s a m p l e b r a i n

A custom sample mashing app designed by Aphex Twin.

Samplebrain chops samples up into a 'brain' of interconnected small sections called blocks which are connected into a network by similarity. It processes a target sample, chopping it up into blocks in the same way, and tries to match each block with one in it's brain to play in realtime.

This allows you to interpret a sound with a different one. Over time developing it, we gradually added more and more tweakable parameters until it became slightly out of control.

Quick start:

Load a bunch of samples into the brain
Click (re)generate brain
Load a loop sample into the target
Click (re)generate target
Press play

Demo brain

Manual

Binaries

Windows
Mac
Linux

Installing/building

Linux install:

Install libraries for the sample engine:

$ sudo apt install libsndfile1-dev portaudio19-dev liblo-dev libfftw3-dev

Install dependancies for the graphical user interface:

$ sudo apt install build-essential qtcreator qt5-default

Build $ run it:

$ cd app
$ qmake
$ make
$ samplebrain

What's here

brain:
- samplebrain engine code
app:
- code to build the Qt GUI app
gui:
- qt designer project files
cooking:
- sketches and ideas
- proof of concept written in python
- initial (abandoned) attempt at clojure version

Todos:

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