Adobe has just announced Flash Player 10.1, managing to add a plethora of new features to it even though it’s not a full new version. Of particular interest to me are the new sound (microphone) capabilities, something that could be exploited inside Fnk in a number of ways.

Fnk by most means will be an environment for dataflow programming. This means the “execution” of Fnk patches will be done by modules; these modules process certain input parameters to create a new output that is then handled to another module.

I’ve spent the past few days investigating audio synthesis to decide what to tackle on with Fnk. It’s not my intention to create a full-fledged, high-fidelity audio synthesizer – there are already many platforms available for that, all of them created by people who know a lot more about sound than me – but I [...]