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'''Yalp''' - Fun with Audio Sampling

== Features ==
*Record your voice - or anything - and play it at various speeds
*Reverse it, mix it, warp it. Without having any experience editing audio.
*Play a song - with your sound effect as the instrument
*Write a list of notes (a b c) and play your own song
*Combine several of these "songs" into a cacaphonus masterpiece


== Concepts: ==

=== Encourage Creativity ===

* Experimentation!
* It should be designed so that a user can just start clicking stuff, fun stuff will happen, and 
* The user should not have to know what they are doing.
* Stimulate thinking of how to specify notes to make a tune.


=== Simple, organic interface ===

* It's a toy, make it fun
* Shouldn't have menus/lists/boring stuff
* Visual



== Notes: ==
* The XOs have mics, which is cool.
* I have written much of the audio-processing code. It just needs a good interface.
* It is currently written in Python. If necessary, the core engine can be written as an extension in C.
* Collaboration and/or sending sounds to friends? (Think about this later)
* For the curious, YALP is play backwards