SoundField is a visual audio mixer. It displays sounds as circular surfaces.

The graphical representation of sound brings concepts to audio that are traditionally more related to other fields, such as proximity, boundary, overlap and placing.

Most audio mixing programs mimic physical audio mixers, presenting a series of knobs and sliders to control a dozen or so tracks. But a computer screen gives you only one mouse pointer to control this apparatus, instead of 10 fingers. It is almost impossible to do a live mix with such an interface, and one must resort to do the mixing in sequential recorded steps. SoundField has almost no controls and makes audio mixing an intuitive, interactive and emersive process - enabling you to get 'into the sound'.

About
SoundField is made with Macromedia Director, version 8.0. It uses QuickTime to play audio files, and the Director Xtra MultiMixer to allow for panning the sounds.

Technical data
SoundField plays up to 12 audio (MP3) files from a hard disk. The length of each audio file can be up to 20 minutes, possibly longer.

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