Kenneth Weiss » Work http://www.chrome-fusion.com/blog An archive of stuff I’ve done, And do. More technical, some graphical, some musical, Nothing too personal. Sat, 01 May 2010 01:18:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Code: Trolltech QT Development http://www.chrome-fusion.com/blog/code/code-trolltech-qt-development/ http://www.chrome-fusion.com/blog/code/code-trolltech-qt-development/#comments Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:40:56 +0000 Kenneth http://www.chrome-fusion.com/blog/?p=70 QT on Wikipedia: Qt_(toolkit)

QT is a cross-platform application development framework, widely used for the development of GUI programs, and also used for developing non-GUI programs such as console tools and servers.

I have been getting into QT development lately in work and at home. The framework is a clean cross platform C++ toolkit. Other then the GUI, it provides a simple and elegant abstraction to all the system API’s. I find myself spending less time messing with with writing another file manager or graphic manager, and focusing on the actual application. The documentation is great and covers the objects well. They have an object for any type of action you would need in an application and most of the times its written the way I would.
The most important benefit for me is the ability to see all the frameworks code. Unlike Windows MFC development, I would find myself stepping deeper into the objects and getting a clear understanding of what they exactly do.
So from now on if I need to develop any Cross platform applications this is my preferred framework.

Learn more about QT:
www.trolltech.com

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Update:
It’s time to move on… too much pixel pushing and office politics turn your brain into jelly…

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After all this time being an Apple developer, my company sent me here. This is going to be a great conference. Lot’s of cool session here and I am intending to be in all of them. My goal is to get closer with objective-c, learn more audio tricks, and go to the Core Audio Lab. It’s always great to meet the developers face to face and get information on the internal workings of some of the apps. As with all the sdk’s, at some point you are pointing in the dark and its always enlightening to speak to the designers.

]]> http://www.chrome-fusion.com/blog/apple/apple-wwdc-2007-im-here/feed/ 0 Waves Tune – Working on a new plug-in from Waves http://www.chrome-fusion.com/blog/code/work-waves-tune-working-on-a-new-plug-in-from-waves/ http://www.chrome-fusion.com/blog/code/work-waves-tune-working-on-a-new-plug-in-from-waves/#comments Sun, 06 Nov 2005 14:54:09 +0000 Kenneth http://www.chrome-fusion.com/blog/?p=91 A year and a half in the making, this is an awesome project that I was privileged to work on. Waves Tune is a Vocal Tuning Plug-in that is used for fixing out of tune singers or can be used as a modern vocal effect.
From Wave Tune Product Page:

The singer has just wrapped up an amazing take. The phrasing, the emotion, the delivery, it’s all there. But there are notes you’d like to change, and others that need to be fixed. You need perfect pitch transformation. You need precision realtime editing capabilities.
You need Waves Tune. With full ReWire support, formant correction, and an extensive palette of pitch shaping tools, Waves Tune lets you do all your editing right there within your DAW environment – no need to export sections or work offline. Better sounding and more flexible than any other pitch correction processor, Waves Tune will get your vocals back on track.

In this project I became more acquainted with OpenGL and 3d graphics programming. There was allot of room to explore, so I could focus on making the interface smoother and cooler. There is a nice zooming effect I created and when the pages are moved the screen will slide into the point of view. You can see the zooming effect on this video: Waves Tune Video on YouTube
Another cool aspect was using ReWire not for the audio capabilities but for the synchronization and ability to control your host application from within the plug-in’s GUI.

This Plug-in will be released soon and will support the following platforms:
VST – Window and Mac OS X
Audio Units – Mac OS X
Pro-Tools/RTAS/Audio Suite – Window and Mac OS X
MAS – Mac OS X

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