patchlore @paul@post.lurk.org

I've decided to publish a version of my rejected PhD project proposal on my wiki, and place it under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Enjoy!

https://pbat.ch/wiki/CATFMAS/

Okay. It's live. introducing: the candy crystal rainbow codex: https://pbat.ch/codex/

And the code: https://git.sr.ht/~pbatch/codex

more transmissions to come.

Okay so #introductions

Hello. I'm @paul. I'm a musical hacker and sound designer interested in teaching computers how to sing. I spend most of my time working on software projects related to the field of computer music.

Some topics that amuse me:

#linux
#dsp
#audio
#maille
#mead
#grids
#monome
#android
#generative
#HCI
#powersoftwo
#pixelart
#demoscene
#livecoding
#zen
#mechanicalkeyboards
#art?
#music?

My website: pbat.ch
My mirror website (hosted on GH): paulbatchelor.github.io

Guess who just learned about Jalapeno fumes the fun way.

This guy!

Has anybody in the open source audio work considered the possibility that at any moment, PACE, the new owner of JUCE, could pull the rug on that project and seriously fragment the FOSS ecosystem?

Any open source alternatives to IMDb? The web experience keeps getting worse and worse.

inb4 I use my own TODO app for personal projects that don't require collaboration:

https://pbat.ch/wiki/zetdo/

Is there a brutalism mode for Trello? I just completed a list in a checkbox, and it did this whole pulsing animation just to celebrate my victory. Unnecessary, and it feels a little condescending a bit? HTML 1.0 is fine.

@SuricrasiaOnline perfectly balanced.

lots of unexpected little bugs have been uncovered in #sndkit thanks to the #synthwavefromscratch challenge I've been making for myself.

Incredibly thankful for GDB and Valgrind. Also very thankful that I only have to troubleshoot single-threaded offline-rendering programs right now.

These signs have been popping up all over the greater Boston in the last 48 hours. This is a special kind of crazy that doesn't come along every day. Treasure these moments.

More progress with my #synthwavefromscratch track today for the #libremusicchallenge! (I am building a synthwave track without a DAW, using just low-level C code with a small scripting language on top.)

Starting to use my gesture sequencer to work out melodies and make automation curves. Also added some a delay-throw on the melody.

I'm up to a 8-16 bar loop now. Hoping to add a little bit more. Another section perhaps? I need to leave enough time to make sure I can publish all the source code before the deadline!

Here's a classic subtractive 3osc synth bass sound. #synthwavefromscratch #sndkit

set key 36;env [metro [expr (4 * 96) / 60]] 0.001 0.01 0.12;blsaw [mtof $key];blsaw [mtof [expr $key - 11.8]];add zz zz;blsaw [mtof [expr $key + 11.9]];add zz zz;mul zz 0.2;chorus zz 1.0 0.5 0.02 0.1;dcblocker zz;butlp zz 1000;butlp zz 1000;mul zz zz;wavout zz "synthbass.wav";computes 10;

hihat sounds! #synthwavefromscratch

env [metro 8] 0.001 0.01 0.01;mul [noise] 0.5;butlp zz 4000;buthp zz 8000;mul zz zz;wavout zz "hh.wav";computes 10;

synthesized snare with gated reverb. also for #synthwavefromscratch

metro 1;hold zz;regset zz 0;regget 0;env zz 0.001 0.07 0.07;mul [noise] 0.1;butlp zz 5000;peakeq zz 8000 8000 2;peakeq zz 200 1000 5;buthp zz 200;mul zz zz;dup;dup dup;bigverb zz zz 0.97 10000;drop;dcblocker zz;regget 0;env zz 0.001 0.08 0.1;mul zz zz;add zz zz;wavout zz "snare.wav";regget 0;unhold;computes 10;

synthesized kick drum sound using #sndkit and #LIL. This will be used #synthwavefromscratch track.

metro 2;hold zz;regset zz 0;gensine [tabnew 8192];regget 0;dup;expon zz 1 0.1 0.001;scale zz 60 500;tphasor zz zz 0;phasewarp zz 0.2;oscfext zz zz;mul zz 0.5;regget 0;env zz 0.001 0.1 0.1;mul zz zz;regget 0;modalres zz 3000 3;add zz zz;wavout zz "kik.wav";computes 10;regget 0;unhold zz;

I just read an article about someone who learned just enough about how to make generative art, in order to flip NFTs. They ended up making $50k.

They blogged about it. The first half talked about NFTs and then worked backwards from that towards things like generative art, processing, and Mondrian. It was a very strange thought process.

With the ROLI rebranding, what is the future of MPE going to look like? They are/were probably the largest hardware manufacturer MPE devices, and were lobbying pretty hard to get it standardized in the MIDI community.