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Beatesthesia is a highly customizable WYSIWYG music visualizer. Inspired in motive and design by synesthesia.

Synesthesia has inspired many works of art. Art that is meant to evoke synesthetic associations in a non-synesthetic audience has been dubbed synesthetic. Most artists synced sound and light in their performances to achieve this goal. Their efforts were deemed arbitrary because the all relied upon one set schema for an entire audience. If it is at all possible to evoke synesthetic reactions each experience should be fine tuned to a single person.

Beatesthesia allows the user to design their own music visualization. The WYSIWYG editor allows you to easily add audio reactive graphics to either Kick Snare or Hat beats. When a beat is detected the graphical event programmed is then fired.

The interface its self is audio reactive. This increases the speed of the feedback loop. You know exactly what beat you are adding to because you can see it flashing. Beatesthesia allows anyone to create their own music visualization. There is no prior knowledge of audio manipulation or video software needed. Beatesthesia is equally capable of competing with live visual software, the VJ version features a dual display set up for live performance. You can share you creations with others, using the copy paste code system.

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Beatesthesia was built entirely using Processing.
Thanks to Minim and ControlP5.
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Download full source code here:
thesoundportal.com/beat/download.htm

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  • vade 1 year ago
    Im having some issues with the Mac port of Beatesthesia on your download link. I dont know what libraries you used in P5, but id be happy to send a working Mac app if I can get it working on my end. Id suggest a .zip file for the Mac users, as .rar is not supported out of the box.

    Well done though, judging by the video.
  • olly gore 1 year ago
    The Libraries used were ControlP5 ShapeTween and Minim. I have tested it on a mac and it works but is missing a few features like the save thumbanail. I have my final presentation of this today and when the partying is over i'll take a closer look.
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  • vade 1 year ago
    Interesting, the download for mac does not successfully launch for me, so I thought id point it out. Was this for a school project? if so, where? Just curious, and thanks for the prompt reply, im eager to check out some of your ideas.
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  • olly gore 1 year ago
    This is my final year project for university, I'm studying Digital Arts and Technology in Plymouth(well for a few more hours anyway). Thanks for the heads up.
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  • olly gore 1 year ago
    You may however need to increase your java heap memory.
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  • 3d60 1 year ago
    Code I up
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  • lightandshadow 1 year ago
    Vade,

    Launch Console (Under /Applications/Utilities/) and look for any error messages. In my case, I changed permissions on the entire folder (Get Info > Sharing and Permissions > Apply to Enclosed items [Apply is under the gear icon in Leopard) , which fixed the problem.
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  • fabian 1 year ago
    Hey, that looks amazing! Sadly the download-page is offline. Can someone provide a mirror/link to a intel mac file ? Thanks a lot, fabian
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  • vdmoKstati 1 year ago
    hi, the site seems to be "suspended". if you need hosting or something, let me know.
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  • G___orz 1 year ago
    Hello, the site seems to be "suspended"
    I want to see me by very using this VJ tool.
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  • Alan Garcia 1 year ago
    Hey just reminding you that there's some good demand for the application and the soundportal account you are using is down. Keep us updated, great work!
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  • Nick Shelestak 1 year ago
    yeah, big bummer this is down, would love to try it out.
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  • olly gore 1 year ago
    sorry i havent had time to check the pc this weekend, the hosting issue is being sorted as we speak and the files should be available tonight.
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  • robertanderson plus 1 year ago
    yea love to play with this!
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  • FlipMu 10 months ago
    really interested to see how you are doing the slick menu system...unfortunately seems like the download link is down again. Any chance of putting it up somewhere? Yousendit maybe?
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  • Lemmy 9 months ago
    Any working download available? Would really love to try this out. Looks great!
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  • Wesley Bakewell 6 months ago
    Please need a download! I NEED THIS APP! It's the only thing i found that works for Rhapsody PLUS it's customizable! can you put it on download.com or something? PLZ!
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  • Johann Nortje 5 months ago
    WOW!!!! Since this is a year ago, have you done something with it?? Huge!!
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