Too bad my fiddle skills don’t translate. Still having fun though!

Thanks!

Also, thanks for promoting Twang! I hope your buddy gets a kick out of it.

I bought your incredible app. However, despite my not knowing how to play the guitar I was able to play with the intuitive UI and came up with a song for my wife and son within 10 minutes. Also, I posted your vid on Facebook and a buddy of mine saw the post and bought the app about 3 minutes after seeing my post. Cool, eh?

How I did it: I recorded the FS1R in Ableton Live, sweeping different parameters, then zoomed in and looked at the shape of the waveforms it produced. Also Flash’s spectral view helped a lot, I was expecting to see a cluster of overtones (like a formant) so I could see when my algorithm was incorrect.

It turns out that you can generate a formant using two sine oscillators; the first sine resets the phase of the second sine at the end of each cycle (i.e. oscillator sync). Also the first sine controls the amplitude of the second sine (similar to ring modulation). Pretty neat.

I did experiment with limited letter sets, I have pictures of myself spelled with “Z-A-C-H” here somewhere… This begs for more experimentation — blend modes, different fonts, whole words (with rotation?),..

There may even be a way to apply the effect to a video stream in realtime, using some creative math and a little cheating ;)

I wanted to drop you a line and say thanks for Space Kittehs. It is an awesome game that I go back and play from time to time, which is rare in the world of free online flash games.

The music and sounds are chill and calming. The visuals are beautiful for the most part. The concept is fun. And most of all, the controls work exactly the way one would want them to.

Great work, and thanks for sharing!