patchlore @paul@post.lurk.org

Some asshat has been trying to use one of my alternate email addresses to book a hotel. They tried cottages.com twice (I contacted support to cancel it the first time). Today I got one of those "confirm your email address" emails from airbnb.

Weird thing is that this person knows the "+" trick you can use for emails (ex: bobsmith+airbnb@hotmail.com). So I don't get it really.

The best chocolate pudding is the one you make from scratch at home. Store bought puddings never have enough chocolate in it. I also use a cocoa blend that includes the Hershey "special dark" cocoa, which makes it taste more like an Oreo cookie :)

I've been listening to the same damn beeps and squares, over and over again. Each time, trying to see/hear if the latency improvements between sound + event.

Obsessively trying to get sound and video to sync. It's really making me twitchy.

Wow, America is really shitting their pants on this whole pandemic response if this is what other countries get.

Testing out my new trigger delay module. Also, re-discovering my joy of drowning things in reverb.

The trigger for the kick is also being sent into an envelope generator controlling the amplitude of the reverb pads. It's a neat hack for doing ducking.

As far as visuals go, I've made lots of improvements with AV synchronization.

#breathingcards

A local barbecue restaurant has started selling frozen smoked meats in vacuum sealed packages. Free delivery too! A very clever adaptation.

Also, if one isn't strictly following the 1-bit rule, things like reverbs and filters are at your disposal. Good timbre shapers.

Some more wavetable modulation, this time it's just a random number generator with whose rate is controlled via an LFO. It almost sounds granular at the higher rates. I could imagine some big sounds being created by layering a bunch of these together spanned at different octaves. A sort of 1-bit Deep Note?

Turns out I've been wrapping C data types wrong in the #janet API. I've been using janet_wrap_abstract. It works until it the GC decides to randomly remove it. Cue the SEGFAULTS. Looked at the docs again today, and found janet_wrap_pointer. Things work like a charm after that. In retrospect, I don't know how I missed that in the docs. But I'm glad I don't have to fight the GC in Janet anymore.

Since the 1-bit oscillator polypulse wavetable is a parameter, other nodes can written to modulate it. Here's a PWM node sweeping through some pulse widths.

Vibrato, even stupid sinusoidal vibrato like I used here, adds a fair amount of warmth to what is otherwise a very cold sound. I'm also cheating slightly by adding a 8kHz butterworth lowpass filter at the end of the signal chain.

This beard is starting to look intentional.

Developing a stateless 1-bit table-lookup poly-pulse oscillator. Takes in 3 parameters: position, wavetable, and wavetable size. The wavetable itself is represented as an integer value which can be changed at audio rate to do things like PWM.

This sound below modulates the size parameter. Good noisy fun.

Just finished Tiger King yesterday. I'm still digesting what happened.