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PureData with Pi

Posted on November 17, 2019 | By Engine | 2 comments

I’m down a damn rabbit hole today. I have a Raspberry Pi 4 B,

a ~~Novation Launchpad,~~ We’re going to save this part for another day. The Launchpad shows up as the first device, and the audioinjector setup scripts don’t like it when the audioinjector HAT isn’t the first device.

and Windows 10 running the Debian distro under Windows Subsystem for Linux.

This got going because I was so terribly impressed with the Empress Zoia:

This little stompbox is essentially a modular synth powered by the Puredata programming language, a nodey-gui way of … Read the rest

FMOD

Posted on August 2, 2019 | By Engine | No comments

FMOD is an audio library and engine for runtime application.

I screwed around with it in an attempt to build a CDJ in Unity3d for the Magic Leap. There’s a lot I don’t know.… Read the rest

Game Art Tricks

Posted on August 2, 2019 | By Engine | No comments

Someone passed me this little gem: a blog that deconstructs techniques used in making content for games:

https://simonschreibt.de/game-art-tricks… Read the rest

No Name, No Slogan

Posted on June 8, 2019 | By Engine | No comments

These USB sticks contain all the EBM, Industrial, and Synthwave I used for a gig a couple of years ago. When you format these and don’t name them, they show up on the computer as “NO_NAME.” I just named the other one “NO_SLOGAN.” Some if you will get it. … Read the rest

Timing Is Everything.

Posted on January 1, 2019 | By Engine | No comments

Moved the studio into the guest house. This setup, for as much as I’ve designed it to minimize dicking around, has required a LOT of dicking around, mostly because of gotchas between various pieces of gear. Here’s what we’ve got:

RME Fireface 400. It’s old, but it still rocks. It’s my audio interface and digital mixer. The TotalMix software is OK, if a bit obtuse, and it does enable remote control, although that’s pretty hard-fought. Its biggest problem right now is that it won’t respond to MIDI control changes in standalone mode with the computer off, which sucks, because I

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Portals and Planes

Posted on November 4, 2018 | By Engine | No comments

Got to grips with the Magic Kit. Magic Leap was kind enough to set up some very thorough tutorials with a lot of helpers to let you do baby steps on accessing, using, and showing the capabilities of the device, so I cribbed a bunch of stuff related to plane detection, gestures, and interactivity.

This has mostly been a bit of a wander. Initially I wanted to port a janky Hololens demo to Magic Leap, but I soon realized that a straight port wasn’t going to happen without some basic understanding of how things work. I wanted to understand and … Read the rest

Taking the Leap

Posted on October 19, 2018 | By Engine | No comments

Today is going to be an interesting day. I have in my possession at work, a Magic Leap ML1. I’m going to attempt to port an old Hololens demo and make it worthy of the term “spatial computing.”

Spatial computing is different from mere Augmented Reality, in that the 3D environment is integral to the computing experience. Lots of interesting design paradigms flow from this, the idea that computing activities are localized to areas of relevance.

For the most part though, this post is about testing the new blog setup in a way that’s relevant and worthy of keeping … Read the rest

COMA Review – WLDV’s Secondo Incantesimo

Posted on December 27, 2015 | By Engine | No comments

Lately, I’ve been writing the occasional review for COMA Music Magazine:

This one’s for WLDV’s Secondo Incantesimo:… Read the rest

Unreal!

Posted on January 27, 2015 | By Engine | No comments

Got my flight modes working on a little UE4 demo I’m working on. Quaternions FTW! Probably still doing it wrong, but it does work.

To do: Add getnamo’s joystick plugin to the project so I can FLY!… Read the rest

The Vault

Posted on February 7, 2014 | By Engine | No comments

Last weekend, my friend Marc was in town and I got to spend 48 hours immersed in the Industrial/EBM scene again. I can wear it like an old motorcycle jacket. It’s timeless, comfortable, and I’m not too fat to zip it up. That led to pulling out all the old @necto wax from 86 to 94, including all the @razormaid vinyl, which was one of the only ways to get dark synth and EBM back then. That led to a severe and dedicated effort to organize the collection, which led to an aborted attempt to spin a downtempo industrial set. … Read the rest

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