{"id":130,"date":"2011-04-01T04:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T04:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/seth\/2011\/04\/01\/under-development-simulink-symphonics\/"},"modified":"2011-04-01T02:53:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T02:53:58","slug":"under-development-simulink-symphonics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/2011\/04\/01\/under-development-simulink-symphonics\/","title":{"rendered":"Under development: Simulink Symphonics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we have been authorized to give you a sneak peek at a new blockset <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/authors\/31651\">Guy<\/a> is working on: <em>SimMusic<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Seth: <\/strong>This new tool will facilitate the application of Model-Based Design to development of new rhythms and music effects. How does it work?<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Guy:<\/strong> To begin, you need sources. You can provide the musical score, connect instruments to your computer, or choose from a vast library of already available musical sources. For example here are the sources I am currently using:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/seth\/2011Q1\/Sources.png\" alt=\"Musical sources\"><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Guy:<\/strong> Then you pick instruments to through which you will play your song:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/seth\/2011Q1\/Instruments.png\" alt=\"Musical Instruments\"><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Guy:<\/strong> Here is my latest model, where I started with my favorite Metallica song. I wanted to make it sound special, so I made the bass sound like a bagpipe. Then I used a microphone to replace the original vocal track.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/seth\/2011Q1\/FinalModel.png\" alt=\"SimMusic example model\"><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Guy:<\/strong> Finally, you can output your creation to any device of your choice.  Even non-traditional hardware!<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Seth:<\/strong> Here is an example of the market where SimMusic is useful.  (Watch the embedded video below.)  At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cvut.cz\/en?set_language=en\">Czech Technical University in Prague<\/a> they played a Czech Christmas carol using Simulink and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humusoft.cz\/\">HUMUSOFT<\/a> DAQ board to control a couple of dot-matrix printers. Imagine how much time and effort SimMusic could have saved them!<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NcmP6fzj2KM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Guy:<\/strong> Up to now, we received tremendous feedback from everyone who tried SimMusic. For example, former blogger, and technology expert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/authors\/3777\">Scott Hirsch<\/a> commented:<br>\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/desktop\/authors\/scott.png\" alt=\"Scott Hirsch, MATLAB Product Manager, and avid printer symphony listener\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 1em;\"><blockquote>\"Making cars drive, airplanes fly, yada yada yada.  Forget about it.  THIS is the coolest thing Simulink has ever done!!\"<\/blockquote><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><br>\r\n<strong>Seth:<\/strong> This tool will have a tremendous impact on society and accelerate the pace of music composition and performance!  This sounds so good, Guy and I are starting a band called <em>Polar Foils<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>What do you think?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Do you compose music in Simulink?  Will you buy a copy of SimMusic?  Leave us a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/seth\/?p=130&#comment\">comment here<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we have been authorized to give you a sneak peek at a new blockset Guy is working on: SimMusic.\r\n\r\nSeth: This new tool will facilitate the application of Model-Based Design to development of... <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/2011\/04\/01\/under-development-simulink-symphonics\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[71],"tags":[189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}