
> Can't say they use the same method to derive results though...
>
> Phil J.
>
> On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 18:49 -0500, Dave Strohbeen wrote:
> > I seem to remember seeing something along these lines (pixel data
> > value to audio-sample value mapping) done with CSound many years
> > ago... you might find something useful by googleing 'csound'
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Mats Öljare
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> > Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 8:35 AM
> > Subject: [cnfractal_music] Converting the Mandelbrot set into sound
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> > There have been various attempts to convert the Mandelbrot set into
> > sound, more or less unsuccessful. However there is one way which i
> > have recently thought of, and i don't know if it has been tried.
> > Basically, it requires the image to be calculated to a very high
> > resolution-about 40 000 pixels wide for each second of sound. Each
> > sample would represent one "line" of pixels, either horizontal or
> > vertical, the number of "black"versus "white" pixels becoming the
> > value for the sample. It seems this might produce listenable sounds,
> > possibly even harmonically complex, but i'm not sure. Does anyone
> know
> > if this has been tried, or have the programming skills and tools to
> > try to implement this?
> >
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