Together with writing the project thesis, the most important part on the Fnk project is doing the actual working software, that is, building the environment that I’m proposing on my thesis itself.

I have spent all my (little) free time this past month revising the text for the Fnk thesis.

One of the new cool features added by Flash is GPU acceleration, that is, offloading some of the rendering process to the video card and, as such, making the performance better.

Fnk is an academic project. As such, there is a certain schedule and some tasks I have to conform to, and this includes writing a proposal paper where I outline what I want to do with Fnk, and how.

In the past few days at college I’ve been designing the way patches would look inside the editor - doing this inside Photoshop rather than any programming environment.

There are several different parts of the whole Fnk project I’ve been working over the past few weeks. The primary part I’m working on, as required by the college course itself, is its research paper, where I list some of the goals of the project and what kind of solutions I’m looking into.

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 [...]

When I started the Fnk project, one of the many things I was anxious to play with is audio analysis. The main reason being the fact that I know too little about it. So here goes a preliminary post on the subject; no conclusions, but a few good links for future reference.
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During 2007, I’ve been doing some very interesting work with “visual” programming environments as part of my digital interface design degree I’m taking at Senac São Paulo. In the first semester of that year I had my first contact with Max/MSP, and then jumped to Max/Jitter. It was the first time I’ve that kind of [...]