patchlore @paul@post.lurk.org

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

Can someone help out a grumpy Makefile programmer?

I have this GLFW program I built on the command line using Makefiles, and I want to wrap it into one of those fancy .app launchers so that people don't have to go into the command line to launch it.

Is there a way to create one without porting the project to XCode or something like CMake?

It's just a prototype for internal use, so it doesn't have to be robust or anything.

I sometimes feel like the least helpful Linux Audio user because I write all my software. "Oh? You need a plugin that does X? Well, here's some C code that does X. If you happen to find some LV2 sample code you could probably hack it into a plugin."

Film idea: a character study about Orpheus post-Eurydice in a contemporary setting.

All of the cold. None of the snow. Blech.

bogait shum zhujup gudaefyd see desh byc mewo zael.

END TRANSMISSION.

https://pbat.ch/codex/magopau/

Multiple ways to say "Inaros" this season apparently.

Or, to put it in more software engineering terms, the layering approach to sound design is like using brute force.

I think in electronically based music production, there's always this common practice of layering many many simple elements together to make a complex sound. But, what if instead, the focus shifted towards making smaller, sparser ensembles with more complex behaviors built into each element? only 4 voices in a good room worked well for several centuries.

SOUL is a domain-specific language (DSL) for audio DSP. FAUST is an open source functional audio DSL that transpile to many targets, including C++, C, and yes SOUL code as well: https://faust.grame.fr/.

SOUL has been built in an attempt to make audio programming easier [citation needed]. If you're interested in learning how to do audio programming, start with processing audio files first, worry about realtime control and plugin stuff (much) later. They'll tell you to learn C++, but ANSI C is more than enough. libsndfile's sfprocess.c was *the* code for me helped me get where I am today: https://github.com/libsndfile/libsndfile/blob/master/examples/sfprocess.c

Soundpipe is a portable collection of audio DSP algorithms written in C (I made this). If you're interested building synths and stuff, this will give you a good head start: https://github.com/PaulBatchelor/Soundpipe

Plugin architectures like VST are a bloated mess. Building plugins for specific systems like Supercollider/PD is usually easier:
https://github.com/supercollider/example-plugins
https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/tree/master/doc/6.externs

Apparently, SOUL has proprietary "special sauce" that allows them to leverage accelerated hardware. I can't help with this directly, but if you're interested in audio programming on embedded hardware, I highly recommend the Daisy platform: https://www.electro-smith.com/daisy

Instead of learning SOUL, I'm going to be putting time into my own audio and music systems, which actually have these qualities:

100% Open source, no proprietary bits.

Not corporate-backed.

For unclever people (like myself).

With longevity in mind.

For art, not products.

A few days ago I watched the cinematic experience known as Priest. I've been trying to come up with the words to describe it. I think I got it: confidently bad.

Embedded a copy of my tangler inside of #sndkit, so it should be way easier for people to tangle and use the DSP algorithms now:

git clone

make tangle

https://git.sr.ht/~pbatch/sndkit

Oh well. It was worth a try.

Computer, end simulation.