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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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
    You may however need to increase your java heap memory.
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  • 3d60 2 months ago
    Code I up
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  • lightandshadow 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
    hi, the site seems to be "suspended". if you need hosting or something, let me know.
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  • G___orz 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
    yeah, big bummer this is down, would love to try it out.
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  • olly gore 2 months 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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  • Ekaitz H. 1 month ago
    I have downloaded it and paste the folder in c:/Program files but it doesn´t work correctly. When I try to load a new song the program stop running and I must restart it. What I'm doing bad?
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  • robertanderson 15 days ago
    yea love to play with this!
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