Freshmaking!

So with all of this Guitar Hero and Rock Band garbage going around lately, every kid out there wants to make a rhythm based Flash game. It turns out that there have been some fairly complex attempts at this, and it also turns out that I didn’t know that until AFTER I started looking into it on my own.

The story goes that some random person on a forum asked for some help with this. I suggested using Actionscript’s FFT option on the computeSpectrum function. Some other random person acted like the idea wasn’t worth investigating, so I decided to take a stab at it myself to prove this person wrong. My attempt would be pretty trivial and straightforward, but hopefully a “good start”

Turned out that it was really easy to make excellent beat detection this way. And by “excellent”, I mean “absolutely awful”.

You can check out the finished product here. There’s no preloader, so just wait (2.5mb). Not impressed? Might want to skip this. Think it’s at least *sort of* cool and *potentially useful*? Read on, youngin’!
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