Introduction
Tunealiser is a tool for making structural analysis notes along a multitrack timeline. Create colour-coded, timestamped blocks of annotation which can be resized or dragged around. Optionally, content from YouTube, Vimeo or Soundcloud can be loaded and synced with Tunealiser - watch and listen as you make notes, draft a storyboard for a music video or plan a soundtrack to a short film!Background
Tunealiser is intended to be at least as quick as pen and paper for annotating music or video, but also to generate notes which are visually meaningful when referred to later. It has a simple load/save system and can export screenshot images for download at any time. I originally wrote Tunealiser in two nights and about 800 lines of code using Processing, then over subsequent weeks converted it to HTML5/Processing.js.If you like Tunealiser and want to spread the word on Facebook, Twitter, Digg and all those sorts of places, that would be great!
Feedback
Comments are welcome - either via @echolevel on Twitter or the Tunealiser Facebook page.Requirements
Tunealiser should work fine on any browser that supports HTML5.To Do:
- Names for tracks? Maybe big fonts, semi-transparent, or off to one side, or something. We'll see.
- UNDO - this would be nice
Getting Started
- First, you might want to take a look at some examples. Here are two half-finished projects which show Tunealiser being used to analyse existing music: a segment of soundtrack from the game Fable 2 and a Haujobb Amiga demo.
- Unless you've followed a link to an existing project, you'll either need to type a project name into the black box or paste a YouTube/Vimeo/Soundcloud URL into the white box above.
- If you load YouTube/Vimeo/Soundcloud, project name and duration are automatically entered. Otherwise, enter the desired project duration in minutes and seconds, e.g. 3 mins & 24 seconds would be "0324".
- Now double-click on a track to name and create a block. Click and drag on a block's tabs to adjust its width; click and drag the main body to move the block around the project.
- Single-click on any block to allow editing of its descriptor - just start typing. Make further edits in the same way whenever you want.
- Project save data is stored on pastebin.com and automatically retrieved when you 'load' a project by navigating to a project save URL. This means that tunealiser.co.uk DOES NOT STORE YOUR PROJECT DATA and can't be held responsible if pastebin.com goes offline for any reason. You can save an image snapshot of your project to your hard drive at any time using the camera icon.
- Ctrl & click/drag on block : Duplicate block
- Ctrl & Spacebar : Play/Pause media content (if loaded)
- Shift & click on block : Set loop points around block
- Alt & + or - : Increase or decrease track count. If you decrease tracks and they disappear off-screen, you can get them (and their blocks) back by increasing tracks again
- Mouseclick+hold & Delete/Backspace : Delete selected block