summer of c programming

So, I done with school for the summer and I'm right back at the Gameboy programming. It pretty slow going because, I'm still learning all the ins and outs of c syntax and structure. Things are that much more difficult because, I am having dealing with direct memory addresses, interrupts, registers, etc. since, the hardware does not have an operating system. I guess you could say that the game itself is the operating system So, needless to say it is really beating me down but, at least it is sunny in California.; )

schools done.. and the summer begins

I am done with school and now it is time to have some fun in the California sun.. or something like that. I hope to getting cracking on this thesis this weekend because, if I don't I might never get started. The process is pretty daunting but, as with all of my projects up to this point I just need to put my boots and get going!!!
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evan

c programming

So, today I going start going over the basics of C for my ds project. The syntax is a little different that I am use to but I've been programming in python so it should be an improvement over that. I assuming the C will at least allow me to be able to have the basis to develop for a lot of other hardware devices since, most assembler for hardware always work with C.

New Projects

So I have two new projects that I am being two work on.
The first is that I am going to add some small units to my 2nd box...(i should come up with a better name for this inteface ; ) ..) that will have things like faders and knobs installed in them. I am going to connect them to the main unit using ethernet cable(cat5), which will allow me to be able to reposition the box at different angles for a more optimal performance set up. The issue that I am debating about is to where to actually place the analog in card in relation to the box, it will either be inside the box or outside the main box and connecting to all the knob and fader boxes. Another problem it that I am going to have to have more they one cat5 connection in each fader/knob box since, the max number of singles connection I can get through one connect is 7 and plus one for ground.. which I guess isn't to bad since I am only thinking about adding 32 controls in total.
The second project is one that I have been slowly working up to over the past year or so, which is that I am going to develop some type of music software for the nintendo ds. I been talking about doing this for so long but, the fact that I have barely anytime when I am in school to do anything has been making my progress on this project extremely drawn out. Anyways, the idea I have it have some small modular synth environment that will be like a strip down version of Reaktor. This is only an idea and probably will evolve into something completely different because, I need to really get a grip on the platform a bit more before I can say for sure what it will be like. So, this will be my summer project and a very long summer it will be.
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beyond the valleys of the dolls.. awesome!

Any movie about the an all girl group in the late 1960's is a plus.... but add Russ Meyer directing. Then you have a classic! Even Roger Ebert(you know from Siskel & Ebert) wrote the script. Go see it! NOW!

Keytar
I'm not sure why behringer is doing this but they must be confused of the decade we are in.

Wicker Man 1973
OK, this is one of the few movies I can say defines description. I guess you could call it a horror/thriller/musical but that really doesn't cover all of it. I would say the less you know the better it makes the surprise of see that music sweeter. Trust me... see it.
I would be even more interested to see how the Hollywood remake of this movie came out. I mean Nicholas Cage is it... yeah it's probably as interesting as watching a dog poop on the floor but, it will problem make you realize how crappy American movies have gotten.. well in case you haven't got the memo about that yet.

This is a newer version of my midi interface that a posted about here around a month ago.Ok these aren't the best video but it will give at least an idea of the size and brightness of my new box. The issue I have is that I do not have a video cam. anymore since I sold it to get the parts for this thing.( The video clips that are in this post are from my digital camera(picture)) I built a little reaktor patch to do the animating that is seen in the video. I'm might include some some of this kind of stuff in a different performance patch latter.
So, unless someone in the bay area wants to help make a video demo for this toy,
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this will be all that I can give you for awhile.

Basic Info about the box
Built under the ucapps midibox spec.
The buttons are from sparks electronics but, they do not directly work with the ucapps spec. I had to hack up the boards by scratching out connections and add connections in odd places. It wasn't impossible but it is kind of sketchy at parts.

Videos

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I have a track out on this compilation of great remixes of Twink

tracks.


You should check it out.(click on the picture for more info)

New box pictures and the digital outs are fixed.

Digital Outs FIXED!
After going through a bunch of tests with Smash TV, I finally found out what the problem was with my digital out cards. It seems that the S0 pin that is furtherest from the first IC doesn't allow the signal to be passed to the board, but the one closest to the ic does. Go figure.
Well I'm off to finish off this thing!
evan

new box almost done.

The only issue I am have at the moment is the fact that my digital outs are not working right. I hope to have this fixed really soon. I am using these rubber buttons and boards from sparks that have led that sit underneatht the rubber button the look really sweat!!!
But here are some pictures all the same.

evanMorris-wavering eyes 2006 lost006






Evan Morris new record of all classical guitar weriedness that is ever so pretty. Like as if you where to stare into the sky and see the inner truth that is up there.

Full Album in a Zip File

evanMorris-distance in the Rain LOST004







This is a reissue of Evan Morris' 2005 glitch classical guitar record. It drifts through melodies of summers spent staring off the backporch it the emptiness of time.
Full Album in a Zip File

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.
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these enembles, all show basic ways to use event and audio tables to sequence and record event data.
EVAN

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

New Album out on Earth Monkey Productions. This release is a mixed bag of audio candy!!!! That your kids will love!!!


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Evan Morris - The Doors Of Turmoil (emp018)

01-evanMorris-deep sea diving for treasure.mp3
02-evanMorris-breaking the wall.mp3
03-evanMorris-you wouldn't be.mp3
04-evanMorris-going crazy and for what .mp3
05-evanMorris-icestorm.mp3
06-evanMorris-ghost fight.mp3
07- evanMorris-camp chaos.mp3
08-evanMorris-lonely settings.mp3
09-evanMorris-look what i can do.mp3

Lostscience has just released a collection of my Hip Hop Remixes that I have done over the last few years. They where orginally released as two different records but I took the best tracks off of both and made it into one record that is pretty solid. Lostscience is also going to rerelease my classical guitar album "the distance in the rain" in the next few weeks. I am also finishing up a new all new guitar record that will be released in the next few months. I was hoping to maybe get it released on another record label. Anyone interest?
I also need to build a new website .. man busy busy busy.
evanMorris

MixMaster

This is your live remix superstation. This was a little demo i put together when I was testing to see how the core of my live patch would work with a live sampler. So you are going to have to push your own audio signal into the patch.There are some slight audio artifacts happening over the time that it is running. It has something to do with the play head and the record head being used at the sametime. Anyway this is pretty much the skeleton of my live patch so enjoy.

Post comments if you download and use this please.
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evan
Link to the Patch(reaktor 5 only)

My Magic Box

So, I made a box here is a picture:





And here is another:

What does it do?

It would be ten pages of writing to explain what it does so here is video instead because, I am lazy at the moment.
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Want to here a set with it?

Here is a mp3 of one of my sets.....
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