WavToZ2 now for Mac!!!! Now Beta.

[Howard]

So i'm working on a new version of Wav2Zebra2.
So do you have any feature requests...

Transformation to SpectroBlend would be my #1 - but I guess that's asking too much right now.

Keep up the good work

[djsubject]

I have to finish it for reasons i don't want to reveal at this point

so why even say anthing!!


now i want to know what you dont want me to know, & its all only because you dont want me to know it

i dont know




good luck with what ever it is you dont want me knowing

& thanks for this kewl app

Subz

[jupiter8]

So i'm working on a new version of Wav2Zebra2.
So do you have any feature requests...

Transformation to SpectroBlend would be my #1 - but I guess that's asking too much right now.

I don't know how to do that. If i knew i suspect it'd be pretty easy to implement. Or not.

[jupiter8]

I'm trying really hard to be a humble low key person but how else can i interpret the lack of bug reports and feature requests than that the program is close to perfect and i rule ?

[kodama]

Well the Mac ppl haven't had their say yet

[jupiter8]

http://www.tekno.chalmers.se/~magolo/sy ... ra2.tar.gz

Ahhh what the hell. For the brave. An Alpha version of the Mac compatible WavToZ2.
It's made in Java so it should work on all platforms. It has some unimplemented features and some crap with the filehandling.

However the worst that can happen (i hope ) is that it craps files in places they should'nt be.

The old Wav2Zebra2 did a FFT/iFFT combo on all files. This does'nt. It exports the raw files as they are. Upside is the old version did'nt. Downside is the morphing stuff does'nt yet work. I'll implement this later.

I have'nt tried this on a Mac however it works on a Linux machine so there's hope.
I have'nt even tested the .h2p files as i'm on a Linux machine for the moment but the code is more or less copy/pasted from the C++ version so they probably work.

I'm not sure how to start .jar files on Macs but on Linux you can start it from the consloe with the java -jar Wav2Zebra2.jar

As i said it's not 100% yet but we're getting there.

Please post bug reports here.
Hope you enjoy it.

Peace.

[Urs]

Cool

I've just converted some songs (aiff files) to waveforms! It feels a bit like, uhm, Java, but d'oh... it basically works...

One problem I see: Some values have exponential notation, i.e. 3.0517578E-5 - these will not import properly as I'm using my own version of atof()... which doesn't support that format...

Urs

[jupiter8]

One problem I see: Some values have exponential notation, i.e. 3.0517578E-5 - these will not import properly as I'm using my own version of atof()... which doesn't support that format...

Urs

I'll look into that as fast as i can.

My PC at is broke for the moment. That's one reason i released it prematurely as i can't really test it myself.

[kodama]

You just click jar files on Mac to open.

It looks fine, I think Apple has some docs & code for easily making java apps more mac like.

For now, you might consider setting the initial directory to /volumes , which is the unix equiv to my computer.

Also, the cancel on export does not want to cancel!

I'll have to wait til later to actually try this with Zebra, but thanks for the efforts!

[jupiter8]

You just click jar files on Mac to open.

Good to know. I had no idea how this works on Macs.

For now, you might consider setting the initial directory to /volumes , which is the unix equiv to my computer.

That's not quite what i'm struggling with. My problem is to save the .ini file in the same directory as the application. Works a treat on Windows.On Linux not so much. (:
I believe it does if you open it from a terminal but not if you double-click on it. For some reason it gets the "wrong"directory then. Why i don't know at this time.

Also, the cancel on export does not want to cancel!

Not sure what you mean by this.


Anyways, as i said my PC is shot so i released this a bit prematurely so you could do some testing that i can't do for myself for the moment.

It is still a work in progress so it'll be better.
I still have some features to implement which will render the old C++ version obsolete.

[bmrzycki]

jupiter8,

First, this is a super cool program! I was using the windows version (new for 2.2) under VMware Fusion. I was converting some of the Architecture Waveforms Cakewalk Edition. I wish I could post some of the osc presets as they really give Zebra a totally different sound.

When I load the .h2p osc preset the waves only seem to modify the geoblend and Spectroblend tables. Which of the two is the "correct" one? I'm guessing Spectroblend but I haven't noticed this mentioned before and just wanted to be sure.

Also I was wondering if the latest PC version exports all 128 partials? I remember you were having trouble with anything past 96 partials a while ago.

I also have a feature request. Is there a way to have a batch command line option set? I could see at least two options. One for a start and end wav and another to enumerate all 16.

