Thursday, August 17, 2006

MixMasterVERSION2
This is the lastest version of my mixmaster patch. I fixed some bugs in the code and added a bar length knob for defining the lenght of the loop that is being recorded.
Sort of RINGMOD
This is a new ring mod kind of thing I did. It uses cutoff filter in tangent with peak dectors to control different waves and how that are gated and such.
link one
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these enembles, all show basic ways to use event and audio tables to sequence and record event data.
EVAN

Friday, August 04, 2006

I was bored and googled myself and found some reviews and links to my music that I didn't even know about.
cd review at www.cdtimes.co.uk


for Evan Morris - Names Between Information
"To say that Names Between Information is minimalist would, perhaps, be a bit of an understatement. In fact, it'd be quite a large understatement -- the only instrument featured on the record (as far as I could discern) is a classical guitar, or, to be more accurate, some rather finely sliced classical guitar samples.
Of course, minimalism is the whole point. It's hardly like Evan Morris was too lazy to use any other instrument -- in fact, I suspect the exact opposite. I can just picture him agonisingly fighting the urge to go all out and throw in a few of his usual glitchy, digital drum sounds. In the end, though, the finished product is much better for it.

As you might have guessed, it's a wonderfully relaxing album, gently exuding the sort of calm atmosphere in which, if you're not careful, you can easily find yourself completely absorbed. It's 'ambient' exactly as Eno defined it: "...as ignorable as it is interesting."

Sadly, this atmosphere is tainted somewhat by the constant hiss of the poor-quality samples. While the incidental clicks and pops (where the samples have been sliced) of some tracks are a welcome addition, providing a certain extra rhythm, the hiss is simply irritating, and makes listening to the record at a reasonably high volume unpleasant. Another small gripe is with the mastered volume of tracks -- it seems to vary quite significantly throughout the course of the album, making constant volume-knob-adjustment a neccesity.

While Names Between Information is decidedly lacking on the production side of things, it contains some fantastic compositions and is elegant in its simplicity."





I found this these new rubber button from sparkfun through the make blog. They even say that they where inspired by the monome in creating them.. (I'm sure the people at monome are loving this). Though they haven't yet got the boards that work with them on sale yet.. making them pretty worth less until they do. Once they do I'll probably buy enough of these parts to create another magic box. The size of which I haven't yet figured out, maybe just a small 4x4, for switching between sample sets in my live patch. But another part of me wants to have a back up for the box or maybe even a 128 button box. That would be nice, 128 buttons, but the rubber alone would cost me something 160 dollars... . I'll just wait and see how much the boards will cost from spark before I come to a conculsion. The backend will once again be from ucapps.
Here is a little chat I had about this on the em411