The Excel spreadsheet synthesizer

Taking geekiness to a whole new level, this page from the University of Vienna contains a spreadsheet in various windows formats which does realtime additive Fourier synthesis with sound output, a waveform and spectrogram. I can't get it working (I'm on a Mac today). Anyone have any luck? Next up, a 303 emulator coded in Powerpoint... (via Bodmas)

Posted by Tom Whitwell.

Comments:

Incredible, I am addicted!!!

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Anonymous : 11:55 am

Thanks. This is amazing and I have just blown an hour or more playing with it. Figuring out how it was done will be a few more hours at least..

A great find.

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Anonymous : 12:32 pm

makes me wish i still had that office job...

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Anonymous : 2:29 pm

Impressive! It's not the content, it's the medium.

It would also, *theoretically*, be good for annoying teh everloving bejeezus out of one's coworkers.

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Dan Ray : 4:31 pm

I sadly report that it doesn't work in OpenOffice.org, as I expected. Looks like a very cool thing though! I'll have to find a computer that has MS Office and try it out!

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Anonymous : 5:23 pm

Isn't this a screenshot taken from a Mac? Is there a Mac version somewhere?

# posted by

Joel Bass : 7:34 pm

no matter how cool it is, it can't be worth switching from a Mac to a PC

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Anonymous : 9:10 pm

Yes, the screenshot is from the mac I use at work. But no, it doesn't make any sound...

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Tom Whitwell : 11:29 pm

yea, im with tom....no sound!!! :( mac cant be great at everything...ill try it on my pc....PINKUS

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Anonymous : 4:07 am

i remember very clearly playing with a drum machine that someone had written in filemaker! nice one too...

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Anonymous : 4:06 pm

Works for me on Windows XP Pro and Excel 2000. But all my co-workers said it sounded like a stylophone, I think I need to play with those sliders more.

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Anonymous : 4:11 pm

Hello - I've been using this for some years to demonstrate 'fourier synthesis' in physics/maths lessons.

The VBA uses short cuts and Windows specific calls so won't work on Excel for Mac alas.

VBA won't work generally in OpenOffice - but it might be worth seeing if the macro language in OpenOffice can make any connections with the sound sub-system in a platform independed way.....

The Bodmas Bloke

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Anonymous : 11:08 am

Finally after all this time it's good to see accountancy and techno combine just like we all expected. Maybe this will spawn a new field of music like exelectro?

Anyway got it working on xp but it locks up a bit playing sounds.

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Unknown : 6:06 am

Ooh.. can anyone tell me where to find that FileMaker drum machine?

# posted by

Steven : 8:36 pm