Something like:
wavtoz2 -s start.wav -e end.wav -o out.h2p
wavtoz2 -l -o out.h2p 1.wav 2.wav 3.wav 4.wav ... 16.wav

And thanks again, this is an awesome tool!

[jupiter8]

Crap,crap,crap!!!!

***Warning do NOT use the old version***

DL the new version immediatley from here:
http://www.tekno.chalmers.se/~magolo/sy ... ra2.tar.gz

I forgot to include the function for checking if the file exists. So you could possibly loose work. This version checks if the file exists and renames it if it does.
Hopefully noone lost any work and if you did you have my sincerest apologies. An oversight on my part that should'nt have happened but it did.

When I load the .h2p osc preset the waves only seem to modify the geoblend and Spectroblend tables. Which of the two is the "correct" one? I'm guessing Spectroblend but I haven't noticed this mentioned before and just wanted to be sure.

Don't remember to be honest. If it works it works.

Also I was wondering if the latest PC version exports all 128 partials? I remember you were having trouble with anything past 96 partials a while ago.

No it does'nt. Still 96 partials. The funny thing is that the Java version has the exact same behaviour. The more partials i add the lower amplitude the sound gets. This isn't really possible even in theory so i have absolutly no idea why this is.

The good news is that for the moment i don't even use this function. The Java program exports the raw waveforms as they are. The FFT/iFFT version will be implemented later probably today. Then you'll have a choice of exporting the raw waveforms or the FFT/iFFT version or both.

I also have a feature request. Is there a way to have a batch command line option set?

Sounds like an interesting idea. Should be very easy to implement. Personally i hate command line programs. That's the reason i wrote this program in the first place.
But since you want it and it's very easy to do i'll probably do it. Should be an hour of work tops. (So in other words a full days work. That's how it usually is )

Glad you like the program. Warms my heart like you'll never know.

[jupiter8]

Oh, and another thing. I got lazy and clamped numbers lower than abs(0.001) to zero and numbers bigger than 0.999 to 1.0 (obviously for negative as well).

Please report if you still get scientific notation or if it is to heavyhanded. IE Destroys the sound in any way. I'll try and find the exact threshold where this scientific notaion happens and fix it a bit more smooth.

[bmrzycki]

DL the new version immediately from here:
http://www.tekno.chalmers.se/~magolo/sy ... ra2.tar.gz

Aww, I really liked the JUCE one better. It loaded/exported a lot faster. But I understand your desire to have a portable solution. Heck, you don't even have to be doing this at all. Thanks!

Possible bug, I seem to be hearing buzzing now when I convert WAVs. Check out this zip file. It contains some nice single cycle WAVs from the z3ta+ community. I also took a screen shot of what WAV is what slot. Every one has a buzzyness about it in GeoMorph mode. In SpectroMorph mode some sound very thin and others just sound wrong. http://www.sendspace.com/file/099ekx. I don't remember hearing this buzziness with the JUCE version.

When I load the .h2p osc preset the waves only seem to modify the geoblend and Spectroblend tables. Which of the two is the "correct" one? I'm guessing Spectroblend but I haven't noticed this mentioned before and just wanted to be sure.

Don't remember to be honest. If it works it works.

I think the right mode is GeoMorph after some experimenting.

No it doesn't. Still 96 partials. The funny thing is that the Java version has the exact same behavior. The more partials i add the lower amplitude the sound gets. This isn't really possible even in theory so i have absolutely no idea why this is.

Could be a potential bug in the z2 import engine somewhere. Maybe I'll dust off my python skills and write something super simple to see if I replicate your findings.

The FFT/iFFT version will be implemented later probably today. Then you'll have a choice of exporting the raw waveforms or the FFT/iFFT version or both.

How do you plan to apply a fourier transform to the WAV? I'm curious as to why one would want to use an FFT transformed WAV versus peaks.

Sounds like an interesting idea. Should be very easy to implement. Personally i hate command line programs. That's the reason i wrote this program in the first place.

Aw, you're a peach! I requested this because the WAV library I have is roughly 2000 files. The thought of opening the GUI to create different osc settings for the thousands of variations scares the crud out of me. I can't be the only one with more than 50 wavs for possible import into Z2.

Glad you like the program. Warms my heart like you'll never know.

It's programs like these that make me love Z2 and the community around it.

[bmrzycki]

So i'm working on a new version of Wav2Zebra2.
So do you have any feature requests...

Transformation to SpectroBlend would be my #1 - but I guess that's asking too much right now.

Keep up the good work

I'm genuinely interested as to why you'd like this feature. Is it because you'd like the ability to add/remove partials from an inputted wav?