Tuner Graphics and Implementation

We got some good work done on the tuner today. I got to grips with Adobe Fireworks to produce the images for the graphical representation. Fireworks is an awesome piece of kit, with buckets of features and options, and so it took me a little while to get to grips with it. We reasoned this time was well spent though, as we now have unique images for our system, rather than ones lifted off the net, which is what we were originally going to do. Hopefully we’ll get to do a bit more in Fireworks (the music theory tutor and some more logos spring to mind) if time permits.

Conor started integrating the tuner into the GUI. He is using a nice class called RotatePanel (described here), which ensures a smooth transition between the needle states.

Anyway, heres a screen shot of how it looks so far:

Fig 1 – Tuner

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We have been neglecting our other assignments of late, so we plan to take a bit of a break from the 4th year project now and concentrate on them for a bit. We are pretty well on schedule, with the effects, groovebox, half of the music theory tutor and now the tuner done. All that remains is to have the music theory tutor drawing the chords out (which we have thought a good deal about and are confident that we have an algorithm that will do this – it just requires testing) and key recognition, which we have been steadily researching and have good ideas about too.

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~ by brendanbambury on March 13, 2008.