Virtual ANS
Outdated version 1.1 (26 jun 2007)
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Introduction
Getting started
Sound examples
Download
Intoduction

Virtual ANS (ANS - the abbreviation for "Alexandr Nicolaevitch Skryabin", the great Russian composer) is the software analogue of the first Russian synthesizer in which the unique optical method of synthesis, developed by a scientist E. Mursin in the years 1937-1957, is used.

Virtual ANS is a tool for creating unique fantastic sounds. You can convert JPG-images to the sound and and vice versa. There are different tools for visual transformations, three methods of synthesis during convertation (FFT and ADDITIVE) and possibility generate multichannel sounds (mono, stereo, 6 channels).


Getting started

Just load your lovely JPG-image (sorry, some types of JPG are not supported at the moment) or draw a new. Select frame length. Click on the "RENDER" button and then on the "PLAY". Thats it. Enjoy :) You can stop any rendering proccess by pressing ESC key.

Sound examples

There are some sound examples generated in the Virtual ANS.

This image...

...was converted to sound

This image...

...was converted to sound