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I have done some iOS and macOS work in the past using ObjectiveC and C. I have done some DSP work using MaxMSP and PureData. This morning I decided I wanted to

I have done some iOS and macOS work in the past using ObjectiveC and C. I have done some DSP work using MaxMSP and PureData. This morning I decided I wanted to write a simple audio visualizer for my iPhone using SwiftUI, a language and framework I have never used. Within an hour I had through the direction of ChatGPT-4 an app running on my phone using a 3rd party library called AudioKit and drawing some fractal looking thingies, as well as a pretty decent understanding of how it all worked because I asked for detailed explanations of every line of code. I’m not sure that I could have had this little app up and working in a single day let alone an hour if I only had a search engine at my disposal.

ldhough 3y ago
Googling "audio visualizer SwiftUI" gives me these as the first, fourth, and seventh results: https://medium.com/swlh/swiftui-create-a-sound-visualizer-cadee0b6ad37 https://medium.com/swlh/swiftui-create-a-sound-visualizer-ca... https://audiokitpro.com/audiovisualizertutorial/ https://audiokitpro.com/audiovisualizertutorial/ https://developer.apple.com/documentation/accelerate/visualizing_sound_as_an_audio_spectrogram https://developer.apple.com/documentation/accelerate/visuali... I do tend to reach for GPT4 before Google for things like this now, but I feel like it should definitely be possible to get this up in only slightly longer with just Google, even if you want some mods.
- williamcotton 3y ago
  But I wasn’t interested in someone else’s audio visualizer, I was interested in a specific approach using pitch detection and primitive line drawings, not displaying an FFT as a bar graph. Sure, I could have synthesized a few different search engine responses but it would have taken a lot more work and I would have run into issues that slowed me down to the point where I had to get back to my other duties as the father of 2 and 4 year olds who were home for the week!
  - ldhough 3y ago
    Yeah its definitely better than piecing together parts from different tutorials to be sure.

ldhough 3y ago

Googling "audio visualizer SwiftUI" gives me these as the first, fourth, and seventh results: https://medium.com/swlh/swiftui-create-a-sound-visualizer-cadee0b6ad37 https://medium.com/swlh/swiftui-create-a-sound-visualizer-ca... https://audiokitpro.com/audiovisualizertutorial/ https://audiokitpro.com/audiovisualizertutorial/ https://developer.apple.com/documentation/accelerate/visualizing_sound_as_an_audio_spectrogram https://developer.apple.com/documentation/accelerate/visuali... I do tend to reach for GPT4 before Google for things like this now, but I feel like it should definitely be possible to get this up in only slightly longer with just Google, even if you want some mods.

williamcotton 3y ago
But I wasn’t interested in someone else’s audio visualizer, I was interested in a specific approach using pitch detection and primitive line drawings, not displaying an FFT as a bar graph. Sure, I could have synthesized a few different search engine responses but it would have taken a lot more work and I would have run into issues that slowed me down to the point where I had to get back to my other duties as the father of 2 and 4 year olds who were home for the week!
- ldhough 3y ago
  Yeah its definitely better than piecing together parts from different tutorials to be sure.