July, 2008

Concert / Music — No Comments
31
Jul 08

Tom Waits concert

I don’t know where I read about this recording first but I sure did read it and went to www.npr.org and got me a 2 hour and 20 minutes Tom Waits concert. That is like getting fed on the 120th day on a desert island without nothing to eat but stone. Perhaps not, but ever since the Norwegian opera said no I have been almost in tears when reading reviews of his masters concerts.

Even if you do not like Tom  Waits’ music, go to NPR anway because there is a lot of other good stuff as well!

cheers
Arve

Computers - general / OS X / Samplitude / Tools - Software — No Comments
25
Jul 08

Virtualization is the new loud in my host

I have hesitated the whole bootcamp thing because I did not want to reboot to get into Windows to find out that I have to reboot because I forgot something. Therefore, after Anders Tveit showed me his virtual world, I jumped on VirtualBox and took my Macbook with me. VirtualBox did not work with the CodeMeter dongle that Samplitude just have to have in its keyhole to get going.

Very well. There is no other reason than Samplitude and a few programming tools for the occasional MCU, for me to ever get into Windows nowadays so that was it for VirtualBox on my computer.

Then I installed VMware and everything was fine. VMware let me run Samplitude on Windows while checking email, skyping and surfing while programming Max/MSP tools for my Goldwasser on OS X. And performance seems to be good enough for me. Happy days until something comes up wrecking the horizon. Until then I enjoy my Samplitude and could not be less bothered. I really like this virtualization thing.

cheers
Arve

Max5 / OS X / Tools - Software — No Comments
8
Jul 08

Beta 0.3 of the Manual Grainer

The Manual Grainer has come one step closer to version 1.0:

Things added from 0.2 are:

  • Preset handling finished
  • Edit stored presets
  • Edit sound range (time) and normalize + store as new file
  • Listen to unprocessed sound when editing buffer content

Things to come (list will expand):

  • Build new track from selection
  • The “My Screen is My Re-patcher” system as a effect pool for each track
  • Open Sound Control

Cheers
Arve

Guitar / Max/MSP/Jitter / OS X — No Comments
5
Jul 08

Update on the “My screen is my re-patcher” thing

UPDATE:: Tremolo/Ringmodulator module added! The Tremavols is both a tremolo and a ringmodulator. Flip from one mode to the other with the button that says tremolo in the image. The Tremavols has separate frequency setting for the tremolo (tremolo rate) and the ringmodulator (modulation frequency).

So this is the expanded family in beta < 0.5:

Biggest change is that the re-patching of signals from input to output has been added and works as it is supposed to.

I have also added a meter out and bypass in each module. This is as true bypass as true bypass has ever been and when a module is bypassed it is toned down (as you can see in the Delavols).

Preset handling is separate from the modules and allows morphing between presets.

TODO:

  • Implement user interface for preset handling (selection and morphing and a system for mapping of hardware controllers to the preset system.
  • Make a ring modulator module (updated 07.06.2008)
  • Make an overdrive module
  • Make a reverb module.
  • Make a VST-host module

This system will be for sale. Pricing is TBA.

Cheers
Arve