Busy busy busy…
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Thursday night I ended up seeing Umphrey’s McGee in Delaware. I talked with their sound engineer Kevin Browning during set break and discussed what I need from him to remix. We ran into a problem where he has all of the original audio tracks from the album on his hard drive in Chicago, and he won’t be back there until after the project is due. He said he can most likely send me a 2 or 3 minute version of one of the songs, so hopefully that works out, otherwise I’ll end up including Jane’s Addiction in the project and possibly more than 1 nine inch nails song. I also got to meet Umphrey’s McGee themselves after the show and I told them all about the project and how it was coming along. They all really liked the idea and said they can’t wait to see it when its done.
In other news, I’ve got the visualization screen about 95% done. the backgrounds look awesome now and I even included a slider for selecting the backgrounds. The photos and visualizers are coming along, but I would like to incorporate the same slider for those thumbnails. The only problem I’m having is for dragging and dropping the photos which is causing a few bugs (the audio adds another version of the song playing on top of the already playing audio file, the thumbnail stays stuck to the mouse cursor, or the image just keeps adding itself over and over). I might switch it so that the image will just appear on screen, and then you can drag it around from there, rather than becoming attached to the mouse cursor.
For the remixing screen, I’ve changed the interface so that you just have 2 buttons for each instrument choice and it looks much nicer now. I’m running into a lot of problems with playing multiple audio files and there aren’t enough good resources on the internet to help me out. I’m thinking about starting from scratch to figure out solution but hope to have something figured out by later tonight. That’s pretty much my last main hurdle with the project, and after I get it working then all I really have to do is fine tune everything. I would post screenshots, but I’m a bit busy and have to get back to coding…. fun times.