March 2011
3 posts
1 tag
Matching Rails routes by path →
January 2009
16 posts
2 tags
CopyShop2 →
Free VST that chops up buffers and plays them back.
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Reaktor User Library: filter search →
Stefan Schmitt’s Reaktor filters from the user library
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Chapter Three: How MIDI works 8 →
How to setup external MIDI clock.
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restoring lost commits →
Tips for recovering commits.
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bend logs to your will →
Tips for using git-log productively.
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Simple HOM →
A simple approach to adding a HOM implementation to NSArray to support functional programming.
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Map, filter and reduce in Objective-C/Cocoa
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Using categories to add functional programming to NSArray.
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MetaSynth 4 →
An interesting looking synth. What on earth is “spectral granular sequencing?” Costs a bit to find out.
Focusrite / Novation Beta Testing :: Releases →
Where to get beta releases of Novation Automap software the SDK.
Command Prompt Tips →
How to get the GIT current branch and dirty state into your shell prompt.
DSTROOT, install_name_tool and Interface Builder... →
Useful information about building Interface Builder (IB) plugin palettes and getting things like the install_name right.
Re: IBPlugin cannot load (problem solved) →
How to get a Cocoa custom view framework embedded inside it’s Interface Builder (IB) plugin bundle.
Mr. Alias 2 →
Mr. Alias 2 is a weird little synth that uses non-bandlimited oscillators which can be transposed near to and beyond the Nyquist frequency, causing most of their spectra to be aliased back into audible non-harmonic frequencies. The sound can then be further processed by a number of crude “effects.”
A Bindable Custom NSView Subclass →
A more than commonly good example of creating a Cocoa custom view that exposes bindings for acquiring its data.
How to remove a git submodule →
Destroy FX : Audio Units →
A bunch of Audio Unit plugins the source for, at least some of, which is available.
November 2008
4 posts
“It was a nice day, you know, just a little bit of wind, and I, er, decided to...”
– Sound designer Diego Stucco from soundonsound (Dec ‘08)
“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the...”
– http://pajamasmedia.com/michaelledeen/2008/11/03/election-thoughts
OS X Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7 →
Finally some unbiased technical comparisons, thanks to The Onion.
October 2008
4 posts
“Music is a secret exercise in arithmetic of the soul, unaware of its act of...”
– Gottfried Leibniz, philosopher and mathematician.
Most recent of the Elysium generated tracks I have...
I hate ADSL
Hate. Hate. Hate.
Bank robber hires decoys on Craigslist, fools cops... →
The first Web 2.0 crime worthy of the name.
September 2008
16 posts
“I often quote myself, it adds spice to my conversation.”
– My new favourite quote, attributed to George Bernard Shaw.
“I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be...”
– The most excellent Ted Nelson, found in a Dr. Dobbs article on Modern Forth.
sturob is right iTM MidiLab is cool beans. The idea of using the iPhone and iPodTouch (actually having both might turn out to be fun) as a controller for a bigger piece of desktop software works really well because it gives you the touch interface to complement keyboard and mouse.
Kore 2 is yummy. But they give you this coupon on a sound pack and you go listen but the idea of choosing just 1 does not sit very comfortably and then, well, you start to wonder if you might as well have taken up smoking crack.
I think I’ll keep playing with the factory library and see what it’s got but FM8 Transient Attacks sounds like it’s got a lot of nice sounds I’d...
2008 and UPS can only tell me “On board for delivery.” Have they heard of GPS? Of the internet? Of Google Maps?
What a crock of shit.
Michael Tomasky: McCain is a bigger liar than Bush →
(via rtpeat)
The answer is “knobs” but the tricky part is the implementation.
Crazy?
Bought a copy of Kore 2 software edition today. Elysium has reached the point where it’s starting to be fun to create compositions so it’s probably about time to get save & load working properly.
Watch40s
WatchAs Steve Jobs might say “Boom!”
“If the IE8 beta shows us anything, making a really sucky web browser is...”
– Bob Cringely’s friend Dave.
“The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot...”
– Douglas Adams
I’m getting pretty close to buying the Kore 2 software synthesizer from Native Instruments. Today they dropped the price and created a software-only package that comes to £169.
I’ve been using their free Kore Player as the output engine for Elysium and it sounds great but you can only play one instrument at a time which is pretty limiting.
I’m beginning to get into this...
Where do the MIDI hackers hang out?
Well it’s not in freenode.org’s #midi channel, this much I know. I’ve been hanging out there nearly a week and, so far, only one other guy has dropped by. Like me he just randomly dialed up the channel to see if there was anything going on.
So where do people who like writing MIDI based software to make music hang out?
WatchMade some progress fixing bugs and improving the tools so that configuration and playback work much more smoothly. Who knows, soon this thing may start to look like a real app!
August 2008
19 posts
WatchFirst taste of my latest MacOSX toy.
“we are all
supernatural
every day
we rise new creatures
cannot be predicted”
– from the poem “Anniversary” by Elaine Feinstein. Given to me by F.
Honestly I despair… why do I have to wait for MacOSX to spin up every fucking disk attached to my system whenever I try and open a file? Really.. why is that? I’d like to fucking know.
“While the invention is susceptible to various modifications and alternative...”
– Annals of the Patently Absurd - O’Reilly Radar
In the pantheon of deliciousness the Autumn Royal grape (an elongated, black, seedless, beauty … mine seem to be from Spain) surely deserves to command a mighty following.