patchlore @paul@post.lurk.org

How hard is it to rip and/or copy blu ray video disks on Linux? It'd be nice to make backups.

The "freedom" bits aren't really as important to me in this context. It's more about the conservation and preservation of musical software. Complex behemoths like JUCE can quickly solve problems now, but they are also brittle and will fall over eventually over time. APIs will deprecate and break things in the name of profit. C++s compilers + standards are a moving target. What happens when ROLI falls over? Legacy is my concern, not theirs. I'm talking NASA-levels of legacy here. Creative software needs that kind of long-term thinking.

Seeing the widespread adoption of JUCE makes me a bit uncomfortable, especially when used in FOSS projects. I've definitely seen this trend advice telling people to "just port it JUCE", which I find to be lazy and short-sighted.

A reminder that:

JUCE has their own strange license agreement you have to comply with.

Was built/bought by a for-profit corporation in the music tech industry. It does NOT have FOSS interests at heart, only pushing their own products.

There's only one implementation of JUCE, and that's JUCE. Actually JUCE is an implementation of implementations, so that makes things worse.

Most of the implementations that Juce is implementing are non-FOSS and proprietary.

Has a massive amount of overhead, including a GUI for making projects from scratch.

Is built in C++, written by a C++ guru. So you can imagine that there's an massive tower of abstractions + C++ complexities that mere mortals (or ya know, people with common sense) aren't going to be able to comprehend.

I like how fossil-scm has a both a "blame" command, as well as a "praise" command. Both do the same thing.

(I wonder if this is how 4th/5th dimensional beings feel)

This show is great to watch a second time. Better, in some regards. Anticipation and knowing what will happen next is a great feeling. Surprise is overrated.

I feel so drained today. Turned off my computers and started rewatching the witcher.

This looks like an interesting color palette:

https://lospec.com/palette-list/vinik24

It was mentioned the comments section of r/pixelart. Might attempt to use it at some point.

Decided to begin a spiced pear wine today. Things are currently boiling right now. The smell is heavenly. #homebrew #fruitwine

Finally finished my trigger delay algorithm for #monolith

You can think of it as like a MIDI delay/echo, only for trigger events in a modular environment. It is very well suited for making #generative music.

I've uploaded a small audio demo of it in action. The trigger for the lowest note gets put into the trigger delay, and is used to trigger the higher note events you hear.

The delay is synced to a master clock source to prevent clock drift that can happen often over time with audio delay effects. As a result, delay time is not expressed in units of seconds, but in "ticks". This patch randomly flips between tick times of 1 and 3, which make it sound like a sixteenth-note delay and a dotted eighth-note delay.

I have yet to really play around with this, but I have a feeling this could end up being really fun to use, especially trigger-delays feeding into other trigger delays.

Made it possible to disable Janet bindings in Monolith, so now things can compile in PCC, should it ever come to that. *removes tinfoil hat*

s9 scheme (my fork at least) and tinyscheme both work with PCC, so at least there's a working LISP-y thing available. S9 scheme is the main scripting language used in #monolith, so I feel relieved about this.

Lua works as well (at least in ANSI mode it does, haven't tested anything else).

A few external C libs I use do not seem to want to work with PCC. Janet and Cairo seem to cause complaints, which is a bit of a bummer.

TCC seems broken on Alpine Linux, but PCC works! Been testing it out on various C projects of mine, and most of them work! Nice to know I don't need to depend big hulking compilers like gcc/clang to keep my projects working. I feel a liiiittle bit more immortal now.